ASHP - Key Persons
Blevins has been an active member of ASHP, serving across several SSPP Advisory Groups (SAGs). Her involvement began as a member of the SAG on Workforce Development, where she assisted in several deliverables including development of a template material for APPE rotation syllabus, template PowerPoint presentation regarding the overview of specialty pharmacy, and multiple others. She currently serves as a member of the SSPP Educational Steering Committee. In addition, she has coauthored multi-site health-system owned specialty pharmacy research publications and given podium presentations at ASHP annual meetings.
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- Member of the Section of Pharmacy Educators
Henneman currently serves as a member of the Section of Pharmacy Educators (SPE) Advisory Group (SAG) on Development of the Educational Workforce. Her previous service includes Chair and Vice Chair of the SPE SAG on Postgraduate Education and Learning Experiences. Prior to this she served within the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners Educational Steering Committee for nine years. Previously, Henneman also served within the Florida Society of Health System Pharmacists as an appointed member of both the Membership Affairs Council and the Ambulatory Care Steering Committee. She has been a speaker at ASHP meetings and contributed to both webinars and podcasts.
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- Manager, Enterprise Drug Policy Center
), is the manager of the Enterprise Drug Policy Center for Advocate Health. Her non-traditional route to this role began with an undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin Madison that she applied working in healthcare public relations and academic medical center marketing. Colella stepped away from the workforce to care for her two young boys for several years, then returned to school, obtaining her PharmD degree with the inaugural class at Concordia University Wisconsin. She completed a PGY1 residency at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and stayed on with the organization in the Drug Policy Center, overseeing the medication use process for the health system through activities with the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and other multidisciplinary stakeholders.
Colella's service to ASHP includes an appointment to the Council on Pharmacy Practice as well as service as chair and vice chair of the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Advisory Group on Emerging Sciences. She has also served as an alternate delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates, served on the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology Advisory Group on Clinical Applications, and was a featured blogger on ASHP Connect where she shared her thoughts on pharmacy school life and often observed parallels between being a parent and a student. She has co-presented and helped organize ASHP webinars such as "Pharmaocequity for All: The Time is Now", is an ASHP PGY1 pharmacy residency preceptor, and serves annually as a Midyear Clinical Meeting submission peer reviewer.
), is an ambulatory clinical pharmacy manager at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Parrott graduated from the University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences before completing a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the ProMedica Flower Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Parrott went on to complete her Master of Business Administration at the University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation. She is board certified in ambulatory care and pharmacotherapy. In her role at Parkview Health, Parrott has helped establish and expand ambulatory pharmacy services throughout northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. She also serves as residency program director for an ASHP accredited PGY2 ambulatory care residency program.
Parrott currently serves as Director-at-Large for the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners (SACP). She previously served as Chair of the SACP Advisory Group on Compensation and Practice Sustainability. During her service to the Section, Parrott has contributed to multiple SACP resource documents, an ASHP webinar, and a podcast. She has presented regionally for the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacy and nationally at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting on ambulatory pharmacy services, including topics on service development and reimbursement. Parrott was recognized with the Glen Sperandio Health System Pharmacist of the Year award for the state of Indiana in 2020 for her outstanding service in pharmacy practice, professional organizations, and to the community.
White has been an active member of ASHP since completing residency and has served in many leadership roles. She is a past chair of the Council on Education and Workforce Development and past chair of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP) Educational Steering Committee (ESC). She has been a member of the SICP ESC for many years, helping to create various educational tools and resources for ASHP members. She has also served as a delegate from Alabama to the ASHP House of Delegates for many years and is passionate about advocacy for the pharmacy profession.
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / Florida
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- Chairman / Federal Service
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- Chairman of the Committees of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Officers Team
- Chairman of Committee
- Treasurer / Minneapolis, MN
In his role at St. Jude, Agüero leads the medication-use systems and supporting technologies, including informatics, pharmaceutical data analytics, and supply chain service lines.
Agüero earned his PharmD from Virginia Commonwealth University, then pursued a specialized residency in medication-use systems and technology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and a master's degree in science and technology leadership from Brown University.
Since his days as a pharmacy student, Agüero has been deeply involved with the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT), serving as a member and Chair on multiple SOPIT Advisory Groups. He has volunteered on the Educational Steering Committee for several years and served as a director-at-large for the Section.
Agüero is recognized as a Fellow of both ASHP and the American Medical Informatics Association. He lends his expertise in RFID technology to the Executive Leadership Committee for GS1 US Healthcare and serves as an expert panel member for the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
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- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Liaison / Indiana
- Board Member / Indianapolis, in
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- Internal Medicine Pharmacy Specialist
Bahmandar has been an active member of ASHP at the state and national level. Her state involvement includes serving as director-at-large and then president of the Nevada Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Her national involvement includes many years serving on various ASHP section and forum advisory groups, serving on the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Practice, and serving as the Chair of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Educational Steering Committee. She has also served as a delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates.
