Luci A. Power M.S., RPh.

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Luci A. Power has been with the Department of Pharmaceutical Services at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco for over 25 years serving in various capacities, most recently Senior Pharmacist and Manager of the Parenteral Support Services where she implemented a USP 797 compliant facility for sterile compounding of TPN and CRRT solutions. She has also served as Manager of the IV Additive Services where she was responsible for the in-patient chemotherapy and other hazardous drug compounding. She is now an independent lecturer and consultant on pharmacy IV and hazardous drug systems. Luci obtained her BS and MS degrees from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and worked at New England Medical Center in Boston before relocating to San Francisco. Luci has been a member of the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists (ASHP) for over 25 years. She is a primary author of both the 1985 and 1990 ASHP Technical Assistance Bulletins on Handling Cytotoxic and Hazardous Drugs and is the lead author of the 2006 ASHP Guidelines on Handling Hazardous Drugs, published June 15, 2006 in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. Luci is first author of the ASHP Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Video Training Program - DVD and a contributing author to the ASHP publication Compounding Sterile Preparations, 2nd edition. Luci is an original member of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) working group on hazardous drugs. As the group leader for the Work Practices small group, she was an author of the 2004 NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastics and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings.