A great resource on medication safety!

I am very pleased to highlight the services of a colleague of mine, John M. Kessler, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., who is President and Chief Clinical Officer of SecondStory Health, L.L.C. John and I worked together at Duke University and he continues to be a great resource for me that I am now sharing with y'all. John has more than 20 years of experience in medication systems design, adverse drug event reporting and errors analysis, and JCAHO accreditation standards. Additionally:

"He has chaired the United States Pharmacopoeia's Advisory Panel on Mediation Errors and he has served as an ex-officio Member on the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. He has consulted with healthcare organizations and regulatory authorities in the United States, South Africa, Brazil and the Middle East on medication safety.

He has experience in designing and implementing medication safety surveillance systems in large academic hospitals, small community hospitals and clinic environments. These surveillance systems have included:

• "triggers-based" concurrent monitoring system in a large academic hospital
• national drug information network to collect reports of adverse drug reactions
• voluntary reporting methods in hospitals and clinics
• observational methods and target-drug surveillance methods in hospitals
• computerized screening to identify adverse events in hospital diagnosis databases"

Please also keep John in mind if you are looking for an excellent speaker on medication safety!!