APhA-APPM and APhA-APRS Announce 2014 Election Results

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July 30, 2014, WASHINGTON, DC — The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today announced the results of recent elections for the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM) and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS). The newly elected Officers will be installed at the 162nd APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, March 27-30, 2015.

APhA-APPM elected Michael J. Schuh, Bella H. Mehta, and Amy K. Kennedy as 2015-2017 APhA-APPM Executive Committee Members-at-Large, and Phillip Lawrence as APhA-APPM New Practitioner Officer.

APhA-APRS elected Robert DiCenzo as 2015-2016 APhA-APRS President-elect, Anthony Di Pasqua as 2015-2016 APhA-APRS Basic Sciences Section Chair-Elect, Darius Mason as 2015-2016 APhA-APRS Clinical Sciences Section Chair-elect, Kevin Farmer as 2015-2016 APhA-APRS Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences (ESAS) Section Chair-elect, and Jill Augustine as 2015-2017 APhA-APRS Postgraduate Officer.

Elected by the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM)

Michael J. Schuh, BS, PharmD, MBA, has more than 30 years of pharmacy experience. Schuh is a clinical, ambulatory phar­macist and an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Family and Palliative Medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida. He currently serves as the primary clinical provider and coordinator of Mayo Clinic Florida’s MTM pharmacy practice, serving lung, kidney and liver transplant, bariatric, and pharmacotherapy patients. He is an active member of the Northeast Florida Society of Health System Pharmacists, Florida Society of Heath System Pharmacists, and Florida Pharmacy Association. Schuh has served as an active member of the APhA-APPM MTM Task Force and is co-founder and past Coordinator of the APhA Medication Management Special Interest Group. He is also a Clinical Assistant Pro­fessor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Florida, a Coordinator of the UF MTM Master of Science program and holds clinical appointments at other lead­ing universities. Outside of pharmacy, he served as a National Quality Forum Advisory Panel Member and is an adjunct professor of business and science at DeVry University. His interests are Entre­preneurship, Ambulatory Care, Pharmacy Administration and Management, Pharmacy Business Models and Structure, Pharmacy/Business Interfacing, and participating in local, state and national pharmacy organizations.

Bella H. Mehta, PharmD, RPh, FAPhA, is a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Admin­istration and Director of the Clinical Partners Pro­gram. Her areas of focus include herbs/dietary supplements and establishing reimbursable models of pharmacist-managed direct patient care services. Mehta has been the primary preceptor for 10 PGY-1 Community/Ambulatory Care residents. Mehta was selected to be a 2013—2014 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Academic Leadership Fellows Program participant, is a past recipi­ent of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Foundation Best Practices in Health Systems Pharmacy Award, two APhA-APPM Presentation Merit Awards, was selected as a 2012 APhA-APPM Fellow, and received OSU’s Josephine S. Failer Award. She has been actively involved in pharmacy and has served APhA as a Member-at-Large for the APhA-APPM Clinical/Phar­macotherapeutic Section, as a member of JAPhA’s Editorial Advisory Board, is an annual reviewer for abstracts, serves as a poster judge at the Annual meeting, and is a faculty presenter for APhA certificate training programs including Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery and MTM. Most recently, she initiated the APhA-APPM Medical Home/Accountable Care Organization Special Interest Group.

Amy K. Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP, is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. She also serves as the Residency Program Director for the Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency at El Rio Health Center. She is Board Certified in Ambulatory Care. As a Clinical Pharmacist, Kennedy provides care to her patients at El Rio Community Health Center in a patient centered medical home model. In addition to seeing patients, Kennedy precepts residents and students in this practice setting. She was recently awarded the Arizona Pharmacy Asso­ciation Excellence in Innovative Practice Award. Kennedy has served as a member of the APhA-APPM Policy Stand­ing Committee, the APhA New Practitioner Advisory Council, the APhA House of Delegates, the APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Advisory Council, and as a New Practitioner mentor to her ASP chapter. Her current teaching and research interests include preventive health, the impact of mental health on medical outcomes, outpatient pain management, pharmacy professional­ism, and the pharmacist’s role in caring for the underserved.

