Our Pharmacy Residency preceptors bring excellent education and years of experience to the program.
Chelsea Landgraf, PharmD, BCPS
Program Director, Springfield PGY1 Pharmacy
Preceptor: PGY1 Family Medicine, PGY1 Practice Management; PGY2
Ambulatory Care - Transitions of Care - Inpatient Family Medicine
- Education: University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Practice experience: Rolla, MO; Savannah, GA; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Internal/family medicine, transitions of care, practice management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2009
- Email: chelsea.landgraf@coxhealth.com
"Pharmacy residencies provide an environment for the resident to strengthen clinical competencies and gain confidence as a new practitioner. As the year progresses, proficiencies and practice management skills are solidified, ensuring meaningful and lasting personal and professional growth."
Laura MacCall PharmD, BCPS
Program Director, PGY1 Pharmacy - Branson
Preceptor: Emergency Medicine
- Education: Wingate University School of Pharmacy, Western Carolina University
- Residency: PGY1, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center; PGY2 Emergency Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center
- Practice experience: Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, Utah; Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: ED critical care and resuscitation, toxicology, infectious disease, social media and FOAM in pharmacy education
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: laura.maccall@coxhealth.com
Cassie Heffern PharmD, BCACP
Program
Director, PGY2 Ambulatory Care
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 - Ambulatory Care (Family Medical Care Center); PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Medically Underserved 1 (Family Medical Care Center); Elective Liaison
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth; PGY2 Ambulatory Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Diabetes, chronic pain, precepting, interprofessional care, medically underserved
- Joined CoxHealth: 2011
- Email: cassie.heffern@coxhealth.com
"This residency will provide you real life skills for practicing in any ambulatory care practice. I believe every ambulatory care practitioner should know how to create and use a collaborative practice agreement, put together a business plan, and how to effectively precept learners – which are among the many skills developed during the residency."
Karrie Derenski, PharmD, BCNSP, BCCCP, CNSC
Program Director, PGY2 Critical Care
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 & PGY2 Critical Care - Metabolic Support; All PGY1 & PGY2 Programs
- Research
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, University Hospital, Denver; PGY2 Nutrition, University Hospital, Denver
- Practice experience: Chicago, IL; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Nutrition support, diabetes, wound healing, GI disorders
- Joined CoxHealth: 1997
- Email: karrie.derenski@coxhealth.com
"Pharmacy residency training prepares clinical pharmacists to practice in a variety of practice settings. I find precepting a rewarding experience that allows me to contribute to the development of an individual and the pharmacy profession."
Livia Allen, PharmD, BCCCP
Co-Program Director, PGY2 Critical Care
Preceptor: PGY2 Critical Care - Medical ICU; PGY2 Specialty-Based Provider Rotations
- Education: University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Pharmacy at MU
- Residency: PGY1, Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, SD; PGY2 Critical Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Toxicology, cardiology, fluids and electrolytes in the ICU
- Joined CoxHealth: 2014
- Email: livia.allen@coxhealth.com
“This residency program offers the variety of critical care specialty areas needed to become a well-rounded, highly qualified practitioner who manages all types of critically ill patients. Completing this residency advanced my skill level and confidence as well as helped me develop lasting relationships with the health care team.”
Glenda Adams, RPh, BCPPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Pediatrics, PGY2 Critical Care PICU/NICU
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Practice experience: CoxHealth; Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO
- Clinical interests: Pediatrics, neonatology research
- Joined CoxHealth: 1985
- Email: glendak.adams@coxhealth.com
"Pharmacy practice involves a wide variety of settings and opportunities. It is an occupation that involves a continuous state of change and learning. I feel the residency program provides the opportunity to explore a great number of areas and to be involved with people that truly enjoy their jobs in any given area. It offers a great learning experience not only for the students, but also for the preceptors."
