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April 2021
Revolutionizing Patient Safety Webinar Series: Event Recap
Revolutionizing Patient Safety Webinar Series: Event Recap
On April 14, the Axia Institute hosted its second Revolutionizing Patient Safety webinar titled The Patient-Centric Supply Chain for Prescription Drugs.
Joining Axia for this webinar were Ghasda Ashkar, Pharm. D., Director of Ambulatory Pharmacy Services, UCLA Health, and Jillian Foster, Pharm. D., Pharmacy Service Line Administrator, Baptist Memorial Health Care.
Axia Institute Research Leader Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian moderated the session along with Mark Karhoff, Principal at Ten Count Consulting. During the webinar our pharmacy participants shared their perspectives on the patient-centric supply chain while sharing their challenges and opportunities for improvement.
Slides from this session are available for download, as is the Zoom replay.
December 2020
Getting COVID-19 Vaccines from the Factory to the Pharmacy – A Discussion with Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian
December 2020
Bahar Aliakbarian is an expert in supply chain management in pharmaceuticals and a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Here, she describes the vaccine supply chains of Pfizer and Moderna, which are expected to be the two major early suppliers of the COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. She also talks about challenges in distribution and the work being done to ensure safe and systematic delivery of the vaccines.
New Research Leader Joins the Axia Institute
December 16, 2020
Michigan State University’s Axia Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Carlos A. Marino as Research Leader – Value Chain Digitization …
New Members to Join the Axia Institute Governance Board
December 17, 2020
Gary Burns, CEO of eAgile, Inc., and Gordon Krass, CEO of IntelliGuard® will join the Axia Institute’s Executive Advisory Board (EAB) …
Getting COVID-19 Vaccines from the Factory to the Pharmacy – A Discussion with Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian
December 2020
Bahar Aliakbarian is an expert in supply chain management in pharmaceuticals and a professor at the School of Packaging at Michigan State University. Here, she describes the vaccine supply chains of Pfizer and Moderna, which are expected to be the two major early suppliers of the COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. She also talks about challenges in distribution and the work being done to ensure safe and systematic delivery of the vaccines.
New Research Leader Joins the Axia Institute
December 16, 2020
Michigan State University’s Axia Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Carlos A. Marino as Research Leader – Value Chain Digitization …
New Members to Join the Axia Institute Governance Board
December 17, 2020
Gary Burns, CEO of eAgile, Inc., and Gordon Krass, CEO of IntelliGuard® will join the Axia Institute’s Executive Advisory Board (EAB) …
November 2020
Ten Count Consulting Joins the Axia Institute
November 2, 2020
Michigan State University’s Axia Institute is pleased to announce that Chicago-based Ten Count Consulting, LLC has joined the Axia Institute as a General Member.
October 2020
Industry Leaders Featured at Revolutionizing Patient Safety: Securing the Medication Supply Chain Virtual Conference
October 2020
On October 6, 2020, the Axia Institute hosted a virtual industry-focused event on the critical value chain to secure the supply chain for prescription medication. Revolutionizing Patient Safety: Securing the Medication Supply Chain provided a relevant forum for the important issue of patient safety and brought together industry professionals to discuss this important challenge. The Axia Institute would like to thank its sponsors including the Council of Pharmacy Executives and Suppliers (CPES), the Council of Supply Chain Executives (CSCE), eAgile, Fresenius Kabi, GS1, and IntelliGuard for helping underwrite this important event.
Revolutionizing Patient Safety: Securing the Medical Supply Chain
About: On October 6, the Axia Institute conducted a revolutionary conference with industry professionals and keynote speaker Christopher Jerry who shared his touching story to inspire change. Available on our website are the recap videos and event summary. We look forward to continuing to inspire change and discussing industry challenges and how to overcome them.
Upcoming Events
May 2021
Revolutionizing Patient Safety Webinar Series:
Exploring Supply Chain Strategies with a Patient-Centric Approach
About: The Axia Institute is leading an outreach effort to create a value chain focused on the complex end-to-end Healthcare Supply Chain. There are critical opportunities to refocus efforts industrywide to facilitate a value chain that starts and ends with the patient. Supported by Michigan State University’s top-ranked Supply Chain Management program, our researchers continue to look for opportunities to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of care delivered to the patient.
In our previous sessions, we explored the Supply Chain for Critical Medications and the Patient-Centric Supply Chain for Prescription Drugs. In this 3rd installment of our Revolutionizing Patient Safety Webinar series, we will discuss different supply chain management strategies for addressing pharmacy and medication supply. Importantly, we will discuss how the parties involved in this complicated value chain can align to create value for the ultimate end customer, the patient.
This webinar series will be moderated by Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian, Research Leader at the Axia Institute and Associate Professor at Michigan State University and Mark Karhoff, Principal at Ten Count Consulting.
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021; 3:00 – 4:00 EDT; delivered via Zoom
Presenters :
- Nimrata Jain, Group Manager, Channel Inventory Management, Genentech, USA, Inc.
- Dr. Vedat Verter, John McConnell Endowed Chair of Business Administration and Chairperson of the Supply Chain Management Department, Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University
- Christopher Vieau, Director of Supply Chain Management, MidMichigan Health
Registration: To register, click here.
Previous Events
March 2020
Bahar Aliakbarian Presents at the Midland Business Alliance
March 16, 2020
Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian of the Axia Institute recently presented at the Midland Business Alliance’s February Issues and Answers session. The event, Employers’ Update on the Opioid Crisis featured a panel of professionals from the medical field, health agencies and academia. The panel addressed workplace challenges caused by the opioid crisis and outlined strategies for managing these risks.
The Axia Institute Hosts Global Logistics Forum
March 26, 2020
The Axia Institute recently hosted Bridging the Gap: Establishing a Global Logistics Community to Jointly Address Common Challenges. The goal of the event was to help Axia and its partners begin thinking about ways to address shipping challenges across the global supply chain.