Christopher Owens, PharmD, MPH
Associate Vice President for Health Sciences, Professor
Interprofessional Education, Medical Ethics
Office: Gravely Hall 136
Dr. Christopher T. Owens, PharmD, MPH, serves as Associate Vice President for Health Sciences at Idaho State University and is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences at the L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy. He works on the Pocatello campus. He earned his PharmD from ISU in 2002 and his MPH in 2013. He also earned a Certificate in Biomedical Ethics in 2017. He completed a residency in Ambulatory Care at the Southeast Idaho VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in 2003 and worked as a prn community pharmacist for over 15 years and a clinical pharmacist at Health West in Pocatello.
For over 20 years, he has taught and published on professionalism, ethics, evidence-based integrative health, and population health topics. He has lectured on clinical topics as well as health care ethics at Idaho State University since 2003 and has been part of the interprofessional curriculum task force with the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2020. Dr. Owens has served as president of the Healthcare Ethics Special Interest Group (SIG) for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and is passionate about advancing interprofessional education, working collaboratively to promote evidence-based patient care and population health, and preparing an appropriately-trained healthcare workforce for rural settings and underserved populations.
Brooke Buffat, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Interprofessional Education
Ambulatory Care, Chronic Disease Management
Jen Adams, PharmD, EdD
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Associate Professor
Pharmacy Law, Health Policy, Advocacy, Scholarship of Teaching
& Learning
Office: M749G
Jennifer Adams, PharmD, EdD, FAPhA, FNAP, serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs, overseeing the quality and alignment of the College’s educational standards and goals. A licensed pharmacist, Dr. Adams holds a Doctor of Education focusing on educational policy, higher education administration, curriculum design, and instructional methodologies. As a tenured Associate Professor, she has an extensive publication record in teaching and learning and legislative and regulatory initiatives. She teaches pharmacy law and health care systems to first-and-third-year student pharmacists, and pharmacy law to clinical psychopharmacology students. Widely respected for her leadership in national, regional, and state professional associations, Dr. Adams is also recognized for her substantial contributions to advocacy and pharmacy practice reform. She is a proud graduate of Boise State, Idaho State, and George Washington University.
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.
Cathy Oliphant, PharmD
Professor
Infectious Disease, Opioid Abuse, Internal Medicine
Office: M 726
Dr. Oliphant is a Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences and Professor at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. She earned her PharmD degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed a residency and infectious diseases/microbiology fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to joining the faculty at ISU College of Pharmacy in 2003, Dr. Oliphant taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Oliphant maintains a practice site at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise and Meridian. She works with the St. Luke's Internal Medicine physicians and hospitalists in addition to the infectious disease physicians. Dr. Oliphant precepts students on medicine, infectious diseases, and academic APPEs. She teaches in all four years of the program. Dr. Oliphant co-coordinates the Infectious Disease Module in the P3 year and the Residency Readiness course. She also facilitates P2 and P3 case studies. Dr. Oliphant is the Rho Chi and Generation Rx advisor. Her research interests include infectious diseases and prescription drug abuse issues.
Dr. Oliphant has been selected as Teacher of the Year and Most Influential Professor by 4th year Doctor of Pharmacy students.
Paul Cady
Professor Emeritus
Department: Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences
Dates of Service: 1990-2021
Michelle Barcelon, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP
Internal Medicine Pharmacy Clinical Specialist
Office: OFFSITE
Glenda Carr, PharmD
Clinical Associate Professor
Family Practice, Diabetes, Anticoagulation, Hypertension, Hepatitis C
Office: M 727
Dr. Carr joined the ISU College of Pharmacy faculty in the fall of 2002. She graduated from the University of Montana with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy in December 1999 and completed her Pharm.D. in May 2000. Throughout pharmacy school, she was active in the Academy of Students of Pharmacy on a local, regional and national level. She also held many positions on a local level for Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity. After graduation, she completed a general practice residency at the VA Connecticut Healthcare Systems. There, she gained experience in ambulatory care, internal medicine, cardiology, geriatrics, pharmacy administration and spent time at the Connecticut Poison Control Center. During her residency, she completed the Lipid Training Center for Health Care Professionals sponsored by the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. She continued her post graduate training at the William S. Middleton Veteran's Memorial Hospital in Madison, Wis. As a primary care pharmacy resident. While there, she gained much experience in chronic disease state management, including hypertension, diabetes, anticoagulation therapy, hyperlipdemia, rheumatology and pain management. Her residency project was titled "NSAID induced GI ulcers: risk factors in a VA population." Carr is currently working at the Terry Reilly Health Services in Nampa, Idaho. There, she began a anticoagulation service and is working on collaborative practice agreements for hypertension, diabetes, hypothyroidism and hyperlipidemia. Carr is a member of ASHP and ACCP.
