Christopher R. Fortier PharmD, FASHP

Christopher Fortier is the Chief Pharmacy Officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Fortier received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut in 2003 and completed both a PGY-1 Practice Residency and a PGY-2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center.

Chris previously was the Assistant Director of Pharmacy for Support and Operating Room Services at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Medical Center. Additionally, Chris serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.

In 2013 Dr. Fortier was recognized as a Fellow of ASHP and received the Tradition of Excellence Award from the University of Connecticut Alumni Association. Additionally, in 2008 he received the ASHP New Practitioner Forum’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2010, Dr. Fortier was selected to represent South Carolina as a voting member at the ASHP/ASHP Foundation’s Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative Summit.

He currently is on the ASHP Council on Public Policy and the Vice-chair of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers Education Steering Committee. Previously, Dr. Fortier served 8 years on the Vizient AMC Pharmacy Network (formally University HealthSystem Consortium) Executive Committee and chaired the Medication Use Informatics and Technology Committee. He has also served on the ASHP New Practitioners Forum Executive Committee for two years, the ASHP Task Force on Organizational Structure, and was an Associate Faculty member for the ASHP Foundation’s Pharmacy Leadership Academy.