Michael Shafor, PharmD, RPh

Dr. Mike Shafor is a fourth-generation pharmacist specializing in sterile compounding and hazardous drug handling. Dr. Shafor attained his Doctorate in Pharmacy, from Nova Southeastern University (2006). 

Dr. Shafor spent the first few years of his career working as a staff pharmacist, and then Pharmacy Manager of a large regional home infusion pharmacy (Ft. Myers, Florida), where he prepared IV antibiotics and TPNs for homecare. In 2008, Dr. Shafor became manager and then owner of a sterile compounding pharmacy (Tampa, Florida), which prepared large batch sterile vitamin, hormone, and peptide injectable preparations. In 2014, Dr. Shafor became Quality Control Manager of a hazardous sterile compounding outsourcing facility that specialized in preparing cytotoxic medications and MABs for chemo-therapy protocols. He supervised the preparation of cytotoxic medications to be dispensed to the Oncology departments of over 60 different hospitals throughout Florida and Georgia. In 2016, Dr. Shafor started Osmotic International, a pharmaceutical consultation and formulation services practice specializing in pharmaceutical and dietary supplement formulation and manufacturing process development, as well as compounding personnel training. 

Dr. Shafor is speaking at Educon on behalf of Medisca Networks and LP3 Network, where he has worked for the last 11 years as a consultant for technical support services, and a writer and facilitator of sterile and non-sterile compounding training programs for Canada, the United States, and Australia.