Indrani Kar, PharmD, DPLA, FASHP (Indrani.Kar@UHhospitals.org), is the system pharmacy manager, formulary and drug policy at University Hospitals Health System (UH) in northeast Ohio and residency program director for the PGY2 in medication use safety and policy. Over the past 11 years, she has developed and implemented systemwide infrastructure for adult and pediatric formularies, ambulatory medication management, and medication policy across the 16 hospital health system. She manages UH’s ACPE continuing education program, precepts learners (APPE/PGY1/PGY2), and leads a team of four. Kar earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She completed a drug information fellowship at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy and a PGY2 drug information residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Rutgers, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Her service to ASHP includes the Council on Therapeutics and the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP), including member and leadership roles in the Educational Steering Committee and Advsiory Groups on Medication Management and Medication Safety, as well as director-at-large of the SICP Executive Committee. She contributes to ASHP webinars and publications, serves as a session and CV reviewer, and leads an annual session on the Innovations in Drug Information and Research at the Midyear Clinical Meeting. She is junior faculty for the ASHP Foundation’s Pharmacy Leadership Academy and an ASHP student mentor. She is active in the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacy (OSHP), serving as a current Delegate, and was recognized as OSHP Preceptor of the Year and Fellow of ASHP in 2025.
Meet Indrani Kar
ASHP and the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP) have been my professional home for more than a decade. As a formulary/policy pharmacist, I have diverse exposure to all pharmacists in every patient care setting and collaborators outside pharmacy, giving me an understanding of the broad population that the SICP serves. SICP members develop solutions to challenges which work for pharmacists every day. I believe in investing in our members, fostering meaningful connections, and amplifying their impact across all career stages, and I lean on my personal philosophy to bring excellence to anything I do: Learning, Recognizing others, and Networking (LRN). In my role, ASHP formulary guidelines, resource centers, and professional networks have consistently helped me, and I am invested in giving back, such as mentoring with Educational Steering Committee to develop a webinar this year. Through my ASHP service, I have had the opportunity to lead cell/gene therapy policy, develop ASHP mentoring resource center resources, and overhaul the SICP strategic plan. If elected as chair, I will bring my ASHP experiences as Ohio delegate, past SICP director-at-large, and past Council member to the table, listen and advocate for our members’ challenges, support the section’s vision, and foster collaboration across ASHP Sections to advance shared priorities as we address the evolving realities of health-system pharmacy. It would be my greatest honor to serve and help shape the future of SICP alongside this exceptional community for our members and our patients. Thank you for your consideration.