Patient Safety Specialist
Johns Hopkins Health System
Nicole Mollenkopf, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCPPS is an Assistant Professor and Director of Interprofessional Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and a Patient Safety Specialist at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Nicole received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Temple University School of Pharmacy in 2004. She completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency in 2005 and PGY-2 Medication-Use Safety Residency in 2006 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, she earned a Masters of Business Administration in Medical Services Management from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. Nicole has served as an expert medication safety consultant both nationally and internationally with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, as well as, Johns Hopkins International. She was an ISMP Medication Safety Intensive Distinguished Faculty Member from 2009 – 2015. Nicole has served on state and national committees focused on medication safety for professional organizations including ASHP, MSHP, PPAG, and MSOS. Her primary research focus is the use of lean sigma and human factors engineering principles and their application to Health Information Technology to improve the quality and safety of the medication-use process.