Chris Urbanski, R.Ph., M.S. is currently Director, Pharmacy Informatics and Medication Integration at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his B.S. in pharmacy in 1982 and Masters in hospital pharmacy in 1986 from Butler University. He began his career at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis where he served as both staff pharmacist and pharmacy manager. Urbanski currently oversees pharmacy and medication automation system implementations and support for all Clarian facilities. He has served Clarian in an IT role for the past 14 years where he has been instrumental in developing, implementing, and maintaining various medication automation and information systems. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences where he teaches pharmacy informatics. Urbanski has served as Chair for the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology Section Advisory Group on Automation and Documentation for the past 2 years.

Kevin C. Marvin, RPh, MS, FASHP, FHIMSS has been involved in pharmacy information systems for 32 years and is currently a consultant with Joint Commission Resources. He has experience in all facets of medication information technology including retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, software development, product management, information systems administration, and consulting.

His health-system experience includes the following: University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics; Health Alliance of Cincinnati; Fletcher Allen Healthcare in Burlington, Vermont; NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland; and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Kevin has also worked as product director and development manager for three healthcare software companies. He has contributed chapters on safe use of technology and electronic prescribing for two books published by ASHP and a book published by APhA. Kevin received the Distinguished Service Award from the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology in 2008. He is currently a member of the ASHP Council on Public Policy.

Leslie R. Mackowiak, is the Director of Clinical Systems at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a leadership role in the use and direction of clinical information systems. She oversees physician order entry, nurse documentation, barcode medication administration, and integration with pharmacy systems. She previously practiced at Duke Medicine as the CPOE Director. Prior to the CPOE role, she was the Assistant Director of Pharmacy, responsible for both operations and information systems management. This included oversight of all pharmacy information systems, automation, pharmacy liaison to IT, web integration, outpatient, inventory and custom databases. Mackowiak earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois and a M.S. from UNC at Chapel Hill. She has lectured on many aspects of information systems. Mackowiak is a Past President of the North Carolina Society of Hospital Pharmacists, has served as ASHP delegate from North Carolina, and served on the Council on Professional Affairs.

Sylvia M. Thomley, PharmD, MS is Director, IT Clinical Informatics for Sanford Health, Sioux Falls SD. She oversees the integrated electronic health records in over 30 hospitals and long-term care facilities in a five state region, including the implementation and support of CPOE, electronic clinical documentation, barcode medication administration, the pharmacy information system, radiology information system, OR scheduling system, anesthesia documentation, and clinical decision support. She completed her Doctor of Pharmacy and MS in Pharmacy degrees at the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, and residency training in health-system pharmacy administration at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Previously she served as Manager, Medication Safety and Information Technology for UWHC.

Thomley has been involved in ASHP's Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology on the SAG for ambulatory care informatics and clinical information systems. She is also a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HiMSS) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). She recently completed the University of Illinois AMIA 10x10 informatics program.

Gwen Volpe, RPh, BS Pharm is a Pharmacist Consultant for Omnicell, Inc., in St. John, Indiana. She received her BS in pharmacy in 1991 from Butler University. Gwen has 20 years of experience in pharmacy and has held positions in hospital pharmacy including frontline pharmacy, management, project management, and consulting with an emphasis in automation implementation, workflow, and maintenance. Her last hospital-based position was with Loyola University Medical Center where she led the hospital’s implementation of ADCs throughout the hospital and managed the pharmacy implementation of two robotic devices.

At ASHP, Gwen is and has been an active member of the Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology and has served as Vice-Chair and now Chair of the Section Advisory Group on Pharmacy Operations Automation. She has lead the robotics group, contributed to ASHP’s Guidelines on the Safe Use of Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs), and assisted with planning of the SAG’s midyear networking sessions. She is currently pursuing a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt with plans to attain her LSS black belt.