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Vice President, Chief Pharmacy Officer

Kenneth Komorny, PharmD, BCPS

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  • University of Cincinnati
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Florida

About Ken

Ken Komorny is the Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer, for Moffitt Cancer Center. Ken has been with Moffitt since 2018, overseeing all pharmacy services, including multiple hospitals and hospital-based outpatient infusion centers, specialty pharmacy, clinical services, and investigational drug services. He has more than 25 years of experience in pharmacy leadership. Among his accomplishments at Moffitt, Ken has overseen the remodeling of all the IV center pharmacies for full compliance with USP 797 and 800 to better protect patients and pharmacists, development of the best-in-class specialty pharmacy, optimization of clinical services, novel project development in the investigational drug service, and significant improvements in the financial health of the pharmacy department.

Ken also actively advocates for safe medication practices that have been challenged by insurance policy changes. Through the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and other groups he has written white papers on operationalizing and financial sustainability on biosimilar medications. He was part of a workgroup with the Board of Pharmacy on white and brown bagging, and then testified at the Florida Senate on white bagging and site of care practices that led to passing of a PBM reform bill (Senate Bill 1550), which mandated that PBMs provide contracts to centers such as Moffitt Cancer Center.  Ken has given more than a dozen presentations locally, regionally, and nationally, including in Washington, D.C., with groups such as the Food and Drug Administration.

Ken has a Doctor and a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and has been Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy since 1999. He is or has been a member, committee member, and officer of various organizations (Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association, Florida Society of Clinical Oncology, Ohio College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Ken leads various committees with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers, Premier, and the Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He has been faculty in the Pharmacy Leadership Academy of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and gives leadership lectures.