As acute care resuscitation specialists, EM Pharmacists are uniquely equipped to assist with disaster preparedness not only in their institution but also in their health system and their community. This podcast focuses on medication disaster preparedness topics such as disaster carts, strategic national stockpile, and antidote stockpiles.
SPEAKERS
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.
Dr. Andrew Smith is an emergency medicine pharmacist specialist at Scripps Mercy San Diego. Dr. Smith has spoken both locally and nationally on a variety of topics, including opioid use disorder and managing cannabis dependent patients during inpatient stays. He actively serves on ASHP’s Emergency Medicine Section Advisory Group as the Chair of the podcast committee, and was recently elected to serve on the San Diego Society of Health System Pharmacists Board of Directors and House of Delegates.
Dr. Katelyn Dervay graduated in 2005 from the University of Florida and then completed her PGY1 residency at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center and PGY2 residency in emergency medicine at Detroit Receiving Hospital. She currently practices at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. She has acted on state, local and hospital emergency preparedness teams and has participated in events such as pandemic flu and mass casualty. Her interests include trauma, toxicology, infectious disease and emergency preparedness.