COF Pharmacy Category Day

June 23, 2021

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST

Agenda

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM Opening Remarks – RADM Ty Bingham, Chief Professional Officer1:15 PM – 1:30 PM The Regulatory Transformation of Human Drug Compounding – CDR Nguyen1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Utilization of Covid-19 Therapeutics and Targeted Distribution to Promote Health Equity – CDRs Beyer

and Davids1:45 PM – 2:00 PM The Role of Pharmacy and HHS-led Partnerships in Ending the HIV Epidemic – LCDR Gazarian2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Expanding Pharmacist’s Role during Public Health Emergencies – CDR McDermott, LCDR Das2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Session One – Q & A2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PharmPAC Awards2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Radical Self-Care for Pharmacists – CAPT Huentelman3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Impact of Penicillin Allergy Skin Testing at a Rural Native American Hospital – LT Jaeger3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Assuring Access to Safe Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding – LCDR Thor3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Opioid Epidemic in the United States Harm Reduction Strategies and the Role of Naloxone – LCDR Yeo3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Session Two – Q & A4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Pharmacy Admirals Panel5:00 PM Closing Remarks

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Rear Admiral Ty Bingham, PharmDAssistant Surgeon General Chief Pharmacy Officer

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

RADM Ty Bingham has served in multiple leadership positions throughout his career. His passion and

commitment throughout has always been the advancement of clinical pharmacy through utilization of pharmacists as providers to improve patient outcomes.

RADM Bingham currently serves as USPHS Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Professional Officer for the Pharmacist Category. Additionally, he is Chief of Clinical Pharmacy Programs for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). He was commissioned into the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in 1989, serving as a staff pharmacist with the Indian Health Service in Sells, AZ. He then responded to an acute need and transferred as a Chief Pharmacist with the BOP Federal Correctional Institution Safford, AZ. His extensive BOP career has included serving as Regional Chief Pharmacist of the BOP’s Western Region, national HIV Clinical Pharmacist Consultant, Institution Chief Pharmacist, and Performance Improvement Coordinator.

Under RADM Bingham’s leadership, BOP clinical pharmacy programs have flourished with nearly 70% of BOP pharmacists conducting comprehensive chronic care clinics with prescribing rights. He oversees five BOP Clinical Pharmacist Consultant Programs with over 50 specialized pharmacists assisting providers in caring for patients with HIV, Hepatitis, Opioid Use Disorder, mental illness, as well as antimicrobial stewardship.

RADM Bingham chairs the multidisciplinary BOP Health Services Division Governing Board Clinical Care Subcommittee, responsible for researching and proposing new and innovative improvements to BOP clinical care. He also oversees maintenance of the extensive BOP Clinical Guidance program.

Most recently, RADM Bingham was the recipient of the 2020 Next Generation Pharmacist-Lifetime Leadership of the Year Honoree, Allen J. Brands PHS Clinical Pharmacist of the Year Award in 2015, George F. Archambault PHS Career Achievement Award in Pharmacy and USPHS Meritorious Service Medal in 2018.

Commander Binh Nguyen, PharmD, MS, BCSCPU.S. Food and Drug Administration

CDR Binh Nguyen graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy in May 2002

with Pharm.D. and M.S. in Regulatory Science and has been working for FDA in various positions since. From 2002-2014, he worked as a drug specialist. He was certified as a Level III drug investigator and a Level II Drug Auditor in2009 with over 10,000 hours of inspectional experience including sterile compounding inspections. From 2014 to2016, he held a drug supervisory position overseeing a group of 15 drug specialists. In Oct 2016 to 2019, he reportedto CDER Office of Surveillance as a Senior Consumer Safety Officer reviewing inspectional reports, writing dossiers,leading the Positron Emission Tomography Inspection Protocol work group. He joined the Office of Training Educationand Development (OTED), from 2019-present, as an educator carrying out pharmaceutical and import trainingcourses. He is Board Certified in Sterile Compounding Pharmacy since 2020 and currently serves as a council memberon the Board of Pharmacy Sterile Compounding Specialty Program. He has been a member of the Center ofExcellence for Compounding of CDER providing technical advice to develop training courses for pharmacycompounding industry since 2018-present. He has been on the sterile compounding committee to coordinate andfacilitate sterile compounding pharmacy conferences from 2020 - present. On a per diem basis, he has also beenworking as a clinical and sterile compounding pharmacist at Fountain Valley Hospital since 2002 – present.