Temitayo (Tayo) Bakare, PharmD, ALM, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Leadership – Medication Use Evaluation
- Education: Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA; Saint John’s University College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, Memorial Medical Center
- Practice experience: Johnstown, PA; Boston, MA; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Human motivation, transformational leadership, strategic negotiations and the role of emotions, oncology, infectious diseases
- Joined CoxHealth: 2014
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
Ryan Baker, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Preceptor: PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Leadership, Business Plan
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City at MU
- Residency: PGY1, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.; PGY2 Ambulatory Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Biologics, biostatistics, drug cost containment, population health
- Joined CoxHealth: 2013
- Email: ryan.baker@coxhealth.com
“CoxHealth offers a diverse array of rotational experiences for any pharmacy learner. I am excited to be directly involved with the exploration and growth of our Ambulatory Pharmacy Services and also sharing this experience with our residents. Pharmacy Practice in the ambulatory setting of CoxHealth spans a number of clinics and involves collaboration with the institutional, regional services and population health arms of the system. These relationships strengthen the practice here in southwest Missouri and in turn foster the development of the pharmacy learner.”
Brooke Bitner, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Emergency Medicine; PGY2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine I and II; PGY2 Ambulatory Care Emergency Medicine Elective
- Education: University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 University of Kansas Medical Center
- Practice experience: Emergency Medicine: Liberty, MO; Topeka, KS; Springfield, MO | Outpatient Oncology: Kansas City, KS
- Clinic interests: Sedation, Alternative routes of administration, Sepsis, Trauma, Stroke, Infectious Diseases
- Joined CoxHealth: 2020
- Email: brooke.bitner@coxhealth.com
“Emergency medicine is pattern recognition and knowledge translation, as well as the guts to take action, based on limited information.”
Heather Lyons-Burney, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 & PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Academia & Faith Community Health
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth, 1995
- Practice experience: Inpatient decentralized hospital, community pharmacy, compounding pharmacy, ambulatory care clinic
- Clinical interests: Women's health, chronic disease management
- Additional positions: Adjunct faculty for CoxHealth; affiliated with UMKC School of Pharmacy at MSU, clinical assistant professor; Faith Community Health clinic (nonprofit clinic in Branson, MO)
"There is a subtle difference between a mission and a promise. A mission is something that you strive to accomplish – a promise is something you are compelled to keep. One is individual, the other is shared. When a mission and a promise are one and the same, that's when mountains are moved and races are won.” – Hala Moddelmog
Allison Chen, PharmD, JD
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Teaching & Education
- Education: Drake University - Des Moines, IA
- Practice experience: Des Moines, IA; Mesa, AZ; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Oncology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2013
- Email: allison.chen@coxhealth.com
“1. Show up on time. 2. Bring coffee.”
Elizabeth F. Englin, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Academia, Precepting and Transitions of Care
- Education: UMKC School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 and PGY2, Clement J. Zablocki Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
- Practice experience: UMKC School of Pharmacy at MSU; CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Transitions of care, internal medicine, precepting and teaching
- Joined CoxHealth: 2015
- Email: elizabeth.englin@coxhealth.com
Nick Goetzinger, PharmD
Preceptor: Branson PGY1 Ambulatory Care
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Practice experience: Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Transitions of care, infectious disease, cardiology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: nicholas.goetzinger@coxhealth.com
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
Brian Grace, PharmD
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Ambulatory Care
- Education: Harding University
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Cardiology, transitions of care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2012
- Email: brian.grace@coxhealth.com
"Residency offered a unique opportunity to work side by side with specialty pharmacists as well as other health care professionals, giving me a more holistic view of patient care.”
Thomas Gregory, Pharm.D., BCPS, CPE, FASPE
Preceptor: PGY2 Critical Care – Emergency Medicine
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY
- Practice experience: Cooperstown, NY; Kansas City, MO; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Emergency medicine, pain management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2015
- Email: thomas.gregory@coxhealth.com
“See one, do one, teach one in order to gain mastery of any skill.”
