Faculty Biographies
Deb Saine, M.S., R.Ph.
Program Chair
Medication Safety Manager
Valley Health/Winchester Medical Center
Winchester, Virginia
Deb Saine, M.S., R.Ph. is the Medication Safety Manager for Winchester Medical Center - Valley Health System, in Winchester, Virginia. Previously, she developed and held similar positions at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Ms. Saine serves as Chair of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Section Advisory Group on Medication Safety and is a member of the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Practice.
Ms. Saine has authored numerous articles and has presented nationally on the topic of medication safety. She participated in the 2008 ASHP IV Safety Summit. Ms. Saine is Editor of ASHP’s Safety and Quality Pearls 2. She has introduced medication safety practice to many students and residents by initiating and precepting medication safety rotations. She also lectures on safety topics at the Shenandoah University Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy.
Ms. Saine has extensive hospital experience in community, critical access, and academic medical centers, in a variety of roles including staff, clinical coordinator, and director. Ms. Saine earned her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Toledo and her Master of Science in Management from Antioch University. She has been active in local and national professional organizations.
E. Robert Feroli, Jr., Pharm.D., FASHP
Medication Safety Officer
Department of Pharmacy
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
E. Robert Feroli Jr., Pharm.D., FASHP is the Medication Safety Officer for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Pharmacy. Dr. Feroli teaches on topics of rational therapeutics and safe medication-use practices and has faculty appointments at The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the University of Maryland Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing.
Dr. Feroli established a Medication-Use Safety Pharmacy Specialty Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He oversees the monitoring medication errors and efforts designed to prevent errors before they occur and serves as chairman the Medication Error Reduction Implementation Team (MERIT). MERIT is a subcommittee of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and is charge with overseeing issues involving the safe use of medications. Previously, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Feroli was a Drug Information Pharmacist, Assistant Pharmacy Director of Clinical Services, Director of the Investigational Drug Service and Interim Pharmacy Department Director.
Dr. Feroli is active in pharmacy state societies and governmental agencies. He has served the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) Secretary, member of the Board of Directors, and President. He has received the MSHP Hospital Pharmacist of the Year Award and the The W. Arthur Purdum Award. Dr. Feroli is a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Lee B. Murdaugh, Ph.D., R.Ph.
Director, Accreditation and Medication Safety
Cardinal Health
Houston, Texas
Lee B. Murdaugh, Ph.D., R.Ph. is Director of Accreditation and Medication Safety for Cardinal Health’s Pharmacy Services. Her responsibilities include, assisting hospitals in implementing best practices that promote safe medication use and continuous compliance with accreditation standards, performing safety assessments of medication use systems, facilitating root cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, and competence assessments, and developing medication safety and accreditation tools and resources.
She is the author of Competence Assessment Tools for Health-System Pharmacies (ASHP), now in its fourth edition. She is also a contributing author to Assuring Continuous Compliance with Joint Commission Standards: A Pharmacy Guide (ASHP), now in its seventh edition. In addition, Dr. Murdaugh lectures on medication safety and accreditation topics to national and state professional organizations.
Previously, she was Director of Pharmacy at St. Mary’s Health System, Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. Murdaugh received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Doctor of Philosophy in Drug and Materials Toxicology from the University of Tennessee. She is active in local and national professional organizations.
