Mahaney Installed as ASHP President

Meyer Elected Chair of House

6/17/2009

Lynnae M. Mahaney, M.B.A., FASHP, was installed this week as president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) during the 61^st session of the Society’s House of Delegates in Rosemont, Ill.

Mahaney is chief of pharmacy services at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wis. Mahaney, a Fellow of ASHP, has served the Society as a member of the Board of Directors, chair of the Council on Legal and Public Affairs, Wisconsin delegate to the House of Delegates, and member of the ASHP Council on Organizational Affairs, Committee on Nominations, Task Force on Pharmacy’s Changing Demographics and Foundation Development Committee.

Gerald E. Meyer, MBA, Pharm.D, FASHP, was elected to a one-year term as chair of the ASHP House of Delegates. Meyer is director of Experiential Education at the Jefferson School of Pharmacy and the director of Resident Training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH). Meyer has represented Pennsylvania in the ASHP House of Delegates since 1998 and serves on the ASHP Council of Education and Workforce Development, the FASHP Practitioner Recognition Committee, and the ASHP Foundation Volunteer Leadership Group. He is a past president of both the Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Also taking office during the Society’s annual business meeting was Lisa M. Gersema, Pharm.D., BCPS, FASHP, who was installed for a three-year term on the ASHP Board of Directors. Past president Janet A. Silvester, M.B.A., FASHP was appointed to the Board of Directors for a one-year term. Silvester will be serving the first year of the three-year term to which Wayne S. Bohenek, Pharm.D., FASHP had been elected. Bohenek resigned from the Board of Directors so that he can devote his full attention to a serious medical issue in his family.