Cardiothoracic Transplant Pharmacist MGH

Overview

Massachusetts General Hospital is currently seeking highly motivated candidates to join our clinical transplant pharmacy team. This clinical position is for a Cardiothoracic Transplant Clinical Pharmacist. The Cardiothoracic Transplant Clinical Pharmacist will rotate through the inpatient heart and lung transplant service lines, serving as an expert of transplant pharmacotherapy for the interdisciplinary transplant teams. This position requires application of advanced transplant training to lead immunosuppressive and opportunistic infection discussion on interdisciplinary rounds, transplant education for patients and healthcare professionals, transplant protocols and guidelines, quality improvement and research projects, and transplant training for the PGY‑2 transplant resident and additional learners.

The Cardiothoracic Transplant Clinical Pharmacists are recognized as exceptional resources to the Pharmacy, Transplant, Cardiology and Pulmonology Departments, with whom they collaborate closely. This is a weekday position (no evenings) with every 10th weekend rotation plus three holidays per year (rotates every year). Clinical Pharmacists assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy, and they provide direct patient‑centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel to deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states.

They are also responsible for practice‑related research, quality, regulatory compliance initiatives, and education/training of pharmacy residents and students.

• Optimization of drug therapy by identifying, resolving, and preventing drug related problems to improve therapeutic outcomes.
• Providing direct or indirect patient care in accordance with laws, regulations, and collaborative drug therapy management agreements.
• Working independently and within pharmacy practice policies as a member of the patient care team, directing and coordinating pharmacy service activities, supervising support personnel, and serving as a subject‑matter expert at the site and system level.
• Lead assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs to facilitate pharmaceutical care and medication utilization systems.
• Design and implement new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives.
• Design and implement stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs.
• Track and evaluate assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency.
• Develop strategies to optimize medication utilization through clinical guidelines, disease‑specific pathways, formulary management, and medication‑use policies.
• Provide departmental and institutional leadership for committees, meetings, hospital group/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations.
• Assure pharmacy is an integral part of the health‑care delivery system, facilitating enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs.
• Maintain proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
• Place practice priority on the delivery of patient‑centered care.
• Work as an active member of a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with healthcare personnel within care areas.
• Establish collaborative pharmacist‑patient relationships.
• Maintain patient information and interpret patients’ health‑care needs including patient problem lists and prioritized pharmacist interventions.
• Collect and document accurate patient medication histories and reconcile discrepancies.
• Identify high‑risk patients and implement interventions to improve care quality and safety.
• Make appropriate evidence‑based, patient‑centered medication recommendations.
• Implement, evaluate, and redesign pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress and evolving goals for medication usage, including drug dosing and monitoring.
• Provide written documentation in the patient’s medical record when requested.
• Obtain and maintain ACLS and BLS certification.
• Participate in the management of medical…