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William Churchill, MS, RPh, executive director of Pharmacy Services, last month was named Health-System Pharmacist of the Year by the Massachusetts Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP).
Churchill was nominated for the award by David Seaver, RPh, JD, of Pharmacy for his strong leadership at BWH, as well as nationally and internationally. “Bill is a true champion of the profession of Pharmacy,” Seaver wrote in his nomination letter.
Churchill began at BWH as a Pharmacy intern more than 32 years ago. He has been a key player in the implementation of CPOE, bar code scanning, smart infusion pump technology, robotics and creative clinical pharmacy programs in the Emergency Department, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Dialysis.
He has presented around the world on medication safety. Churchill is chair of the BWH Drug Safety Committee, vice chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and co-chair of the eMAR/Bar Code Scanning Project Team. He is co-chair of the Partners HealthCare Network High Performance Medicine Improvement Team focusing on medication safety technology.
The MSHP was founded in 1945 to foster the professional growth of hospital pharmacy in Massachusetts.