Meet Our Preceptors

Jessica Dizon-Scheer, PharmD, MHA, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Pharmacy Administration and Leadership

Training and education:

• PharmD: University of New England College of Pharmacy, Portland, ME
• PGY1/PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Residency, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA
• Combined with Master of Health Administration, University of Iowa College of Public Health

Professional interests: Professional development, leadership, and transitions
of care

Awards: Best Supporting Pharmacist Award PPMC, 2019-2020
Favorite Portland pastime: Spending time with my husband and our three
dogs, hiking, camping, and going to concerts to see my favorite bands

Nyles Fowler, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Internal medicine, adult and neonatal critical care

Training and education:

• PharmD: Regis University School of Pharmacy | Denver, CO
• PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Providence Health & Services | Portland, OR

Professional interests: Internal medicine, infectious diseases, addiction medicine, precepting/mentoring

Projects: Buprenorphine micro-dosing, Neonatal Competency for Pharmacists; Epic-integration of neonatal early-onset sepsis (EOS) risk calculator; HIV Collaborative Drug Therapy Management Guidelines

Awards: Preceptor of the Year 2018-2019

Favorite Portland pastime: Hiking, day trips to the coast, Portland's food and drink scene

Holly Furushima, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Critical Care, Global Health, and Emergency Medicine

Training and education:

• BS Pharm: Oregon State University
• PharmD: University of Washington
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: Providence Health & Services | Portland, OR

Professional interests: Critical care, global health/international volunteering,
emergency medicine, cardiology and mentoring/precepting

Projects: Development and implementation of a PGY-1 Global Health Program

Awards: 2014-2015 PGY-1 Residency All-Star Preceptor Award and 2017-
2018 PGY-1 Residency Renaissance Preceptor Award

Favorite Portland pastime: Traveling, photography, and exploring my inner
foodie through Portland's dynamic food and drink scene

Joshua Francis, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Cardiology

Training and education:

PharmD: Auburn University

• PGY1 Residency: WVU Medicine
• PGY2 Residency: Prisma Health Richland - University of South Carolina

Professional interests: Advanced heart failure treatment, electrophysiology/arrhythmias, and a little bit of everything else cardiology

Favorite Portland pastime: Pacific Northeast transplant, favorite pastime from home is LSU football games, Geaux Tigers

Pamela Levine PharmD, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Internal medicine, critical care

Training and education:

• PharmD: Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR

Professional interests: Internal Medicine, Working with residents and students,
Critical care

Projects: Always have a number of projects underway
Favorite Portland pastime: Definitely the food scene!

Sharon Leigh, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Geriatrics

Training and education:

• PharmD: Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• BS Pharm: Oregon State University
• BS in business marketing: Portland State University
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency in Geriatrics: VA Hospital

Professional interests: care coordination, polypharmacy and deprescribing, cardiology, anticoagulation, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s, dementia care, falls, geriatric syndromes, antibiotic stewardship, and interdisciplinary team approach

Projects: Efforts for Age-Friendly Health System (focus on 4 M’s- medication, mobility, mentation, what matters), dementia medication use for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, role of clinical pharmacists in outpatient palliative care program, geriatric mini-fellowship, annual community fall prevention events

Awards: Providence Health System preceptor of the year 2001, Providence ElderPlace Excellence award 2004, National PACE Association Marie-Louise Ansak Award Nominee 2004, Providence Spirit of Emilie Mission Inspiration Award 2016

Favorite Portland Pastime: Gardening, flower arranging, farming, eating

Meri Slavica-Sheley, RPh, PhD, BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Cardiology, critical care medicine

Training and education:

• Graduate Pharmacy Engineer: College of Pharmacy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• PhD in Medicinal Chemistry: The Ohio State University

Professional interests: Cardiology and critical care medicine

Projects: Medication Safety Committee

Awards: Preceptor of the Year 2017-2018 (PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program)

Favorite Portland pastime: Running, gardening, playing with my cats and traveling

Savita Bathija, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice: Emergency Medicine

Training/education:

• PharmD: University of Cincinnati
• PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR

Professional interests: Mentoring Pharmacy Learners, Health Equity,
Emergency Medicine

Awards: Secondary Preceptor of the Year 2020-2021
Favorite Portland pastime: Discovering the international food scene, picking
fruit at Sauvie Island, and hanging out in the beautiful city parks!

