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Contact Information:
Office: 302 Scaife Hall
Phone: 412-647-6424
Fax: 412-647-1605
Pager: 412-647-7243 6211
Additional Information:
Susan Skledar, R.Ph., M.P.H., FASHP, is a clinical pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian, and is currently the Director for the Drug Use and Disease State Management (DUDSM) Program. She received her BS in Pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Master's of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She is a fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Ms. Skledar is an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Pharmacy & Therapeutics, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, precepting students and lecturing in the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum. She has been a faculty member since 1992.
Medication use policy, evidence-based practice guideline development, medication safety and shortage plans, pharmacy’s role in national core quality measures, and implementing technology, such as “smart” infusion pumps, are part the work she leads at the UPMC. She also works with each of UPMC’s 15-member hospitals to facilitate similar clinical programs and initiatives. Ms. Skledar has received national recognition for design and application of continuous quality improvement principles to clinical pharmacy programs to promote safe medication practices, including those from American Pharmaceutical Association, National Hospital Pharmacy Quality Improvement Award, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Hospital and Health-System Association of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the National Association of Healthcare Quality. She has also received local recognition for performance improvement at the UPMC-P President's Performance Improvement Quality Fair each year since 1997.
Ms. Skledar has authored over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals, case books, and book chapters in her specialty area.
Prior to her work in the DUDSM Program, Ms. Skledar spent over five years in hospital pharmacy management, designing and implementing decentralized and satellite pharmacy services, both operational and clinical programs, for critical care and anesthesiology/operating room pharmacy services.