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Baxa Corporation's Dennis Tribble, PharmD, Now Profiled at Expert411.com for Media and Professional Access

Posted on: Monday, 29 June 2009, 08:00 CDT

Dennis Tribble is an expert resource on hospital pharmacy operations, information technology and medication safety issues.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Dennis Tribble, PharmD, is now profiled at the Expert Information for Journalist site -- http://expert411.com/_wsn/page3.html -- for media and professional access. This announcement is made by Marian Robinson, VP Marketing for Baxa Corporation, who says Tribble is Chief Pharmacy Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, FHT, Inc. Baxa is a Denver-based manufacturer of software and devices for health-system pharmacies.

"Dennis is an expert on health-system safety and related medication safety issues," Robinson explains. "His experience in pharmacy operations and information technology make him a passionate advocate for a complete restructuring of the pharmacy practice paradigm and the use of technology in bringing about that vision."

Tribble, a pharmacist and software engineer, serves as the Chairman of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Section on Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT). In addition, he is a Past President of the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists and charter member of the Pharmacy Informatics Task Force for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Extensively published on health-system pharmacy operations and pharmacy informatics, he serves as a reviewer on automation for the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and is listed as an inventor on nine patents related to automation of IV admixture.

Prior to joining FHT, Inc., Tribble was the Chief Medical Officer at Baxa Corporation, where he led the development of internal and external products. He received his undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in Stockton, California. Tribble also completed a residency in Hospital Pharmacy at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, N.C.

About Baxa Corporation

Baxa, a customer-focused medical device company, provides innovative, solution-based technologies for medication handling and delivery. Its systems and devices promote the safe and efficient preparation, handling, packaging, and administration of medications. Key products include the PadLock(R) Set Saver, Rapid-Fill(TM) Automated Syringe Fillers, ExactaMed(TM) Oral Dispensers, MicroFuse(R) Syringe Infusers, Repeater(TM) Pharmacy Pumps, and ExactaMix(TM) and MicroMacro(TM) Multi-Source Automated Compounders; used worldwide in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Privately held, Baxa Corporation has subsidiaries and sales offices in Canada and the United Kingdom; direct representation in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Switzerland; and distribution partners worldwide. Further information is available at www.baxa.com.

About FHT, Inc.

Founded in 1998, FHT, Inc. is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baxa Corporation. FHT, Inc.'s solutions deliver quantum-leap improvements in key IV room performance metrics: accuracy, patient safety, clinician safety, speed, cost reduction, and regulatory compliance. More information is available at www.fhtinc.com.

Contact: Marian Robinson, Vice President, Marketing Baxa Corporation: 800.567.2292 ext. 2157 or 303.617.2157 Email: marian.robinson@baxa.com Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR Absolutely Public Relations: 303.984.9801 or 303.669.3558 Email: maggie@absolutelypr.com

SOURCE Baxa Corporation

Source: PR Newswire

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