Commander Alexis Beyer, PharmD, MPH, CPHOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

CDR Alexis Beyer serves as a Regional Medical Countermeasure Advisor (RMCA) for the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Region VII. In this role she assists state and local health departments with emergency preparedness, specifically medical countermeasure (MCM) planning, operations, and response activities. She has been working the COVID-19 response since February 2020 in several capacities, most recently serving a six-month detail with the CDC Vaccine Task Force.

Prior to her role in ASPR, CDR Beyer served as a Regional Medical Countermeasure Specialist with CDC covering states throughout four regions, as well as serving 3 years embedded in the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Preparedness and Emergency Response as a MCM SME.

Prior to her MCM work, CDR Beyer served as a Global Health Officer with the Health Recourses and Services Administration, and started her career in the Indian Health Service in Anchorage, AK and Cherokee, NC

Commander Kimberly Davids, PharmD, MPH, CPHOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Health

CDR Kimberly Davids serves as a Senior Public Health Advisor to the Regional Health Administrator for the

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) in Region VII. In this role, she leads regional efforts around current public health issues and assists in developing policies and programs for 14.1 million people in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas.

CDR Davids began her career in working with Alaska Native and American Indians as an outpatient clinicalpharmacist. After receiving her MPH, CDR Davids transferred from Indian Health Service to Health Resources andServices Administration (HRSA) as the State Lead for Kansas and Nebraska National Health Service Corps, aprogram that provides support for the recruitment and retention of primary care providers in Health ProfessionalShortage Areas. Prior to joining OASH, CDR Davids was a Regional Medical Countermeasure Advisor for the Officeof the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) providing technical assistance, leadership, andguidance to state and local health departments in Region VII on the development and implementation of medicalcountermeasure (MCM) programs.

Lieutenant Commander Neelam “Nelly” Gazarian, PharmD, MS, AAHIVPOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Health

LCDR Nelly Gazarian serves as the Prevention through Active Community Engagement (PACE) Deputy Director

for Region IV (FL, GA, AL, MS, TN, KY, NC & SC) in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH). She is an

active duty officer with the US Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, a passionate health service provider

and educator who spearheaded development of programs aimed at establishing public health strategies to mitigate the

crisis of hepatitis C and HIV epidemics within the rural and tribal communities across the United States.

LCDR Gazarian, a pharmacist, served in an isolated hardship site with the Indian Health Service (IHS) in North Dakota.

There she witnessed firsthand the burden of hepatitis C and HIV plaguing the local community. She was instrumental in

establishing the first hepatitis C program in the Great Plains area of the IHS. She also pioneered the NICE Project

(Northern tier Initiative for hep C Elimination), which was designed to provide comprehensive and patient-centered

support tools for facilities nationwide aiming to start hepatitis elimination clinics from scratch, and launched the first

and only federal syringe service program within the IHS. LCDR Gazarian is a recipient of several PHS awards including,

IHS Directors Award and HHS Gears of Government Awards.

Commander Kevin McDermott, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, NCPSIndian Health Service

CDR Kevin McDermott received his B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2000 and

his PharmD from the University of Washington in 2007. He completed an ASHP PGY1 residency in 2008 with the Northern Navajo Medical Center. He now serves as the PGY2 Residency Program Director and Ambulatory Care Clinic lead at Northern Navajo Medical Center.

