SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Roger Morris, RPh, JD

Roger, a Partner with Quarles and Brady, represents pharmacies and related health care entities in a wide variety of regulatory compliance and transactional matters. A practicing pharmacist before becoming a lawyer more than 30 years ago, Roger brings deep experience in the pharmacy industry to the work he does for retail pharmacies (including mail order), pharmacy wholesalers, compounding pharmacies, veterinary pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), pharmaceutical manufacturers and health care providers, including hospitals, health systems and medical staff. He also has experience in the highly innovative telemedicine and telepharmacy sectors, assisting clients with the unique state and federal regulatory compliance issues they face, as well as acquisitions and the creation of and construction of facilities. Knowing the pharmacy world as he does – its language, business models and practices, and industry actors – Roger is able to combine uncommon industry insight with deep knowledge of his client’s businesses to address their legal and business needs.

Thu Nguyen, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS

Thu received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University Of Arizona College Of Pharmacy. She also completed two years of residencies including Pharmacy Practice at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital and Geriatrics at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy-Glendale. Currently she is practicing as a clinical pharmacist at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona where she collaborates with other healthcare providers on an internal medicine team to provide optimal care to veterans.

Jacob D. Northrup, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDCES

Jacob is a rural Pennsylvania native and a 2015 graduate of D’Youville College School of Pharmacy in Buffalo, NY. He has been a Clinical Pharmacist with Sun Life Health in Pinal County, AZ since 2019 and has a passion for providing chronic disease state management and education for patients in underserved rural areas. He has also been a contract insulin pump trainer since 2021. Outside of work, you can find him doing various outdoor activities (cycling, mountain biking, hiking, traveling, or volunteering for the Arizona Trail Association as a trail steward). He looks forward to continuing to provide education to his pharmacy peers and patients in clinic throughout his career.

Farah Raheem, PharmD, BCOP

Farah is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and an oncology clinical pharmacist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with clinical practice emphasis on breast cancer and gynecological malignancies. Dr. Raheem obtained her PharmD degree from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in Tucson, Arizona in 2018. After graduation, Dr. Raheem completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio followed by PGY2 in oncology at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Raheem’s career interests include oral chemotherapy, clinical research, precision genomics, and teaching.