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PHILLIPS RE-ELECTED AS CHAIR OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES FOR AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS
July 26, 2004
Augusta, Ga. -- Marjorie Shaw Phillips, Pharmacy Coordinator for Medication Safety and Clinical Research at MCG Health System, was recently elected to a second one-year term as Chair of the House of Delegates for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The election was held during the 56th annual session of the House of Delegates in Las Vegas, Nev. on June 22. Phillips will also serve on the society’s 14-member national Board of Directors.
Phillips has been a pharmacist at MCG Health System since 1990. She is the Medication Safety and Quality Improvement Pharmacist, Clinical Research Pharmacist, Coordinator for MCGHI’s Pharmacy Practice Residency program and Vice-Chair of the MCG Human Assurance Committee/Institutional Review Board. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacy for the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and PharmD clinical rotation preceptor.
ASHP is the 30,000-member national professional association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, ambulatory care clinics, long-term care facilities, home care and other components of health care systems.
The MCG Children’s Heart Program Volunteer Council will hold “Healing Hearts” Family Forum on August 28, 2004 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the MCG Children’s Medical Center First Floor Conference Center.MCG Health System is composed of three separate organizations -- MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the Physicians Practice Group. The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians and faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the Physicians Practice Group, not employees of MCG Health Inc. MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the Physicians Practice Group and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care. For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.- Contact
Information:
Deborah Humphrey
dhumphrey@mail.mcg.edu
Director of Public Relations
MCG Health, Inc.
(706) 721-9177