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- Chairman of the Section of Clinical Scientists
- Clinical Assistant Professor / University of Texas at Austin
Kelley currently serves ASHP as Chair of the Section of Clinical Scientists and Specialists (SCSS) Meeting Planning Committee. Other ASHP involvement includes past membership on the SCSS Educational Steering Committee, ASHP Council on Education and Workforce Development, and various New Practitioners Forum advisory groups. She has served state/regional affiliates in numerous capacities, including prior service on the Board of Director for the Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists (FSHP) and as a member of the task force to create a Transitions of Care Certificate Program for the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP). She has also served as treasurer and Education chair at the regional affiliate level. She has been recognized for her experiential teaching and contributions to pharmacy through various awards including the University of Florida New Inpatient Preceptor of the Year, FSHP New Practitioner of the Year, and was named a Fellow of ASHP in 2023.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Liaison
- Board Member / Pittsburgh, PA
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- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
), is the system director of pharmacy and oncology informatics for the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Enwere leads teams that support pharmacy, oncology and research application systems with data analytics for pharmacy. His teams support informatics services for five cancer center locations nationwide within Los Angeles, Orange County, Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Prior to his current role, Enwere served as the senior pharmacy informatics manager at UTMB Health where he led several transformational initiatives since 2019.
Enwere graduated from The University of Texas College of Pharmacy in 2012 with his PharmD degree. He completed a combined pharmacy residency and Masters of Science degree in health-system pharmacy administration and leadership emphasizing pharmacy informatics at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in 2014.
Enwere is very passionate about designing systems that help guide healthcare providers to make better clinical decisions that achieve improved patient outcomes. He is currently serving on the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT) Advisory Group (SAG) on Educational and Professional Development as the Blog Workgroup lead. He also served as the 2022-2023 chair of the SOPIT SAG on Clinical Decision Support and Analytics (CDSA) and as the CDSA vice chair from 2021-2022. Enwere has been an active SOPIT member since 2015 and is very excited about the continued growth in pharmacy informatics. He is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems and holds several Epic Systems certifications that support pharmacy, oncology and CDS. He has given pharmacy informatics presentations both locally and nationally with peer-reviewed publications.
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- Member of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Secretary / Maryland
The CEO Evaluation Committee is charged with the formal evaluation of the CEO.
), is the pharmacy population health director at Intermountain Health. With over 20 years of ambulatory care experience, Olson has practiced and led ambulatory care pharmacy services at Intermountain, helping expand services with a focus toward value-based care. In his current role, he leads population health strategy, growth, and operations for pharmacy services across the multi-state, integrated health system. He established the PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Program, serves as an active preceptor for PGY1 and PGY2 residents, and maintains an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. Olson earned his PharmD and MBA degrees from the University of Utah and completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency at PeaceHealth Southwest in Vancouver, WA. He is board certified in ambulatory care.
Olson's leadership in ASHP includes serving as Vice Chair and Chair of the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners (SACP) Advisory Group on Compensation and Practice Sustainability. He is a frequent speaker at ASHP meetings and webinars. He served as faculty for the ASHP Telehealth Certificate and has participated in several ASHP podcasts. Olson is an author of several ASHP Ambulatory Care Resource Center documents, ASHP Connect blog posts, and ASHP and AJHP publications. He was the recipient of the USHP Linda S. Tyler Innovative Practice of the Year Award in 2023 for leading efforts to establish a virtual hormonal contraception service in Utah. In 2021, he received the ASHP SACP Distinguished Service Award.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Board Member / Detroit, MI
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- HOD Chair / Kalamazoo, MI
- Pharmacy Education Coordinator / Bronson Methodist Hospital
) is the pharmacy education coordinator, the postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency director and an emergency department pharmacist at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He also serves as an affiliate preceptor for the Ferris State University (FSU) College of Pharmacy. Hogue received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from FSU and completed residency training at Bronson Methodist Hospital. After residency, he worked in trauma and orthopedics, then had the opportunity to establish pharmacy services in the emergency department, where he worked for several years prior to assuming his current role.
Hogue currently serves on the ASHP Commission on Credentialing and has been a Michigan delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for 15 years. He has previously served on the ASHP Council on Education and Workforce Development. Hogue has also been very engaged on the state level, having served as president, treasurer, and executive board member for the Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP), as an executive board member for the Michigan Pharmacists Association (MPA), as a delegate in the MPA House of Delegates for many years, and as a member on numerous MSHP and MPA committees and taskforces. He has been recognized in Michigan for his contributions to the profession as a Fellow of MPA and a member of the MPA Hall of Honor. Additionally, he has received the MSHP Pharmacist of the Year Award, the MSHP Joseph A. Oddis Leadership Award, and the MPA Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year Award.
