NCAP Election – 2015 NCAP Board of Directors
President-Elect (three-year term)
There are two candidates for President-Elect of NCAP. Please vote for one. Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD, BCACP, CDE, FAPhA
Stefanie Ferreri is a faculty member at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She has taught nonprescription therapeutics and self-care since starting with the school. Stefanie is an editor for the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs and the OTC Supplement for Pharmacy Today. She has presented at national and state meetings and is frequently interviewed by media outlets regarding nonprescription medications and the pharmacist’s role in self-care.
In addition to her self-care responsibilities, Stefanie has a passion for advancing community pharmacy practice. In particular, she is interested in embedding community pharmacists as a part of the health care team to optimize patient care. Her research interests include developing and evaluating clinical services within the community practice setting. Early in her career she developed clinical services in a regional chain pharmacy which resulted in changes to the pharmacy’s workflow and the practice model. She would like to build off the foundation to influence other community pharmacies to change their model of practice. She has a particular interest in bridging the practice between inpatient and outpatient settings by keeping patients at the center of care.
Stefanie has been an active member of NCAP since 1998. She has served on the residency and educational committees and has served as a delegate for North Carolina at the APhA Annual meeting three times. She also served as member-at-large on the executive board from 2007-2010 and as the founding pharmacist member on the Medicaid Preferred Drug List Review Panel from 2011-2015. She was recognized by NCAP as the Community Care Pharmacist of the Year in 2005 and as the Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in 2007.
Stefanie received a bachelor of science in pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut and a doctor of pharmacy from Campbell University. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT, and a
community pharmacy residency with Campbell University and Ward Drug in Nashville, NC. She lives in Durham with her husband, Eric, and their eight-year old twins, Ryan and Annabelle.
I am honored to be nominated for the position of President-elect for the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. The profession of pharmacy has bountiful opportunities and North Carolina is at the forefront of leading these opportunities. It has been wonderful to practice in such a progressive state. During this time when health care is under scrutiny by legislators, it is imperative that North Carolina remains progressive in pharmacy practice. I would use my time in office to work with the Executive Committee to advocate for new opportunities for
future and existing pharmacists. As the profession changes, so must the priorities of the state association.
In order to be successful we must take a proactive and united approach to advocate legislative change to benefit the profession and our patients. Collaboration will be the
instrumental to this success. NCAP has made great strides collaborating with other health care provider organizations. I will continue these efforts so we can demonstrate how we improve the health outcomes of our patients to influence legislative policy. I love my academic role in influencing practice model change and developing future pharmacists. I hope to instill this same enthusiasm to NCAP. If elected, I would work to ensure that the mission of NCAP - to unite, serve and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society - is accomplished.
Thank you for your consideration and I sincerely hope I can serve NCAP to promote the value of the profession.
Ouita Davis Gatton, R.Ph.
Ouita received her BS in biology from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC in 1984 and her pharmacy degree from UNC in 1989. After graduation, she did some consulting, infusion
pharmacy, and also worked for several independents and chains. Encouraged by her father, owner of a local, independent pharmacy, Ouita joined the Kroger Pharmacy team in 1997. She has served as staff pharmacist, district clinical coordinator in NC, and Kroger Mid-Atlantic Division clinical coordinator in Roanoke, VA.
While in Virginia, Ouita was responsible for coordinating all pharmacy programs not directly related to dispensing. She offered leadership to 300 pharmacists in 116 pharmacies that touch six states: NC, VA, WV, OH, TN, and KY. As a result of her position, Ouita helped spearhead passage of pharmacy immunization legislation in West Virginia in 2007. She was also profiled in APhA’s magazine Pharmacy Today for her pioneer role in coordinating MTM services for Kroger.
When she returned, she staffed and helped to coordinate special projects for Kroger in their NC stores and area communities. She was also very involved in the passage of the NC
immunization legislation that expanded pharmacists’ vaccine authority in 2013. Her current role is district patient care coordinator for all the Kroger Stores in NC, and is also the residency preceptor at her site in conjunction with UNC. She is passionate about patient care and will seek out any opportunity to make it better. She is a national immunization and medication management trainer for APhA and is certified in Diabetes Care (APhA),chair elect for NCAP’s Community Care Forum, co-chair for NCAP’s immunization committee, and has been taking students at her practice sites for over 20 years.
She is a native to Raleigh, NC, an avid runner and reader, and loves being married to her husband, John, of over three years.