Jennifer Gunn, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY2 Critical Care – Staffing, PGY2 Cardiovascular ICU
- Education: UMKC School of Pharmacy
- Practice experience: CoxHealth, Springfield MO
- Clinical interests: Critical care
- Joined CoxHealth: 1997
- Email: jennifer.gunn@coxhealth.com
“Your education will never hurt you. Residency is that next step after graduation to continue learning to make yourself a better practitioner.”
Stefanie Hawkins, PharmD
- Preceptor: PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Senior Health Center
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Pharmacy; University of Missouri-Columbia BS in Biochemistry
- Residency: PGY1 Duke University Hospital
- Practice experience: Durham, NC; Kansas City, KS; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Geriatrics, hematology, emergency medicine
- Joined CoxHealth: 2013
- Email: stefanie.hawkins@coxhealth.com
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”– Phil Collins
"We are all students and mentors whether you are talking about students, residents, colleagues or patients. My patients and residents continue to teach me new concepts and perspectives daily. Reciprocally, I love seeing that moment when they learn something new from me. All of a sudden, we've made a lifelong connection through learning! That's what keeps me energized to push for continual improvement in how we provide medical care and education to each other."
Jimmy Houpt, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Leadership
- Education: Saint Louis College of Pharmacy
- Practice experience: St. Louis, MO; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Cardiology, infectious disease with emphasis on HIV/HCV, surgery, leadership
- Joined CoxHealth: 2014
- Email: james.houpt@coxhealth.com
“Taking the time to mentor, teach and guide a resident is the best investment you can ever make in your career and your organization can make for the future.”
Kris Jones, RPh
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 & PGY2 Critical Care – Neurotrauma ICU, Nephrology
- Education: South Dakota State University
- Practice experience: CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Critical care
- Joined CoxHealth: 1994
- Email: kris.jones@coxhealth.com
"A residency program gives new pharmacists the confidence and skills needed to be a successful practitioner in the changing demands of the pharmacy workplace."
Jason Kramer, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Pediatrics, PGY2 Critical Care PICU/NICU
- Education: University of Kansas; University of Florida
- Practice experience: Kansas City, MO; CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Pediatrics, neonatology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2010
- Email: jason.kramer@coxhealth.com
Louis C. Kynard, Jr., PharmD, MBA, BCSCP, FAB
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Leadership
- Education: University of Toledo College of Pharmacy; University of Toledo College of Business; Ohio State University
- Practice experience: Toledo, Ohio; Springfield, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: General, ambulatory care, pharmacy informatics, medication safety
- Joined CoxHealth: 2014
- Email: louis.kynard@coxhealth.com
“Patient safety has always been a passion for me as a pharmacist. Our goal as pharmacists should always be to improve the lives of our patients through the safe effective use of medications. As a leader, I strive to teach our pharmacy team to focus on providing evidence based clinical solutions that are cost effective and safe for our patients. One of the most satisfying feelings that I get as a leader is to help young pharmacists grow and become excellent clinicians.“
Lance Lake, RPh
Preceptor: Distribution and Operations
- Education: South Dakota State University, BS
- Practice experience: Mobridge, SD; Springfield, MO; Ozark, MO; Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: IT, infectious disease, diabetes, oncology,
- Joined CoxHealth: 2012
- Email: lance.lake@coxhealth.com
Shelbie McCoy, PharmD, BCCCP
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Critical Care, PGY2 Critical Care Teaching and Education, Endocrinology
- Education: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Residency: PGY1, Princeton Baptist Medical Center; PGY2 Critical Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Birmingham, AL: Springfield, MO, Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Pain, agitation and delirium, infectious disease, sustained neuromuscular blockades in the critically ill
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: shelbie.mccoy@coxhealth.com
“We are all colleagues whether we are students, residents or seasoned practitioners. It is our responsibility to learn from each other and other professionals to continue to push the envelope of our knowledge and skills for the continued expansion of pharmacy practice.”
