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Pain Management and Palliative Care Advisory Group

2025 – 2026 SAG Roster

To provide and develop resources for the Section regarding pain management and palliative care.

Chair

Amanda Benedetti, PharmD, BCGP
Pharmacy Specialist
MetroHealth
Cleveland, OH

Vice Chair

Diana Ardeljan, PharmD, BCPS
Opioid Stewardship Pharmacist
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Brookline, MA

Members

Olivia Berger, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Pain and Palliative Care
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, MD

Eva Coulson, PharmD
Pain Management Oncology Pharmacist
Kaweah Health Medical Center
Visalia, CA

Nicholas Cox, PharmD, BCACP
Associate Professor (Clinical) / Pharmacist
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Vinh Dao, PharmD, BCPS
Telepain Program Manager
Hospital System
Minneapolis, MN

Maria Foy, PharmD, BCPS
Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pain Management/OUD
Jefferson Abington Health
Abington, PA

Jessica Geiger, PharmD, MS, BCPS
Facility PMOP Coordinator
VA Illiana Health System
Powell, OH

Virginia Ghafoor, PharmD, MBA
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
MHealth Fairview
Minneapolis, MN

Jeff Gonzales, PharmD, MS, BCPS, CDCES, DOLA, HF-Cert, PDE-C
Ambulatory and Population Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic
Newtown Square, PA

Molly Howard, PharmD, BCACP, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner
VA VISN 7 Clinical Resource Hub
Moorhead, MN

Justin Kullgren, PharmD
Pain and Palliative Care Specialist
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, OH

Kelly Mendoza, MS, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Ambulatory Pain Management
PeaceHealth St. John
Longview, WA

Melissa Nguyen, PharmD
Inpt/Outpt Pain Pharmacist
Veterans Affairs
Palo Alto, CA

Barbara Swift, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident
Thomas H. Corey VA Medical Center
West Palm Beach, FL

Maureen Saphire, PharmD, BCGP
James Opioid Stewardship Pharmacist & Palliative Medicine Clinical Specialist
The Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital
Columbus, OH

Tanya Uritsky, PharmD, BCPP
Opioid Stewardship Coordinator
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

ASHP Staff

Ashley (Storvick) Boedecker, PharmD, MBA
Director, Member Relations
Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners
ASHP
Bethesda, MD

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