Moderator: Stanley S. Kent, MS, FASHP, President, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Featured Speaker:

Charles R. Denham, M.D.

Chairman, The Texas Medical Institute of Technology

Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leader Initiative

Adjunct Professor, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Dr. Denham is an international leader in patient safety and high-performance care solutions. He has taught and led research in medicine, engineering, and business leadership. He is involved in coordinating U.S. and international quality, certifying, and purchasing organizations along a path of harmonization of measures, standards, and practices, which encourages hospitals and healthcare organizations to dramatically improve patient safety and care performance. He co-chairs the U.S.-based National Quality Forum group that annually updates the NQF-Endorsed® Safe Practices for Better Healthcare, which are increasingly being tied to value-based purchasing. He chairs the Leapfrog Group Safe Practices Program, which influences more than $69 billion in purchasing power. He is Chairman of TMIT, which operates a National Research Test Bed of more than 3,100 hospitals, through which it pursues its mission of "saving lives, saving money, and building value in the communities served." Dr. Denham is a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, has a faculty appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Healthcare Engineering. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Patient Safety and a co-founder of the Global Patient Safety Forum.

The following awards will also be presented:

ASHP Research and Education Foundation 2011 Literature Awards

ASHP Research and Education Foundation 2011 Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Pharmacy Practice will be recognized in this session.