Trustees of the SPPCP Foundation

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Chris Herndon, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, FCCP is a Professor with the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) School of Pharmacy. Currently, Dr. Herndon sees chronic pain and opioid use disorder patients within a family medicine residency clinic. Dr. Herndon’s scholarship interest focuses primarily on pain and palliative care education and he is the Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Pain Education at SIUE. Dr. Herndon is the 2019 president for the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists. He is the 2006 recipient of the “Pain Champion Award” from the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives, the 2012 recipient of the “Academic Pain Educator of the Year Award” from the American Society of Pain Educators, the 2016 “Pharmacist of the Year” from the Illinois Pharmacist’s Association, and the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the American Pain Society.  Dr. Herndon is currently the President of the SPPCP Foundation

Anne L. Burns, BSPharm, RPh, is President, Pharmacy Horizons, LLC. For 25 years prior she worked at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), most recently serving as Vice President, Professional Affairs. In this capacity, she was responsible for the Association’s strategic initiatives focused on advancing pharmacists’ patient care service delivery in team-based care delivery models, as well as payment for pharmacists’ services, collaboration with other health care professionals, and health care quality. She led the Association’s practice initiatives on pain management and the opioid epidemic, and also has expertise in medication management, Health IT, medication safety, and credentialing and privileging programs. She has served on many medication management, quality, and prescription drug misuse advisory councils. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board for the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit; the National Academies of Medicine Action Collaborative on Combatting the U.S. Opioid Epidemic Systems Education, Practice, & Health Systems Working Group; the Board of Trustees for the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists Foundation; the American Society of Anesthesiologists Acute Pain Task Force, and is Chair of the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative Workgroup on Professional Service Claims and Codes. She also serves as a caregiver representative on the NIH HEAL MIRHIQL Partner Consultation Board. She previously served on the CDC Opioid Guidelines Workgroup, and the Board of Directors for the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Council on Credentialing in Pharmacy. Prior to APhA, she served on the faculty at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Pharmacy and worked in community pharmacy practice. She received her BS in pharmacy from OSU and completed the Wharton Executive Management Program for Pharmacy Leaders. In addition to her professional responsibilities, she has served as a caregiver for a family member with chronic pain for the past 18 years.

Naomi N. Bailey, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist practitioner at the Boise VA Medical Center. Dr. Bailey is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy and completed residency training in pain management and palliative care at the St. Louis VA Health Care System. At the Boise VA, Dr. Bailey works within the specialty pain care clinic where she optimizes pharmacotherapy, implements appropriate monitoring strategies of high-risk medications, and works closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care for patients. Dr. Bailey also serves as a preceptor in the Pharmacy Residency programs at the Boise VA and for Idaho State University pharmacy students. She is also a coordinator and co-preceptor of pain management electives for the Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner Residency and the Internal Medicine Residency programs. She has previously served as chair of SPPCPs Foundation Award Selection Committee. Through her commitment to patient care, education, and organizational involvement, Dr. Bailey strives to be a steadfast advocate for patients while advancing the field of clinical pharmacy in chronic pain management.

Dr. Uritsky is the Opioid Stewardship Coordinator at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). She completed post-graduate training in pain management and palliative care and was a founding member of the HUP Palliative Care Service. She is Co-Chair of Penn Medicine’s Opioid Task Force and Past-President of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists. Dr. Uritsky also consults with care teams on patients with complex pain and speaks nationally and internationally.  She was awarded 2015 PAINWeek Palliative Care Practitioner of the Year, the 2020 PSHP Joe E. Smith Award and the 2023 PSHP Innovative and Collaborative Practice Award.

Suzanne Amato Nesbit, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, FASHP is currently on the Palliative Care Service and the Neuroscience Pain Resource Team at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is a Clinical Specialist in Pain Management and Palliative Care with the Department of Pharmacy and serves as the Residency Director for the PGY2 Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacy Residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Nesbit holds faculty appointments in the Department of Oncology and the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, as well as, the Schools of Pharmacy at University of Maryland and Notre Dame University of Maryland. She has been practicing in pain management for over 30 years and has served as Chair of the Pain Management Subcommittee of the Maryland Cancer Plan, Chair of the Pain & Palliative Care PRN of ACCP 

(American College of Clinical Pharmacy), Chair of the ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) Pain and Palliative Care Section Advisory Group, and was appointed to The Joint Commission Technical Advisory Panel for Pain Management in 2016. She served on the Board of Regents for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) from 2012-2015 and elected a Fellow in 2016. Dr Nesbit also served as an ACCP Presidential officer (2017-2020). Dr Nesbit Co-Chairs The Johns Hopkins Hospital Pain Management Committee and in 2018, was named Co-Chair of The Johns Hopkins Health System Opioid Stewardship Clinical Community. Additionally, in 2018, she was appointed to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) workgroup focusing on estimating opioid prescribing practices. Currently, she is serving a 3-year term on ASHP’s Commission on Credentialing and became a Fellow of ASHP in 2022.  

Sarah Hermalyn is the Chief of Staff at The Working Assembly, an award winning branding and creative agency in New York City. 
Sarah’s experience has taken her from building edtech company 2U to leading brand strategy projects for clients such as The New York Times, NBA and UNICEF at various New York based consultancies. She holds a Master’s degree in Branding from the School of Visual Arts, where she was honored with the Brand Master award and graduated with a B.S. in Business and Economics at Lehigh University. Her work has been published in Forbes, FastCo Design, Communication Arts and Under Consideration.

With a penchant for the seemingly impossible and the endurance of a former Division 1 lacrosse athlete, Sarah leads with a can-do fervor. She greets each challenge with a meticulous plan for action, unwavering confidence in her team and contagious enthusiasm. 

Nancy A. Alvarez, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, CPCC is the Associate Dean for Academic and Professional Affairs at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy – Phoenix Campus at UArizona.  She is also an Associate Professor of Practice for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  She received her pharmacy degree from UArizona in 1992; is a board‐certified pharmacotherapy specialist, and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.  Her career experiences before academia include community pharmacy practice, end of life care, and medical communications for a pharmaceutical company developing pain relieving products.  

Dr. Alvarez is a former president of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Society.  In addition to her role in the SPPCP Foundation, she is a board member for the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, and the APhA Foundation.  She has a strong interest in leader development and serves the Pharmacy Leadership and Education Institute (PLEI) as a board member, content developer, program director and facilitator.  She is editor and co-author for Bypass Pharmacy Burnout: Changing Your Trajectory to Enhance Your Experience.  She served as Chair of the APhA/NASPA Pharmacy Workplace Work Group. 

She is an APhA fellow, and recipient of the Nancy A. Alvarez Professional and Service Projects Award from the Phi Delta Chi Professional Fraternity, Gloria Niemeyer Franke Leadership Mentor Award in 2020 and Linwood F. Tice Friend of APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists in 2021.

Dr. Jeffrey J. Bettinger, PharmD, is a Pain Management Clinical Pharmacist with Saratoga Hospital Medical Group in Saratoga, NY. He earned his PharmD from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2017 with a concentration in nephrology. Following his

doctoral training, he completed a PGY1 and PGY2 Pain and Palliative Care residency at the Stratton VAMC in Albany, NY. Dr. Bettinger’s current position with Saratoga Hospital Medical group involves him working alongside primary care providers throughout eight different primary care clinics where he specializes in complex and high-risk pain medication management through direct patient care and electronic consult services. He consults regularly with their inpatient team for acute pain cases, as well as addiction medicine, psychiatry, neurology, sports medicine, pain management, and palliative care.

As a pain medicine and opioid therapeutics expert, he has served on several boards for different pain organizations including the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists and the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He has also consults as an expert and advisory board

member with several pharmaceutical companies and the FDA on various workshops. Academically, Dr. Bettinger has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in pain management, serves as the Clinical Pharmacology Editor of Practical Pain Management, and regularly presents at regional and national meetings. This has allowed him to continually work with various other national and international pain management experts within the field on both short-term and

longer-term projects.