Samuel V. Calabrese, MBA, RPh, CPEL, FASHP

Samuel V. Calabrese is the executive vice president and chief executive officer (CEO) of ASHP, leading the nation’s largest membership organization for pharmacy professionals.
 
Prior to his appointment as CEO, Calabrese served as vice president of ASHP’s Accreditation Services Office, where he oversaw the accreditation processes for more than 3,000 pharmacy residency programs and 250 technician training programs.
 
Before his tenure at ASHP, Calabrese was the executive chief pharmacy officer for the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Ohio. He held several progressively influential leadership positions within the Cleveland Clinic, including associate chief pharmacy officer/pharmacy administrator, director of inpatient pharmacy services, and pharmacy manager.
 
Throughout his career, Calabrese has demonstrated a talent and passion for leadership development. He has given several invited presentations and served as the residency program director for the Cleveland Clinic’s health-system pharmacy administration and leadership residency.
 
Calabrese obtained his pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, his MBA from Cleveland State University, and a certification in executive coaching from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
 
Throughout his career, Calabrese has been an active member of ASHP, serving on the Board of Directors, the Commission on Affiliate Relations, the Council of Pharmacy Management, and as an ASHP delegate for Ohio. He also held leadership positions on ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders, serving as chair of the Section Advisory Group for Quality and Compliance and as the section’s director-at-large and chair. He has served as faculty for the ASHP Foundation’s Pharmacy Leadership Academy and ASHP’s Australia Leadership Boot Camp and as a capstone facilitator for ASHP Certified Pharmacy Executive Leaders. Calabrese is a past president of the Cleveland Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP) and the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists (OSHP). He received CSHP’s Evlyn Gray Scott Award in 2018 and OSHP’s Walter M. Frazier Award in 2020.