Monday, October 19, 2026 from 9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. MDT at Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom H
Available for 1.50 hours of CPE creditActivity Number: 0217-0000-26-150-L04-PActivity Type: A Knowledge-Based ActivityDigital health innovators are rapidly embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical and operational technologies, with more than 1,200 AI-enabled medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration as of 2025. As health systems increasingly deploy AI tools across clinical, operational, administrative, and financial domains, pharmacy leaders are uniquely positioned to influence how AI is evaluated, governed, and implemented to ensure safe and effective medication use. This focus session aims to describe the framework for AI governance in health systems, illustrate pharmacy's role in the evaluation of AI, and examine implementation considerations in pharmacy. The first speaker will outline a broad framework of the principles for AI governance, including membership considerations, and stepwise evaluation processes. The second speaker will examine pharmacy’s role in assessing AI trustworthiness, highlighting contributions from clinical pharmacy leaders, informaticists, and frontline practitioners. The third speaker will share lessons learned from implementing a vendor-based AI solution in pharmacy. By the end of the session, participants will understand pharmacy's essential responsibilities within AI governance structures and recognize strategies to lead successful AI-application implementation in pharmacy.
Learning Objectives1. Define the core components of AI governance in health systems.
2. Identify where pharmacy leadership should contribute within AI oversight structures.
3. Recognize factors that impact AI trustworthiness for medication use, including safety, monitoring, and bias/equity considerations.
4. Select clinical and operational functions that AI tools can assist with in health-system pharmacy practice.
5. Evaluate how AI adoption should align with organizational goals, policies, and patient safety priorities across varied care settings.
6. Summarize implementation lessons learned to support safe, scalable, interprofessional AI deployment in pharmacy workflow.
 | | Moderator: | Yujing Z. Steenwyk, Pharm.D., MS, BCPS | | Coordinator, Acute Care Surgery Pharmacy Services
UF Health Shands Hospital
Gainesville, FL | | View Biography |
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Guardrails for Intelligence: Pharmacy Leadership in AI Governance9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. |
Safeguarding Patients in the Age of AI: Pharmacy’s Responsibility9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | | Speaker: | Zach Krauss, Pharm.D., MBA, MS |
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Pharmacy Case Studies in AI Implementation10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | | Speaker: | David Aguero, Pharm.D. | | Director, Medication Systems and Informatics
Program Director, PGY-2 Pharmacy Informatics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee | | View Biography |
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