Ryan Forrey BD

Ryan A. Forrey is currently Associate Director, Market Development and Training for the hazardous drug solutions platform at Becton Dickinson and Company (BD). Previously, he was Director of Pharmacy at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta where he was responsible for the distributive and clinical operations for the inpatient facility as well as the Winship Cancer Institute infusion center pharmacies.  He served on the 2015-2020 cycle of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) Compounding Expert Committee, the group charged with creating compounding standards for sterile, nonsterile, and hazardous drugs.  In his role at BD, he is a member of the Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) closed system technical standardization committee, and the Product Quality Research Institute vial transfer device working group.  Earlier in his career, he served in a leadership role as Associate Director of Pharmacy at The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he oversaw design and construction of new and highly automated cancer hospital inpatient pharmacy as well as several outpatient infusion center pharmacies. 

He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Arizona, and MS in Health-System Pharmacy Administration from The Ohio State University and completed a combined PGY1/PGY2 Residency in Health-System Pharmacy Administration from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.  He was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 2014 and achieved Board Certification in Sterile Compounding in 2019. He provides graduate course lectures at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy on the topics of pharmacy management and sterile compounding facility design.   He is a prolific speaker on the topics of sterile compounding facility design, USP Chapter <797>, USP Chapter <800>, and oncology pharmacy operations.