Overview
Engage in meaningful discussions, share insights, and collaborate on advocacy, education, and professional development opportunities.
Meet the Leaders Driving Our Community Forward
Get to know the leaders guiding our profession. Their leadership drives innovation, fosters collaboration, and makes a lasting impact on patient care and pharmacy practice.
Bio
With extensive experience in professional pharmacy associations, Anna Kowblansky has cultivated a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the pharmacy profession. Her previous leadership roles with APhA and state pharmacy associations have honed her ability to effectively guide teams, foster collaboration, and develop initiatives that advance the profession. These roles have also provided Anna with first-hand knowledge of the diverse needs of pharmacy professionals across various practice settings.
Additionally, Anna has contributed to leadership development efforts in numerous capacities, demonstrating a commitment to empowering others and building the next generation of pharmacy leaders. Her experience in leadership development reflects her ability to identify potential, provide mentorship, and inspire pharmacists to reach their full potential. This aligns seamlessly with the mission of the communities to provide opportunities for members to connect, share ideas, and grow together. Her ability to combine strategic vision with a passion for advancing the role of pharmacists ensures she will make a meaningful impact in supporting members and driving the pharmacy profession.
Anna Kowblansky
Bio
Being a community pharmacist is Valentino Caruso's, PharmD, life's work. A 2010 PharmD graduate of MCPHS-Worcester, he works in a busy CVS almost 80 hours a week. Along with his team, Valentino is fully committed to meeting patients where they are at and working to make a positive difference in their lives. He has given out thousands of business cards to patients, each with his cell phone number on it. If a patient has a problem he can fix, he wants to fix it.
Valentino spends every day trying to increase the positive impact he has in this world and pay back all he has received. As the recipient of so much charity, goodwill, guidance, and kindness throughout his life, he feels he cannot pay it all back in one lifetime. He carries his early lessons of what it means to be in a profession with him each day. He takes every opportunity to talk with or teach student pharmacists that being in the pharmacy profession is to be able to have a purpose driven life. Valentino believe pharmacy is a caring profession, and it is imperative that pharmacists make a difference in the lives of patients.
Valentino Caruso
PharmD
Bio
Jordan Scott, PharmD, is clinical pharmacy specialist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY. He earned his PharmD degree from D’Youville University in 2021. Jordan completed his PGY1 pharmacy residency training at Buffalo General Medical Center and PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy residency training at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer. His area of practice include lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and transplant/cellular therapies. He is involved in direct patient care, collaborative practice, precepting, teaching, as well as research.
Jordan has been involved in APhA since he was a student pharmacist, and continues to serve in a variety of roles, most recently as the chair of the APhA New Practitioner Advisory Committee. Jordan is an avid football fan, cheering on the home team in Buffalo. Go Bills!
Jordan Scott
PharmD
Bio
Lt. Col. Sherry Kwon, PharmD, MHA, FACHE, is a pharmacy officer assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence at Joint Base San Antonio, TX. She serves as the associate dean for academic delivery at the medical education and training campus, which produces more than 16,300 medical specialty technicians for the military health system annually. She is a PharmD graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, and received her master's of health care administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sherry's practice interests and specialties include leadership, management, health policy, and pharmacology for interprofessional disciplines. She currently serves as an APhA-APPM delegate, and is a member of the APhA House of Delegates Policy Review Committee and the APhA-APPM Awards Standing Committee.
Lt. Col. Sherry Kwon
PharmD, MHA, FACHE
Collaborate for Change: Join a Team
Teams are at the heart of our association's impact. By joining a team, you will collaborate with like-minded professionals, share insights, and work together on key initiatives that shape the future of our field.
The Community is led by a chair, chair-elect, and member-at-large (up to three) that serve to advance the work of the Community. Team members are appointed by the Community leadership.
Engagement and Communication Team