Bio
With thousands of available drugs, Althea Buckner, the Director Pharmacy at Gouverneur Health Center on the Lower East Side, is an invaluable resource. For many of her 35 years at Metropolitan Hospital and Gouverneur, Ms. Buckner has made it a point to attend daily medical rounds and offer a pharmacist’s expertise. “Her ability to decipher and disseminate complex drug-related issues for all of us is simply tremendous,” says one doctor. Always an innovator, Ms. Buckner installed robotic dispensing machines, improving efficiency and patient safety and instituted 90-day prescriptions to reduce the number of trips patients need to make for refills. According to a colleague, “She is a true problem-solver whose dedication allows her to be the best pharmacist there is, as well as to foster a new generation of pharmacists in her mold.”