Phillip Lawrence, PharmD, is a licensed practi­tioner with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Lawrence currently practices as a provider for the Salt Lake City Bone Health Team: a disease specific, high volume clinic, for the management of osteoporosis and closely related endocrine conditions. Phillip has a long history of practicing at the top of his license. Prior to pharmacy school, he worked for three years as a Pharmacy Specialist with the U.S. Army. During this time he served throughout the world and often worked as the sole pharmacy staff member for hospitals and clinics. He was selected by the Army to be honored with the Ralph D. Arnold Pharmacy Specialist of the Year award. In addition to his time as a pharmacist and pharmacy specialist, Lawrence has five years’ experience as an inpatient and outpatient pharmacy technician. His professional interests include geriatrics, endocrinology, political advocacy, clinical informatics, and leadership. Since joining APhA in 2008, he has served in vari­ous leadership roles at both the local and national level.

Elected by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS)

Robert DiCenzo, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Phar­macy Practice at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Adjunct appointments include Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease Unit of the Department of Medicine and the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center. After almost 10 years of hospital pharmacy experience, completion of a PharmD degree at Albany College of Pharmacy and a post-doc Fellowship in Antiretroviral Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics at the University at Buffalo, he began an academic career which evolved from a faculty appointment at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo to an administrative and leadership role as the Director of Experiential Education at the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St John Fisher College. After contributing to the development and operation of a new Experiential Education program, he was appointed the Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Anthony J. Di Pasqua, PhD, is an Assistant Profes­sor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of North Texas (UNT) System College of Pharmacy, in the UNT Health Science Center. He obtained his PhD in chemistry from Syracuse University, was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Prize, and received postdoctoral training in tumor biology at Georgetown University and molecular pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, where he then became a Research Assistant Professor. His research interests include nanomaterials for the delivery and improved efficacy of cancer chemo- and radio-therapeutics, and the elucidation and measure of potential cancer biomarkers. Work in his laboratory focuses on translating novel ideas into cancer preventive and thera­peutic applications for use in the clinic. He has published more than twenty research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Pasqua has a great passion for teaching, and is Course Director of Pharmaceutics 1 and 2, and teaches compounding in Pharmacy Practice Skills Laboratory. He strives to teach students how to apply basic scientific concepts to the practice of pharmacy.

Darius Mason, PharmD, BCPS, is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Col­lege of Pharmacy. He has clinical training in inter­nal medicine, general nephrology and is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist. After clinical training, he received nephrology pharmacotherapy research training at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. Currently, Mason is an assistant professor at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) in Albany, NY. As an Associate Pro­fessor at ACPHS, Mason is responsible for training pharmacy students, residents, and fellows. He conducts clinical research studies focused on vita­min D and phosphorus interventions. Additionally, responsibilities include laboratory training of graduate students and research fellows. Mason has authored a number of publications and book chapters related to chronic kidney disease. He is also a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), and National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA).

Kevin C. Farmer, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, is Professor and Vice-chair of Department of Pharmacy: Clinical & Administrative Sciences at the University of Okla­homa College of Pharmacy. Prior to his academic career, he practiced as a hospital pharmacist, a retail pharmacist, and a market research analyst for a startup pharmaceutical company in Missouri. Farmer has been a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy since 1991. He teaches courses in the professional PharmD program and graduate program in health policy, pharmaceutical marketing, outcomes research, and financial management. Farmer has served on the JAPhA editorial advisory board from 2010—2013, and as a peer reviewer for the journal since 1996. He has served as a member in the APhA House of Delegates, a reviewer of ESAS abstract sub­missions, and as a judge for the ESAS postgraduate podium presentations. He has published papers in APhA publications related to pharmacist-managed diabetes and hypertension programs. He contributed 13 poster presentations to ESAS or APhA-APPM, and provided three contributed podium presentations. Farmer was a co-author on the APhA-APRS Clinical Research Paper Award in 2010.

Jill Augustine, PharmD, MPH, is a second-year PhD student in pharmaceutical economics, policy, and outcomes at The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. As a graduate student, her research has focused on medication safety and pharmacy education. Her experience has involved community and hospital pharmacy, industry, and research. Augustine is currently working with faculty and staff at the University of Arizona to examine the impact of pharmacist-driven medication therapy management, curriculum assessment, and the use of social media. As a member of APhA, she has been involved at the national, state, and local levels. She currently is a member of APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APRS) Postgraduate Committee and Awards Standing Committee and serves as the New Practitioner Mentor to the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Previously, she was the 2011—2012 Vice-Chair of the APhA-ASP National Awards Standing Committee, a previous Region III Member-at-Large, and the Mercer University APhA-ASP Chapter President. Augustine is also a member of Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the Interna­tional Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and Kappa Epsilon (KE).