Director Martin Dix Akerman, LLP 106 East College Avenue, Suite 1200 Tallahassee, FL 32301 Work: 850-224-9634 martin.dix@akerman.com
Treasurer Anne O’Brien Quarles & Brady 300 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL 60654 Work: 312-715-5259 anne.o’brien@quarles.com
Director Charles Hartig CVS Health 445 Great Circle Rd Nashville, TN 37228 Work: 513-581-1105 charles.hartig@omnicare.com
Immediate Past President Steve Gray Kaiser Permanente 12254 Bellflower Blvd 2nd Fl Downey, CA 90242 Work: 562-658-3660 steve.w.gray@kp.org
Director Aaron Moore Salsbury, Clements, Bekman, Marder & Adkins LLC 300 West Pratt Street, Suite 450 Baltimore, MD 21201 Work: 410-539-6633 amoore@scbmalaw.com
Executive Director Kristen Ball, CMP 3085 Stevenson Drive, Suite 200 Springfield, IL 62703 Work: 217-529-6948 administration@aspl.org
Director Shannon Panther Washington State University Department of Pharmacotherapy 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd Spokane, WA 99202 Work: 509-368-6555 shannon.panther@wsu.edu
COMPOUNDING California Board of Pharmacy seeks sanctions against UCLA compounding pharmacy The Los Angeles Times reported on September 15 that the California State Board of Pharmacy filed a formal accusation in July against a compounding pharmacy formerly operated by UCLA and its pharmacist-in-charge, seeking sanctions following the discovery by a Board investigator that over a thousand IVs had been compounded with “expired and potentially dangerous ingredients.” At least 350 of the adulterated IVs were delivered to patients in the UCLA Health system, including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica.
The pharmacy was closed within days of the inspection, and the pharmacist-in-charge abruptly resigned and “declared his license ‘inactive,’” according to the report. The accusation cited not only the improper use of expired ingredients, but the failure of the compounding pharmacy to possess the proper specialty license needed to operate as a centralized hospital packaging pharmacy. [Christensen K. UCLA pharmacy closed after state finds it sent out drugs with expired, potentially dangerous ingredients. Los Angeles Times 2017 Sep 15; http://lat.ms/2vYEgcE]
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