Hospital Pharmacy Expert Witnesses

Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Regulation - Pharmacy standard of care/negligence, Board of Pharmacy relations, national pharmacy regulatory affairs, hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy, mail service, non-resident pharmacy issues, pharmacy technology regulations, and automation issues.

Dennis is an Arizona-based pharmacist with a broad set of practice experiences acquired over 40 years of pharmacy practice. He served in the United States Air Force as a pharmacy officer, and opened and operated a community pharmacy after leaving active duty. Dennis has served as Director of Pharmacy at three hospitals, two in rural areas, and the other, an 800-bed facility with an attached children’s hospital in an urban setting. Dennis was a founding faculty member at the Midwestern University College of Pharmacy-Glendale, eventually serving as its Assistant Dean. As the Pharmacist in Charge of the Humana Mail Pharmacy in Phoenix, managing pharmacy practice for a staff of 700 that filled over 35,000 prescriptions each day. Dennis has worked for the last decade as the Senior Director of Pharmacy Regulatory Affairs for Express Scripts, supervising a team that covered all 50 state boards. He recently retired from that position. Dennis has extensive experience in standard of care an...

Pharmacist, Pharmacology- Clinical - Nursing homes, geriatric pharmacist, alcohol, recreational drugs, drug interactions, opioid pain management, hospital pharmacy, drug levels, medication errors, pharmacy law, toxicology, pharmacy standards of care

Pharmacy Standards of Care (nursing home/long-term care, acute care, hospice, home health); Pain Management; Geriatric Drug Therapy Management (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, psychoactive medications, psychotropic drug reactions, polypharmacy); Clinical Pharmacy Services (drug information services, patient assessment & counseling); Drug Safety/Misadventure (interactions, adverse reactions, medication errors, death/overdose, product liability); Pharmacology (causal relationship between drug exposure and subsequent effects, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacokinetics); Pharmacy Operations (3rd-party payment, managed care, controlled substance/narcotics, drug distribution systems, pharmacoeconomics). Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice (2011- ) Harding University College of Pharmacy Clinical Consultant Pharmacist (1995-2011) The Mackenzie Group, LLC Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics (1992-94) University of Pittsburgh Clinical Assistant Professor (1991-92) Yale University Sch...

Pharmacist, Pharmacology- Clinical - Pharmacy Law,Pharmacy Practice,Pharmacy Standards,Prescription Benefits,Prescription Fraud,Pharmacist Discipline,Pharmacy Malpractice,Adverse Drug Reactions,Hospital Pharmacy,Nursing Home Pharmacy,Controlled Substances,Drug Interactions

I am a pharmacist with nearly 50 years of both practice and management experience in a variety of clinical settings. Since 1993, I have provided expert witness services and litigation support in over 150 cases throughout the country in matters specifically related to pharmacy malpractice, pharmaceuticals-related hospital and medical malpractice, prescription benefit fraud, overdispensing of controlled substances, as well as assistance in disciplinary proceedings against pharmacists and pharmacies. I have also participated in compliance audits of federally-sponsored health plans where it pertains to pharmaceutical services. I am formerly an instructor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. My areas of expertise for teaching purposes include site-specific pharmacy practice guidelines, community pharmacy risk management, hospital pharmacy risk management, prescription drug benefits, pharma...