The West Virginia University School of Pharmacy will host alumna and nationally recognized medication safety leader Jenna Merandi, PharmD, MS, CPPS, as part of the Annual Louis A. Luzzi Lectureship Series and Dean’s Hour on Friday, February 27.
Her lecture, “The Safety Renaissance,” will begin at Noon in the Okey Patteson Auditorium and is hosted by the Alpha Eta Chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma.
Merandi, a 2010 graduate of the WVU School of Pharmacy, is a medication safety officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She works with interdisciplinary teams and frontline staff to identify system-based interventions that prevent medication errors and improve patient outcomes. Her work focuses on advancing proactive safety strategies and expanding perspectives on safety to support optimal medication use.
She serves as a national co-leader for Proactive Safety through Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety and founded the Children’s Hospital Association Medication Safety Leaders Collaborative, which promotes shared learning and best practices to improve pediatric medication safety.
Merandi’s lecture will introduce key concepts in contemporary safety science and demonstrate how proactive safety tools are used in clinical practice. She will also discuss the importance of a Just Culture, which emphasizes learning, accountability and system improvement, and how human-centered design and innovation are helping accelerate progress in patient safety.
The Louis A. Luzzi Lectureship Series is named for former WVU School of Pharmacy Dean Louis A. Luzzi, a respected faculty mentor and strong proponent of research. The series is intended to give students insight into leadership in pharmacy by featuring alumni who have developed unique careers and made significant contributions to the profession.