Athena L. Hobbs, PharmD, BCIDP

Pharmacy Clinical Manager- Infectious Diseases Post Acute Medical
Cardinal Health

Athena Hobbs, PharmD, BCIDP is the current Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator at Methodist University Hospital and the co-chair of the System Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the University of Chicago Medicine, and completed her PGY2 residency in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship at Seton Healthcare Family in conjunction with the University of Texas at Austin. Her particular areas of interest and publication are in antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, and antibiotic pharmacokinetics. She is an active member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) and is currently serving as the Vice Chair of the SIDP Program’s Committee. She is an advocate for advancing antimicrobial stewardship in Tennessee and has most recently been awarded the 2022 TSHP Health-System Pharmacist of the Year award.

Presentation(s):

• Don’t Go Viral with Antibiotics — How Pharmacists Can Use Antimicrobial Stewardship to Help Check Resistance at the Door

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022
  8:00 AM – 10:00 AM