Embedded Clinical Pharmacists at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center’s clinics serve as members of an interdisciplinary team that confirm clinical appropriateness of specialty medications, ensure medication access, provide medication counseling and the specialty pharmacy complies with Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) regulations to maintain accreditation status. With the advent of COVID-19, these serves shifted to a telemedicine approach. In her 2020 Midyear Clinical Meeting presentation, Dr. Diane Kim shares her institution’s successes with transition and how her team demonstrated value to the specialty services.
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Vicki Basalyga, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS, is the Director for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists. In this role Vicki serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members regarding science and scientific developments affecting pharmacy practice in health systems. She serves as secretary to the Section executive committee and coordinates activities to accomplish the objectives established by the Section. Additionally, Vicki has assumed the position of Council Secretary for the ASHP's Council on Therapeutics.
Vicki received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University and completed an ASHP accredited PGY1 at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Vicki is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and a Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
Prior to her current position at ASHP, Vicki practiced as critical care pharmacist in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Other activities Vicki performed included drafting policies and procedures, co-chairing the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, creating and drafting order sets for CPOE conversion and precepting residents and students.