Scientific Advisory Board

The role of the Scientific Advisory Board is as follows:

Dr. Michael Horseman

Dr Michael Horseman has been the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi- Memorial since 1988 where he is responsible for providing drug information, pharmacokinetic, or therapeutic consults to physicians, attending family practice morning report, accompanying Critical Care/Staff Medicine Services on daily rounds, providing weekly inservices to the Family Practice Residents and attendings on various pharmacotherapeutic related topics, medication use evaluations or outcome studies, a clinical newsletter, and development of drug or drug class monographs for review by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. In addition to his Clinical Pharmacy role, Dr. Horseman was an adjunct faculty member of the College of Nursing at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi for 5 years, and he is still an active faculty member of the Schools of Pharmacy (Austin) and Medicine (Health Science Center in San Antonio) of the University of Texas.

Dr Horseman has been extensively involved in the budgeting process at his hospital, and has been responsible for developing and implementing several programs and protocols that have had a dramatic effect on costs.

Throughout his career, Dr. Horseman has been interested in infectious disease, pharmacokinetics, cardiology, drug information, and psychiatry, and in developing new clinical practice role models and expanding the role of pharmacy in the health care field.

Dr Horseman received a Doctor of Pharmacy from Medical University of South Carolina, S.C in 1983, a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Washington State University in 1981 and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Alaska Methodist University in 1975.

JAMES J. POSENDEK, R.PH.,MBA

Mr. Posendek is the Pharmacy Director at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1999, where he is Responsible for all aspects of Pharmaceutical care offered at St.Vincent Charity Hospital, St Luke's Medical Center and Solon Medical Campus. Mr. Posendek is accountable for Pharmacy budgets and personnel, and in cooperation with the Medical Staff, has helped to develop protocols for inpatient care that were of high quality and helped to reduce costs.

Other roles included the Pharmacy Director at Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland, the Inpatient Supervisor at Akron General Medical Center and the Pharmacy Director at the Western Reserve Psychiatric Center in Sagamore, Ohio.

Throughout his career, Mr. Posendek's goal has been to partner with other Health Care Professionals to offer excellent patient clinical services, and to be directly involved in the development of patient care programs that improve the quality of patient's lives.

With over 20 years of Pharmacy experience, Mr. Posendek is a member of the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists, the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Cleveland Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Mr. Posendek has a BSc Pharmacy from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio.

LUCI A. POWER M.S., RPH.

Luci A. Power is currently the Senior Pharmacy Consultant at Power Enterprises. She previously worked in the Department of Pharmaceutical Services at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco for over 25 years serving in various capacities, most recently Senior Pharmacist and Manager of the Parenteral Support Services where she implemented a USP 797 compliant facility for sterile compounding of TPN and CRRT solutions. She has also served as Manager of the IV Additive Services where she was responsible for the in-patient chemotherapy and other hazardous drug compounding. She is now an independent lecturer and consultant on pharmacy IV and hazardous drug systems.

Luci obtained her BS and MS degrees from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and worked at New England Medical Center in Boston before relocating to San Francisco.

Luci has been a member of the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists (ASHP) for over 25 years. She is a primary author of both the 1985 and 1990 ASHP Technical Assistance Bulletins on Handling Cytotoxic and Hazardous Drugs and is the lead author of the 2006 ASHP Guidelines on Handling Hazardous Drugs, published June 15, 2006 in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. Luci is first author of the ASHP Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Video Training Program - DVD and a contributing author to the ASHP publication Compounding Sterile Preparations, 2nd edition.

Luci is an original member of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) working group on hazardous drugs. As the group leader for the Work Practices small group, she was an author of the 2004 NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastics and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings.

MARK H. SISKA, B.S., RPH.

Mark Siska is the Manager of Informatics and Technology for Pharmacy Services at Mayo Clinic Rochester. He has been actively engaged in the development, implementation & support of medication related electronic applications supporting a fully integrated electronic medical record at Mayo Clinic Rochester for over 7 years. These initiatives include CPOE, eMAR, electronic medication charting, automated dispensing cabinets, e-prescribing and bed-side bar code medication charting. Mark serves as a member of ASHP's Advisory Group on CPOE and Pharmacy Informatics and is actively involved in healthcare care technology groups including AMIA and HIMSS. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Illinois, College of Pharmacy in 1980 and completed his Hospital Pharmacy Resident training at Saint Mary's Hospital, Rochester Minnesota in 1981. He has been involved in pharmacy management for nearly 25 years, supervising in a variety of clinical settings until 1998 when he began focusing his attentions on the electronic environment.