CDR McDermott created a national physical assessment training program for federal pharmacists and has diagnostic privileging at his facility. He works in multiple clinic settings including seizure clinic, family medicine walk-in, and chronic disease management.

Lieutenant Commander Nevedita Das, PharmD, MSIndian Health Service

LCDR Nevedita Das received her M.S. in Neurobiology from the University of Illinois in 1997 and her PharmD

in 2006 from Midwestern University in Chicago. LCDR Das joined the Indian Health Service in 2015 and commissioned in 2017. She currently serves as the Chief of Pharmacist at the Chinle Service Unit in Arizona and leads the Mass Vaccination Task Force there. Prior to joining the Commissioned Corps, LCDR Das worked in the Diagnostic Division of Abbot Pharmaceuticals and as a retail pharmacist.

Captain Heather Huentelman, PharmD, BCPSIndian Health Service

CAPT Heather Huentelman has worked at Phoenix Indian Medical Center in HIV care for almost 17

years. Her interest in self-care was necessary to deal with the secondary trauma, compassion fatigue and burn out that is common in HIV specialty providers. Her self-care practices have changed throughout the years and she will share her next-level practices with you that have helped her to manage the additional stress of the COVID19 pandemic.

Lieutenant Frederick Jaeger, PharmDIndian Health Service

LT Frederick Jaeger completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Whiteriver Service Unit serving the

White Mountain Apache Tribe. Upon completion of his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Whiteriver Indian hospital in 2019, LT Jaeger continued to work at Whiteriver Indian Hospital as a clinical pharmacist where he implemented the first pharmacy-led Penicillin Allergy Skin Testing Clinic throughout the Indian Health Service. LT Frederick Jaeger has trained multiple nurses, technicians, and pharmacists on the compounding, administration, and evaluation of penicillin allergies and penicillin allergy skin testing. Testing has improved management of multiple infectious diseases including H. pylori, pneumonia, and more.

Lieutenant Commander Shannon Thor, PharmD, MSU.S. Food and Drug Administration

LCDR Shannon Thor serves as an International Policy Analyst in FDA's Europe Office, where she provides

leadership and guidance on matters of international public health and US-European Union relations. LCDR Thor joined FDA in 2014, serving in Office of Health and Constituent Affairs as a liaison between FDA and external stakeholders in the patient and healthcare provider communities, facilitating engagement on clinical trials, policy, and regulatory affairs. In 2018, she moved to the Office of New Drugs, where she provided policy analysis and advice on drug products and programs. Prior to FDA, LCDR Thor served as an officer in the US Navy, where she supervised pharmacy operations and directed medication safety programs at military medical facilities around the world.

LCDR Thor earned her Master of Science degree in Pharmacy Policy and Regulation from the University of Florida, her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lieutenant Commander Yvon Yeo, PharmD, MPHU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

LCDR Yvon Yeo began her career in the U.S. Public Health Service in 2013. She started as the chief

pharmacist in a medium-security prison in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Later, she transferred to a high-

security prison and served as a clinical pharmacist, managing the anticoagulation clinic. In 2018, she transferred

to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Health Service Corps (IHSC) and served as the

communications specialist in the IHSC Communications Unit. The unit supports senior leadership, 30 units,

offices, and programs, and 20 facilities, totaling 1,700 staff nationwide through publication of various agency

newsletters and magazines, holding town halls, disseminating broadcast messages, reviewing and editing

presentations such as those for oral or poster presentations at national conferences, writing resource guides,

and providing training.

LCDR Yeo graduated with the Master of Public Health degree from the University of Florida last year. Her

capstone project was on the opioid epidemic and harm reduction strategies. Recently, she completed the 4-

month University of New Mexico’s Opioid Rapid Response Pain Management and Opioid Overdose Prevention

Project ECHO course and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT)

waiver training.