Kerry Casperson
Professor Emeritus
Department: Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences
Dates of Service: 1982-2021
Kevin W. Cleveland, PharmD, ANP
Professor
Pharmacy Practice ISU Kasiska Division of Health Sciences L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy, Meridian, Idaho
Office: M 754
Kevin W. Cleveland, PharmD, ANP, is a Professor in the Pharmacy Practice Department at Idaho State University L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Idaho State University in 2003 and completed a residency in drug information at the Idaho Drug Information Center in 2004. He has been on faculty with ISU for since completing his residency and his specialty areas include pharmacy delivered immunizations, medication therapy management, drug information, travel medicine and nuclear pharmacy.
Cleveland is ISU’s Chapter Advisor for the American Pharmacist Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists. He oversees the organization’s health screenings, immunization clinics, and educational sessions. He coordinates the mobile preventive health and vaccination clinic at Idaho State University in Meridian and has been involved in numerous community vaccination efforts including coordinating drive-through influenza and COVID-19 vaccination clinics and increasing vaccination rates in underserved populations in rural Idaho. He also was the recipient of the 2023 APhA Immunization Champions National Award for Community Outreach.
Cleveland is a member of the United States Pharmacopeia, Rho Chi, Phi Lambda Sigma and served on the executive board for the Idaho Immunization Coalition. When he is not working, he is out spending time with family hiking, backpacking, or running Spartan races.
Vaughn Culbertson, PharmD
Director of NonTraditional Students/PPRA Professor - Pharmacoepidemiology, Drug Toxicity
Office: M 713
Rex Force, PharmD
Senior Vice Provost and Vice President for Health Sciences, Director for Pocatello Family Medicine Clinical Research Center, Professor
Office: STOP 8055
Dr. Force is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Family Medicine at Idaho State University and Director of the Family Medicine Clinical Research Center. He earned his B.S. in Pharmacy from Oregon State University and his Pharm.D. degree from the University of Texas, after which he completed a research fellowship in infectious diseases at Ohio State University.
Dr. Force has been active in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, serving on several committees as well as chairing the Board Certification Affairs Committee and the Public and Professional Affairs Committee. He was elected Chair of the Ambulatory Care Practice and Research Network of ACCP in 1999 and to the Board of Regents in 2001. His expertise in collaborative drug therapy and reimbursement for clinical pharmacy services was recognized by his appointment to the ACCP Task Force on Compensation in 1998. He serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Pharmacotherapy and has acted as a referee for the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs. Dr. Force was the founding column editor of STEPped Care: An Evidence-based Approach to Drug Therapy in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. Currently, he co-authors and edits the Prescriber?s Letter Journal Club a monthly publication designed to critically evaluate new information in the field of pharmacotherapy. He has authored over 60 professional and research publications, and speaks regularly at professional meetings. Dr. Force and his collaborators have received grants and contracts in excess of $3.5 million while at ISU. Presently, he is the Site Principal Investigator of a multi-center diabetes trial (ACCORD) funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His research interests focus on primary care pharmacotherapy (hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, adult immunizations, etc.), drug utilization review, pharmacoepidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. Dr. Force has been on the faculty at Idaho State University since 1993.
Dave Hachey, PharmD
Pharmacy Clinical Services Director/PPRA Professor
Office: FMR B33
Dr. David Hachey is a Clinical Associate Professor at Idaho State University Kasiska College of Health Professions in the Departments of Family Medicine and Physician Assistant Studies. He earned his Pharm.D. at University of Rhode Island in 1998 and completed a residency and fellowship in Family Medicine at Idaho State University in 2000.
