Director, Education
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP is the Director of Education at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). His responsibilities include working with healthcare practitioners and institutions to provide education about medication errors and their prevention and review medication errors that have been voluntarily submitted to ISMP’s medication errors reporting programs. He has published numerous articles in the pharmacy literature, including regular columns in P&T, and is a journal reviewer for the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Pharmacoepidemiology, BMJ Open Quality, Drug Safety, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a chapter contributor to many textbooks including Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, Essentials of Nurse Informatics, Remington and Medication Errors.
Mr. Grissinger serves as the Chair for the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) and co-chair of the National Quality Forum (NQF) Common Formats Expert Panel. He also served on the WHO Focus Group on Measurement Tools for Medication Safety, USP Safe Medication Use Expert Committee from 2005-2010, the FDA Proprietary Name Review Concept Paper workshop panel in 2008, FDA Naming, Labeling, and Packaging Practices to Minimize Medication Errors workshop panel in 2010 and the Joint Commission Home Care Compounding Pharmacy Technical Advisory Panel in 2013. He is also an adjunct assistant professor for Temple University School of Pharmacy.
ISMP Medication Safety Update 2023
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Look Outside! Safety Risks Outside the Pharmacy Walls
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM