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Upcoming Events

 

 

Keynote Speakers

Paul David Moore, D.Ph.

Dr. Moore brings a lifetime of experience related to rural healthcare from both his family heritage and thirty years in community and hospital pharmacy. He has been actively involved in rural community and hospital pharmacy for over 30 years. Until June 2002, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Atoka County Healthcare Authority, a non-profit Trust consisting of the Atoka Memorial Hospital, the Atoka County EMS, and the AMH Home Health Agency. He is familiar with the legislative, regulatory, and policy issues that impact the delivery of quality healthcare to rural folks.

Paul recognizes the vital relationship between community support for healthcare providers and the role the healthcare infrastructure plays in the economic development and stability of the rural community.

He now divides his time between his own rural community pharmacy, consulting and providing remote pharmacist services to small, rural hospitals. In addition, he is actively involved in addressing national policy issues regarding Medication Safety and Utilization in Small, Rural Hospitals along with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and the potential impact on rural access to pharmacy services.

Dr. Moore currently serves as President of the National Rural Health Association.

Frank B. Cerra, M.D.

Dr. Cerra, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Minnesota, leads one of the largest and most comprehensive academic health centers in the United States. The University of Minnesota Academic Health Center (AHC) includes the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary medicine, as well as interdisciplinary programs in bioethics, spirituality and healing, cancer, and genomics. The Academic Health Center prepares two-thirds of the state's health professionals, supports biomedical research and industry, and receives $234 million a year in government and private grant awards.

Since assuming leadership in 1996, Dr. Cerra has guided many changes to enable the AHC to respond more nimbly to the evolving health care marketplace, to advance science and technology, and to translate those advances into new treatments.

Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, Pharm.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Schondelmeyer is professor of Pharmaceutical Economics at the University of Minnesota and holds the Century Mortar Club Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Management & Economics. He also serves as Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Missouri; a Pharm.D. and clinical pharmacy residency from the University of Kentucky; and a Masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Administration from Ohio State University.

Dr. Schondelmeyer is Director of the PRIME Institute which focuses on economic and policy analysis related to the role of pharmaceuticals and pharmacists in society. He has conducted policy analysis in many areas related to third party payment for prescription drugs (including Medicaid, Medicare, managed care and other third party programs); drug benefit plan management; pricing patterns for pharmaceuticals; access and affordability of drug therapy; pharmacoeconomics; and outcomes management. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Congress, to many state legislatures, and to foreign governments. He has conducted research projects for a variety of sponsors such as: GAO, OTA, FTC, FDA, HCFA, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy associations, and numerous foreign governments.