Patricia C. Kienle, MPA, BCSCP, FASHP, is the Director of Accreditation and Medication Safety for Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions, where she leads efforts to ensure that Cardinal Health’s client hospitals establish and maintain comprehensive, safe, and effective medication use systems. A nationally recognized expert in medication safety, quality assurance in sterile product and hazardous drug preparation, and accreditation and regulatory compliance, Ms. Kienle has worked as a practitioner and pharmacy director and medication safety leader in hospitals and health systems.
Ms. Kienle is a graduate of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and Marywood University in Scranton, PA. She is an adjunct clinical faculty member at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. She completed an Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety from Virginia Commonwealth University.
She served on ASHP’s Board of Directors and was president of the Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists (PSHP). She also served as a member of the United States Pharmacopeia Compounding Expert Committee and was chair of its subcommittee and expert panel on hazardous drugs. She has also served on the Board of Pharmacy Specialties Pharmacotherapy Specialty Council and the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation.
Ms. Kienle’s awards and honors include the 2022 Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award, health-system pharmacy’s highest honor; the 2014 ASHP Award for Distinguished Pharmacy Leadership; the ASHP John W. Webb Lecture Award; and the PSHP Sister Gonzales Duffy Lecture Award and Pharmacist of the Year.
Ms. Kienle has been an AIHP member since 1983. She is a member of the Institute’s Investments Committee and previously served on the Awards Committee.