Pharmacy Flag Officers

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Rear Admiral Richardae Araojo, PharmD, MSAssociate Commissioner for Minority HealthDirector, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

RADM Richardae Araojo serves as the Associate Commissioner for Minority Health and Director of the Office

of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this role, RADM Araojo provides leadership, oversight, and direction on minority health and health disparity matters for the Agency. The Office of Minority Health and Health Equity aims to promote and protect the health of diverse populations through research and communication of regulatory science that addresses health disparities.

RADM Araojo previously served as the Director of the Office of Medical Policy Initiatives (OMPI) in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), where she managed the OMPI immediate office and three divisions. She led a variety of broad-based medical and clinical policy initiatives to improve the science and efficiency of clinical trials and enhance professional and patient labeling. RADM Araojo worked collaboratively with other FDA disciplines, program areas, and FDA centers to foster an interdisciplinary approach to policy development and to enhance the integration of the continuingly evolving science and policy into FDA’s drug development and regulatory review processes. She provided oversight and direction for cross-cutting center and Agency working groups, as well as collaborations with external constituents, to advance medical policy development.

RADM Araojo joined FDA in 2003, where she held a number of positions in CDER’s Office of New Drugs, first serving in the Division of Psychiatry Drug Products (formerly the Division of Neuropharmacological Drug Products) and then with the Pediatric and Maternal Health Staff (currently the Division of Pediatric and Maternal Health). She then transitioned to the Office of Medical Policy in 2010, where she served as Acting Director of the Division of Medical Policy Programs, Deputy Director of OMPI, and finally Director of OMPI.

RADM Araojo received her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with Emphasis in Community Ambulatory Care at the University of Maryland, and later earned a Master’s degree in Pharmacy Regulation and Policy from the University of Florida.

Rear Admiral Chris A. Bina, PharmDU.S Assistant Surgeon GeneralSenior Deputy Assistant Director Health Services Division

Federal Bureau of Prisons

RADM Chris Bina was selected for promotion to the rank of RADM (Lower Half (O-7)), U.S. Assistant Surgeon

General, in August 2012, and subsequently to RADM (Upper Half (O-8)) in October 2016 by the U.S. Surgeon General and U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health. RADM Bina serves as the Senior Deputy Assistant Director within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Health Services Division. RADM Bina supports the Assistant Director with operational oversight for the Bureau of Prisons’ delivery of Health Services; Food Services; Safety and Environmental Health; and Employee and Occupational Health. Collectively, these services consist of approximately 6,000 positions nation-wide with an annual expenditure of approximately $1.2 billion. These services are provided within 122 correctional institutions. RADM Bina previously served as the BOP – Director, Pharmacy Programs.

RADM Bina’s activities transcend multiple areas within the Agency and HHS. He is involved in a broad range of administrative and clinical aspects of the BOP healthcare system, has served on numerous workgroups within multiple federal Agencies and Departments, and has deployed to address urgent public health needs. He has served as a member of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP), National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) Federal Interagency Working Group; Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) designated Federal Lead for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy; DHHS Federal Interagency Steering Committee for Adverse Drug Events; and, Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety Board. In 2013, RADM Bina served as Officer in Charge for a high profile, US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps deployment mission to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

Commissioned in 1991, RADM Bina has served in numerous roles within the BOP. He began his U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps career in the Jr. and Sr. Commissioned Officer Student Training and Externship Programs (COSTEP). His duty stations include the Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan, Oregon, and the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri on two separate occasions. RADM Bina arrived as the BOP, Director, Pharmacy Programs, Washington, DC in October of 2000. He has been a passionate supporter of team medicine and a staunch advocate of advanced clinical pharmacy services. He was selected as the Senior Deputy Assistant Director in September of 2015.

