PLEI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Amy's current role is Manager, Clinical Pharmacy Services with a focus in anticoagulation management. She oversees a multidisciplinary team of Pharmacists, Registered Nurses, and Pharmacy Technicians who provide care to a patient population of over 7,000 health plan members. Prior to her current role, she worked in the community pharmacy setting implementing and providing clinical pharmacy services in a regional role. Amy is a Past President of Oregon State Pharmacy Association and Past Grand President of ΦΔΧ Pharmacy Fraternity.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Phi Delta Chi Grand President
- President of the Phi Delta Chi Fraternity
Andrea currently serves as the Grand President of the Phi Delta Chi Fraternity. Prior to her term as Grand President, she was active in the Southcentral Region as the Regional Director for Alumni Affairs and she served two terms as the Grand Vice President of Alumni Affairs. She attended the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and graduated in 2011. Andrea's career began as a clinical pharmacist focusing on hospice and palliative care. She now works as the Pharmacy Manager for a local independent pharmacy in Louisiana.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dennis is a recognized chronicler of the history of American pharmacy. He spent over two decades with Procter & Gamble Health Care, until his retirement as director of pharmacy affairs. He served at the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati. In 2010 his work on the history of pharmacy in World War II was recognized by AIHP with its Kremers Award for outstanding writing. Dennis is adjunct professor at the Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Worthen is well known for his series of biographical sketches on "Heroes of Pharmacy" in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. In 1998 Dr. Worthen received the Linwood F. Tice Friend of ASP Award and the Phi Lambda Sigma National Leadership Award. In 2010, APhA honored Dennis by selecting him as its Honorary President.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Chairman of the Board
- Immunization Action Coalition, PLEI Chairman of the Board
John is proprietor of Vaccine Dynamics and associate director for scientific communications for Immunize.org, where he helps edit IZ Express. He has published over 300 articles and eight books. As a Colonel in the U.S. Army, John directed the Military Vaccine Agency, where he organized "Immunization University." In 1996, he wrote the curriculum for "Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery." John was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021. He received the Remington Honor Medal (2020), the ΦΛΣ National Leadership Award (2003, 2017), Rho Chi Society Lecture Award (2011), Gloria Francke Leadership Mentor Award (2006), ASHP Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature (2006), AMSUS Andrew Craigie Award (2004), and the APhA/HCQA Pinnacle Award (1998).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Inpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager at UW - Medicine Harborview Medical Center
Kevin is currently the Inpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager at UW-Medicine Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He completed at PGY1/PGY2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership residency at UW Medicine in 2018, also earning an Executive Masters of Health Administration from the University of Washington School of Public Health. He graduated with honors from Wingate University School of Pharmacy in 2016 upon completing a PharmD/MBA dual degree program. Kevin is currently serving on the Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA) Health-System Academy. He previously served on the ASHP Pharmacy Student Forum Executive Committee and the ASHP Council of Education and Workforce Development. Kevin's professional interests include: utilization of strengths-based communication and collaboration both within pharmacy and throughout the health-system, facilitating pharmacist integration into the care team, and expanding healthcare operations to improve patient outcomes through cost-effective and patient-centered strategies.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean
- Member of the Board of Directors
Macary is assistant dean of experiential programs and a clinical associate professor of pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She focuses on community pharmacy practice, specifically immunizations, medication therapy management, and self-care. She directs the PGY1 and PGY2 community pharmacy/academia residency programs. Macary advises the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students. Previously, Macary was a community pharmacy faculty member at Albany College of Pharmacy. In 2011, she served as the expert pharmacist in a year-long series of episodes for WebMD's "Ask the Pharmacist." Macary received the Prescott Pharmacy Leadership Award in 2008.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Associate Dean of Academic
Nancy is the Associate Dean of Academic and Professional Affairs and serves as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Nancy served as the 162nd president of the American Pharmacists Association and has been named a fellow for the organization. She has also served as the national president of the Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Society and as the Grand Vice President of of Collegiate Affairs for the Phi Delta Chi Fraternity. Nancy has a strong interest in Leader Development and serves as a facilitator, content developer and program director for PLEI.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Founding Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer / Stockton, CA
Ralph Saroyan was initiated into the Alpha Psi Chapter of Phi Delta Chi Fraternity at the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in May 1960. He practiced independent community pharmacy in California's Central Valley before returning to his alma mater in 1970 as its first student affairs officer & internship coordinator. When Ralph retired in 2002, he was serving as Director of Pre-Health Programs at the University of the Pacific. While on faculty, Ralph taught and advised over 3000 pre-pharmacy and pharmacy students. Ralph's leadership within Pharmacy is exemplified by his 25 years as a regional and national office of Phi Delta Chi Fraternity, presidency of the California Pharmacists Association, and the Inaugural Chairman of the Board of the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute. The 2010 CPhA Pharmacist of the Year, Ralph was inducted into the California Pharmacists Hall of Fame in 2013. Also known as the "Grand Poobah", Ralph's most cherished recognitions are the 1997 Linwood F. Tice Friend of APhA ASP Award and the 2014 APhA Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Industry Executive
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals, PLEI Executive Director
Ron is a pharmaceutical industry executive, currently working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals where he has had several leadership roles in Global Development Operations. Ron served as founding Chief Operating Officer for Eboo Pharmaceuticals from 2012-13. He also served in a variety of executive roles with Asubio Pharmaceuticals, including vice president for clinical and project management. Earlier in his career, he held marketing and medical affair roles at Altana Pharma. Ron has additional management experience with Pharmacia & Upjohn, the Analytica Group, Omnicare, RiteAid, and Brooks Drugs. Ron currently serves as an ex-officio member of the Phi Delta Chi Executive Council. He was elected national president of ΦΛΣ in 1985.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Phi Delta Chi Grand past President
Traci is a clinical pharmacist with experience across of variety of Texas institutions. Presently, she is a clinical pharmacist and pharmacy preceptor with Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock. From 2011-16, she practiced clinical pharmacy at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, where she served on the liver-transplant team, Code Blue Committee, PGY1 Pharmacy Residency committee, and the P&T Committee. From 2007-11, she practiced at Baylor Medical Center at Carrollton (formerly Trinity Medical Center), serving as interim pharmacist in charge. She received additional experience at Baylor Medical Center at Garland, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, and Texas Tech University Health Science Center. Traci is the current Grand President of ΦΔΧ Pharmacy Fraternity, first elected in 2015.