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SPEAKERS.
MEET DR.KALICH
Dr. Bethany Kalich joined the Feik School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice in August of 2013. She attended Texas A&M University as an undergraduate, and then received her Doctor of Pharmacy in 2011 from the Feik School of Pharmacy. She completed a pharmacy practice residency and a critical care specialty residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Kalich is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), the American Society of health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International (CPFI). She is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and her areas of interest include critical care medicine and cardiology.
As a student, Dr. Kalich was a founding member of the FSOP's student chapter, and as a new faculty member she has already assumed the role as one of the FSOP-CPFI's chapter advisors. Look forward to her perspective on pharmacy, being only 2 years removed from life as a student pharmacist.
MEET DR.ECKEL
Fred Eckel is Executive Director Emeritus, North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Fred graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He earned his M.S. Degree and Residency in Hospital Pharmacy from The Ohio State University School of Pharmacy and Hospitals. He received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia in May 2009. Fred is a pharmacist by choice, commitment and concern. He has worked in community and hospital pharmacy. He served as Director of Pharmacy at the UNC Hospitals from 1968 to 1975. Fred is a past president of ASHP, NCSHP, and the North Carolina Center for Pharmaceutical Care for which he currently serves as Executive Director. Fred is Editor-in-Chief of Pharmacy Times and has contributed over 250 articles and editorials to the pharmacy literature. He is a frequent speaker at pharmacy meetings, having spoken in every U.S. state and on all inhabited continents.
Fred is considered a pharmacy futurist. You may not agree with him, but he will make you think. Be prepared to be challenged, stimulated, and quickened.
MEET MIN. GRUBBS
Leslie Kelsie-Grubbs is the Executive Director and founder of Urban Connection – San Antonio a community development ministry located in the Lincoln Heights Courts public housing complex on the West End of San Antonio. The mission of Urban Connection is to “Sharing the love of God, Strengthening relationships, Engaging individuals and families, Restoring genuine community”. Leslie is a graduate of the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative (2011), certified in Non-profit management from the University of Texas at San Antonio (2007), she is a licensed and ordained minister (2007) through Redeeming Grace Christian Church and she currently serves alongside her husband Craig Grubbs, who is the pastor of New Hope Covenant Church, which is located within the community in which they serve.
Leslie is currently serving on the Title 10 Advisory Board and Project STORM Advisory Board.
Her favorite quote is attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, “Preach the gospel at all times, use words when necessary”, and she believes that without community and teamwork, nothing gets done.