Hutchison, Robert Professor and Clinical Pharmacist

Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Texas A&M University College of Pharmacy and board-certified in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy. Serve as a Pharmacist at Sacred Heart Community Clinic in Round Rock Texas. Also teach an Integrated Pharmacotherapy (IPT) course in opioid management and coordinate a course in Toxicology. Member the advisory boards for the Prescription Monitoring Program for the Texas State Board of Pharmacy and the National Boards of Pharmacy. Serve on several editorial boards including the Journal of Opioid Management, the Journal of Pharmacotherapy specializing in Pain Management content, and Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education. As a healthcare team member at Sacred Heart Community Clinic, we provide approximately 5000 medically underserved patient visits per year. These patients range from young adults to up to 65 years of age having conditions including pain, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, anxiety, and depression.



In the first ten years of my practice, I served as an operating room pharmacist working with a pain management team of anesthesiologists and surgeons. My responsibilities included providing analgesic drug information, meeting accreditation requirements, maintaining analgesic/anesthetic inventory, and preparing anesthetic formulations in the operating room hospital setting. In the year 2000, I was promoted to a clinical pharmacist specialist in a pain management position in a large academic, flagship teaching hospital with fourteen affiliated hospitals in the healthcare system. In this position, I helped with programs in the healthcare system related to treating patients with acute, chronic, and end-of-life pain. A multidisciplinary pain committee was established having anesthesiologists, surgeons, psychologists, physical therapists, rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, pharmacologists, a chaplain, and a social worker. Together we provided a broad-based approach to managing complex pain problems.