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Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Pharmacy Specialist provides advanced clinical pharmacy services for children, adolescents and young adults receiving care at Riley Children's Health. As a core member of the pediatric SCT team, the specialist ensures safe, effective, and evidence-based-based medication use in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This role rotates between inpatient and clinic every 3-4 months.
This role requires expertise in chemotherapy management, supportive care, investigational protocols, and complex therapeutics unique to pediatric oncology, stem cell transplantation and cellular/gene therapy. The specialist supports direct patient care, clinical decision making, education, research, and quality improvement initiatives to optimize outcomes for children undergoing cellular/genetic therapies. A PGY2 residency in oncology or pediatrics (or equivalent experience) is required to be considered for this position.
Responsibilities:- Provide comprehensive pharmacotherapy management for pediatric SCT and immunotherapy/gene therapy patients, including physician treatment plan design and implementation support, chemotherapy dosing consultation, proactive patient monitoring, supportive care plan design and toxicity prevention/management support.
- Participate in daily multidisciplinary rounds with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, nutritionists, and other team members.
- Ensure accuracy and safety in the ordering and administration of chemotherapy and biotherapy agents.
- Manage supportive care therapies, including antimicrobials, anticoagulation, pain management, antiemetics, and transfusion-related medications.
- Provide pharmacokinetic consultations (conditioning chemotherapy agents, immunosuppressants, antifungals, aminoglycosides) and develop weaning plans for long term medications being discontinued (steroids, nausea medications, sedative medications etc.).
- Identify, prevent, and manage adverse drug events and medication-related issues.
- Support pediatric oncology and stem cell transplant-related complications and emergencies (febrile neutropenia, tumor lysis syndrome, acute rejection, GVHD, TA-TMA, VOD).
- Provide education to patients and families to promote safe discharge and transitions of care practices.
- Educate pharmacy residents, pharmacy students, and oncology pharmacists, providing instruction in pediatric oncology and stem cell therapeutics and safe medication practices.
- Occasional holiday and weekend clinical service, and hospital wide medical emergency/code response required. Serve as back-up on call coverage for clinical questions from clinical pharmacists covering weekends/nights and provider group
Requirements:- Requires Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor's of Science in Pharmacy prior to 2006.
- Successful completion of an ASHP accredited PGY1 or PGY2 residency may be required.
- Requires 0-3 years of relevant experience.
- Requires current Indiana Pharmacist license or eligibility for Indiana licensure as a Pharmacist.
- Board certification or other specialized training may be required.
- Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) may be required.
- May require travel to IU Health facilities.
- May require weekend rotations.
