Steve Stephen
Frisco,TX
Summary
Board certified hospital pharmacist with 15 years of acute-care hospital experience, including 2 years of progressive success as a Pharmacy Supervisor and Clinical Pharmacist Lead. Proven expertise in optimizing complex medication therapy, advancing antimicrobial stewardship, and driving interdisciplinary patient safety initiatives. Combines deep clinical acumen with frontline leadership experience in staff mentorship, protocol development and departmental workflow optimization.
Overview
1
1
Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Pharmacy Supervisor and Clinical Pharmacist Lead
Medical City Frisco
Frisco, TX
09.2024 - Current
- Support Pharmacy Director in optimizing pharmacy operations: implementations and enforcement of policies and procedures.
- Routine staff supervision and training of staffs.
- Quality, safety and regulatory compliance: oversee pharmacy staff and enforce state and federal rules to prevent Medication errors.
- Support diversion prevention system by monitoring and auditing the controlled substance utilization, discrepancy resolutions and compliance to state and Federal regulations.
- Clinical Pharmacist supervision and mentorship.
- Design, implement and update Protocol and Policy development.
- Quality& Safety Assurance: lead Medication utilization reviews(MUE), track adverse drug events and implement safety metrics.
- Member of various hospital committees.
- Routinely involved in multi disciplinary rounds of ICU, Neonatal ICU and Medical &surgical units.
- Manage the hospital inventory, monitor the appropriate usage of non-formulary agents and optimize the usage of antimicrobial agents.
- Training the pharmacy staff, maintain their bi annual sterile and non- sterile compounding competencies.
- Assign and document annual competencies for both Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
- Routinely precepting third and fourth year Pharmacy students.
- Perform monthly unit based medication safety inspections and crash cart review.
Clinical Pharmacist
Medical City Frisco
Frisco, TX
10.2017 - Current
- Medication order verification: review orders for correct drug selection, proper dosage and potential drug interactions or allergies.
- Perform and verify the patient specific and Batch sterile IV and non-sterile compounding for both adults and pediatric patients.
- Routinely performs clinical pharmacist duties includes antibiotic surveillance and stewardship, pharmacy consults for antibiotic dosing, renal dosing, TPN consult, Coumadin monitoring, IV to PO conversions.
- Routinely participate in Multi disciplinary provider rounds at medical-surgical and ICU patients and provide the best patient specific pharmacotherapy recommendations.
- Participate in weekly Neonatal ICU discharge rounds and daily rounds on critical babies.
- Respond to code blue both adult and NICU.
- Consultation and support to other healthcare team members.
- Perform discharge planning, and patient counseling.
- Support managing inventory or shortages and check emergency crash carts, code boxes and anesthesia trays.
- Perform duplicate PRN medication audits, medication override reports, narcotic CII safe vs pyxis compare reports.
- Perform monthly medication safety walk around on assigned units.
Clinical Pharmacist
Medical City Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
12.2010 - 10.2017
- Medication order verification: review orders for correct drug selection, proper dosage and potential drug interactions or adverse drug reactions.
- Perform and verify the patient specific and batch sterile IV and non-sterile compounding for adult patients.
- Routinely performs clinical Pharmacist duties includes antibiotic surveillance and stewardship, pharmacy consults for antibiotic dosing, renal dosing, TPN consult, Coumadin monitoring , Chemo therapy dosage double check, Organ transplant pharmacotherapy management.
- Routinely participates in multi disciplinary provider rounds at alternative units Medical-surgical, Cardiac Critical care, Neurological Critical care and Surgical ICU and provide patient specific pharmacotherapy recommendations.
- Respond to code blue and rapid response codes.
- Perform discharge planning and patient counseling.
- Support managing inventory or shortage and check emergency crash carts, code boxes, stroke boxes and anesthesia trays.
Education
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID12.2014
Master of Science(Pharmacy) -
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education And Research
Mohali, India12.2003
Skills
- Clinical Pharmacist workflow management
- Pharmacotherapy Management
- Antimicrobial stewardship Program: design and management
- Multi-disciplinary rounds and Patient counseling
- Sterile compounding management
- Pharmacy Operations
- Inventory Control/ Formulary Management
- Medication Safety and Quality
- Clinical Supervision
- Team mentorship
Accomplishments
- Supervised and mentored 15+ clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technicians, increasing departmental throughput and workflow efficiency.
- Lead internal compliance audits: ensuring 100% adherence to Joint commission, CMS and state board regulations.
- Designed a comprehensive training curriculum for incoming pharmacy staff and students.
- Managed pharmacy inventory optimization, executing strategies that cut medication waste significantly.
- Co-Led the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, significantly reduced the antibiotic spend, met the clinical metric goal in all the months including 9 months of 100% clinical metric achievements.
- Developed and standardized evidence based protocol like heparin drip initial rate standardization, optimization of Albumin usage, insulin drip for hypertriglycedemia protocol.
Meeting/ Committies
- Pharmacy & Therapeutic committee- co- chair: Monthly.
- Medication diversion Committee- Member: Monthly.
- Sepsis Committee- Member: Monthly.
- Critical care and code blue committee- member: Monthly.
- Neonatal multidisciplinary committee- member: Monthly.
- L&D multidisciplinary committee- Member: Monthly.
- Clinical Pharmacist leaders monthly meeting.
- Medication safety committee monthly meeting.
- Anti- microbial stewardship Program committee - co- chair: Quarterly.
Certification
- Registered Pharmacist- Texas state board of Pharmacy(License# 47189, Expiration 4/27)
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist(BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties
Credential#3162272, Expiration 12/27
- Compounded Sterile Preparations Certificate for Pharmacist- American Society of Health System Pharmacists
Other certifications
- Basic Life support(BLS)-American Heart Association, Expiration 8/28
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support(ACLS)- American Heart Association, Expiration 8/28
Timeline
Pharmacy Supervisor and Clinical Pharmacist Lead
Medical City Frisco
09.2024 - Current
Clinical Pharmacist
Medical City Frisco
10.2017 - Current
Clinical Pharmacist
Medical City Fort Worth
12.2010 - 10.2017
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Idaho State University
Master of Science(Pharmacy) -
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education And Research