Great Clinical Pharmacists Can Make Exceptional Leaders—If They Act Now

By Michael Kleinschmidt, PharmD, MBA, FACHE, CPEL, DPLAWhen pharmacists think about their career trajectory, they often imagine a path anchored firmly within the pharmacy department: clinical practice, perhaps management, maybe a system-level oversight role. Rarely do we picture pharmacists in the chief operating/executive seat—not because we aren’t capable, but because the profession hasn’t historically framed the clinical pharmacist as an executive-in-training.Yet as I advanc