Chase Dye

Chase Dye, MBA, MHA, CPhT-Adv, FACHE currently serves as General Manager at Kroger in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he leads centralized clinical services supporting community pharmacy, convenience clinic, and consumer nutrition healthcare delivery nationwide. In this role, he is accountable for patient outcomes, financial performance, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and culture across multidisciplinary teams exceeding 300 healthcare professionals.

Dye is an accomplished pharmacy technician and healthcare executive whose career reflects sustained leadership in pharmacy practice, patient safety, and workforce development. With more than 20 years of experience, his professional background spans community, health-system, and specialty pharmacy, clinical research, and population-level care delivery.

His work has focused on designing and scaling centralized care models that expand access while maintaining safety, quality, and sustainability, including the establishment of Kroger Health’s Center for Advanced Community Care at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Pharmacy, which provides centralized patient management, student education, and outcomes research. His work has contributed to improved medication adherence, reduced medication abandonment, and accelerated time-to-treatment for patients served through community pharmacy settings.

A defining aspect of Dye’s leadership has been the integration of pharmacy technicians into patient-facing, outcomes-driven care models. He has led the development of technician-enabled programs supporting medication management, patient access initiatives, and preventive care, including a CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program funded by the APhA Foundation that expanded the role of pharmacy technicians in delivering behavior-change interventions at scale. In his current role, he has supported more than 100 pharmacy technician trainees in obtaining PTCB certification.

Patient safety has remained a consistent anchor throughout Dye’s career. His leadership is grounded in Just Culture principles and system-based approaches to error prevention, supporting high-volume operations with strong safety performance. Earlier in his career, he contributed to medication safety research and quality improvement initiatives focused on reducing risk during care transitions and technology implementation.

In addition to his operational leadership, Dye is committed to professional education and service. He serves as an adjunct faculty member in pharmacy practice and is actively involved in national professional organizations through leadership and volunteer roles. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health degree with research interests in implementation science, delivery science, and patient behavior change.

Dye’s career reflects a commitment to advancing the pharmacy technician profession while strengthening the systems that support safe, effective, and accessible patient care.