A clear look at why pharmacy leaders feel stretched, and what helps keep the pipeline moving.
ASHP's Pharmacy Leadership Podcast treats a leadership survey as a grounded look at what drives health-system pharmacy managers and what gets in the way.

Structured pharmacy insight for real clinical practice.
ASHPOfficial treats pharmacy as both a clinical discipline and an operating system for patient care. Episodes move from leadership pipeline stressors to GLP-1 liver-disease updates, poisoning response, AI implementation, residency mentoring, and hospital pharmacy career paths.
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ASHPOfficial is a broad professional education feed centered on pharmacy practice, medication use, leadership, and patient-care systems. It sounds more like a society learning track than a personality-led interview show. The format rotates across mini-series, award conversations, recorded presentations, leadership discussions, and continuing education episodes. That range gives it a practical rhythm. Recent clinical episodes explain topics such as MASLD, MASH, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and pharmacist-led strategies for patients with liver disease. The teaching is terminology-heavy, but it usually pauses to define the terms before moving into application. Another episode on the poisoned patient becomes a procedural lesson in exposure management, decontamination, induced emesis, gastric lavage, contraindications, and timing. It is direct material. The leadership side is just as concrete, with conversations about frontline manager stress, scarce resources, work-life balance, and the challenge of truly disconnecting from pharmacy leadership roles. Award interviews add a more personal register without losing the professional focus. They trace how service, residency, precepting, autonomy, and mentoring shape pharmacy careers over time. Career episodes make the hospital pharmacist visible inside the care pathway, from emergency department medication checks to inpatient dosing and safety review. AI appears as an operational subject, framed around practical frameworks, outcomes, and moving from pilots into real pharmacy workflows. The show is not built for casual medical curiosity. It assumes comfort with clinical vocabulary and institutional practice. Still, it often uses plain examples and repeated framing to keep complex material followable. The strongest episodes give listeners a usable sequence: define the problem, name the risks, identify the decision points, and close with practice implications. ASHPOfficial is especially useful for pharmacists, residents, pharmacy leaders, preceptors, and clinicians who want a steady view of what the profession is being asked to manage. It favors applied judgment over debate. Its value is the breadth of pharmacy work made orderly, specific, and current.
Made for: ASHPOfficial is for pharmacists, pharmacy residents, preceptors, health-system leaders, ambulatory care practitioners, and clinicians who work closely with medication-use systems. It best suits listeners comfortable with clinical terminology and professional education formats.
What sets it apart: The show combines clinical instruction, leadership development, residency training, career explanation, and operational change in the same feed. Its edge is not personality or banter, but disciplined pharmacy practice knowledge delivered through experts, moderators, and structured teaching segments.
ASHPOfficial is the premier podcast of ASHP and the collective voice of our 60,000 members in health-system pharmacy. Through interviews and discussions with pharmacy thought leaders, ASHPOfficial will explore issues related to public health, medication use, and supporting the professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory clinics, and other settings. To learn more about ASHP, please visit ashp.org.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
ASHPOfficial connects pharmacy leadership and workforce development to the operational realities of training, resources, clinical judgment, and career progression.
ASHPOfficial moves between panel conversations, professional interviews, and peer-reviewed educational presentations, treating health-system pharmacy as both clinical practice and organizational work.
Gastric lavage meets the leadership pipeline; your casual pharmacy curiosity may need a lab coat.
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A clear look at why pharmacy leaders feel stretched, and what helps keep the pipeline moving.
ASHP's Pharmacy Leadership Podcast treats a leadership survey as a grounded look at what drives health-system pharmacy managers and what gets in the way.
A practical refresher on decontaminating the poisoned patient.
This episode treats decontamination for the poisoned patient as a series of bedside choices, moving from tepid water to the reasons neutralizing agents are usually avoided, including the risk of exothermic reactions.
A practical look at how supported autonomy can prepare pharmacy residents for independent practice.
Pharmacy residency training is treated here as a readiness question: how much guided practice helps a resident move toward independent clinical responsibility. Ted Morton, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at St.
A careful review of poisoned-patient decontamination, centered on timing, contraindications, and restraint.
For poisoned-patient decontamination, this review keeps the emphasis where it belongs: on restraint, timing, and the risk of making a dangerous exposure worse.
A practical guide to making a large pharmacy meeting feel more intentional and useful.
The 2025 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting is framed here as a practical forum for pharmacy professionals thinking about how to show up well at a major conference.



Brain science before it becomes a headline.


This episode discusses establishing a CYP3A5 genotype-guided dosing protocol for tacrolimus in adult kidney transplant recipients to improve personalized medication management.
Host Chinyara Anyaremba leads a panel of five pharmacy leaders—Laura Butkovich, Charlene Hope, Scott Hall, Jordan Bay, and Harrison Josephcheck—in a discussion about the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting 2025.
Clinical pharmacist Raymond Patterson presents a continuing education session on triaging and treating poisoned patients.
ASHP Official’s Informatics Bites features Ben Michaels, Ben Moore, and Killian Rogers explaining how pharmacy teams organize data catalogs, metadata, reports, and SQL code.
Daniel Nayakundi hosts Amelia O'Day, Malia McCann, Dawn Hubbard, and Tanya Munro about receiving ASHP Foundation Professional Advancement Scholarships and attending the 2025 ASHP Midyear meeting.
Emily Frederick compares pharmacists to a medication order's final verification step for AI-generated health claims.
Health-system pharmacy leadership is feeling the squeeze.
This episode provides pharmacists with continuing education on GLP-1 receptor agonists and their potential uses in treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), featuring expert discussions on nomenclature, pharmacotherapy, and care strategies.
This episode features an interview with Rick Couldry, the Distinguished Service Awardee for the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders, discussing his career, involvement with ASHP, and contributions to advancing pharmacy practice.
This episode explores the roles and impact of hospital and health-system pharmacists through a discussion with pharmacy professionals about their contributions to patient care and medication safety.
This episode features an interview with Jamie Cavanaugh, a Distinguished Service Awardee, discussing her involvement with ASHP and leadership in ambulatory care pharmacy practice.
This episode features an interview with experts discussing a practical framework for implementing AI in pharmacy practice, focusing on moving from pilot projects to real-world applications.
Raymond Patterson starts by treating the poisoned patient as a decontamination problem.
Recognition opens the conversation.
This episode discusses establishing a CYP3A5 genotype-guided tacrolimus dosing protocol for adult kidney transplant recipients to improve clinical outcomes through personalized medicine.
This episode features an interview with Justin Moore, the 2025 New Practitioners Forum Distinguished Service Awardee, discussing his service contributions and ASHP's role in his pharmacy leadership development.
This episode discusses a review paper on the utilization rates and predictors of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor use in heart failure patients, featuring an interview with the authors to explore current treatment approaches and clinical implications.
This episode features an interview with pharmacist William Dagger discussing his session on anticoagulation management and stewardship for complex patients at the ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting.