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Toby Clark, R.Ph., M.Sc., FASHP, serves as a Lead Surveyor for the Accreditation Services Division of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Mr. Clark is also a medication systems consultant and an adjunct associate professor of pharmacy practice at South Carolina College of Pharmacy and consultant to the Director of Pharmacy at the Medical University of South Carolina. Previously, he served as professor of pharmacy practice and director of hospital pharmacy services at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center and College of Pharmacy before his retirement. |
Mr. Clark is a long-time member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the South Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. He is a past officer of the Southeastern Michigan Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Greater Kansas City. Mr. Clark has served two terms as Chair of the ASHP Practice Management Group and has participated as a delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for the states of Texas, Missouri and Michigan. In 1998, he was recognized as a Fellow of ASHP.
He is a past North American Vice President and Treasurer of the Section of Hospital Pharmacy of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP). In 2003, Clark was awarded the Donald E. Francke Medal for his contributions to international pharmacy. An avid medical/pharmacy historian, he is a member of the Dean Robert Wilson Medical History Society of Charleston.
Mr. Clark is a past chair of the University Health-System Consortium Pharmacy Council and is a founding member of both the Oncology Section of the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties and the Novation Pharmacy Executive Committee.
Mr. Clark was born in Indiana and received his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. He completed an ASHP-accredited general residency from Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., and a master of science degree in clinical pharmacy from the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at Wayne State University in 1970. He has held positions as director of pharmacy and faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City as well with several pharmacy management corporations. He held faculty positions at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy prior to service at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Mr. Clark’s professional interests are focused in the safety, quality and productivity of the medication system; training pharmacy residents; and the development of leaders. A former lecturer on topics of pharmacy/medication system informatics and computerized prescriber order entry, he spearheaded formation of the ASHP Section on Informatics and founded the group's POE/CPOE listserv, now operated by ASHP. Mr. Clark has been a consultant to scores of hospitals in the United States.
He strongly advocates hospital pharmacists serving patients through leading the safety and quality of medication systems.