Patient Centered Care for Pharmacists

KIMBERLY A. GALT, PHARM.D., Ph.D., R.Ph., FASHPKimberly is Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Creighton Center for Health Services Research and Patient Safety at the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions of Creighton University. She received her pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan and completed her Ph.D. in Qualitative, Quantitative, Psychometric and Mixed Methods from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has developed and managed pharmacist's primary care consultative ambulatory practice sites in the private and Veterans Affairs systems, supervised specialized drug information and clinical pharmacy services, and practiced general hospital, community and long-term care pharmacy. She has extensive research and publishing experience in her career, with more than 60 publications and technical reports for use in translation of research to practice and policy and a funded research record exceeding six million dollars. As a methodologist she focuses on the use of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods as research methodologies and program evaluation tools applied in health services delivery and research. She is actively conducting research in patient safety with an emphasis on the impact of health information technology. She has held appointments as a member of the Health Information Technology National Resource Center Steering Committee for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a member of the Health Care Technology and Decision Sciences Study Section, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; served as an expert panel member on AHRQ Panels for Health Center IT, Medication Gap Research, Practice Based Research Network Resource Center, Health IT Demonstration Grant and Planning Grant portfolio; and as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Galt chaired the Inter-professional Taskforce to Develop a Patient Safety Curriculum for Creighton University involving 18 individuals from a variety of health and professional disciplines resulting in a campus-wide offering to Creighton's students since 2005. MICHAEL A. GALT, M.S., R.Ph., FASHPMichael is Clinical Pharmacist at Coram Infusion Specialty Services. He received his pharmacy degree from North Dakota State University, completed a general pharmacy practice residency at Rush Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, and his M.S. in Hospital Pharmacy from the University Of Houston College Of Pharmacy with a combined pharmacy practice residency in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He has also completed the ASHP Executive Management Seminar Accrue Level III program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the Metabolic Support Services Training Program through St. Mary's of Nazareth, Chicago, Illinois. His prior professional experiences include Director of Pharmacy at the Alegent Health System in Omaha, Nebraska and Assistant Director of Pharmacy Services at St. Luke s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is experienced in managing patient care operations, pharmacy information systems, department budgeting, and coordination of clinical services in acute tertiary care hospitals; and coordinating specialized clinical home care infusion services to patients. He has a unique skill set which combines management and clinical expertise; and is recognized for his ability to implement progressive services and continuous change actions to reduce costs, enhance quality, increase margins and improve customer satisfaction. During his tenure as Director, he established an ASHP Accredited Residency Program, implemented Intensive Care Pharmacy Satellite services; staff pharmacist coordinated Drug Use Evaluation and target drug programs, coordinated the development of clinical ladder programs for pharmacists, justified and implemented pharmacist-based decentralized programs, and developed and implemented specialized clinical services including aminoglycoside and anticoagulation services. Michael is a Past President of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists and has served at the national level of ASHP as both a delegate and ASHP Council member."