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Agenda

9/15/2026 -Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Dinner and Opening Reception

  • Use Main Entrance at the address below for ride share drop off
  • Address: 1 Wade Oval Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
  • Parking: The Museum's parking garage is located on Wade Oval Drive near the corner of East Boulevard. You can enter the Museum through the attached parking garage entrance on the main level.
  • Note: Bar at this event will accept credit cards only!

09/16/2026 - Intercontinental Hotel and Conference Center

Track

Automation / Robotics

AI / Data / Analytics

Medication Safety

Rooms

SS Edmund Fitzgerald (Ballroom)

Commodore Perry (Amphitheater)

SS William G. Mather (Six Continents Conference Room)

7:00-8:00 am

Reception/Coffee/Snacks

8:00 - 9:00 am

Opening Remarks & Keynote – Dr. Logan Nye (Amphitheater)

9:00-10:00 am

Automation Use Cases: Sorting Robotics: Akraam Abdel-Karem (Houston Methodist)

Artificial Intelligence for Early Sepsis Detection: Elizabeth Davis, Colette Einloth, & Amy Magee (Cleveland Clinic)

Pharmacy Sustainability and Technology Roles: Carrie Mowery, Andrea Pallotta (Cleveland Clinic), & Adam Trimble (OhioHealth)

10:00 - 11:00 am

Centralized Sterile Compounding Center and Technologies: Jared Austin & Annette Karageanes (Henry Ford)

AI Impact on IDS Workflows and Labor Costs: Travis Smith (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

Standardizing Safety Event Review with Pharmacy, Nursing, and Physician Collaboration: Julie Cernanec (Cleveland Clinic) & Morgan Jasko (Cleveland Clinic)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Pharmacy in the Hospital of the Future: Planning Now for Robotics, RFID, Smart Rooms, and AI Augmented Medication Use Workflows: Ryan Cello (UC Davis)

Generative Artificial Intelligence for Medication Management & Safety: Piyush Mathur (Cleveland Clinic)

Medication Allergy De-Labeling and Clinic Decision Support: Allison McCoy & Cosby Stone (Vanderbilt)

12:00-2:00 pm

Lunch/Expo & tentatively two vendor presentations in Amphitheater 12:30 - 1:30pm

2:00-3:00 pm

Pharmacy 5.0: Alex Lin (University of Cincinnati) and Chih-Wen Hsueh (National Taiwan University) - (Amphitheater)  

3:00- 4:00 pm

Drug Shortage Surveillance: Kyle Hoelting (Vizient) & William Mabry (St. Jude’s)

Advanced Microbiology Reporting Tools: Christine Hong (Advent Health)

Engineering Medication Safety for the Modern Attention Span: Zach Thompson (Nationwide)

4:00- 5:00 pm

Centralized Pharmacy Automation Robotics: Alex Lin (University of Cincinnati)

Early Adoption Experience with a Novel AI ePA Tool and Patient Outreach AI Tools: Maybeth James, Bri Robinson, & Julianne Wallace (Cleveland Clinic)

Ambulatory Prescribing and Quantity Units of Measure: Tosin Alli & Alaina Darby (Cleveland Clinic)

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Social (On Site @ Intercontinental Hotel)

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