Rachael Duncan PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Rachael Duncan, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP is a critical care and ED pharmacist at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood Colorado. She also manages the 340B Drug Program at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida Colorado. She earned her PharmD from Ohio Northern University in 2011 and completed a critical care residency at Duke University Hospital in 2013. She is the author and editor of multiple state- and nationwide opioid stewardship and ALTO guidelines, championed the nation’s 2nd ED ALTO program, and published the first peer-reviewed paper on ALTOs in the ED. She has been instrumental in implementing numerous hospital-based ALTO programs throughout Colorado and the nation.

Rachael is also involved with the Colorado Naloxone Project, including the recruitment of over 100 Colorado hospitals in the first year of the project, assisting in the implementation of take-home naloxone programs. In her other consulting work with Stader Opioid Consultants, she works on the CMS-funded Compass Opioid Stewardship Project where she creates educational content and provides coaching and chart review for primary care providers across the nation that manage a large caseload of patients on chronic opioid therapy and/or with OUD. As a pharmacist consultant, she continues to be a passionate advocate for safer analgesia and opioid stewardship.