What is a Pediatric Pharmacist?

Pediatric pharmacists are licensed professionals with at least five years of highly specialized pharmacy education. They often have completed doctoral degrees in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) and post-graduate residency programs that make them the nation’s medication-use experts. Their responsibilities often include:

• Evaluating new medications to recommend those that are safest and most effective for individual patients;
• Advising physicians and other health care personnel about medication selection and administration;
• Counseling patients and parents directly to help them use their medication wisely;
• Monitoring every stage of medication therapy to improve all aspects of effectiveness;
• Providing crucial quality checks to detect and prevent harmful drug interactions or reactions and potential mistakes;
• Working under sterile conditions to combine injectible medications with fluids to create compounds that patients receive intravenously;
• Supervising the dispensing and distribution of medication; and
• Obtaining and maintaining supplies of medications that meet quality standards for purity and effectiveness and managing the proper storage of these products to ensure freshness and potency.

• PPAG’s mission is to advocate safe and effective medication use in children through communication, education, and research.
• PPAG provides continuing pharmacy education programs designed to help members improve the delivery of medication therapy.

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