ORMC Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: Infectious Diseases

ORMC Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: Infectious Diseases

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist 

Infectious Diseases

Facility and Department Overview

• OHORMC is the flagship hospital of Orlando Health, one of Florida's most comprehensive not-for-profit health systems.
• Central Florida's only Level I Trauma Center and a Comprehensive Stroke Center.
• More than 250 Medical Residents and Fellows.
• PGY1 and PGY2 (critical care, emergency medicine, oncology, and pediatrics) pharmacy residency training programs.

Position Overview

• Collaborate with Infectious Diseases physicians and multidisciplinary teams to optimize antimicrobial therapy for complex hospitalized patients.
• Perform prospective audit and feedback activities including review of bloodstream infections, antimicrobial stewardship worklists, restricted antimicrobial utilization, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, HIV/antiretroviral therapy, and other targeted stewardship initiatives.
• Participate in Infectious Diseases Consult Service rounds with ID attendings / fellows and provide evidence-based recommendations regarding antimicrobial initiation, optimization, de-escalation, duration of therapy, and diagnostic stewardship.
• Support development, implementation, and maintenance of antimicrobial stewardship initiatives, protocols, clinical pathways, order sets, guidelines, and quality improvement projects.
• Analyze antimicrobial utilization and resistance data, participate in the development of annual antibiograms, and identify opportunities to improve clinical outcomes and antimicrobial utilization.
• Collaborate with Infection Prevention, Microbiology, Sepsis, Quality, and Clinical Operations teams on system-wide initiatives focused on improving patient outcomes and reducing antimicrobial resistance.
• Participate in multidisciplinary and corporate committees, including antimicrobial stewardship, medication-use, infection prevention, microbiology, sepsis, and quality-improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a mentor and infectious diseases resource for a growing decentralized clinical pharmacy staff.
• Precept pharmacy residents and students in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship learning experiences.
• Participate in clinical research, medication-use evaluations, and scholarly activities related to infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship.
• Provide education to pharmacists, physicians, nurses, residents, fellows, and students.
• Dedicated involvement in a system-wide antimicrobial stewardship program
• Active engagement in residency education, research, scholarship, and publication opportunities within a large academic center.

Desired/Required Credentials

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
• Completion of PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency plus 3+ years of hospital practice, completion of PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency (Infectious Diseases preferred), or five or more years of hospital clinical practice experience.
• BCIDP preferred or eligibility with commitment to obtain certification.
• Florida pharmacy licensure eligibility required.