Ana Bienvenida, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist

Training and education:

• Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• University of Wisconsin PGY1
• University of Wisconsin PGY2 Emergency Medicine

Professional interests: Antibiotic stewardship, toxicology

Alyssa Christensen, PharmD, BCIDP

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: infectious diseases and microbial stewardship

Training and education:

• PharmD: Rosalind Franklin University
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: Legacy Health | Portland, OR
• PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency: Northwestern Memorial Hospital | Chicago, IL

Professional interests: Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, clinical implementation research, rapid diagnostic technology, public health

Favorite Portland pastime: Hiking and running in Forest Park, exploring Portland coffee shops and food carts

‘Ben’ Shuntao Cai, PharmD, BCOP

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: oncology

Training and education:

• PharmD: St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Providence Health & Services Alaska
• PGY2 Oncology Residency: Providence Health & Services Alaska

Professional interests: continuation of current oncology practice and keeping updated on new trends in treatment therapy

Favorite Portland pastime: recreational running, eating, photography and learning

Brent W. Footer, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical areas of expertise: Infectious diseases, internal medicine

Training and education:

• PharmD: University at Buffalo
• Infectious Diseases Fellowship: Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory | Buffalo, NY
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: California Pacific Medical Center | San Francisco, CA

Professional interests: Antimicrobial pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, clinical research, optimizing/expanding clinical workflows, teaching

Awards: 2017 PGY1 Residency Class Renaissance Preceptor Award

Favorite Portland pastime: Gardening, camping, hiking, live music

Amber Franck, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Specialty pharmacy, MS, Hep C,
Psoriasis, Piloting clinical pharmacy services

Training and education

• PharmD: Pacific University | Hillsboro, OR
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center | Corvallis, OR

Professional interests: MS, Hep C, Clinical program development, precepting
and mentoring students and residents

Awards: 2018 NASPA Excellence in Innovation Award | Oregon State
Pharmacy Association (OSPA)

Favorite Portland pastime: Sampling all the delicious foods that Portland has to
offer, always adventuring to a new park or playground with my 2-year-old
daughter

John MacKay, Pharm.D., BCPS

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: advanced heart failure, mechanical
circulatory support, heart transplant

Training and education:

• Pharm.D. - Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• PGY1 - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• PGY2 in Cardiology - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Professional interests: acute decompensated heart failure,
pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, heart transplant

Favorite Portland pastimes: getting outside, exploring the Portland music
scene

Kevin Nickel, BS Pharm

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Oncology, surgery

Training and education:

• BS Pharm: Drake University

Professional interests: Oncology

Projects: Oncology Clinical Advancement team, Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Executive council

Favorite Portland pastime: Spending time with my dog, whitewater kayaking, mountain biking

Carolynn Null, PharmD, BCPS

Training:

• Bachelor of Science Pharmacy: University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Denver, Colorado
• PharmD: University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Denver, Colorado
• PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR

Professional interests: Critical care, infectious disease, pharmacogenomics,
teaching residents and students

Project: "Evaluating the Clinical Utility of CYP2C19 Genomic Testing for P2Y12
Inhibitor Prescribing Within an Inpatient Setting"

Favorite Portland pastime: Hiking, hanging out with friends & family (and my
adorable dog), traveling, martial arts (Pukulan, karate, Escrima), love studying
history

Lauren Pettit, RPh

Areas of practice or expertise: Pharmacy informatics

Training and education:

• BS Pharm: Oregon State University
• Epic Willow Inpatient Certified

Professional interests: Healthcare/pharmacy technology, pharmacy operations,
precepting, improving efficiencies in workflows

Projects: pharmacy/healthcare technology implementation (BD Logistics, Pyxis
ES, Epic, automation and IV admixture), building and managing the Alaris
Smart Pump library, processing report requests, learning the newer Microsoft
365 tools

Accomplishments: 20+ years of employment with Providence

Favorite Portland pastime: Homebody (pre and post COVID), gardening, bead work and
other crafts, spending time with my nephew & husband, 3 cats and family

Lisa Rowe-Diesel, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: Specialty pharmacy, home infusion department, hospice/pain management.

Training and education:

• PharmD: Creighton University

Professional interests: Pain management and specialty therapies

Favorite Portland pastime: Enjoying the many parks in the summertime

Jenifer Smith, PharmD, BCPS – Program Manager, Clinical Pharmacy Outcomes

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: drug information, formulary development and drug utilization review

Training and education:

• PharmD: Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center | Vancouver, WA

Professional interests: population health management, managed care, precepting

Projects: Implementation of electronic prior authorization, Cost-effectiveness Evaluation of New Drugs and Therapeutic Classes

Favorite Portland pastime: Exploring various parks with my dog; Trying out new restaurants/pubs; Gardening

o the many dog parts throughout the metro area, trying out new restaurants/pubs

Susan Vaughan, PharmD

Clinical areas of practice or expertise: pharmacy informatics and pharmacy informatics

Training and education:

• PharmD: University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: Shands (now UF Health) Jacksonville Medical Center | Jacksonville, FL
• Epic Willow Inpatient Certified

Professional interests: Healthcare and pharmacy technology

Favorite Portland pastime: Hikes and dog walks