Andrea Prince, PharmD, BCACP
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield Teaching and Education
- Education: Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth; PGY2 Ambulatory Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinic interests: Oncology, pain management, health disparities and social determinants of health, chronic disease state management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2017
- Email: andrea.prince@coxhealth.com
"Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there." – Bo Jackson
April Porter, PharmD, BCACP
Preceptor: Springfield PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Primary Care, Education, Leadership
- Education: University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center; PGY2 Ambulatory Care, CoxHealth
- Practice Experience: Kansas City, MO – Ambulatory Care; Springfield, MO – Academia, Specialty Pharmacy, Population Health
- Clinical Interests: Chronic disease management, population health, transitions of care, immunizations
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: april.porter@coxhealth.com
“The ambulatory care residency at CoxHealth prepares pharmacists to practice within numerous settings with room for personal growth. The relationships built with providers and patients throughout my residency year have made a crucial impact on my practice today. I am honored to be able to continue to train and practice at this institution and make a difference in the community we serve.”
Dan Roth, PharmD
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Informatics, PGY2 Critical Care Informatics
- Education: St. Louis College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Evening staff pharmacist, IT/quality assurance pharmacy specialist
- Clinical interests: Pharmacy informatics, medication safety, emergency medicine
- Additional positions currently held: Adjunct graduate faculty for physical therapy department, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
- Joined CoxHealth: June 2009
- Email: daniel.roth@coxhealth.com
"Pharmacy residency is overflowing with great clinical experiences that mold and apply the knowledge learned throughout one’s pharmacy education, however, the experience and change a resident will see in the molding of their character and professional attitude is something that is impossible to learn in a classroom. These experiences are something that will impact the way a pharmacist practices for the duration of their careers."
Lance Schneider, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Internal Medicine
- Education: University of Missouri – Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth; PGY2 Internal Medicine, University of Missouri
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO; Columbia, MO
- Clinic interests: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Transitions of Care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: lance.schneider@coxhealth.com
Melissa Steenhoek, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Infectious Disease & Antibiotic Stewardship
- Education: University of Missouri - Columbia; University of Kansas
- Residency: PGY1, Oregon Health and Science University Hospital
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Infectious disease
- Joined CoxHealth: 2004
- Email: melissa.steenhoek@coxhealth.com
"Residency training is important for the future of clinical pharmacy. I enjoy working with pharmacy residents because of their enthusiasm, motivation and fresh ideas."
Brittany Sturgeon, PharmD
Preceptor: Springfield PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Operations
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Business, Practice Management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: brittany.sturgeon@coxhealth.com
Sara Wirth, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield Teaching and Education
- Education: University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, Cox Health, Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Cox Health, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: ID, internal med, med safety
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: sara.wirth@coxhealth.com
"Residency provides an opportunity to gain experience in many different areas of pharmacy and develop a strong foundation as you begin your career."
Scott Wuebbels, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield Internal Medicine
- Education: St. Louis College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Springfield, Missouri
- Clinic interests: Cardiology, infectious disease and internal medicine
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: scott.wuebbels@coxhealth.com
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
J.Drew Zimmer, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: Springfield PGY1 Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Education: BS Pharmacy – St. Louis College of Pharmacy, PharmD – University of Colorado School of PharmacyPractice experience: Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO; Northeast Regional Medical Center – Kirksville, MO; CoxHealth – Springfield, MO
- Clinic interests: Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials, Multi-Drug Resistant Gram negative infections, Septic Shock/Critical Care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2019
- Email: Drew.Zimmer@coxhealth.com
“The 75 year old fight against the bacterial diseases has been successful. Although not completely eradicated, plague, cholera, typhoid, diphtheria, and sepsis have ceased to be a threat to mankind.” S. Gard, member of the Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute, Nobel Prize ceremony speech, 1954.
“What you give you have, what you don’t give is lost forever”