George R. Smith, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCSCP, is a board-certified sterile compounding safety advocate currently holding the position as the system sterile compounding services specialist at Prisma Health, the largest health-system in South Carolina. His career has traversed many areas of pharmacy including retail pharmacy management, pharmacy legal/regulatory inspections, home infusion partnership and multiple
clinical/leadership roles within health-system pharmacy and most recently as Director of RIVA & Sterile Compounding Automation at ARxIUM. Dr. Smith has dedicated the better part of his career to promoting safe practices for medication delivery and raising
awareness of the increased risk involved in sterile medication compounding processes. Dr. Smith is convinced that sterile medication compounding is the most complex and least transparent medication dispensing process in the pharmacy and that the future of our profession relies on intelligent design of facilities and operational processes to increase
both safety and efficiency. He believes in increasing the adoption of sterile compounding technologies that assist our profession in mitigating the risk of contamination and error. Dr. Smith has extensive USP<797>, USP<800> and 503B Compounding Pharmacy experience including cleanroom management & operations, cleanroom design,
environmental monitoring, stability/sterility studies, sterile compounding workflow strategies, project management and sterile compounding technology implementation. Dr. Smith is married to a pharmacist and has 2 children. His daughter is a PGY-2 Pharmacy Resident in Critical Care at the St. Joseph’s University/Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and his son is a Junior at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Smith is an avid, competitive endurance athlete and has competed in numerous running, cycling and triathlon events including 2 Ironman 140.6, 10 - Ironman 70.3 events and numerous local events.