Leadership
Center Director
Zachary Rosko, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Rosko is the founding Director of the Center for Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Research Excellence (CAPPRE) at the Idaho State University L.S Skaggs College of Pharmacy. In this role, he will lead the efforts of the University to help identify and disseminate practice models and billing methodologies that lead to the sustainment and spread of advanced pharmacy practice models across the care continuum.
Dr. Rosko previously served as the Director of Pharmacy and Care Teams at a multisite FQHC system in Oregon, where he implemented and sustained integrated clinical pharmacy services via traditional medical billing pathways and launched the system's first in house dispensing pharmacy and 340B program. As an independent consultant, he has worked with a wide variety of practices throughout the country to assist in the implementation and sustainment of clinical pharmacy services.
Dr. Rosko maintains a clinical practice and provides telehealth primary care and urgent care medical services to patients throughout Idaho in his own telehealth clinic, and is presently working on starting a specialty OUD outpatient pharmacist clinic in Southern Nevada. As a resident of Nevada, he also serves as a Member at Large on the Board of the Nevada Pharmacy Alliance, and will begin a term as the President-Elect in 2025. His practice interests include addiction medicine, preventative medicine and respiratory disease.
Executive Committee
Tom Wadsworth, PharmD, BCPS
Dean Internal Medicine, Obesity, Diabetes, Community Pharmacy Practice
Office: BTC 120L
Dr. Wadsworth is the Dean for the College of Pharmacy and Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences. He previously served as Assistant Dean for Alaska programs at Idaho State University. Dr. Wadsworth earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from ISU in 2002 and completed an ASHP accredited Primary Care Pharmacy Specialty Residency at the Boise VA Medical Center in 2007.
Prior to residency, Dr. Wadsworth served 4 years as a Clinical Pharmacist at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a registered pharmacist in Idaho and Alaska and has significant experience in primary care, community pharmacy, and home infusion pharmacy. Dr. Wadsworth is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and served as an Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist at St. Luke's Internal Medicine in Boise, Idaho for 9 years.
Dr. Wadsworth has a variety of research interests including obesity, diabetes, statin myopathy, QT-prolonging medications, and quality outcomes in medication management. More recently, Dr. Wadsworth has been integral to the development and implementation of the Doctor of Pharmacy program with the University of Alaska Anchorage in Anchorage Alaska and serves as the administrative officer at the Anchorage campus. Dr. Wadsworth is also the principle investigator of the SETMuPP demonstration initiative, which seeks to mobilize community and primary care pharmacists to address the current gap in preventative and health management services available to Alaskans with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease.
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Kasidy McKay, PharmD, BCPS
Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, Clinical Associate Professor
Adult Internal Medicine
Office: BTC 115F
Marvin Schulte, PhD
Department Chair of BPSCI, Professor Fundamentals of Pharmacology, CNS and ANS Pharmacology, General Biochemistry, Advanced Protein Structure and Function, Membrane Biophysics
Office: BTC 113A
Marvin Schulte is Chair and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. He earned his B.S. degree at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN in the Department of Biochemistry. Dr. Schulte has held faculty positions at several universities including Louisiana State University College of Pharmacy, Monroe, LA; The University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and University of the Sciences, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA. He was department chair for 5 years at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy prior to joining the faculty at the ISU College of Pharmacy.
Schulte has published numerous peer-reviewed publications and has received NIH, NSF and American Heart Association funding for his research focused on the structure and function of ligand gated ion channel receptors. Specific areas of interest include nicotinic receptor modulation, serotonin type 3 receptors in depression, development of new strategies for the treatment of clinical rabies, new drug development for obsessive-compulsive disorders, and other related areas. Dr. Schulte’s laboratory provides training and research experiences to students at all academic levels including high school, undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral.
Eric Silk
Department Chair of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Clinical Associate Professor
Office: M 729
Dr. Silk is the Chair of the Clinical Psychopharmacology Program and a Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy at Idaho State University. Dr. Silk has an extensive history of experience in psychopharmacology and assessment of psychological, neuropsychological, and substance use disorders.
Dr. Silk earned a B.S. in psychology from Michigan State University. He completed a M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He then worked as a Research Coordinator at the Substance Use Research Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute affiliated with the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. His Ph.D. is in Clinical Psychology with a Specialization in Neuropsychology from Nova Southeastern University. He also completed a post-doc M.S. in psychopharmacology at Nova Southeastern.
Dr. Silk’s career path led him to Wyoming, where he continued to teach, developed a psychological practice, and pursued leadership in the Wyoming Psychological Association. He was an associate professor of psychology at Northwest College and is currently an Assistant Lecturer at University of Wyoming and University of Idaho. He was the president of the Wyoming Psychological Association from 2017-2018. Dr. Silk is a licensed clinical psychologist in Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho.
External Advisory Board
-Rob Wills
-Ryan Ruggles
-Cara Liday
Additional Members TBA
Primary Care Section
Jordin Milward
Jordin Milward, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES
Term: September 2024 – August 2025
Community Pharmacy Section
Institutional Care Section
Research and Publication Group
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Elaine Nguyen, PharmD, MPH, MBA, BCACP
Associate Professor
Health Outcomes Research, Quality Improvement, Ambulatory Care
Office: M 751
Dr. Nguyen joined Idaho State University (SU) L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy in 2017. She works to optimize healthcare delivery, especially for rural and underserved populations. She is particularly interested in pharmacy practice, evidence-based diabetes services, and immunizations.
Dr. Nguyen graduated from the University of Iowa with her Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health degrees. She has completed a two-year ambulatory care residency at the Boise VA Medical Center and a two-year health economics and outcomes research fellowship at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital. She is board certified in ambulatory care, and continues to practice at the Boise VA Medical Center.
At ISU, she co-coordinates PHAR942 Fundamentals of Pharmacy Practice and Literature Evaluation in the spring of P1 year. She also offers elective independent study opportunities and introductory and advanced rotations in academia and research.