School of Pharmacy Advisory Board

Chair 

Sarah Thompson, Pharm.D.

Head of Clinical Operations, Programs & Strategy/Chief Clinical Operations Officer, Onduo

UConn '06; Cornell University

 

Vice Chair

Mary Inguanti, MPH

Vice President, Becton Dickenson

UConn '84, '97

 

Active Advisory Board Members

Amy Antipas, MS, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Worldwide R & D and Medicine, Pfizer, Inc.

UConn. '89; University of Kansas

 

Kerry Blanchard, Ph.D.

Vice President, Safety Assessment and Laboratory Animal Resources, Merck

UConn '94

 

Matt Bogdanffy, Ph.D.

Vice President, Nonclinical Drug Safety US, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Northeastern University

 

Kevin W. Chamberlin, Pharm.D., FASCP

Associate Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer, UConn Health

UConn ’01, ’03

 

Margaret N. Essex, Pharm.D.

Sr. Medical Director Global Medical Affairs, Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, Pfizer, Inc.

UConn '81; Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Christopher Fortier, Pharm.D. FASHP

President, Nephron Pharmaceuticals

UConn '03

 

Marlon Fuller, Pharm.D.

Sr. Medical Science Liaison, Biogen

UConn ‘04

 

John Gadea, Jr., RPh.

Director (Retired)

UConn ‘79

 

Barbara L. Giacomelli, MBA/Pharm.D., FASHP

Executive Director, NJSHP

UConn '83; Widener University; University of Colorado

 

Paulette Grocki, Pharm.D., MBA,

Director of Pharmacy, Connecticut Children’s

UConn ’08

 

Gene Jay, BS

Director, Evernorth Business Development

UConn '87

 

Julian Koruni, Pharm.D.

Areah Healthcare Supervisor, Walgreens Boots Alliance

UConn’09

 

James LaFlamme, MS

CEO Emeritus, BioPharma Global a division of Pace Labs

UConn '79; Indiana Wesleyan University

 

Darren Luon, Pharm.D.

Medical Oncology Pharmacist and PGY-2-Oncoclogy Residency Program Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital

UConn '13

 

Alia Mahmood, Pharm.D., MBA

Associate Director of Global Medical Communications and Publications, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals

UConn ’14, ‘17

 

Marielle Nyser, MA

Senior Manager, Cigna

UConn ’92: Seton Hall University

 

Jason Poquette, BS, CSP

Director of Specialty and Outpatient Pharmacy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

UConn '93

 

Karen M. Steele, Pharm.D.

Vice President of Pharmacy Services, Nuvance Health

University of the Pacific

 

Greg Susla, Pharm.D.

Retired

UConn '80; University of Florida

 

Colleen Teevan, Pharm.D.

System Pharmacy Clinical Program Manager, Hartford Healthcare

UConn ‘10

 

Eric Tichy, Pharm.D., MBA

Vice Chair, Supply Chain Management – Formulary/Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic

UConn '01

 

Nathan Tinker, Ph.D.

CEO, Connecticut Pharmacists Association

Fordham University

 

Faculty Representatives

Lisa Holle, Pharm.D.

Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice, UConn School of Pharmacy

University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Dennis Wright, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, UConn School of Pharmacy

Ohio University

 

Pharm.D. Representative

Ashley Roding, B.S. (Pharm.D. ’25)

Professional Student Representative UConn School of Pharmacy

 

Graduate Student Representative

Hangyu (Bella) Wu, MS

Graduate Representative UConn School of Pharmacy

University of Southern California; UConn '26