Mark A. Pulido (University of Arizona)
1975–76 SAPhA Vice President
I am an advisor, investor, and philanthropist who brings leadership expertise in health care and technology. I am the former CEO and Chairman of ABILITY Network, acquired by Inovalon, a private equity investor and advisor. Prior to that, I led several of the most prominent health care and technology companies in the world: President and CEO of McKesson Corporation and President and CEO of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (USA). I previously served as Chairman of the Board for Quidel Corporation, and on the boards of the Charles Schwab Corporation, Imation Corporation, Sunrise Medical, Inc., and Smile Brands Group. I am also co-founder of the Pulido~Walker Foundation.
Pamela Koss Justice (University of Minnesota)
1981–82 SAPhA President
I love my job. Currently, I work part-time at Mary Brigh dismissal pharmacy at Mayo Clinic St. Mary Hospital in Rochester, MN. I have worked there for the past 15 years. I interact daily and work together with providers, caregivers, and patients to improve patient outcomes, sometimes thinking out of the box, and to identify therapies that are effective, affordable, and available wherever that patient may live. After more than 30 years as a pharmacist, I continue to learn something new every day. Pharmacy is about life-long learning, helping others, and making a difference. Embrace it!
Michael Manolakis (University of Southern California)
1986–87 SAPhA President
As a faculty member at Wingate University School of Pharmacy, my primary teaching responsibilities include courses in leadership, bioethics, and the U.S. health care system. I am also responsible for interprofessional education at the school. I currently serve as Vice-Chair of the Wingate University Faculty Senate and am a member of the University Leadership Team; led by the university president.
Terri Smith Moore (Howard University)
1987–88 APhA–ASP Staff Liaison
I am currently the Executive Director for the Washington DC Pharmacy Association, serving to elevate the practice of pharmacy in the District of Columbia. I also work full-time in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Pharmacy Affairs, where I am responsible for the administration, operations, and policy implementation of the 340B Drug Pricing Program that enables eligible hospitals, health centers, clinics, and other health care organizations to obtain outpatient drugs from manufacturers at significantly reduced prices.
Valerie Prince (Mercer University)
1992–93 APhA–ASP Speaker of the House
I currently practice at St. Vincent’s East Family Medicine Residency Program as the acute care pharmacist on the inpatient team and as a faculty member to medical residents and students. I am a professor at Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy, where I teach in the pharmacotherapy sequence as well as infectious disease and substance dependence electives. I have served as both the APhA–ASP Chapter Advisor and the Phi Lambda Sigma Beta Chapter Advisor in various years. I am active in the Alabama Pharmacy Organization and currently serve as Parliamentarian and on the Organizational Affairs Committee.
Brandon J. Patterson (The University of Texas at Austin)
2007–08 APhA–ASP National President
I provide scientific oversight of evidence generation activities for vaccines in the United States for Glaxo SmithKline. I lead scientific teams in the conduct of epidemiology and economic studies, and partner with external collaborators, including practicing and academic pharmacists, in the conduct of vaccine health outcomes research. I also provide graduate school mentorship for PhD students and continue to teach a PharmD course at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Sarah Cox (University of Missouri–Kansas City)
2012–13 APhA–ASP National Member-at-large
I coordinate the Pharmacy Practice Leadership, Management, and Innovations course at the UMKC School of Pharmacy. In addition, I maintain the practice site at University of Missouri Health Care as special projects manager, where I lead new service line development and continuous quality improvement projects. My interests span from the scholarship of teaching and learning to implementation science of the projects I am working on. However, I am recently passionate about teaching students to use their right-side of the brain to enhance patient care and innovation within the profession. The icing on the cake is all the fun I have advising the APhA–ASP Chapter!
Michael D. Wolcott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2013–14 Awards Standing Committee
After pharmacy school, I completed a residency and then decided to pursue a PhD in education, focusing on the learning sciences and psychological studies. I currently serve as the Director of the Academic Support Center (ASC) at the UNC School of Dentistry. The ASC is a novel approach to creating faculty-centered experiences in dental education, which I help to optimize with my experiences as a health care provider and education expert. I also remain connected with an appointment at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, where I assist educational research initiatives focused on improving health professions education.
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