Virtual Pharmacy Education 2021 - Speakers

Moderator

Mary Woolley
CEO & President 
Research!America

Mary Woolley is the president of Research!America, an alliance that advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. Woolley is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served two terms on its Governing Council. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Higher Education and the Workforce, having previously served on the Board of Life Sciences. She is a founding member of the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Pritzker School of Medicine Council. Woolley holds honorary doctoral degrees from Wayne State University and the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).

Panelist

Georges C. Benjamin, M.D.
Executive Director 
American Public Health Association

Georges C. Benjamin, M.D., is a well-known health policy leader, practitioner and administrator. He currently serves as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals. He is also a former secretary of health for the state of Maryland. Dr. Benjamin is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Panelist

Bruce Gellin, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief of Global Public Health Strategy
The Rockefeller Foundation

Bruce Gellin, M.D. M.P.H., is chief of global public health strategy at The Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Gellin previously served as the deputy assistant secretary for health and director of the National vaccine program office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he was the principal advisor to the assistant secretary for health on vaccine and immunization programs and policies. Dr. Gellin also represented HHS as a technical and policy advisor to the World Health Organization with a focus on influenza and vaccine hesitancy and as a contributor to the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration and the Global Action Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP). 

2021 Recipient

Victoria F. Roche, Ph.D.
Creighton University

Presented by

Anne Y. Lin, Pharm.D.
2020–2021 AACP President
Dean and Professor
Notre Dame of Maryland University
School of Pharmacy

Speaker

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is distinguished professor and vice chair of psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness (published in 36 countries). She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University. Dr. Lyubomirsky and her research on the science of happiness have been the recipients of many grants and honors, including the Diener Award for Outstanding Midcareer Contributions in Personality Psychology, the Christopher J. Peterson Gold Medal, the Distinguished Research Lecturer Award, and a Positive Psychology Prize. She lives in Santa Monica, California, with her family.

2021 Recipient

Laura Cranston, R.Ph.
Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Presented by

Anne Y. Lin, Pharm.D.
2020–2021 AACP President
Dean and Professor
Notre Dame of Maryland University
School of Pharmacy