Allen J. Vaida PharmD, FASHP

Executive Vice President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

Allen J. Vaida, BSc, PharmD, FASHP, is Executive Vice President at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), where he helps advance the organization’s mission, strategic priorities, partnerships, and impact. A longtime advocate for medication safety, Dr. Vaida previously held pharmacy and executive leadership roles at Mercy Suburban Hospital and has served on national committees including the United States Pharmacopeia’s Safe Medication Use Expert Committee and the FDA Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee. He has also held academic appointments at several universities and has published and presented extensively on medication safety, error prevention, healthcare systems, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Vaida earned degrees from the University of Scranton, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and the University of Minnesota.

Raj M. Ratwani, PHD

Director, MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Vice President of Scientific Affairs, MedStar Health Research Institute

Raj is the director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, vice president of scientific affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, and an associate professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. As director, he oversees the Center’s vision and strategy and has overall responsibility for Center activities. He is also an active applied researcher serving as principal investigator on numerous grants and contracts, including three research project grant (R01) awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which are among the most prestigious grants. Raj has expertise in health information technology, usability and safety, interruptions and workflow, data visualization, and modeling. Raj’s research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Pew Charitable Trusts, and industry partners. His work has been published in high-impact journals such as The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Health Affairs and has influenced both policy and frontline clinical practice. His research has been featured by Politico, Fortune, Kaiser Health News, National Public Radio (NPR), and many other media outlets. He serves on the federal 21^st Century Cures Act Health Information Technology Advisory Committee and has testified to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He holds a doctorate in human factors and applied cognition and was a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Marybeth Kazanas, PharmD, BCPS, LSSGB

Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at Medstar Health

Marybeth Kazanas, PharmD, BCPS, is System Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at MedStar Health, where she oversees clinical pharmacy programs across the system and co-chairs committees focused on medication safety, antimicrobial stewardship, and interprofessional continuing education. She works closely with pharmacy and physician leadership to improve medication management and has held several clinical and leadership roles within MedStar. Her professional interests include medication safety, high-cost medication management, and professional development. Dr. Kazanas earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University, completed a pharmacy practice residency at Hahnemann University Hospital, and is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist with Lean Six Sigma certification.

Eileen Ruth Langstraat, Pharm.D., BCPS, CPPS

Pharmacy Medication and Patient Safety Coordinator

Eileen R. Langstraat, Pharm.D., BCPS, is the pharmacy medication and patient safety coordinator at Kaiser Permanente, Rockville, Maryland. She received her bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland in 2009 and her doctor of pharmacy degree from Shenandoah University in 2015. Dr. Langstraat completed an ASHP-accredited postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in 2016, where she subsequently completed a medication-use safety residency. Her current research interests include medication safety and medication-use process quality improvement.

Georgia Lewis,MSN, RN, CPNP-PC

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner 

Georgia Lewis is a pediatric nurse practitioner focused on improving the health of underserved patients and communities as a primary care provider. She was a HRSA Nurse Corps scholarship recipient for her MSN degree at Johns Hopkins University and recently received a 2020 National Health Service Corps award. She has a background in studio art and as a labor and postpartum doula. Currently she is serving at an FQHC in the Cleveland, Ohio metropolitan area working with a predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrant population

Seth A. Krevat, MD

Assistant vice president for Safety, MedStar Health
Faculty Associate, MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Attending physician, Palliative Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Dr. Krevat is Assistant Vice President for Safety at MedStar Health, where he oversees patient and staff safety, risk reduction, and clinical documentation improvement initiatives across acute and non-acute care settings. He leads programs focused on reducing safety risks, responding to serious safety events, and improving performance against internal and external safety requirements. Dr. Krevat serves on several MedStar leadership and quality committees and has presented nationally on patient safety, event data, and the use of human factors engineering in risk reduction. He is board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.

Misty Carney, B.S., PharmD., AAHIVP

Chief, Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program

Misty Carney is a credentialed HIV pharmacist with the American Academy of HIV Medicine and more than 10 years of experience in infectious disease and public health. An alumna of Tennessee State University, Howard University School of Pharmacy, and the University of Maryland School of Public Health, she was inspired to work in HIV care by her family’s personal experience with the disease and her mother’s community-based HIV education and stigma-reduction efforts in rural West Tennessee. Misty serves on the Washington, D.C. Regional Planning Commission on Health and HIV and is a pharmacy student preceptor at Howard University. Her work focuses on education, community engagement, and improving outcomes for people living with HIV across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and Maryland.

Donna Horn, MS, RPh, DPh, CHC

Pharmacy Ethics and Compliance Officer at Fresenius Medical Care North America

Donna Horn has over 10 years experience in medication safety, 20 years experience in retail/ chain pharmacy, and over 15 years of national pharmacy regulatory experience; She wrote regulations and programs for CQI, QAP, RCA and FMEA; Masters of Science Degree in Pharmacy, concentration in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy with certificate in Patient Safety and Medication Risk Management; emphasis in patient safety and ethics of drug product, distribution, and use; adjunct faculty at MCPHS Univ and guest lecturer at many colleges of pharmacy nationwide. Expert Witness for Standards of Practice in Pharmacy, including medication error analysis and wrongful death cases; extensive knowledge of medication safety practices, pharmacy operations and pharmacy regulations affecting mail-order and community/ambulatory practice sites. Experience with all boards of pharmacy: Past President of MA Board of Pharmacy, Past President and Chairman of National Association of Boards of Pharmacy; HIPAA Privacy Officer for large chain pharmacy.

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