Jeffery Shick

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Bethesda
United States of America

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Biography:

Jeff Shick graduated from Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy (Ada, Ohio), and went through a post-graduate residency program in pharmacy informatics sponsored by Ohio Northern University and Blanchard Valley Regional Medical Center (Findlay, Ohio). Following several years of hospital and retail practice, Mr. Shick moved to the Washington, DC area to work for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as clinical informaticist in the Publications and Drug Information Systems Office. In the past six years with ASHP, Shick has overseen the conversion of ASHP's primary publication, AHFS Drug Information, from a proprietary typesetting database to vendor-neutral, industry standard SGML. He also oversaw the implementation of the SGML/XML editorial tool, XMetaL (Blast Radius), and the Vasont content management system (Progressive Information Technologies). As director of the eHealth Solutions division of the Publications Office, Shick monitors all new publication proposals to determine which products would benefit the most from content re-use. Currently, content from AHFS Drug Information, AHFS Essentials, AHFS Drug Handbook, AHFS Dosing Companion, ASHP Best Practices, Trissel's Handbook on Injectable Drugs, Pocket Guide to Injectable Drugs, and MedMaster Patient Drug Information is stored in SGML or XML and is repurposed for print, desktop software, web, and PDAs.

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