Leadership Team Bios

Donnie Calhoun, P.D. NCPA President

Donnie Calhoun, 1987 graduate of Samford University School of Pharmacy, owns 2 stores in Calhoun County. He serves on the executive committee for the National Community Pharmacists Association and as a national director for Pharmacist's Mutual Insurance Company. He is the 2012 President of the Alabama Board of Pharmacy. He also has served on the National Home Infusion Association board of directors and Member Health's P&T committee. He has served as President of the Alabama Independent Drugstore Association and as a board member of the Alabama Pharmacy Association. He has been involved with teaching pharmacy students as an adjunct professor of Samford and Auburn Schools of Pharmacy. Donnie has served on many pharmacy committees at a local, state and national level. He as been a recipient of many awards including distinguished young pharmacist (1991) and the Alabama Pharmacy Association Pharmacist of the year award (2005). He is married to Cindy and has 3 children, Casey, Caitlyn, and Dillon

Mark Riley, P.D.

President-elect Mark Riley, is the executive vice president of the Arkansas Pharmacists Association and an authority on pharmacy benefit managers. A one-time pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) executive, Riley has been asked by over 160 businesses to advise them on pharmacy benefit management. Riley owns East End Pharmacy in Little Rock, where he was pharmacist-in-charge for 20 years. He earned his bachelor of science in pharmacy and his doctor of pharmacy from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy.

Bradley J. Arthur, R.Ph

Chairman Arthur co-owns two full line pharmacies in Buffalo, N.Y., BlackRock Pharmacy and Brighton-Eggert Pharmacy. He graduated from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. He also serves on board of directors of the Buffalo Zoo, the nation's third oldest established in 1875.

John T. Sherrer, R.Ph

Co-owner of Kenmar Pharmacy in Marietta, Ga., and is a partner in nine other Georgia pharmacies. Sherrer also owns First Aid of America, an industrial first aid and safety supply company. He graduated from the Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy.

Keith Hodges, R.Ph

Hodges owns Gloucester Pharmacy in Virginia's historic Tidewater region and is vice president of Poquoson Pharmacy. He graduated from the Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy. Hodges is a Virginia state delegate of the 98th District.

DeAnn Mullins, BPharm, CDE

A certified diabetes educator, Mullins owns Mullins Pharmacy, WeCare Wellness, and the WeCare Diabetes Education Program in Lynn Haven, Fla. She is a member of the Florida Board of Pharmacy and graduated from Samford University's McWhorter School of Pharmacy.

David Smith, R.Ph

David Smith owns Means-Lauf Super Drug in Brookville, Pa., and is partner with his daughter Stephanie Smith Cooney in Gatti Pharmacy in Indiana, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.

Bill Osborn, Pharm.D.

Osborn, is president of Osborn Drugs, Inc., in Miami, Okla. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and received his PharmD from Oklahoma University.

Lonny Wilson, DPh,

Immediate Past President Wilson is one of the original founders of Pharmacist Providers of Oklahoma (PPOk), a buying group, switching service, and administrator of managed care drug plans. He has been its CEO since 1989 and owns three pharmacies in the Oklahoma City area. He also is chairman of the board of directors of the medication therapy management company Mirixa, established by NCPA.

One of Wilson's main concerns both at PPOk and NCPA has been the general price erosion in the community pharmacy marketplace and the especially deleterious effect of differing generic drug maximum allowable cost rates on third party contracting.

Officers

Brian Caswell, R.Ph

First vice president, owns Wolkar Drug in Baxter Springs, in the corner of Kansas that adjoins Oklahoma and Missouri. He graduated from the University of Kansas.

Michele Belcher, R.Ph.

Second vice president, owns Grants Pass Pharmacy, Inc., in Grants Pass, Ore., which offers compounding, hospice care, and compliance packaging for long-term care. She graduated from the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy.

Hugh Chancy, R.Ph.

Third vice president, co-owns Chancy Drugs of Adel, Chancy Drugs of Hahira, and Chancy Drugs of Lake Park, all in Georgia. He also co-owns C2 Medical Solutions, a sterile compounding pharmacy in Hahira. He graduated from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.

Jeff Carson, R.Ph

Fourth vice president, owns Oakdell Pharmacy, which has four locations in the San Antonio area. He graduated from the University of Texas.

Lea Wolsoncroft

Fifth vice president, is the newest member to join this roster of pharmacy leaders for NCPA, which occurred with her induction at the House of Delegates. She opened Kids Meds Pharmacy in 2003, which specializes in prescription drugs for children.

B. Douglas Hoey, R.Ph, MBA

Hoey is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Community Pharmacists Association. He has spent 20+ years working in and representing community pharmacies.

NCPA represents the 23,000 community pharmacies and their pharmacists.

In 2005, Hoey was named COO and helped lead the NCPA team that scored legislative victories requiring prompt pay of Part D claims, winning a court injunction to delay AMP that saved community pharmacies over $2 billion dollars, and NCPA membership has increased by 20 percent over the past two years. He is a licensed pharmacist in Oklahoma, Virginia, and Texas and practiced for 5 years in community and Long Term Care settings contributing to the development of expansions into durable medical equipment and home infusion. For five years, Hoey also developed and taught pharmacology courses at George Washington University and Marymount universities.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors for SureScripts, Mirixa, Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology, the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board, and the Community Pharmacy Financial.

He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and the Oklahoma City University business graduate school.