Faculty

Ralph Bouvette, George Cocolas, Dianne Donnan, Carl Hayes, Denise Kehoe, Rice Leach, William Lubawy, Patrick McNamara, Anne Policastri

Ralph Bouvette, RPh, PhD, JD

Executive Vice President
APSC
Frankfort, Kentucky

Dr. Bouvette earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1981 and Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1986. Upon receiving his graduate degree, he taught at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He then returned to the University of Kentucky College of Law, earning a Juris Doctor in 1991.



Dr. Bouvette currently serves as the executive vice president of APSC. Prior to accepting this position, he served as the executive director for the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy. He has been affiliated with several private law firms, concentrating his legal practice in the areas of professional malpractice and administrative law. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He currently volunteers as a clerkship instructor for the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy community clerkship program.


Dr. Bouvette believes pharmacy is well positioned to take advantage of current and emerging opportunities for pharmacists in the health care delivery system. With each passing year, ever increasing numbers of more sophisticated medicines are coming to the marketplace allowing more patients to live longer and healthier lifestyles. This convergence of sophistication and longevity has created unique opportunities for pharmacists to become more involved in their patients' care though enhanced communications and disease state education and monitoring. He believes no better practice site exists for pharmacists to meet these challenges than in the independent pharmacy.

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George Cocolas, PhD

Bio information not available at this time.

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Dianne Donnan, BScPharm

Director of Pharmacy
Lamont Health Care Centre
Lamont, Alberta, Canada

Donnan, Director of Pharmacy for Lamont Health Care Centre in
Alberta Canada, is the President of the NAPRA and the immediate
past president of the Alberta College of Pharmacists.

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Carl Hayes, BPharm

Bio information not available at this time.

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Denise Kehoe, PharmD

Vice President, Business Development
PharmMD
Brentwood, Tennessee

Denise joined the medication therapy management (MTM) company PharmMD as Vice President of Business Development. In this role, she manages and oversees the expansion of the company's growing base of clients across
the country.

She has more than 15 years of clinical pharmacy, research and operations
experience. She recently served as national strategic executive of managed
care sales and contracting for Walgreens after holding positions with the company as a multi-site pharmacy manager,
faculty practitioner, regional clinical manager and regional vice president. Prior to more than a decade with Walgreens, she was a relief pharmacist at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, NM, and a research assistant for the Los Alamos National Laboratories Human Genome Project conducted at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque.

She participated on an American Pharmacists Association (APhA) strategic planning committee and is currently serving a two-year term as chair of specialized pharmacy for the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice Management. She received APhA fellowship honors in 2007. Kehoe is also currently serving on the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Community Pharmacy Outreach Task Force.

She is involved with the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) and spoke and moderated at the 2007 Medication Therapy Management Services in Community
Pharmacy conference, which was jointly hosted by the NACDS and APhA. Kehoe also served as the president of the New Mexico Pharmacists Association where
she was instrumental in implementing policies expanding the clinical practice role of pharmacists. Kehoe actively
participates with collaborative healthcare initiatives promoting pharmacists as the medication experts.
Kehoe earned her Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in Albuquerque.

She later served as a member of the dean's executive advisory board for the University of New Mexico College of
Pharmacy.

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Rice Leach, MD

Past Commissioner of Public Health
Frankfort, Kentucky

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William Lubawy, PhD

Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Kentucky
College of Pharmacy

Scholarly/Research interests include
Improvement and Characterization of Interdisciplinary Education for Health Professionals and Operation and Financing of Non-Traditional Education Models of Active Student-Centered Learning.

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Patrick McNamara, PhD, FAAPS, FAAAS

Interim Dean
Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Kentucky
College of Pharmacy
Lexington, Kentucky

Patrick J. McNamara received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979.

He joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 1980 as an assistant professor. Prior to his appointment as chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences in January 2003, he served as division director for the Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Analysis and for the Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, as well as associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies. He currentlly serves as Interim Dean.

Dr. McNamara has a joint appointment in the Graduate Center for Toxicology and is a member of the Markey Cancer Center. He is a Fellow in American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals. Dr. McNamara has served a consultant to a number of pharma-ceutical companies.

Dr. McNamara's scholarly interests are in the area of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, with a particular emphasis on drug transport. Transport proteins play a pivotal role in facilitating movement of drugs across biological membranes. As such, these proteins can dominate the tissue-specific distribution of drugs, altering their cellular pharmaco-kinetics and pharmacodynamics. Trans-porters also may govern the systemic clearance and bioavailability, and thereby, control drug efficacy and toxicity. Dr. McNamara's most recent work has focused on the mechanisms of drug transfer into milk, including transporter gene expression at the blood mammary epithelial barrier. Ongoing research also examines influence of transporters expressed at the blood brain barrier on the penetration of drugs into the CNS. Other projects include modeling the pharmacodynamic of bacterial resistance mechanisms (i.e., up-regulation of efflux transporters and mutations of QRDRs) upon exposure to fluroquinolones. Dr. McNamara's research program utilizes contemporary technology, including cell culture, molecular biology, whole-animal and clinical studies, microdialysis, high-performance liquid chromatography, computer model fitting and simulations.

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Anne Policastri, Pharm D, MBA, FKSHP

Assistant Director Experiential Education
University of Kentucky
College of Pharmacy

Education
MBA, Murray State University
PharmD, University of Kentucky
Pre-Pharmacy (Biology/Chemistry), Western Kentucky University

Licensure
Pharmacist, Commonwealth of Kentucky

Scholarly/Research Interests
Experiential education of pharmacy students
Application of the principles of pharmacoeconomics in hospitals and health-systems

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