speaker biographiesSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Caroline is a Northern Virginia native who received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi in 2022. She is a current PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Resident at Sun Life Health in Pinal County, AZ. Post-residency, she hopes to continue working with underserved populations through ambulatory care pharmacy practice. In her free time, she enjoys trying new recipes, exploring the outdoors, and frequenting coffee shops.

Kathleen is a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy resident at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT). She graduated from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency at BUMCT. Her current practice interests include Critical Care and Emergency Medicine.

After completion of her pharmacy practice residency Janelle was employed at Scottsdale Healthcare, now HonorHealth, from 2000 to early 2014. During her 14 years at Scottsdale Healthcare Janelle’s role evolved from staff pharmacist to clinical pharmacist and lastly to clinical coordinator. In March 2014, Janelle embraced the opportunity to serve Dignity Health as the system pharmacy administrator for a 38 hospital system. As pharmacy administrator Janelle facilitated evidence based medication utilization with decreased practice variation through support of the development of a System Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and development of integration of system medication management decisions within the Dignity Health electronic healthcare record (EHR). Through this effort system policy work related to antimicrobial stewardship, system formulary, quality and nursing workflow were achieved. With the merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health into CommonSpirit Health, a 140+ hospital system in 2019, Janelle’s role evolved to her current title, system manager of clinical pharmacy services. At CommonSpirit Health Janelle facilitates multiple system teams to support the development of system guidelines and provide system-level oversight of the formulary program at CommonSpirit Health.

Chris is a clinical assistant professor with the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy and an emergency medicine pharmacist at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson (BUMCT). Before joining the UA as a faculty member, Dr. Edwards worked in as an emergency medicine pharmacist and as the senior manager of clinical pharmacy services at BUMCT. His research interests include analgesia, sedation, resuscitation, and the pharmacist’s role in emergency medicine.