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Off-Label and On Track: Strategies for Promoting Safe and Effective Innovative Off-Label Use of Medications
PRESENTER(S):
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Shelby Corman,
PharmD, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and Drug Information Specialist,
University of Pittsburgh
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Shelby Corman, PharmD, BCPS, is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Specialist in Drug Information at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She received her PharmD degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002 and completed an ASHP-accredited Drug Information Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Drug Information Center. Dr. Corman's primary focus is formulary management, and she is responsible for coordinating Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee activities at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian Shadyside campus, as well as for the UPMC Health System. In addition, she teaches literature evaluation skills, both in the classroom and to students and residents that she precepts in the Drug Information Center.
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Dr. Pummer is an Assistant Professor and Clinical Specialist in Drug Information at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/School of Pharmacy. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University in 2004. Upon finishing school, she entered a two-year residency program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Her two years of post graduate training consisted of a one-year general practice residency followed by a one-year specialty residency in Drug Information. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh since August 2006. Her areas of interest include poison information, infectious diseases, pharmacy informatics, and outcomes research.
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Susan Skledar, MPH, RPh., Director, Drug Use and Disease Management, and Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Thomas Smitherman,
MD, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Dr. Smitherman is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a Clinical Cardioloigst at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian. A native of Alabama, he received his B.S. at the University of Alabama in 1962 and his M.D. from the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham in 1967. He trained in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1967-69 and 1971-73 and spent two years as a Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1969-1971. He was at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas VA Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital from 1973-1990 until moving to Pittsburgh. His clinical and research interests have included the pathophysiology, recognition, prognosis, and treatment of the acute coronary syndromes. He has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reviews and other invited publications and has spoken locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has had a particular interest in antithrombotic therapy of the acute coronary syndromes. He was the Medical Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Dallas VA Hospital from 1973-1990 and the UPMC-Presbyterian from 1990-2006. He is a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Commmittee of the UPMC-Presbyterian Hospital and the co-chair of its Formulary subcommittee. In these roles, he played a part in the development of strategies for promoting safe and effective innovative off-label use of medications at the UPMC-Presbyterian.
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