RADM Bina has been the recipient of numerous awards to include over twenty USPHS ribbons/medals and two Exceptional Capability/Proficiency Promotions to Commander and Captain. He has been awarded the USPHS Pharmacy Mary Louise Anderson Leadership Award, George F. Archambault USPHS Career Achievement Award in Pharmacy, and RADM John Babb Pharmacist Responder of the Year Award. Among his many presentations and publications is a chapter within the American Pharmacists Association textbook entitled, The Pharmacist in Public Health: Education, Applications, and Opportunities. RADM Bina was a contributor to the 2011 Report to the US Surgeon General, Supporting Healthcare Reform: Improved Patient Outcomes through Advanced Pharmacy Practice, and has provided several keynote presentations as a direct result of this report. RADM Bina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy from Kansas University and was conferred the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Ohio Northern University, Raabe College of Pharmacy.

Rear Admiral Gregory Dill, PharmD, MPHDeputy Director for Innovation and Financial Management

Office of Program Operations and Local Engagement

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

RADM Gregory Dill is an active duty Commissioned Corps officer assigned to CMS and the Deputy Director for the

Office of Program Operations and Local Engagement Innovation and Financial Management (OPOLE/IFM). He leads the administration of the Medicare fee-for-service program at the regional level to protect over 57 million beneficiaries, support over 1.6 million health care providers, physicians and practitioners through oversight of Medicare Administrative Contractors, Accountable Care Organizations and CMS’ innovation models, and ensure the Medicare program’s fiscal integrity.

Prior to this RADM Dill served as the Deputy Consortium Administrator for CMS regional Medicare fee-for-service operations, and as the San Francisco Regional Administrator with responsibility for representing CMS in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories. His 15-year career with CMS also includes positions as the Associate Regional Administrator for Medicare fee-for-service operations in CMS Chicago, and the policy pharmacist with the Center for Medicare. Prior to joining CMS, RADM Dill worked at the Department of Defense, Food and Drug Administration and in the private sector. He transferred his commission from the US Army to the US Public Health Service in 2003, and has served HHS in various public health roles and deployments.

RADM Dill holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Public Health degree from the California College for Health Sciences.

Rear Admiral Krista M. Pedley, PharmD, MSU.S. Assistant Surgeon General

Director, Office of Pharmacy Affairs

Health Resources and Services Administration

RADM Krista M. Pedley is the Director of the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) in the Health Resources and

Services Administration (HRSA). Her office administers the 340B Drug Pricing Program, where over 700 drug manufacturers provide discounted outpatient drugs to over 50,000 hospitals and clinics, and more than 24,500 pharmacies that purchase over $38 billion in 340B drugs annually. The 340B Program spans HHS and focuses on drug pricing transparency and reducing the cost of medications for the country’s most vulnerable safety-net patient populations.

RADM Pedley began her career as a pharmacist with the United States Public Health Service in May 2000. She was assigned to the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Generic Drugs, as a Project Manager for Bioequivalence and then as Medical Affairs Coordinator reviewing topical drug protocol design. After five years, RADM Pedley transferred to HRSA and then the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, where she served as Senior Public Health Analyst for the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program (NBHPP). In 2007, RADM Pedley began working with OPA, where she led a national collaborative that focused on integrating clinical pharmacy services into primary care to improve the health of patients with multiple chronic conditions. She then became the Director of OPA in July 2010 and was promoted to Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in February 2020.

RADM Pedley received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and her Master of Science in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, with a Concentration in Crisis, Emergency and Risk Management, from The George Washington University in 2008. She is also a 2011 graduate of the Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI) Scholar Program.

RADM Pedley has participated in numerous deployments, including Hurricane Katrina, the Presidential Inauguration in 2005, and Hurricanes Frances, Ivan and Isabel. RADM Pedley was also a Contributor on the Report to the Surgeon General on Clinical Pharmacy and Co-Author on PHS Pharmacy Prevention Strategy.

RADM Pedley is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Exceptional Promotion to Captain in 2015, the Meritorious Service Medal in 2018, the PHS Commendation Medal in 2012, 2009, 2005, and the APhA Foundation Pinnacle Award in 2016 and 2011.