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- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / Michigan
(New members are observers at the August COC and term begins in January for the calendar year)
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- Associate Director, Specialty and Infusion Pharmacies / University of Illinois
Karen C. Thomas, PharmD, PhD, MBA (kct@uic.edu), is an associate director of specialty and infusion pharmacies at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System and is a clinical assistant professor in the department of pharmacy practice at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Thomas is also the residency program director for the UIC specialty pharmacy administration and leadership PGY2 residency. Her professional interests include optimizing clinical and operational processes, staff development, and demonstrating the value of health systems specialty pharmacies. She completed a dual PharmD/PhD program at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, with her PhD in pharmacology and toxicology examining the molecular mechanisms of capsaicin induced lung injury. Thomas then completed a fellowship in clinical and applied toxicology at the Utah Poison Control Center. Later in her career, she completed an executive MBA program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Thomas is the primary investigator for a 2022 grant from the ASHP Foundation related to how specialty pharmacies care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. She has been active with the ASHP Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners since 2019 as a member, vice chair (2021-2022), and chair (2022-2023) of the Section Advisory Group on Outcomes and Value.
Sometimes I struggle to find meaning and joy in the day-to-day grind of life and pharmacy. It is easy to get caught up in the minutiae of checking off the next task or trying to politely navigate bathroom breaks between back-to-back-to-back meetings. With many roles inside and outside of work, it can be difficult for people to prioritize volunteer and professional development if there is not meaningful importance to patient care. Over the years, I have served on a variety of committees for a variety of organizations, and the one consistent place where I have always found inspiration and meaning is among the dedicated caregivers in this Specialty Section. I value the environment of collaboration and support that comes from our various meetings. I appreciate that the Section Advisory Group offers a consistent and repeated touchstone for strategizing about the kind of impact we want to make, how to make it a reality, and how to measure that impact. This group is doing amazing and important work that will continue to shape the future of specialty pharmacy. The specialty pharmacy landscape shifts constantly, and we are best prepared to face challenges when we work together. I am honored to be nominated as chair-elect for the Section, and I look forward to the coming years as we continue to work and grow together to provide the best care possible to specialty patients.
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- Vice Chair of the FASHP Recognition Committee
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- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Secretary / Maryland
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- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
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- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
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- Member of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Liaison / Minnesota
- Board Member / Minneapolis, MN
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Member of the Committees of the Board
- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
- President / Johnson City, NY
Dr. Briscoe-Dwyer received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Albany College of Pharmacy and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. John's University. She began her career as a clinical specialist in HIV and infectious disease at SUNY Stony Brook and has worked in various areas of pharmacy practice, including the pharmaceutical industry, with the majority of the last 20 years in pharmacy leadership roles.
Her ASHP service includes Board of Directors (2020-2023), chair, Committee on Nominations, Council on Public Policy, the FASHP Recognition Committee, and New York State delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates for over ten years. Dr. Briscoe-Dwyer is a past president of the Long Island Society of Health-system Pharmacists and the New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists. She served as a Trustee for Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and chaired the Academic Affairs Committee. In addition, she served on the New York State Board of Pharmacy for ten years in several capacities, including as its chair.
She has received numerous recognitions for her contributions to pharmacy, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from St. John's University, the New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists Board of Directors Award, and the NYSCHP Research and Education Foundation Bernard Mehl Leadership Award.
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- Chairman
- Vice Chair of Committee
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Chisholm-Burns has been an active member of ASHP for over 30 years. She previously served in several ASHP leadership positions; for example, she served as the inaugural chair of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Educators Executive Committee, as director-at-large of the ASHP Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Executive Committee, as a member of the Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership Advisory Panel, and as a member of the AJHP editorial board. She is a member of the Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee and contributed to several Forecasts over the years, including 2024 (public health priorities), 2023 (health disparities), and 2021 (healthcare access). Additionally, Chisholm-Burns has received several awards from ASHP, including the 2022 Board of Directors' Distinguished Leadership Award.