Timothy Stacy

Timothy Stacy is the System Director of Pharmacy Services and Clinical nutrition at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Children's Healthcare is one of the largest free standing pediatric facilities in the United States, providing extensive cardiac, transplant, and hematology/oncology services. Child Magazine listed Children's of Atlanta as the sixth top pediatric provider in 2005 and Fortune Magazine listed it as a "Top 100" company to work for in America in 2006.

Mr. Stacy received a pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University and a Master's in Business from Kennesaw State University. He managed dual community hospitals in Atlanta before coming to Children's over four years ago.

Children's employs over 140 pediatric pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinical nutritionists, and nutrition technicians. Sound pharmacy distributive, extensive pharmacy technology, and progressive clinical services along with an ASHP accredited pediatric residency program are utilized to provide care to Atlanta's and Georgia's children daily.

Philip J. Schneider

Philip J. Schneider is Clinical Professor and Director of Administrative and Professional Affairs at the University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy – Phoenix campus. In this position, he provides oversight, development, and administration of educational initiatives including teaching, service and scholarship activities at the newly created Phoenix Biomedical Campus. Prior to this position, for 33 years he held positions at the Ohio State University including most recently Clinical Professor and Director of the Latiolais Leadership Program at the Ohio State University, an inter professional program to advance leadership in pharmacy and improve the medication use system to reduce adverse drug events. Before taking this position, for 21 years he held pharmacy practice and administrative positions at the Ohio State University Medical Center and was responsible for the Pharmacy Residency program that produced 99 residents during his years as program director. During this time, a nationally recognized program for the reporting and analysis of adverse drug events was developed that led to improvements in the medication use process at the Medical Center. This severity scale is now widely used in the health care industry, including serving as the basis for the system used by the USP.

During his 38 years of professional and academic service, he has published more than 170 articles and abstracts in professional and scientific journals, 38 book chapters, edited seven books and given more than 500 contributed or invited presentations in 21 countries and the US. He is a past president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and past president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.), having served for ten years as the first Editor in Chief of Nutrition in Clinical Practice, one of its official publications. Active in international pharmacy, he is currently Chairman of the Board of Pharmaceutical Practice of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) having served as Secretary and newsletter editor of the Hospital Pharmacy Section, chairman of the Congress Planning Committee for FIP. He was selected as the recipient of the 2008 Harvey A.K Whitney award, known as health-system pharmacy’s highest honor for his outstanding contributions to the practice of pharmacy in health systems. In 2006, he was presented with the Donald E. Francke Medal for significant international contributions to health-system pharmacy.

E. Clyde Buchanan

Clyde Buchanan is a pharmacy consultant and recognized expert on compounding sterile preparations and pharmacy planning, budgeting and operations. He recently retired from Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Services. He is also Visiting Clinical Professor at the Southern School of Pharmacy of Mercer University in Atlanta and is an advisor to the Auburn University Facilities Design Research Program. Mr. Buchanan received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina and M.S. and residency training from The Ohio State University. For six years he was Assistant Director of Pharmacy at Duke University Medical Center and then served for 11 years as Director of Pharmacy at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, before moving to Emory Healthcare, where he served for 18 years.

Mr. Buchanan has served the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as Chairman of SIG on Administrative Practice; Vice Chair of the Council on Legal and Public Affairs; member of the House of Delegates, several committees, and task forces; and he has been a contributor for several ASHP publications.

Mr. Buchanan has edited and authored three books on sterile compounding and numerous manuscripts and book chapters. He has been a frequent speaker for state and national conferences on USP Chapter <797>. Most recently, Mr. Buchanan co-authored ASHP’s Discussion Guide on USP Chapter <797> for Compounding Sterile Preparations, and the web-based ASHP Self-Assessment Tool for Compounding Sterile Preparations. He is currently completing work on the third edition of ASHP’s text book Compounding Sterile Preparations.