Jennifer Robertson, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP

Medication-Use Safety and Policy Residency Director

Director, Medication Outcomes and Safety

Board Certification(s)

BCPS

Education

PharmD – University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Memphis, Tennessee

Post-Graduate Training

Specialty Residency in Drug Information - Methodist Healthcare, Memphis, Tennessee

Focused Area of Practice

Medication Use Policy
Medication Safety

Research Interests

Medication Event Prevention
Clinical Decision Support/Alert Fatigue

St. Jude Committee Service

Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Medication Use Safety Team
Patient Safety Event Evaluation Team
Quality Patient Safety Council

Pharmacy Organizations/Committee Service

American Society of Health System Pharmacists
- Council on Education and Workforce Development, 2021-2024
- Committee on Nominations, Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners, 2017-2024
- Executive Committee of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners, Immediate Past Chair, 2017-2018
- Executive Committee of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners, Chair, 2016-2017
- Executive Committee of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners, Chair-Elect, 2015-2016
- Medication Safety Section Advisory Group, 2011-2014; Chair, 2013-2014
Tennessee Pharmacists Association
- Awards Committee, Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP), 2023-present; Chair, 2024-present
- Residency Committee, TSHP, 2023-present
- Programming and Education Committee, Tennessee Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP), 2020-2023
Medication Safety Officers Society
Mid-South College of Clinical Pharmacy

Selected Publications

Hughes K, Cole M, Tims D, Wallach T, Spencer C, Page V, Robertson J, Hoffman JM. Optimizing the Use of Dose Error Reduction Software on Intravenous Infusion Pumps. Hosp Pediatr. 2024 Jun 1;14(6):448-454. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2023-007385. PMID: 38716570.

Carias DC, Daniels CC, Robertson J. All pharmacists provide patient care. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2023 Jul 7;80(14):876. doi: 10.1093/ajhp/zxac359. PMID: 36472456.

Daniels CC, Burlison JD, Baker DK, Robertson J, et al. Optimizing drug-drug interaction alerts using a multidimensional approach. Pediatrics. 2019; 143(3): e20174111.

Billstein-Leber M, Carrillo JD, Cassano AT, Moline K, Robertson, JJ. ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors in Hospitals. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2018; 75 (19): 1493-1517.

Burlison JD, McDaniel RB, Baker DK, Hasan M, Robertson JJ, Howard SC, Hoffman JM. Using EHR data to detect prescribing errors in rapidly discontinued medication orders. Appl Clin Inform. 2018; 9: 82-88.

McDaniel RB, Burlison JD, Baker DK, Hasan M, Robertson J, Hartford C, et al. Alert dwell time: introduction of a measure to evaluate interruptive clinical decision support alerts. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Oct 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv144 [Epub ahead of print].

Call RJ, Burlison JD, Robertson JJ, Scott JR, Baker DK, Rossi MG, Howard SC, Hoffman JM. Adverse drug event detection in pediatric oncology and hematology patients: Using medication triggers to identify patient harm in a specialized pediatric patient population. J Pediatr 165(3):447-52, 2014.

Last update: August 2024