2009 Board Election Results

PPAG is pleased to announce Leslie Briars, William Maish, and Heather VandenBussche have been elected to the Board of Directors. Each will serve on the Board for a three (3) year term.

 

 

Leslie A. Briars, PharmD, is an ambulatory care clinical pharmacist at the University of Illinois Medical Center (UIMCC) at Chicago Children and Adolescent Center. She also has an appointment to the College of Pharmacy as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Leslie has served in her current position since July of 1995.

She received her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1993 and then completed a one-year pharmacy practice residency at University Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994. In 1995, Leslie completed a one-year pediatric pharmacy specialty residency at Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Her areas of interest include asthma, attention deficit disorder, adolescent medicine, nephrology and HIV infection.

 

 

William (Bill) Maish, PharmD, is an Acute Pediatrics Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at the Arnold Palmer Medical Center in Orlando. He participates in residency training through the PGY2 in Pediatrics at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and the PGY1 at Orlando Healthcare. He also precepts students from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.

 

Dr. Maish earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (Purdue University, 1986) and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Medical University of South Carolina, 1991). He completed two fellowships in Oklahoma City; Pediatric Pharmacotherapy (University of Oklahoma Medical Center, 1993) and Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacotherapeutics (the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1994).

Bill has been an active member of PPAG for more than 15 years and has participated on the Membership Services Committee during most of that time. After serving as Member Services Committee Chair, Bill became the Vice-President for Member Services in 2007, where he has worked on projects such as the quarterly PPAG newsletters, PPAG website upgrades, and membership surveys. He has also served as an Abstract Reviewer.

 

 

Heather L. VandenBussche, PharmD, is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Ferris State University College of Pharmacy in Kalamazoo, MI. She practices in general pediatrics at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo and in the cystic fibrosis clinic at the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies. Dr. VandenBussche received her PharmD at the University of Michigan in 1995. She completed an ASHP-accredited pharmacy practice residency at Children’s Hospital in Detroit, MI in 1996 and a pediatric pharmacy specialty residency at the University of Michigan in 1997. Previously, Dr. VandenBussche was a clinical pharmacist in pediatric infectious diseases and assistant clinical professor at the University of Michigan.

Dr. VandenBussche has been a member of PPAG since 1996 and has actively served on the Research Committee since 2003, which she has co-chaired since 2006. She has reviewed scientific research abstracts since 2004 and authored the Guidelines for Abstract Preparation in 2008. She has also served on the Journal Advisory Board for the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics since 2006. She has also presented at various annual meetings since 2005.