Pharmacist Positions – Oncology Pharmacist

Home to nationally recognized clinical, research and educational programs, OHSU Health is Oregon's only academic medical center. Our vision is to make Oregon a national leader in health and science innovation for the purpose of improving the health and well-being of Oregonians and beyond. 

OHSU Hospital on Marquam Hill is expanding with a new Oncology patient care tower opening in April 2026 leading to an expansion of inpatient adult oncology beds from 60 to 124. OHSU Hospital is connected via aerial tram to the Center for Health & Healing located on Portland’s South Waterfront. The Center’s two patient care towers provide a wide array of ambulatory services allowing for a continuous flow of patients, providers and services throughout.  As a single-practice location, the Center for Health and Healing serves Knight Cancer Oncology, OHSU’s Investigational Drug Service, and multiple infusion clinics.  In addition, diagnostic imaging, pathology and laboratory services, ambulatory surgical and procedural suites, and specialty clinics are served by a large pharmacy within the tower.   

OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute is recognized as an NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and is home to world renowned scientists and clinicians such as Dr. Brian Druker, Dr. Joe Gray, Dr. Gordon Mills, and Dr. Sadik Esener who focus on early cancer detection and precision medicine.  

The OHSU Pharmacy team is dedicated to helping providers and patients manage complex and cutting-edge medication therapies. OHSU Pharmacy staff work side by side with fellow healthcare providers creating an interdisciplinary team approach to patient care. Our goal is to provide world class medication management to the patients we serve. 

We are currently recruiting multiple pharmacists with practice experience in oncology, either Heme/cellular therapy or medical oncology.  Recruiting for full-time and part-time positions.

Adult ONCOLOGY Pharmacist Position Requirements  

- PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency 

- PGY2 Oncology Residency and/or BCOP certification is preferred 

Adult Oncology Pharmacists support all oncology care settings: ambulatory clinic, infusion and/or inpatient clinical.  These pharmacists care for select disease states while working in a rotating staffing model that mimics provider and patient flow through the healthcare system.  OHSU’s Adult Oncology Pharmacist team is robust with 5 inpatient pharmacists (expanding to 8), 8 clinic pharmacists, and 9 infusion pharmacists staffing per day.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:  

Inpatient 

• Pharmacy managed protocols for immune suppression, antibiotics, and anticoagulation 

• Chemotherapy and immunotherapy review and verification 

• Allogeneic transplant discharge education 

Clinic 

• Supportive Care CDTM 

• Immune suppression CDTM 

• Oral chemotherapy initial and follow-up education 

• Conditioning regimen education for stem cell, CAR-T, TIL 

• Treatment plan order review for clinical appropriateness 

• Provider consults and medication reconciliation 

• Scheduled pharmacist appointments 

Infusion 

• Supportive care education and med to chair service 

• Chemotherapy and immunotherapy review and verification 

The purpose of these positions is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes the responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in inpatients and outpatients who range in age from neonates, infants less than one year of age, children and adolescents ages 10-18, adults ages 19-65 and the elderly over age 65. 

These pharmacists are to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are being made or, in some cases, making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitation of medication reconciliation, discharge counseling, and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge.

These pharmacists must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers, nurses, case workers, pharmacists, and technicians, as well as the teaching and precepting component of students, interns and/or residents. 

This is a flexible model where the functions of care coordination during transitions of care and medication use system for patients are integrated with traditionally centralized functions, such as order entry/verifications and will continue to evolve as part of integrated decentralized patient care practice.