Chair (2026-2027)
Jordan (Rush) Beck, PharmD, MS, 340B ACE, RPh
Jordan (Rush) Beck is the Director of Pharmacy for 340B Programs and Medication Assistance Program Services for the medical benefit at UNC Health. Previously, she was the 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. Beck completed a combined PGY1/PGY2 Health System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Beck has been an active member of ASHP throughout her career, serving within the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders (SPPL) on the Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Leadership Development, serving as Co-Chair and then Chair of the SAG on Value, Quality, and Compliance, 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) Beck can be emailed at sections@ashp.org.
Immediate Past Chair (2026-2027)
Amanda Place, PharmD, BCACP
Amanda Place is a board-certified Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy specialist at the Ascension St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center in Indianapolis, IN. She provides pharmaceutical care, including medication therapy management and pharmacogenomics consults to Primary Care Center patients. She also serves as an educational resource for the medical residents, acts as a preceptor for pharmacy residents, and is the residency program director of the Ambulatory Care PGY2 pharmacy residency program at St. Vincent Indianapolis. Her practice focuses include improving medication safety in the outpatient setting in general and medical residencies in specific and improving access to substance use disorder treatments. Place is active with ASHP, focusing on community-based pharmacy residency training. She also currently serves a contract lead surveyor for pharmacy residency programs with ASHP Accreditation Services.
Chair Elect (2026-2027)
Paul E. Gaura, PharmD, APh, BCACP
Paul E. Gaura is a patient care services manager and residency program director for Albertsons Companies in the Southern California region. In his patient care role, Gaura manages the implementation and execution of clinical services in 200+ community pharmacies. Originally from the northern suburbs of Chicago, Gaura worked as a pharmacy technician throughout high school and college. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Rosalind Franklin University College of Pharmacy in 2015. Gaura completed a PGY1 community-based pharmacy residency with Jewel-Osco and the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016. In 2022, he helped establish a new residency program in partnership with Albertsons Companies and the University of California, Irvine. Within ASHP, Gaura has served as chair of the Section of Community Pharmacy Practitioners (SCPP) advisory group on Education, Communication, and Training, and most recently served as a member of the advisory group on Education and Practice Excellence. He has presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting’s Community Pharmacy Pearls session on the importance of providing long-acting injectables in the community pharmacy setting and is passionate about expanding access to this care. He also regularly advocates on the importance of immunizations through local and national media outlets.
Paul Gaura can be e-mailed at sections@ashp.org.
Director-at-Large (2025-2027)
Kali Autrey, PharmD, PhC, BCPS
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 (2026-2028)
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.
Director-at-Large Elect (2026-2027)
Carleigh A. Krueger, PharmD, BCACP
Carleigh A. Krueger is the pharmacist-in-charge of the outpatient pharmacy (SRHC Pharmacy) at Salina Regional Health Center in Salina, Kansas. In this role, she oversees the Meds to Beds Program, serves as the lead for the organization’s preferred pharmacy services for its self-insured employee health plan, and manages SRHC’s partnership with Dispensary of Hope. She works closely with inpatient clinical pharmacists and healthcare providers to ensure patients are discharged with medications that are both accessible and affordable. Krueger earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Salina Regional Health Center. She is board certified in ambulatory care pharmacy. Krueger is an active member of ASHP and most recently served as chair of the Section of Community Pharmacy Practitioners advisory group on Education and Practice Excellence. She previously served as vice chair and chair of the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners Educational Steering Committee and has presented at multiple ASHP meetings.
Carleigh Krueger can be e-mailed 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.