General Session - Jeffrey Reitz and Robert Granko

ROBERT P. GRANKO, B.S. Pharm., Pharm.D. , M.B.A., FASHP (Rgranko@geisinger.edu) is System Director of Enterprise Pharmacy, Pharmacy Innovation Alliance at Geisinger. His previous experience includes roles as Director, Field Pharmacy Services with Premier, Director of Pharmacy at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and has held multiple senior Pharmacy leadership positions at UNC Healthcare.

Dr. Granko earned his B.S. Pharm. from Long Island University School of Pharmacy, his Pharm.D. from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and his M.B.A. from Pfeiffer University, School of Graduate Studies. He maintains an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Clinical Education and serves as course director at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in the combined MS/Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Program.

Dr. Granko has been active in ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders since 2008, completing his term as Director-at-Large of the Section’s Executive Committee in 2020. Additionally, his service includes membership within the Section of Pharmacy Practice’s Advisory Groups on Emerging Leaders as well as Strategy and Industry Disruptors. He is past chair of the SAG on Manager Development, a participating content member for the Conference for Pharmacy Leaders Steering Committee, and a Pharmacy Forecast Survey Panel Member. He was past faculty with ASHP’s Managers Boot Camp and ASHP's Australia Leadership Boot Camp for The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia.

Dr. Granko has served as ASHP Delegate representing North Carolina and in 2011, he was part of a team awarded an American Society of Health – System Pharmacists Best Practices Award. In 2013, Dr. Granko and team were awarded the Leadership Excellence in Pharmacy Award (LEAP) Gold Award for research in clinical benchmarking.

In 2016, Dr. Granko was awarded the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers Distinguished Service Award and in 2018, he was recognized as an ASHP Fellow. In 2021, Dr. Granko successfully lead the NC Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) Fellow Practitioner Recognition Program Task Force. In 2022, Dr. Granko began his 2-year appointment to the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Editorial Board as co-contributing editor for Pharmacy Leadership.

He has authored over 30 publications and has been invited to present nationally and internationally on topics related to leadership development, clinician well-being and resilience, operations management, finance, benchmarking, and data and analytics.