Manager, Pharmacy

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

The IDS Manager oversees clinical, operational, financial, regulatory and human resources aspects of research and investigational drug services. The individual serves as a member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team and works directly with research and medical staff leadership, nursing and pharmacy to promote practice that achieves quality outcomes and medication safety that contribute to the overall success of COH. The IDS Manager will also work with other stakeholders across the City of Hope System to promote a system approach to clinical trials and help with expansion of research to other sites across the System. 

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Ensure facilities, security, and accountability according to COH, FDA, JC and GCP guidelines, and other regulatory requirements. Ensures that all equipment and facility requirements are compliant with all investigational drug services requirements.
• Acts as the liaison with internal affiliated departments and external stakeholders to ensure program integrity.
• Attract, retain, and develop a quality Clinical Pharmacy Staff. Ensures clinical research pharmacy staff training and competency
• Responsible for oversight of pharmacy research related matters. 
• Serves as a compliance expert on investigational drug program details, policies, and procedures, and ensures compliance with all regulatory standards and proper Investigational Drug Product Accountability and Documentation.
• Work with IDS, COH Leadership, Nursing Leadership, physicians, pharmacists, and other department managers and key committees to promote safe and effective use of investigational drugs.
• Provides support to the IDS staff across the City of Hope System and works with the leadership to ensure standardization and harmonization of practices across all sites.
• Actively engages with senior leadership and participates in decision-making processes related to the expansion of the research program and /or changes of program.
• Represent the pharmacy enterprise in all research related committees.
• Work with IDS, COH Leadership, Nursing Leadership, physicians, pharmacists, and other department managers and key committees to promote safe and effective use of investigational drugs that meet regulatory standards. Improve investigational drug processes. Promote research collaborations with Physicians, Nurses, and outside network affiliations.

Your qualifications should include: 

• Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm.D.)
• 3 years in hospital or ambulatory pharmacy with experience in leading or supervisory capacity
• Current CA Pharmacy License
• 3 years of experience in Investigational Drug Services, ASHP Accredited PGY-1 Residency, preferred

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