It is an honor and privilege to be considered for the position of President-Elect for the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. I love this organization and the phenomenal pharmacists of our great state. If elected, I look forward to representing and encouraging them in the changing environment of pharmacy practice. Health care reform is here to stay and it will require a united and strong association to insure North Carolina pharmacists maintain the passion, direction, and focus of being the best pharmacists providing the best care to our patients, regardless of where we practice. If elected, I look forward to serving, with the board, to insure NC continues to have a place of strong negotiation at health care conversation tables. We need to continue to push the
message that pharmacists are the medication expert on the health care team and we need to be prepared to set the new best practice standards that will be required to take care of patients in the new health care models. We need to be a united, cohesive pharmacy community in NC that is willing to stand together among our differences and proclaim we are patient care providers, we will do what is necessary to make our selves even better, we deserve to get paid for our expertise, and we do not need to allow forces of destruction and the unknown to divide and conquer us. Today is a great time to be a North Carolina pharmacist and, if elected, I look forward to serving in its leadership.
At-Large Board Member (three-year terms) There are four candidates for three positions on the Board. Please vote for three.
Robert Ashworth, PharmD, CPP
Robert Ashworth is an Assistant Professor and Regional Coordinator with Wingate University School of Pharmacy. His clinical practice is at Cape Fear Heart Associates in Wilmington, North Carolina where he precepts P4 students from Wingate University. He is a clinical pharmacist practitioner and has spent most of his career in cardiology. Robert earned his Doctorate of
Pharmacy from Campbell University in 1990 and completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia in 1991. My practice experience includes clinical pharmacist in Critical Care and Cardiology at Moses Cone Health System from 1991 to 2002, Director of Cardiovascular Wellness and Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner at Southeastern Heart and Vascular Center 2002-2003, Clinical Pharmacist and Director of Alamance Medication Assistance Program, and PGY1 Residency Program Director at Alamance Regional Medical Center over the time period of 2003 - 2011. Robert has been a member of the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists (ASHP) and the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) most of his pharmacy career. He was recipient of the Bowl of Hygeia Award in 2009.
Robert has a passion for indigent care and medical missions. He has participated in eight medical mission trips to Honduras and Jamaica since 2004 and also a SMAT II team member assigned to Waveland Mississippi after the massive destruction in the area by Hurricane Katrina. He served as Board Member for Open Door Clinic in Alamance County and Wings to Recovery Cancer support group; also served as Director of Bread of Life Food Ministry at Harvest Baptist Church 2003-2007.
I am honored to be considered to serve as a Board Member for NCAP. I am committed to serving the organization and our profession to the best of my abilities in an effort to advance our profession and create clinical practice opportunities in North Carolina. The commitment, dedication and collaboration between pharmacists and healthcare providers over the next few years will be crucial as we determine the direction and pave the path for future pharmacists in all areas of practice. I believe with challenges come many opportunities and we have the knowledge and skills to offer patients and providers as we face the uncertainties in our current healthcare environment. Thank you for your support!
Jamie N. Brown, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Jamie N. Brown, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2006 and then completed an ASHP-accredited specialty residency in Drug Information with Campbell University. After
completion of his residency, Jamie accepted a clinical position with the Durham VA Medical Center as the Director of the Drug Information Center and Manager of the Investigational Drug Service. In addition to his clinical practice, Jamie also serves as the PGY1 Residency Program Director and established and serves as the Residency Program Director for the PGY2 Drug Information program.
Jamie has been an active member of NCAP for the entirety of his professional career, including serving as the Chair of the Residency Committee for the past seven years. This leadership role includes coordinating the annual Residency Leadership Conference, and in July, NCAP welcomed over 250 residents and preceptors to its conference in Winston-Salem, making it the most attended conference in its history. This past year, Jamie was also recognized as the recipient of the NCAP Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award and received the Hospital Practice Preceptor of the Year Award from the Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences class of 2014.
I am honored to be considered as a candidate for the NCAP Board of Directors. North Carolina has always been a leader in advancing the practice of pharmacy and it is NCAP that has driven much of this success by taking an active role in shaping our profession’s future. With
pharmacy practice at the crossroads of a changing healthcare landscape, I look forward to working with the Association and with pharmacists from across the state to create a unified voice and continue to move the profession in a positive direction. In addition, I think that there are
opportunities to make membership more attractive and recruit more of our colleagues to become involved. This will strengthen the impact of the Association and allow us to provide even more quality services to our members. Thank you for your support and I look forward to serving NCAP.
