Speaker Spotlight: Maria Giannakos

Maria Giannakos, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCSCP, FNHIA
Medication Safety Officer, Option Care Health

Describe your session in a tweet.

Drug shortages have become part of everyday practice, but navigating through them requires an interdisciplinary approach.

What is the most important thing you want attendees to take away from your session?

Drug shortages are constant and navigating them safely is a multi-pronged approach.

Excluding your session, what other topics are you passionate about in relation to the home and alternate site industry?

Rare and orphan disease drugs, medication safety best practices in home infusion.

What are you passionate about outside the home and alternate site infusion industry?

I spend a large portion of my free time coaching basketball, watching and attending NBA games, and teaching Greek dance.

Complete the following phrase as creatively as you'd like: If _____ were an Olympic sport, I would win a gold medal.

Online shopping

If you were a video game character, what would be your top 5 personal stats? (i.e. +5 intelligence | -3 punctuality | +6 cookie baking | +12 crossword puzzles | -18 replying back to texts)

- 10 movie trivia, + 15 open browsers, + 5 Irish goodbyes, +8 baklava-making, + 3 deadpan humor

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