Associate Chief Consultant, PBM
Department of Veterans Affairs
Hines, Illinois
Francesca (Fran) Cunningham, PharmD, is the Associate Chief Consultant, PBM in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Director of the VA Center for Medication Safety (VAMedSAFE). Her primary focus has been dedicated to monitoring agency-wide practices for safe and appropriate medication use in Veterans. Her program serves as VA’s comprehensive pharmacovigilance program with a major focus on drug and vaccine safety surveillance assessing the potential risks of new molecular entities or older agents with newly identified adverse events.
Dr. Cunningham sits on several internal and external boards and committees that focus on patient and medication safety with an emphasis on pharmacovigilance. Since joining the VA, she has focused her research efforts in medication safety and post marketing surveillance and has served as a Principal Investigator on several studies and grants and has multiple publications in the peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Cunningham's work has led to national awards that focus on her contributions in the areas of pharmacovigilance and medication safety. She is the recipient of the Mark A. Wolcott National Award for Leadership in Healthcare: Medication Safety and the Arthur S Fleming Award in the area of medication safety.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Management of Pandemic Medical Countermeasures
Monday, October 30, 2023
14:00 – 15:00 CT
Biosimilar Integration and Surveillance Efforts within the VA System
Monday, October 30, 2023
16:30 – 17:30 CT