PQA Board of Directors

PQA’s Board represents a diverse group of thought leaders and experts in healthcare, who understand how medication optimization improves patient outcomes and supports a value-based care system. Covering the healthcare spectrum, their expertise helps PQA advance the safe and appropriate use of medicines. The Board is composed of up to 25 individuals representing all of PQA’s membership sectors:

• Community Pharmacy
• Health Plans, Health Systems, Alliances and Pharmacy Benefits Managers
• Pharmaceutical Industry Organizations
• Health Technology Solutions and Data Analytics
• Healthcare Quality and Standards Organizations
• Government Agencies
• Associations, Foundations and Research Institutions
• Universities and Academic Institutions

The Board meets four times a year during the following months: February, May (in conjunction with the PQA Annual Meeting), September and November (in conjunction with the PQA Leadership Summit).

Executive Committee

• Michael Taday, PharmD, MBA
  Chair
  CenterWell Pharmacy
• Susan Cantrell, RPh, CAE 
  Vice-Chair
  AMCP
• Rick Gates, RPh
  Secretary
  Walgreens
• Sharon Jhawar, PharmD, MBA, BCGP
  Treasurer
  SCAN Health Plan
• Jim Kirby, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, FAPhA
  Member At Large
  Kroger
• Michael Duteau, RPh
  Immediate Past Chair
  Noble Health Services
• Micah Cost, PharmD, MS
  Ex Officio Member
  Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Board Members

• Amina Abubakar, PharmD, AAHIVP
  Avant Pharmacy & Wellness Center
  (representing CPESN USA)
• Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil
  Elevance Health
• Vikki Ahern, MAS, CHC
  Magellan Rx Management
• Sheila Arquette, RPh
  National Association of Specialty Pharmacy
• Ilisa Bernstein, PharmD, JD, FAPhA
  American Pharmacists Association
• Ceci Connolly
  Alliance of Community Health Plans
• Lou Dallago
  Pfizer, Inc.
• Laurin Dixon, PharmD
  Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Lida Etemad, PharmD, MS 
  United Healthcare
  
• J.W. Hill, MBAHCM, CNED
  NCPDP
• Jeffrey A. Kelman, MD, MMSc
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS Special Advisor)
• Michelle Ketcham, PharmD, MBA 
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Linda Garrelts MacLean, BPharm, RPh, FACA, FNAP 
  Community Pharmacy Foundation and Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Sciences
• Brian Nightengale, RPh, PhD
  Good Neighbor Pharmacy, AmerisourceBergen 
• Matt Osterhaus, BSPh, FASCP, FAPhA
  Osterhaus Pharmacy
  (representing National Community Pharmacists Association)
• Christopher Powers, PharmD
  Cigna Insurance Company
  
• Jeff Rochon, PharmD 
  Pace Alliance
• Tricia Lee Rolle, PharmD, MS, PhD 
  Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
• Jennifer Van Meter, PharmD
  Novartis Pharmaceuticals