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- Member of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Officers Team
- President - Elect
- President - Elect / Albuquerque, NM
) is associate dean for clinical affairs and professor, The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque. She graduated from Purdue University and UNM and completed her residency at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. Dodd oversees innovative clinical models and faculty clinical services, including credentialing, contracting, billing and reimbursement. She provides key pharmacy professional advocacy and serves on academic and health-system leadership committees. Dodd is a pharmacist clinician in geriatric primary care with broad prescriptive authority at the UNM Hospitals Senior Health Clinic and is a consultant pharmacist for 340B-eligible and other ambulatory clinics. She is responsible for extensive didactic and clinical teaching activities in the UNM PharmD program and Health Sciences Center, including geriatric syndromes, pharmacy law, interprofessional education, and serves as a residency preceptor. Her research includes geriatric syndromes, advanced practice pharmacist models, and scholarship of teaching.
Dodd's ASHP service includes member of the Board of Directors and chair, ASHP House of Delegates (2021-2024), chair of the Council on Public Policy, chair of the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners (SACP), member, Pharmacy Forecast Advisory Committee, and NM delegate to the House of Delegates for 14 years. She is past president of NMSHP and faculty advisor for the UNM SSHP. She has received numerous awards for her service to the profession, including the ASHP Pharmacy Champion Award, SACP Distinguished Service Award, Fellow of ASHP, and NMSHP Dorothy Dillon Memorial Lecture Award.
ASHP President-elect Melanie A. Dodd, with the approval of the Board of Directors, appoints members of ASHP Committees. ASHP members are encouraged to recommend themselves or other members for appointment.
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- Member of the Board Development Committee
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- Associate Director, Drug Use Policy, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
Leber received her PharmD degree from the University of Montana and completed a PGY1 residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. Leber has also completed the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy (PLA) and received her Master's of Business Administration from New England College.
Leber has been an active member of ASHP for over 20 years. Currently, she serves as a member of the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP) Advisory Group (SAG on Medication Management and a delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates. Past service includes SICP SAGs on Medication Safety, Small and Rural Hospitals, and Advancing Pharmacy Practice with Technicians, as well as service to the New Practitioners Forum. She was previously the SICP d irector-at- large. She has been an appointed member to the Council on Pharmacy Practice, Council on Education and Workforce Development, and the ASHP Committee on Nominations. She has also served as a moderator and presenter at multiple Midyear Clinical Meetings. Leber has also supported the development of several ASHP Guidelines and is recognized as a Fellow of ASHP.
Leber holds other leadership roles nationally and has served on the board of the Connecticut Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
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- Chairman of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Officers Team
- Board Liaison / Pennsylvania
- Immediate past President / Philadelphia, PA
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- Chairman of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Chairman of Awards Committee
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- Chairman of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Awards Committee
- Member of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Member of the Committees of the Board
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Member of Committee
- Vice Chair / Michigan
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Committees of the Board
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Officers Team
- CEO / Bethesda
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / Kansas
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / Ohio
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / Washington
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- Member of the FASHP Recognition Committee
- Member / California
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- Chairman of the FASHP Recognition Committee
As a former family medicine provider, he precepted over 800 pharmacy and medical students from across the country, in addition to numerous pharmacy and medicine residents. In 2018, he was named Ohio Health-System Pharmacist of the Year and received the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Graduate Medical Education Leader of the year award. Brown was also recognized as the 2017 Outstanding Faculty for Live Activities by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Brown is a past member of the ASHP Board of Directors and has been involved with committees, councils, and the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners as both director-at-large and then chair. He is considered a national thought leader in development of pharmacy ambulatory care models and has co-authored/edited two books designed to help others build their practice model in an ambulatory care setting.
In 2019, Brown was appointed to the inaugural Section of Pharmacy Educators Executive Committee, then elected as Director-At-Large (DAL) for the Section in 2021. He also hosts a multimedia program called, "PharmCast for the Community," sponsored by UGA College of Pharmacy designed to highlight the impact pharmacists are having on patient care within the state of Georgia and across the country.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Nesbit received his BS in pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University, his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from The Ohio State University, and his MBA degree in medical services management from Johns Hopkins University. Through positions of increasing responsibility held in diverse hospitals and academic medical centers, he has worked to promote and advance the role of the pharmacist and clinical pharmacy in health systems.
He has extensive experience serving ASHP and state affiliates, including ASHP Forecast Advisory Committee member and chapter author; Pharmacy Competency Assessment Center Advisory Board member and section editor; co-chair of the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacy (MSHP) Practice Model Task Force; voting member of the inaugural Pharmacy Practice Model Summit; and delegate to the Pharmacy Stakeholders Conference on MTM Services. Nesbit has been recognized as a Fellow of ASHP and has achieved the status of Certified Pharmacy Executive Leader by the organization. Nesbit received the MSHP W. Arthur Purdum Award for significant contributions to health-system pharmacy.
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- Chairman of Committee
- Member / Vermont
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- Member of the Awards Committee
- Member of the Board Development Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Board Member / New York, NY
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the CEO Evaluation Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Board Member / Dallas, TX