Rear Admiral Brandon L. Taylor, PharmD, BCPSAssistant Surgeon General

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

RADM Brandon Taylor is currently deployed to the Indian Health Service (IHS) Navajo Area assisting in several

executive priorities. For nearly three years RADM Taylor served as the IHS Chief of Staff, where he oversaw key agencyactivity coordination and supported the Office of the Director in a broad range of duties related to the developmentand implementation of IHS initiatives and priorities. RADM Taylor has worked throughout his career to improve accessto care in underserved communities throughout the world.

RADM Taylor began his Commissioned Corps career as a pharmacy student, completing three JRCOSTEP tours with theFederal Bureau of Prisons. RADM Taylor received a Doctor of Pharmacy from the Campbell University School ofPharmacy and began his IHS career at W. W. Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah, OK as a pharmacy practiceresident. Dr. Taylor is board certified in Pharmacotherapy.

Throughout his career RADM Taylor has served in other positions of leadership: Director of Pharmacy at theCherokee Nation Hastings Hospital, the IHS Southeast Region Corps Liaison, team commander for Rapid DeploymentForce 4 (RDF-4), senior advisor to the American Indian/Alaska Native Commissioned Officer Advisory Committee(AIANCOAC), and senior advisor for the Minority Officers Liaison Council (MOLC), is finishing this term this week asthe Chair of the COA Board of Directors, and is currently the Chair for the Assistant Surgeons General LeadershipCouncil.

RADM Taylor is the recipient of several honors and awards including the 2017 VADM Richard H. Carmona InspirationAward, USPHS Distinguished Service Medal, 2019 RADM George Blue Spruce Jr. Flag Officer Award, IHS NationalDirector’s Award, Surgeon General Exemplary Service Medal, Cherokee Nation Medal of Patriotism, and IHSOklahoma City Area Senior and Junior Pharmacist of the Year Awards.

Rear Admiral Travis Watts, PharmD, BCPSDirector, Oklahoma City Area

Indian Health Service

RADM Travis Watts, a member of the Choctaw Nation, is the Director of the Oklahoma City Area Indian Health

Service. The IHS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is the principal federal health care advocate and provider of health care services for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

As the Oklahoma City Area Director, RADM Watts is responsible for the provision of comprehensive healthcare services to one of the largest and most diverse service populations in IHS. The Oklahoma City Area serves over 350,000 patients annually and is home to 43 Tribal Nations in the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. The Oklahoma City Area Indian health system provides direct, preventive, and contract health care services through a successful collaboration of tribal, urban, and federally operated facilities.

RADM Watts previously served as Acting Director of Field Operations for the Oklahoma City Area, where he oversaw the Area’s 11 federally managed facilities and provided management oversight and expertise in formulating policies, goals, and strategies related to Federal program operations and resource allocation.

RADM Watts began his IHS career as a Commissioned Corps Officer in 1989 as a Junior Commissioned Officer Student Training Extern at the Clinton Indian Hospital. He holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and a doctorate in clinical pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma. He completed an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists residency in primary care through the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Watts is certified in pharmacotherapy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties and has practiced as a national clinical pharmacy specialist.

During his career, RADM Watts has served as the branch President for the Northeast Oklahoma Branch of the Commissioned Officer Association, Chairman and Coordinator of the Area Commissioned Officer Awards Committee, Co-Chairman of the Oklahoma City Area Institutional Review Board and as a member of the National Pharmacy Council. Watts has been the recipient of numerous awards including the USPHS Outstanding Service Medal, the USPHS Allen J. Brands - Clinical Pharmacist of the Year Award, multiple IHS Director’s Awards, the OKC John J. Farris Award and the Indian Health Service Senior Pharmacist of the Year and the Oklahoma City Area Junior Pharmacist of the Year awards.

RADM Watts has more than 25 years of experience in clinical pharmacy, hospital and clinic operations, commissioned corps personnel services, and health care administration. He has been married to his wife Sheila for 30 years and together they have two children.

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