The Southern Medical Association (SMA) is proud to feature Emily Ridley, PharmD, as a speaker for the Hypertension Summit 2025 taking place November 6-8, 2025, in North Charleston, SC.

Emily Ridley, PharmD, is a Clinical Pharmacist with Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina where she has worked for over 25 years. She is a Clinical Instructor of Internal Medicine for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy.  She works within an Internal Medicine teaching clinic serving primarily underserved, low income patients. She assists in the management of patient medication therapy, focusing on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, anticoagulation, and medication access/adherence.  She manages the interdisciplinary transitions of care clinic, resistant hypertension clinic, and the diabetes specialty clinic., as well as being heavily involved in system-wide efforts to improve hypertension control.  She has worked with the Pan American Health Organization’s HEARTS in the Americas program and collaborated on publications directed at aiding in implementation of the program.  She also currently serves on the advisory board for Constellation Regional Collaborative, a CDC grant program focused on improving hypertension control in high-risk individuals in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.