The Board of Trustees of the ASCP Research and Education Foundation elected Mark Beers, MD, and Managed Care executive Bret Stine, MHSA, to two-year terms as trustees, beginning January 1.
Beers is senior director of geriatrics at Merck & Co., Inc., and associate editor of The Merck Manuals. He has published more than 40 articles and book chapters about medication use in the elderly and lectures widely on the topic.
He also teaches geriatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, where he is adjunct associate professor of medicine. He received his MD degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, trained in internal medicine at New England Medical Center in Boston and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Stine is director of national initiatives and business development for EverCare, a medical delivery system that brings managed care to nursing facilities. His current responsibilities are business and network development for EverCare throughout Maryland, management of national accounts, and coordination with managed Medicaid initiatives in Maryland and Florida. Previously, he was the administrator of Kensington Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a 170-bed skilled nursing facility in Kensington, Maryland. He received a master's degree in health services administration from George Washington University.
Re-elected to the board for additional two-year terms were W. Gary Erwin, PharmD, FASCP, vice president of health systems programs at Omnicare, Inc.; and Penelope Pollard, MS, MBA, senior manager of The Lewin Group. Erwin also was re-elected chairman of the Board of Trustees for 1998. The ASCP Board of Directors re-elected Mark Sey, RPh, FASCP, as its representative to the Board of Trustees for an additional one-year term. Also joining the trustees in 1998 is ASCP President-elect David Kazarian, RPh, FASCP.
Continuing their current terms on the Board in 1998 are ASCP President Jan Allen, RPh, FASCP; ASCP Secretary-Treasurer Arnold Cammeyer, BS (Pharm), FASCP; Jade Gong, RN, MPPM; ASCP Immediate Past President Ralph Kalies, PhD, FASCP; Eleanor Perfetto, RPh, PhD; ASCP Council of Presidents representative Elliott Tertes, PD, FASCP; Carl Trinca, PhD; and ASCP Executive Director R. Tim Webster, RPh.
ASCP past president Brian Kahan, RPh, FASCP; Gerald Roesener, RPh; and T. Franklin Williams, MD, completed their terms on the board in 1997.
ASCP's Research and Education Foundation is pleased to announce that Kathleen Cameron, RPh, MPH, has joined its staff in the position of program officer. Cameron comes to the Foundation from The National Council on the Aging (NCOA), where she was deputy director of Independent Choices, a $3 million national demonstration and research grants program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funds 13 projects that expand choices and offer more control over personal assistance services for older persons and individuals with disabilities.
A 1987 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Cameron received her master's of public health degree from Yale University School of Public Health and Epidemiology in 1994. While pursuing her master's, she focused her studies on the health policy implications of an aging society, specifically health service delivery to the growing geriatric population. Her master's thesis examined the link between various classes of drugs and the propensity to fall among older persons.
As Foundation program officer, Cameron will be responsible for developing and administering new and existing Foundation programs, including traineeships, research grants, and other initiatives. Upon accepting this position, Cameron stated, "I am honored to become part of the nation's leader in research and education focusing on geriatric drug therapy, long-term care, and consultant pharmacy practice. With my unique background in pharmacy, aging, and long-term care, I believe Ican truly contribute to realizing the Foundation's goal of optimizing health care outcomes for older Americans."