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Headline News: USP and NIOSH Guidance in the Face of Compounding Tragedy and Hazardous Drug Dangers
PRESENTER(S):
Mr. Eric Kastango, MBA, RPh, President/CEO, Clinical IQ, LLC
Patricia C. Kienle, RPh, MPA, FASHP is Director of Accreditation and Medication Safety for Cardinal Health’s Center for Safety and Clinical Excellence. Patricia received a BS in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and an MPA in Health Services Administration from Marywood University in Pennsylvania. Her current responsibilities include assisting client hospitals in implementing best practices that promote safe medication use and continuous compliance with Joint Commission standards. She is a contributing author to Assuring Continuous Compliance with Joint Commission Standards: A Pharmacy Guide, Seventh Edition which is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
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Luci A. Power is an independent lecturer and consultant on pharmacy IV and hazardous drug systems. She was with the Department of Pharmaceutical Services at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco for over 25 years serving in various capacities, including Senior Pharmacist and Manager of the Parenteral Support Services and Manager of the IV Additive Services where she was responsible for the in-patient chemotherapy and other hazardous drug compounding.
Luci is a primary author of both the 1985 and 1990 ASHP Technical Assistance Bulletins on Handling Cytotoxic and Hazardous Drugs; lead author of the 2006 ASHP Guidelines on Handling Hazardous Drugs and first author of the ASHP Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Video Training Program. Luci is an original member of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) working group on hazardous drugs and an author of the 2004 NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastics and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings.
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