Pictured from left to right: Anna Nowobilski-Vasilios; Richard Stambaugh; Top row: Jill Sellers, Secretary, Section of Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners; Roger Klotz; Marc Stranz; Tim Brown.
Chair (2009-2010)
Tim R. Brown, R.Ph., Pharm.D.
Tim R. Brown, R.Ph., Pharm.D. is employed by Akron General Medical Center’s Department of Pharmacy and serves as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist in the Family Medicine Residency Program. He received his doctorate from Campbell University School of Pharmacy with residency training at the Medical College of Virginia. His current practice is based within a residency program where he also acts as a preceptor for pharmacy and medical students. Brown received the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year Award multiple times from the Department of Family Medicine and was awarded the William C. Kelly Safety Leadership Award by the Ohio Hospital Association. He is on the boards of the Ohio Patient Safety Institute and Project Learn of Summit County. Brown is a Past President of the Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists and currently serves as a Director-at-Large in the Section for Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners.
Immediate Past Chair (2009-2010)
Marc Stranz, Pharm.D.
Marc Stranz, Pharm.D. is a health care consultant. After receiving his B.S. and Pharm.D. degrees from the Medical College of Virginia/VCU, he created a hospital based clinical pharmacy practice, a parenteral nutrition consulting service, and opened a home infusion company in West Texas. That led to local, regional, and national positions with home infusion providers InfusionCare, Curaflex, HNS, and NMC. With the sale of NMC, Stranz moved into local and regional positions with the longterm pharmacy provider NeighborCare and then became the corporate director of infusion for Omnicare. His most recent position was as Senior Vice President of Clinical & Strategic Operations for Coram, where he oversaw clinical, purchasing, inventory, and facility management. Stranz has been a JCAHO surveyor and clinical faculty member. He was a charter member of the Section, a Director-at- Large, ASHP council member, and a member of committees for NHIA, INS, and AVA.
Marc Stranz can be reached at sections@ashp.org.
Director-At-Large (2008-2010)
Richard L. Stambaugh, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS
Richard L. Stambaugh, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS serves as Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator at the Saint Cloud VA Medical Center and as Regional Education Coordinator for the University of Minnesota. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.S. and Pharm.D.), University of Iowa (M.S.), and Iowa City VA Medical Center residency. Stambaugh assists delivery of patient care in clinics and extended care beds. He facilitates the education of pharmacists, residents, and students. Stambaugh has held varied clinical and management positions. One of his most rewarding jobs to date was as a volunteer with VA mobile unit teams after Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, providing assessments, interim medications, and collaborative medication management. Stambaugh has served in a number of leadership roles at the ASHP state and local affiliate level, in addition to serving in the ASHP House of Delegates and the HACCP Section Committee on Nominations.
Director-At-Large (2009-2011)
Anna Nowobilski-Vasilios Pharm.D., MBA FASHP BCNSP
Anna Nowobilski-Vasilios Pharm.D., MBA, FASHP, BCNSP is Principal at Anovation, Inc., a firm specializing in the consultative support of the home infusion, specialty pharmacy, and other industries related to home care. Most recently, she served OptionCare for 14 years in roles of increasing responsibility, culminating as Senior Vice President of Care Management Services. Previously, Nowobilski-Vasilios held various management and clinical positions at home infusion companies, home health agencies, and hospitals. She received her B.S. (pharmacy) from the University of Illinois (1979), M.B.A. from the Keller Graduate School (1993), and Pharm.D. from Midwestern University (2000). She is board certified in nutrition support pharmacy, and a fellow of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. Nowobilski-Vasilios is an active member of ASHP, NHIA, A.S.P.E.N., INS, ACCP, ICHP, the Illinois Chapter of INS, and the Polish American Pharmacists’ Association. She has spoken and published on topics of home infusion therapy, specialty pharmacy, nutrition support, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Chair-Elect (2009-2010)
Roger S. Klotz, R.Ph., BCNSP, FASCP, FACA, FCPhA
Roger S. Klotz, is Regional Coordinator/ Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at Western University of Health Science College of Pharmacy. After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, Klotz started out as a pharmacist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago where he advanced to Director of Pharmacy Services and Director of Clinical Dietetics. He joined Home Health Care of America/Caremark in June of 1983 as Director of Clinical Pharmacy Development. In November of 1987, Klotz started Specialized Clinical Services, Inc., which provided products and services to home infusion providers. In 1998, he opened Care Partners Pharmacy, a community pharmacy practice that provided services including sterile and non-sterile compounding, DME services, immunization services, provision of “Waived” clinical laboratory tests, and patient therapy management. In June of 2006, Klotz sold Specialized Clinical Services and went into full-time consulting by creating Care Partners Consulting Pharmacists, LLC, which is focused on consulting patients, pharmacists/providers, and physicians.
Director-At-Large-Elect (2009-2010)
Seena L. Haines, Pharm.D., FAACP
Seena L. Haines, is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s (PBAU) School of Pharmacy. She completed an ambulatory care residency prior to PBAU. She has been awarded over $750,000 in grant funding for creation and replication of Integrated Pharmacotherapy Services™ providing primary care for the underserved. The IPS clinics have received DSME ADA recognition as a single- provider, multi-site program. She has served as Residency Director (PGY-1) since its inception and Administrator for Med Data prescription assistance program in Palm Beach County. Haines became Co-Director (2008) of the Diabetes Education and Research Center.
Haines is the 2009−2010 Chair and member of the ASHP Section Advisory Group on Reimbursement for Cognitive Services since its inception and was the inaugural AACP Self-Care SIG Chair. She received preceptor of distinction, Hero in Medicine Award finalist and was selected for the inaugural fellow of the AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program.
Past Executive Committees