Dr. Hachey's clinical practice and primary research interest is in family medicine. Most recently, he has examined ways to increase the immunization rate in the elderly population with computer technology. Dr. Hachey works with a multidisciplinary care team for care of patients infected with HIV in eastern Idaho.
John Holmes, PharmD, BCPS
Associate Professor
Health Outcomes, Quality Improvement, Practice-Based Research
Office: FAM MED B29
Dr. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Family Medicine at Idaho State University. Dr. Holmes graduated form Idaho State University in 2007 with his Doctor of Pharmacy degree. He completed a one-year ambulatory care residency in 2008 at the Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Pocatello, Idaho. He then completed a one-year Pharmacotherapy Residency at Pocatello Family Medicine and a two-year Clinical Research Fellowship at the Idaho State University Department of Family Medicine. He is currently working towards a Master of Public Health degree.
Dr. Holmes has served as a sub-investigator on several industry and National Institutes of Health sponsored studies conducted at the ISU Family Medicine Clinical Research Center. His research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, quality improvement, and access to healthcare for rural residents. Dr. Holmes provides clinical pharmacy and quality improvement support to the Health West ISU clinic, a training site for medical and pharmacy residents at Idaho State University. He teaches and mentors family medicine and pharmacotherapy residents, physician assistant students and pharmacy students on a broad spectrum of pharmacotherapy and quality improvement topics.
Karl Madaras-Kelly, PharmD, MPH
Professor
Infectious Disease, Epidemiology
Office: M 732
Dr. Madaras-Kelly is a Professor in the College of Pharmacy located in Meridian.
Dr. Madaras-Kelly received his BS in Pharmacy in 1991 and a Doctor of Pharmacy in 1992 from the University of Minnesota. He then went on to complete an Infectious Diseases/Pharmacokinetics Fellowship at the University of Minnesota and St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center. He received his Masters of Public Health in 2006 from ISU.
Dr. Madaras-Kelly has been in his current position located at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVAMC) since 1994 where he maintains active clinical infectious diseases and research programs, as well as mentors pharmacy residents and fourth year students on adult medicine and infectious diseases rotations. Dr. Madaras-Kelly has given many presentations, and authored numerous manuscripts on a variety of issues related to antibiotic resistance. He has received over a million dollars in grant support from the NIH, VHA, CDC, pharmacy professional societies, and the pharmaceutical industry. His primary research interests involve antibiotic stewardship, health systems research, epidemiology and clinical outcomes of infectious diseases treatments.
Dr. Madaras-Kelly has been a recipient of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Fellowship award in infectious diseases, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Young Investigator Award, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) Young Investigator Award. Dr. Madaras-Kelly was previously selected as Teacher of the Year and Most Influential Professor by four-year Doctor of Pharmacy students.
Dr. Madaras-Kelly is an active member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP), and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Health Care Epidemiology.
Robert Mancini, PharmD, BCOP
BMT Pharmacy Program Coordinator, PGY2 Residency Program Director, St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute
Oncology Pharmacy
Office: OFFSITE
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Kasidy McKay, PharmD, BCPS
Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, Clinical Associate Professor
Adult Internal Medicine
Office: BTC 115F
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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.
Barbara Mason
Professor Emeritus
Department: Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences
Dates of Service: 1987-2024
Jordan Ferro, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Associate Professor
Office: Family Medicine B29
Jordan Ferro, PharmD, BCPS, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Pharmacy Practice. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy from the Idaho State University College of Pharmacy in 2016. After completing his degree, he pursued a two-year Pharmacotherapy Residency with the Idaho State University Department of Family Medicine and College of Pharmacy. Dr. Ferro joined the ISU faculty in 2018. He maintains his Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy and has clinical experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He currently practices Adult Inpatient Medicine at Portneuf Medical Center, affiliated with the ISU Department of Family Medicine. Previously, he spent five years providing Ambulatory Care pharmacy services and education with the ISU Department of Family Medicine at Health West ISU. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Ferro serves as the Residency Program Director for the Combined PGY1/PGY2 Pharmacotherapy Residency Program, working closely with both the Family Medicine and Pharmacy Practice departments. His professional interests include interdisciplinary education and training, infectious diseases, endocrinology, cardiovascular disease, and quality improvement.
