Susan D. Bear, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services, Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS), in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before assuming this position, she worked as a staff pharmacist at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina; a clinical specialist at University Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina; and a Director of Pharmacy at University Hospital Pharmacy, Charlotte, North Carolina. As director, she was responsible for drug-use evaluation, quality assurance, strategic planning, financial management and operations, personnel management, clinical operations, formulary management and preparing for accreditation survey visits by The Joint Commission.

Dr. Bear earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Purdue University. She serves as a preceptor for the CHS residency program and doctorate of pharmacy students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wingate University. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with an emphasis on therapeutics for their family nurse practitioner program.

Dr. Bear is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the North Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society for Microbiology and Society of Critical Care Medicine. She has made numerous presentations to pharmacy, physician and nursing audiences.

She is currently responsible for coordination of clinical pharmacy services within the Division of Pharmacy at CHS. She takes an active role is the coordination of clinically related quality initiatives with a special interest in the Surgical Care Improvement Project core measure.