Mary Ann Kliethermes, B.S., Pharm.D. is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of Ambulatory Care at the Chicago College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University. She also serves as Co-Owner of Clinical Pharmacy Systems, Inc., a software consulting firm specializing in development of clinical pharmacy patient care applications. Her practice includes ten years as Clinical Coordinator in the hospital setting with experience in pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, drug information and ICU services; followed by fourteen years in home care as a clinician and co-owner of a local home infusion pharmacy; followed by development of pharmaceutical care software and work as a consultant. For the past 8 years, her practice has been in the ambulatory setting developing and managing a pharmacy based medication management clinic. Mary Ann received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Michigan and her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Sciences in Philadelphia.
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Dr Brown is employed by Akron General Medical Center’s Department of Pharmacy and acts as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist in the Family Medicine Residency Program. He received his doctorate from Campbell University School of Pharmacy with residency training at the Medical College of Virginia. His current practice is based within a residency program where he also acts as a preceptor for pharmacy and medical students. He received the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year Award multiple times from the Department of Family Medicine and was awarded the William C Kelly Safety Leadership Award by the Ohio Hospital Association. He serves on the boards of the Ohio Patient Safety Institute and Project Learn of Summit County. He is a past president of the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists and recently stepped down as one of the Directors At Large in the Section for Home, Ambulatory and Chronic Care for American Society of Healthsystem Pharmacists.
Develop a list of must-do items for proposing and establishing ambulatory services.
Evaluate appropriate outcome measures for implementing ambulatory services.
List ambulatory services to be provided and identify how to build support for them.
Plan and execute an appropriate marketing strategy for implementing ambulatory services.