Medication Safety and Quality Improvement in Community Pharmacy
Home Study Webinar
$20 Activity Fee
Topic Designator: 05 – Patient Safety | Credit: 1 contact hour Available through February 3, 2025
During this home study webinar, you will learn about advances in medication safety and continuous quality improvement (CQI) in Canadian community pharmacies and how it compares to CQI regulations for community pharmacies in the United States. Presenters will also discuss how specific elements of a CQI program can improve patient safety.
This home study webinar is a recording of the live activity that was held on March 16, 2022.
Presenters
Ana L. Hincapie, PhD, MS
Associate Professor of Administrative Sciences and Pharmacy Practice, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati
Dr Hincapie has published and presented at the national and international level qualitative and quantitative research on quality and safety of care and the use of health information technologies. Dr Hincapie has also published research using qualitative and quantitative stated preference methods to ascertain patients’ experiences with pharmacy services and medications. Dr Hincapie has held multiple leadership positions in professional organizations, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and chair of the Education Committee for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Latin America Consortium.
Neil MacKinnon, BScPharm, MScPharm, PhD, FCSHP, FNAP
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Augusta University
Dr Neil MacKinnon is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Augusta University (AU) in Augusta, GA. In that capacity, he serves as the chief academic officer of the university, overseeing its 10 colleges and schools, as well as diversity and inclusion, enrollment and student affairs, faculty affairs, institutional effectiveness and planning, instruction and innovation, the registrar’s office, and the research enterprise. He also serves on the board of AU Health. He is a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Medical College of Georgia.
Prior to his current position, Dr MacKinnon was dean of the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati. He was director of the State Office of Rural Health for Arizona and a Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. He was also professor and associate director for research at the College of Pharmacy at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
