Elizabeth Wade, PharmD, is the Patient Safety Officer for Amazon Pharmacy. Her previous experience includes serving as the Medication Safety Officer at Concord Hospital in New Hampshire. As the first medication safety officer in the state, she established the medication safety program and started the just culture movement for the health system.
She served as the Medication Safety Officer for Adult Med/Surg at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, where she facilitated the move of three pharmacies to a new clinical tower using lean design. She works closely with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in guideline development and was former faculty for the Medication Safety Intensive. She is an active member of the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists, where she served as the chair for the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Section Advisory Group on Medication Safety, New Hampshire delegate on the House of Delegates, and as a member of the Council on Pharmacy Practice. She is faculty for the ASHP/ISMP medication safety certificate program.
As a founding member for both the Partnership for Health IT and Patient Safety formed by ECRI, as well as the Patient Safety Council at Cerner, she is passionate about human factors and the development of safe systems and processes to make it easy for people to do the right thing. She worked actively with the New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy to pass legislation for implementation of continuous quality improvement programs in all pharmacies in New Hampshire.