The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group recognized Dr. Robert L. Poole as the 2007 Richard A. Helms Award recipient during the PPAG Annual Conference on September 29, 2007 in Portsmouth, VA.
Dr. Poole's 30 year career has been focused on the prevention of medication errors, pediatric parenteral nutrition and process improvement. He is a founding member of the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG), a past Board of Directors Officer, and received a "Lifetime Honorary Membership" award in 2003. Dr. Poole also serves on the Pharmacy Committee of the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA).
Dr. Poole received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1977, where he also completed a residency in Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy in 1978. Dr. Poole was recruited to Stanford in 1980 to establish pharmacy services for the neonatal and pediatric patients at the Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Director of Pharmacy at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH), a 328 bed Women and Children's Hospital. Dr. Poole has academic appointments at the following Schools of Pharmacy: University of California, San Francisco; University of the Pacific; and Western University of Health Sciences. He has published extensively over his career on the topics of: pediatric parenteral nutrition, the prevention of medication errors in children and adverse drug reactions in pediatrics.
Dr. Poole has also made numerous invited presentations at local, state, national and international conferences and educational meetings. He currently serves on the Science Advisory Board for an Applied Genomics and Proteomics in Human Health Grant from the Genome of Canada, a program studying the genetic basis of adverse drug reactions in children.
Central to his professional career is his family: wife, Carole; four sons, Matthew, Robert, Aaron and Timothy; three daughters-in -law, Erin, Laura and Allison; and three grandchildren: Sydney, Dominic and Ayla.
The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group recognized Dr. Robert L. Poole as the 2007 Richard A. Helms Award recipient during the PPAG Annual Conference on September 29, 2007 in Portsmouth, VA.
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5-Apr-12