Steve Kearney is Director, Medical Outcomes Specialists for Pfizer Global Medical. Prior to joining Pfizer he was a Clinical Pharmacist for Durham Medical Center (a Duke University Clinic with 11 internal medicine physicians), Clinical Assistant Professor at the UNC Eschelman School of Pharmacy and Assistant Director for Pharmacy Education for the Non-Affiliated AHEC. He was also the course director for Ambulatory Medicine at the UNC Eschelman School of Pharmacy and the Co-Lead of the Community Based Faculty. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from East Carolina University and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He completed a one year post-doctoral residency in pharmacy practice at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and then joined the pharmacy department at Duke University Medical Center in 1995 where he worked as the clinical pharmacist for family medicine and cardiology. He also developed the first clinical pharmacy rounding service for orthopedics and was responsible for staff development. He has completed Executive coursework at the Kenan Flagler School of
Business for International Studies and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Steve has received numerous awards including the 2005 Quality Pyramid Award for his work with North Carolina Medicaid and the 2006 Customer Recognition Award. He also was named to Pfizer’s “Vice Presidents Management Cabinet” in January 2005. This is the highest award given by Pfizer to recognize excellence in a given area.
He was a founding member of Pfizer’s Practice Transformation taskforce and currently serves as the medical lead of the ACO resource team.
He is Past Chair of the NCAP Professional Relations Committee, the co-founder of the NCAP Residency Leadership Conference and a founding Board Member and past President of the
Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Alumni Association.
Steve currently resides in Apex, NC with his wife Lori, daughter Delaney and son Cade. He is a Deacon at Salem Baptist Church and currently co-teaches the 9th grade Bible Fellowship Group with his wife Lori and co-leads a community outreach program at the Duke Pediatric Bone Marrow Unit.
I would consider it a great privilege to serve the Pharmacy community as an At-Large-Member of the NCAP Board. There are tremendous opportunities for Pharmacy in the transition from fee for service to outcomes based medicine. I believe we need strong leadership to educate all pharmacists on those opportunities and that NCAP needs to provide resources for all of
pharmacy to be successful in this ever changing environment. I look forward to working with the other board members, executive committee and pharmacy as a whole to help develop and promote these resources.
Macary Weck Marciniak, PharmD, BCACP, BCPS, FAPhA
Macary Marciniak is Clinical Associate Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of expertise include immunizations,
medication therapy management, nonprescription medications/self-care, and the implementation of clinical services in community pharmacy. She serves as the Director of the PGY1 Community
Pharmacy Residency Program. Macary is an Advisor for Phi Delta Chi (PDC) and the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students (CAPS), a unified professional organization that is affiliated with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP). Macary received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree with Honors from UNC and completed a PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program with the University of Maryland. Macary was a community pharmacy faculty member at
Albany College of Pharmacy in Albany, New York from before returning home to her alma mater. She is a Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP), a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS), a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association (FAPhA) and has completed certificate training programs in diabetes, immunizations, medication therapy management, self-care and tobacco cessation.
Macary’s involvement with NCAP dates back to her time as a student at UNC. She was an intern for the association at the time that NCAP was created and was a member of the NCAP Program Committee and Legal/Regulatory Affairs Committee. Since returning to North Carolina, Macary jumped right back in to NCAP service opportunities. Macary is currently completing her second term as a Member-at-large on the Community Care Practice Forum Executive Committee. She is the co-chair of the Immunization Committee and has served as a member of the group since its inception. Macary is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), APhA, ASHP, Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International (CPFI), PDC, and Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS). She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Pharmacy Leadership and Education Institute (PLEI) and a member of the Board of
Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Specialty Council. Macary has been honored with the PLEI Albert B. Prescott Leadership Award, the Pharmacists Mutual Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award, and the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award.
It is an honor to be considered for a Member-at-Large position on the NCAP Board of Directors. I believe that it is important to be an active member of professional organizations – our voices need to be heard and our ideas for the future of pharmacy practice need to be implemented. Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” I really believe this to be true. Over the past seven years, through my roles in the Community Care Practice Forum and Immunization Committee, I have worked with the other elected officers and interested members to change practice in North Carolina. Through these positions, I have attended Board Meetings and observed our key discussions. If elected to serve on the Board, I will represent the needs of all of our members and help us continue to expand the impact and positive influence of NCAP in our state and across the nation. This is certainly an exciting time for NCAP as we develop a new strategic plan and tackle key issues like practice advancement, provider status, payment for services, and selection of an Executive Director. My previous experience within NCAP as well as other pharmacy organizations provides me with the necessary leadership experience, ingenuity in order to solve problems, and the ability to meet the needs of others in order to take our Association to greater heights. I sincerely appreciate the nomination – I would love the opportunity to continue to serve NCAP and work with you to promote the profession.
