September 23, 2014
Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, has been appointed to the Guideline Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America.
Rodgers is only the second pharmacist to join the committee, which oversees the development of guidelines for the management of patients with heart failure, develops the HFSA’s position on new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to heart failure, and updates existing HFSA heart-failure guidelines. The guidelines address the full range of evaluation, care and management of patients with heart failure, including acute heart failure, disease management, and heart failure in special populations.
Rodgers serves as associate director of the Clinical Fellowship Programs at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is a clinical associate professor in the School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.
Rodgers is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist with additional qualifications in cardiology. She is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the National Academies of Practice.
She currently serves as a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Board of Regents and will serve as vice chair for the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Pharmacotherapy Council in the coming year.
Herb Patterson, PharmD, was the first pharmacist appointed to the Guideline Committee. He is a professor and executive vice chair of DPET.