Chief Pharmacy Officer and Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Rita Shane, Pharm.D., FASHP, FCSHP is Chief Pharmacy Officer and Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, an 886 bed acute, tertiary care, teaching institution and Assistant Dean, Clinical Pharmacy Services at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Pharmacy. She is responsible for over 380 staff members. Dr. Shane is the recipient of the 2019 ISMP Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018 ASHP Honorary Membership Award and the 2012 Harvey A.K. Whitney award. She was one of the 50 experts leading patient safety in the 2013 Becker Hospital Review. She also received the 2005 ASHP Distinguished Leadership Award, 2007 Distinguished Service Award, and the 1996 John Webb Award on management excellence. She served as the Chair of the ASHP Pharmacy Practice Management prior to the Section on Pharmacy Practice Management. Dr. Shane has served as the ASHP representative to the American Hospital Association Health Professions Committee, the National Quality Forum, Patient Safety Advisory Committee and the Joint Commission Hospital Professional Technical Committee. She has published over 100 articles and provided over 200 presentations at the state, national, and international levels. She has collaborated on research in medication safety and transitions of care. Most recently she collaborated with former Senator Jeff Stone in a new law that requires pharmacy staff to obtain medication histories on high risk patients admitted to hospitals in California.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM