Gee Mathen
Texas Children's Hospital

Chris Fortier
Massachusetts General Hospital

David Webster, RPh, MSBA
University of Rochester Medical Center

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Mark Sullivan PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP is Associate Chief PharmacyOfficer for Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the Residency Program Director for the Administrative Residency at Vanderbilt. He has supported implementation of a number of medication-related systems, including automated medication cabinets, “Smart Pump” infusion systems, CPOE and BCMA systems. He has served as an invited member of the USP Safe Medication Use committee, vice chair of the ASHP Practice Managers Section Advisory group on communications, and chair of theASHP Practice Manager’s Section Advisory group on manager development. He served as the inaugural chair of the Tennessee Hospital Association Pharmacist Collaborative. He is Past President of the Tennessee Society of Health System Pharmacy. He holds faculty appointments to the University of Tennessee, Belmont University and Lipscomb University Colleges of Pharmacy and served on the Admissions Committee for the inaugural class of the Lipscomb College of Pharmacy.

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD, graduated from the University of Maryland Maryland-Baltimore School of Pharmacy and was the first student to complete the PharmD (1999), PhD (2001) dual-degree pathway at this institution. He currently serves as the Vice President of Clinical Operations at TidalHealth System which includes oversight of pharmacy, medical imaging and laboratory operations. Key accomplishments include the creation of two ambulatory pharmacies, changing the medication distribution model from centralized to point point-of -care and initiating decentralized pharmacy services. Dennis also serves as an associate professor of pharmacy practice and administration at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) School of Pharmacy since 2010, where he teaches Pharmaceutical Calculations, Pharmacokinetics, Automation and Pharmacy Administration.