Karen Fiumara PharmD, BCPS, CPPS

Karen Fiumara, PharmD, is the Executive Director of Patient Safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her PharmD from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 2002 and completed her residency in pharmacy practise at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2003. She held the position of Medication Safety Officer and managed the Anticoagulation Management Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, overseeing the care of 3,000 patients. She works as Clinical Pharmacy Consultant for the New England Journal of Medicine and has authored papers in the fields of medication safety, adverse drug events, and anticoagulation