The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center hosts an annual Pharmacy Innovation Career Summit to introduce students to innovative ways of practicing pharmacy and connect them with professionals in non-traditional career pathways.
Given the ever-changing health care landscape and job market, it is important to consider and be aware of new and innovative ways to practice in the field. The annual KPIC Pharmacy Innovation Career Summit is for students and young professionals interested in pursuing a non-traditional career pathway in pharmacy.
During this half-day event, participants have the opportunity to connect with pharmacists who share their unique story and ways they have utilized their pharmacy degree. Through this forum, participants gain exposure to new ideas and make connections for pursuing similar career opportunities in the future.
Registration has closed for the 2022 KPIC Pharmacy Innovation Career Summit. Details for the next event will be posted in the fall.
2022 Pharmacy Innovation Career Summit
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Virtual Event (Zoom)
9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST
Register by November 2.
2022 Pharmacy Innovation Career Summit
Cody Clifton is the director of Practice Transformation and Clinical Programs at CPESN Networks. He is passionate about leveraging the value of community-based pharmacies. In his role with CPESN® USA, he leads pharmacy practice transformation initiatives and national payer program implementation within Flip the Pharmacy and CPESN USA.
Donald Ellis retired as a managing director in investment banking. He practiced clinical pharmacy for 10 years at Kaiser Permanente and VAMC before completing an MBA and transitioning to a >25-year career on Wall Street. Donald worked at various New York and San Francisco based investment banks as a partner and managing director conducting investment research targeting biotechnology and pharma public and private companies.
Ranarda Jones is a true entrepreneur with having over eight established businesses under her belt. She is the founder and CEO of the pharmacy benefits management consulting company Pharmacy Synergistics (PSyn, Inc.) She has over two decades of pharmacy practice experience and is an expert in pharmacy benefit management services.
Brenden O'Hara works in Provider Engagement Pharmacy Initiatives for BlueCross/Blue Shield North Carolina. He works with Blue Cross NC in value-based relationships with major health systems and provider groups. He helps them achieve quality and cost of care improvements in their mutual patients. He has worked with PQA on AMM Technical Expert Panel, Measure Update Panel, and presented at their annual meeting in 2021 and 2022.
Chloe LeBegue-Polley is an investigational drug service pharmacist with an oncology focus at University of Virginia Health Systems. In this role, Chloe assists physician investigators in conducting Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 clinical trials of novel oncology agents. In pharmacy school, she was involved in live biotherapeutic research which yielded a US patent and was presented at an international pharmabiotic industry conference.
Liz Van Dyke is a senior drug information specialist in the Brandsymbol Regulatory Division. She joined SafeMark Regulatory Consulting (SafeMark) in 2016, where she evaluated proposed proprietary names for pharmaceutical products being considered for regulatory approval by global agencies. In September 2022, SafeMark merged with Brandsymbol to become their new regulatory division.
Amanda Isac serves as a pharmacist for the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch at the North Carolina Division of Public Health. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of South Carolina and completed a postgraduate community pharmacy residency with the University of Georgia and Barney's Pharmacy.
Nimit Jindal is the current American College of Clinical Pharmacy – American Society of Health System Pharmacy – Virginia Commonwealth University Congressional Health Care Policy Fellow. His current placement is with the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
Sam McCallum is an Associate Director of Clinical Safety at Genentech, Inc., where he leads and contributes to global pharmacovigilance, regulatory, and clinical development activities in the company's oncology portfolio. Sam is an alumnus of the South Carolina College of Pharmacy and also holds a Master of Health Information Technology degree from the University of South Carolina.
Mark Pilkington is Vice President of Managed Care for AmerisourceBergen, where he oversees AmerisourceBergen’s Pharmacy Benefit Administrator programs. Mark received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy and a Master of Science in Pharmacy Administration for the University of Illinois at Chicago, Graduate College.
Sally Rafie is a pharmacy specialist at UC San Diego Health, assistant clinical professor at UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and founder at Birth Control Pharmacist. She provides contraception care in her private practice, The Pharmacists Clinic, presently and has provided clinical services in a variety of other practice settings. The scope of her work ranges from advocacy to implementation to research and focuses on increasing access to reproductive health services and products, particularly in pharmacies and via pharmacists.
Helen Sairany is the CEO of the South Carolina Pharmacy Association and former Director of Content Development and Partnership at the American Pharmacist Association. She has 11 years of serving the profession as a Director of Content Development and Partnership at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Duhok College of Pharmacy, and as a trauma-informed provider serving the needs of underserved communities at the frontline in Northern Iraq.
If you are a non-traditional pharmacy professional interested in speaking at our next Career Summit, please contact Pamela Hite.