Michele B. Kaufman, is a recently retired a pharmacist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Lower Manhattan. She is also a board-certified geriatric and registered pharmacist. She has over 40 years of pharmacy experience, and earned her bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Pharmacy, Kingston. She has worked as a product development pharmacist in New Jersey and as a hospital pharmacist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, before returning to New England
(Boston) to obtain a doctor of pharmacy degree at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy/AHS Boston). Subsequently, she completed a fellowship in drug information (DI) at the URI DI Center/RWMC in Providence. Dr. Kaufman then became a clinical assistant professor at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, specializing in DI/adult medicine (clinical site @ LIJMC). After several years in academia she became a geriatric clinical pharmacist in corporate managed care, where she stayed for over a decade. She then left to pursue medical writing and health-system pharmacy practice. She is an active member of professional organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, the American Medical Writers Association, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists,
New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists, New York City Society
of Health-System Pharmacists (NYCSHP), and The Author's Guild. She is a member of the clinical care committee at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center (NYC). She
has mentored numerous students throughout her years, and coauthored and published her first book (2019), a health careers book for middle-grade ages and up, Healthcare Heroes: The Medical Careers Guide. She also co-authored a textbook for McGraw Hill Education: Pharmacology - An Introduction (8th and 9th Editions). She continues to educate healthcare professionals about medication use in her monthly Drug Update column in The Rheumatologist, a publication of the American College of Rheumatology.
She is the past recipient of two prestigious awards from NYCSHP, the Harold Neham Award (2006) for dedication and commitment to pharmacy practice and literature; and the Joel Yellin Award (2011), honoring significant pharmacy practice contribution. When not writing, Michele enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, exploring new cultures, and playing musical instruments, mostly the saxophone. She lives in New York City with her spouse, Jo Ellen Fusco, a retired music teacher.