Susan Cantrell, R.Ph.

Managing Director, Operations

SUSAN CANTRELL has extensive experience in pharmacy practice, association management, and educational meeting planning.  As Managing Director of Operations, and formerly Director of Project Development, with ASHP ADVANTAGE since 1995, she oversees the development and implementation of ASHP Advantage projects. Susan has coordinated and managed numerous educational symposia and conferences for pharmacists and other health care disciplines held alone and in conjunction with national meetings. She has also coordinated the development and distribution of related publications and multimedia c.e. programs including continuing education monographs, journal supplements, Web symposia, and CD ROM self-study programs. She has extensive experience in the planning and implementation of focus groups and advisory panel meetings in a variety of marketing-related areas.

Susan previously served as Director of the ASHP SECTION OF HOME CARE PRACTITIONERS. In that capacity, she was instrumental in planning and launching ASHP's first membership section and ASHP's first annual home care meeting and exhibits, HOME CARE '94. She served on numerous ASHP staff committees, including the ASHP Educational Programming Committee, and served as a reviewer and contributing editor to the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP). She has served as a Meeting Programming Associate for the ASHP Annual Meeting, Midyear Clinical Meeting, and the ASHP Home Care meetings.

Susan received her Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Mississippi and she completed an ASHP-accredited residency in hospital pharmacy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Her pharmacy practice experience includes serving as pharmacy manager and general manager of a specialty home infusion therapy organization; implementing and managing a full-service home care program for pediatric hemophilia patients; and implementing and managing all pharmacy-based sterile compounding, i.v. admixture services, and oncology/critical care pharmacy services in a 550-bed university teaching hospital.