Pharmacy Track
Pharmacy Track: The Future of Autonomous Pharmacy
Monday, September 20, 2021 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Arash Dabestani
As pharmacy leaders, you have an increasingly strategic role in supporting patients and clinicians through medication management. For many pharmacists, this process can be unnecessarily manual, time-consuming, and error prone. Leveraging technology to automate medication management can be key to improving workflows, clinician satisfaction, and patient outcomes. Join us as we discuss all aspects of autonomous pharmacy, including the autonomous pharmacy framework, and discover how fully autonomous pharmacy operations could benefit your IDN.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the autonomous pharmacy framework and your pharmacy’s current stage in the framework.
- Outline strategies to implement autonomous pharmacy technologies into your IDN pharmacy.
- Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of autonomous pharmacy operations.

Full Name
Title
Dean and Professor
Organization
LIU College of Pharmacy (Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
Speaker Bio
Dr. Arash Dabestani currently serves as the Dean and Professor at LIU Pharmacy. In this role, Dr. Dabestani builds on transformational synergies in drug discovery and generics with LIU’s health and science programs, including solidifying major digital health, clinical, and digital drug discovery partnerships with leading industrial, clinical, and educational entities. Prior to coming to LIU, Dr. Dabestani served as Senior Director of Pharmacy at NYU Langone. While at NYU Langone, Dr. Dabestani was responsible for leading a staff of 300 and managing an annual budget in excess of $250M, as well as transforming his department into one of the most well-regarded automated and technologically advanced departments of pharmacy worldwide. He is an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Fellow and has served multiple terms on the ASHP Section of the Pharmacy Practice Manager’s Leadership Development.