Chair (2025-2026)
Amanda Place, PharmD, BCACP
Amanda Place is an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy specialist at the Ascension St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center in Indianapolis, IN. In addition, in 2006, she and her business partners opened an independent community pharmacy in East Central Indiana, where she practices part-time as a community pharmacist and provides services like medication therapy management and group home medication consulting, while also implementing programs like medication synchronization and diabetes care. Amanda received her PharmD from Butler University. She provides pharmaceutical care, including medication therapy management, pharmacogenomics consults, and disease management to Primary Care Center patients and coordinates the pharmacy population health efforts for the Ascension physician groups in Indiana. She also serves as an educational resource for the medical residents, acts as a preceptor for pharmacy residents, and is the Ambulatory Care PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency Program Director and the founding Residency Program Director of the PGY-1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program at Ascension St Vincent Indianapolis. The medication safety program that she helped to initiate was recognized by the Institute for Safe Medications Practices with an award for excellence in 2017. Amanda is active with both ASHP and APhA, with a focus on Community-based pharmacy residency training. She serves as a practitioner surveyor for several Community-based PGY-1 residency programs annually.
Amanda Place can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Immediate Past Chair (2025-2026)
Courtney B. Isom, PharmD, BCACP, CPP
Courtney Isom is the Supervisor at the Cone Health Community Pharmacy at Wendover Medical Center in Greensboro, NC. In this role, she is involved with creating medication access and expanding clinical services for the uninsured and underinsured population in her community. Courtney also oversees the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy. Courtney serves in several teaching and precepting roles. She serves as the PGY1 Community-based Residency Director. Courtney is also on the Advisory Board for High Point University Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy. She is involved with leadership and engagement within her organization and community. Courtney received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She also completed a PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency at the University of Georgia in conjunction with Kroger Pharmacy. She is board-certified in Ambulatory Care. Courtney is an active member of ASHP and is currently serving as Chair for the Community Pharmacy Practitioners Executive Committee. She has presented several community pharmacy related presentations at ASHP conferences.
Courtney Isom can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Chair Elect (2025-2026)
Jordan Rush, PharmD, MS, RPh
Jordan Rush is Director of Pharmacy for System Retail and Outpatient Pharmacy Services for UNC Health, overseeing outpatient pharmacies across the system, meds to beds programs, a medication history team, and a PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency practice site in collaboration with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She earned her PharmD from MCPHS and received her MS from the University of Wisconsin. Jordan completed a combined PGY1/PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Jordan has been an active member of ASHP throughout her career, serving within the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders on the Leadership Development Section Advisory Group (SAG), serving as Co-Chair and then Chair of the Value, Quality, and Compliance SAG, and member of the Educational Steering Committee. She has led webinars to encourage resident participation within ASHP and highlight outpatient pharmacy’s involvement in rolling out the COVID-19 vaccines across UNC Health, and received an ASHP Best Practice Award in 2020 for UNC Hospitals’ partnership with the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Service Network (CPESN) to improve transitions of care for patients.
Jordan Rush can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large (2025-2027)
Kali Autrey, PharmD, PhC, BCPS, NCPS
LCDR Kali Autrey is a Health Insurance Specialist with CMS's Division of Hospital Price Transparency and an officer in the US Public Health Service (USPHS). In her previous role as an Applied Public Health pharmacist with the CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, she served as the Division's pharmacotherapy subject matter expert and reimbursement lead, directing the development and implementation of sustainability mechanisms and improving access for pediatric obesity prevention and treatment services. She is a graduate of the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy and began her career at Indian Health Service facilities on the Navajo Nation where she served the Diné population for nearly a decade, operating as a pharmacist clinician with medical staff privileges and providing care in multiple pharmacist-run clinics for management of chronic diseases. She brought her unique perspective serving vulnerable populations with limited resources to ASHP while serving as the USPHS delegate to the ASHP House of Delegates from 2021-2023. LCDR Autrey has served on the ASHP Section of Community Pharmacy Practitioners (SCPP) Advisory Group on Education, Communication and Training since its inception, helping to build the Section's strategic plan, and leading the development and dissemination of several resources including webinars, podcasts and written materials. She continues to serve as an ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting CE proposal reviewer, contribute to the development and delivery of roundtable events, and work in the provider status space on the USPHS Expanding Patient Access to Medical Services by Pharmacists Workgroup alongside ASHP.
Kali Autrey can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large (2024-2026)
Thomas G. Wadsworth, PharmD, BCPS.
Dr. Wadsworth is a highly accomplished pharmacist with over 20 years of experience in community, clinical, and academic pharmacy practice and research. He is deeply committed to improving access and quality of all pharmacy services, including pharmacist provided healthcare services. Dr. Wadsworth is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, and Executive Associate Dean at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. He served as Assistant Clinical Professor and Primary Care Pharmacist at St. Luke's Internal Medicine in Boise, Idaho. With his extensive knowledge of health education and rural health issues, Dr. Wadsworth has been instrumental in developing innovative strategies to improve the delivery of pharmacy services to remote and underserved communities. He owned and operated three community pharmacies in Idaho for 10 years, where he was among the first to offer telepharmacy services to rural communities. In addition to his academic and community pharmacy work, Dr. Wadsworth is the principle investigator of the SETMuPP demonstration initiative, which aims to mobilize community and primary care pharmacists to provide sustainable preventative and health management services to Alaskans with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease. Dr. Wadsworth is board certified in pharmacotherapy and licensed in both Alaska and Idaho. Dr. Wadsworth's wealth of experience in community pharmacy, clinical pharmacy, and advocacy work, combined with his passion for improving access to pharmacy services, make him a respected and influential figure in the field of pharmacy.
Thomas Wadsworth can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large Elect (2025-2026)
Shanna M. Whitwell, PharmD
Shanna Whitwell is the Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Auburn University's Harrison College of Pharmacy and has over 14 years of experience in community pharmacy. While in her role as outpatient pharmacy manager she has developed and implemented multiple outpatient pharmacy services including Meds to Beds, prescription delivery, clinic services, quality measure improvement and medication access programs. She is also the residency program director for the PGY1 Community-Based residency program at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center for which she helped to establish and achieve accreditation.
Whitwell’s involvement in ASHP includes serving as chair in 2024-2025 and vice chair in 2023-2024 of the Section of Community Pharmacy Practitioners Advisory Group on Patient Care. During her time with the section, she has helped develop guides for the Community Pharmacy Resource Center on the ASHP website as well as an ASHP podcast on the ISMP Best Practices for Community Pharmacy. She is also an active member of the Mississippi Society of Health-System Pharmacists where she won the Innovative Health-Systems Pharmacy Practice award in 2022.
Shanna Whitwell can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
ASHP Staff
Gabrielle Pierce, PharmD, MBA
Gabrielle (Gabby) Pierce serves as a Director of Member Relations at ASHP, and is staff liaison to the Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners. In this role, Dr. Pierce leads the development and implementation of programs and initiatives related to specialty pharmacy practice. Prior to this role, Dr. Pierce completed ASHP’s Executive Fellowship in Association Leadership and Management in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her Bachelor’s in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Following graduation, Dr. Pierce completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency in specialty pharmacy at the University of Illinois - Chicago within their Specialty Pharmacy Services in Chicago, Illinois.
Gabrielle (Gabby) Pierce can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.