Dr. Elizabeth Wade serves as the Director of Medication Compliance, Quality, and Safety at Dartmouth Health. Prior to this, she was the Patient Safety Officer for Amazon Pharmacy, where she spearheaded patient safety strategy for addressing error risks, culture of safety, and new product development. She also previously served as the Medication Safety Officer at Concord Hospital in New Hampshire, where, as the first medication safety officer in the state, she established the medication safety program and started the just culture movement for the health-system.
Dr. Wade began her career as the Medication Safety Officer for Adult Med/Surg at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, where she facilitated the move of 3 pharmacies to a new clinical tower using lean design. As an advocate for medication safety and promoting patient access to care, she serves on the board of directors for the Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation, a charitable organization that provides copay assistance, advocacy for improving patient access to medications, and patient education. She also works closely with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in guideline development and was former faculty for the Medication Safety Intensive.
Dr. Wade is an active member of the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists, where she has served as the chair for the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Section Advisory Group on Medication Safety, New Hampshire delegate on the House of Delegates, and as a member of the Council on Pharmacy Practice. She is faculty for the ASHP/ISMP medication safety certificate program. As a founding member for both the Partnership for Health IT and Patient Safety formed by ECRI, as well as the Patient Safety Council at Cerner, she is passionate about human factors and the development of safe systems and processes to make it easy for people to do the right thing.