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(770) 855-5571
wnkelly@umich.edu
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Expert
Legal Opinion or Testimony – I have many years of experience
in investigating medication mishaps that have resulted in harm
or death, and I have been retained as an expert in the areas of
medication safety, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmacy practice by attorneys.
I specialize in causality assessment. I
may be
hired through TASA (Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys –
www.tasanet.com) or
directly. Fees and references are available upon request.
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| Help in Meeting National
Medication Safety Goals - I can help you assess and meet
JCAHO's national medication safety goals.
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Investigation of Medication Mishaps – Would you like to know
if: 1) a medication was the cause of harm? 2) which medication
caused the harm? 3) how the medication mishap occurred? or 4)
what can be done to prevent it from occurring again? The mishap
can be investigated at the site, through a review of medical
records, and through discussions with key people who may know
what happened. Someone not employed by the institution where the
event occurred is in the best position to investigate these
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| Medication
Error Prevention – Do you want to know how safe your health
care facility or pharmacy is for medication mishaps – to include
medication errors, allergic drug reactions, drug interactions,
and adverse drug reactions (ADRs)? How close are you to meeting
national patient safety goals (JCAHO)? Through survey design and/or
a site visit, your facility can be compared to other facilities
of similar size and type. Recommendations can also be formulated
on how to better detect problems before they turn into
“incidents,” how to better detect, document, and report adverse
medication events (ADEs) when they occur, and how to prevent
them from occurring in the future. |
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| Pharmacoepidemiology-
I
specialize in formal causality assessment (the probability
that a drug caused the injury) and use pharmacology, the biomedical
literature review, and a validated assessment instrument
to assess causality. |
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Speaking or Training in Medication Safety – I have presented
many programs and seminars on medication safety, and can provide
medication safety training for organizations. Titles of some of
my recent presentations are listed below:
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Pharmacists’
Contributions to Adverse Drug Events |
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Developing
New Strategies to Solve
Medication Errors |
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The
Potential Risks and Prevention of Significant
ADEs |
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Adverse Drug
Event Knowledge Review |
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Fatal
Medication Errors: What We Know |
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Assessing
System Causes in Medication Erroring |
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Drug Errors
Causing Death |
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Ten Drug
Interactions Everyone
Should Know |
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Improving
Medication Safety |
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Medication
Errors: Lessons Learned and Actions Needed |
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| Medication
Safety Research – I provide help in designing clinical or
pharmacoepidemiology research studies in medication safety and
in writing grant proposals in this area. |
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HEALTH CARE EDUCATION
| Educational
Program Development – The development of high quality health
care education presentations. These can be developed in
various formats including Microsoft Power Point and come
with learning objectives and speaker’s notes. Programs
are custom designed for the audience intended. Examples
of already developed slide sets with speaker's notes are
available upon request. |
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| Educational
Presentations – I am available on an hourly or per diem
basis to present programs to health care audiences. |
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| Request a
Sample – An example of a program is available upon request. |
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PHARMACY PRACTICE
| Clinical
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Care Research Design – I have
extensive training and background in research design and
biostatistics to assist those who would like to make sure their
research is properly designed before the project begins.
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| Development
of a Pharmacoepidemiology Pharmacy Residency Program – My
background, training and desire to advance the field of
pharmacoepidemiology will help assure your pharmacoepidemiology
residency is first class and meets ASHP accreditation standards. |
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| Mentoring of
Pharmacy Residency Projects – I have trained over 30
pharmacy residents and have mentored over 50 residency projects.
I can help develop superb residency projects and I will even
help mentor the resident if desired. |
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| Improving
Medication Adherence – Use the latest ideas and techniques
to improve medication adherence and compliance to help improve
the health outcomes of patients. |
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| Recruitment of a
Director of Pharmacy – Let me help you find the best
director of pharmacy for your facility. My extensive contacts
and networking can provide you with the very best available
candidates for your position. I do all the searching and
screening, and only provide for interview the very best,
available candidates at a reasonable cost to you. |
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