Patricia R. Schettino, RPh, MS
Associate Branch Chief, PMB,
Acting Head, PIO

Patricia R. Schettino holds BS (Pharmacy) and MS (Hospital Pharmacy Administration) degrees from Purdue University.

Her experiences prior to coming to CTEP included a variety of positions in three very different settings: community not-for-profit hospital pharmacy, the Clinical Center Pharmacy of the National Institutes of Health, and the Bethesda Naval Hospital Oncology Clinic.

As a long term CTEP employee she has experience in many areas including:

• All aspects of oncologic investigational pharmacy activities
• Infomatics for both internal and external systems
• Creation and review of protocol templates
• Manager of agent supplies, logistics, and distribution for large randomized double blinded clinical trials
• Creation of SOPs and Policy and Guideline documents
• Investigational agent development including product labeling, end user stability testing, shelf life testing, preparation of pharmaceutical data sheets, provision of agent information, protocol and amendment review, and inventory management
• Supervision of the PMB professional staff
• Service as a member or chair of multiple, diverse, Technical Evaluation Panels
• Service as Project Officer for repository and PMB-support contracts
• Service on the United States Military Cancer Institute Institutional Review Board