Leadership Team Bios

Lonny Wilson, DPh, NCPA President

Lonny Wilson, a veteran Oklahoma pharmacy owner and executive, took the reins as NCPA President for 2011-12 from Robert J. Greenwood, RPh, Oct. 12, 2011.

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.

Donnie Calhoun, P.D.

President-elect, owns Golden Springs Pharmacy and Calhoun Compounding in Anniston, Ala. Calhoun is a member of the Alabama Board of Pharmacy and also serves on the Pharmacist Mutual Insurance Companies board of directors. He graduated from Samford University's McWhorter School of Pharmacy.

Mark Riley, P.D.

NCPA chairman 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.

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.

Bradley J. Arthur, R.Ph

Arthur co-owns two full-line independent pharmacies in Buffalo, N.Y. He graduated from the University of Florida College 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.

Robert J. Greenwood, R.Ph

Immediate Past President, owns Greenwood Drug, Denver Drug, and Professional Compounding Center in Waterloo, Iowa. He graduated from Creighton University.

Officers

Bill Osborn, Pharm.D.

First vice president, 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.

Brian Caswell, R.Ph

Second 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.

Third 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.

Fourth 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

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

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.