Current Endeavors

2011 Recap

Below are a listing of all the speaking engagements and interviews I was a part of in 2011. I hope some of you were able to attend. Can’t wait to see what is in store for 2012. A sincere “Thank You” goes out to all those involved with making each and every one of these events a reality.

Emily Jerry Foundation Completed Lectures and Presentations for 2011

Interview with Leon Bibb ABC WEWS “Kaleidoscope”- Cleveland, OH

Ohio Northern University School of Pharmacy – Ada, Ohio

Interview with Dr. Charles Denham of TMIT & Eric Cropp for Discovery Channel Segment “ Out of The Danger Zone”- Cleveland, OH

TMIT Webinar entitled “A Hospital Accident: Lessons Learned – A Death, A Conviction, and A Healing”

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation- Cleveland, OH

Sanford Brown College- Cleveland, OH

Pharmacy OneSource Webinar

Multiple Ongoing Webinars with Pharmcon entitled “Emily’s Act Revisited: The Pharmacist, The Family and the Medication Error that Changed Their Lives”

Summa Healthcare- Akron, OH

Catheter Connections- Salt Lake City, UT

Baxa Corporation- Englewood, CO

Union Hospital- Dover, OH

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) IV Patient Safety Summit- Philadelphia, PA

The Massachusetts Society of Health-System Pharmacists- Boston, MA

The Rhode Island Society of Health System Pharmacists- Providence, RI

Jewish Hospital- Louisville, KY

University Hospital’s Pediatric Pharmacy Team – Cleveland, OH

Ohio State University Medical Center- Columbus, OH

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Chris Jerry to be Keynote Speaker at Patient Safety Summit – Philadelphia, PA

I am very proud to say that The Emily Jerry Foundation has just established a strong partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).  In fact, I was just asked by Michael Cohen, ISMP President, to be their keynote speaker at their upcoming Patient Safety Summit in Philadelphia on October 24th.  Eric Cropp will also be accompanying me and presenting at the summit as well.  Their website is www.ismp.org.

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Announcing: FREE Webinar! – July 27, 2011 – with Chris Jerry & Eric Cropp at PharmacyOneSource.com

How a Fatal Medication Error Led to Patient Safety Advocacy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 12, 2011 – Bellevue, Wash. – Wolters Kluwer Health announced today that Pharmacy OneSource, software-as-a-service provider of Quantifi, a medication error documentation and reporting tool, is hosting a complimentary webinar with Christopher Jerry and Eric Cropp on “The Emily Jerry Story.”

Learn how the tragic story of two-year old Emily Jerry’s untimely death from a medication error in Ohio in 2006 has positively impacted the entire patient safety movement. Emily’s father Christopher Jerry turned tragedy into triumph through the establishment of The Emily Jerry Foundation and the passage of “Emily’s Law” in Ohio in 2009. Hear the compelling story of how Cropp, the pharmacist involved in Emily’s death, and Jerry have teamed up in Emily’s honor in an effort to make medical facilities safer for everyone, especially our children!

The Emily Jerry Story
DATE: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
TIME: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
WHERE: http://www.pharmacyonesource.com/webinars

Read the entire news release here.

Register for the Webinar at PharmacyOneSource.com/webinars.

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Chris Jerry to Take Part in Patient Safety Lecture Sponsored by Summa Healthcare – August 17th – Akron City Hospital – 7:30am

I am excited to announce my participation in the upcoming patient safety lecture with Summa Healthcare on August 17th at Akron City Hospital’s Raymond C. Firestone Auditorium from 7:30 to 9:00am.  This lecture should be to a larger audience due to the fact it includes all of the caregivers from Summa Healthcare including physicians, interns, etc., in addition to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.  Special thanks to Maria Giannakos, PharmD, BCPS, MBA of Summa Health System in Akron who has organized all of this.

More details to come as they are available.

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Chris Jerry Takes Part in TMIT High Performer Webinar with Pharmacist Eric Cropp, Pilot Sully Sullenberger, and others!

The webinar entitled: “A Hospital Accident: Lessons Learned – A Death, A Conviction, and A Healing” was hosted by Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT). The webinar panelists included: Dr. Charles Denham of TMIT, Eric Cropp, Christopher Jerry, Sully Sullenberger – famous for landing his plane on the Hudson River and saving the lives of all his passengers and crew members, Frank Federico, and Matt Listiak.

To download a pdf of the slides from the TMIT High Performer Webinar click here.

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Emily Jerry Foundation endorses life-saving technology by CDEX

CLEVELAND, OHIO ─ Nearly four years after the loss of Christopher Jerry’s two-year-old daughter, Emily, the anguish over her accidental death lingers on. Now, as the head of a non-profit foundation working to prevent medical errors, Jerry is entering the new year with a renewed sense of purpose promoting an all-new life-saving technology in honor of Emily. Read the full article…

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  • Our mission

    The Emily Jerry Foundation is determined to help make our nation’s, world renowned, medical facilities safer for everyone, beginning with our babies and children. We are accomplishing this very important objective by focusing on increasing public awareness of key patient safety related issues and identifying technology and best practices that are proven to minimize the “human error” component of medicine. Through our ongoing efforts The Emily Jerry Foundation is working hard to save lives every day.


    Thank You So Very Much for Your Support! ~Chris Jerry

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