Preceptor Profiles
Our Pharmacy Residency preceptors bring excellent education and years of experience to the program.
Brooke Bitner, PharmD, BCPS, BCEMP
Program Director, PGY1 Pharmacy – Springfield
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- 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
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Evan Roberts, PharmD
Program Director, PGY1 Pharmacy - Branson
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, Freeman Hospital, Joplin MO
- Practice experience: Lead Internal Medicine: Springfield | Internal Medicine Branson
- Clinical interests: Transitions of Care, Infectious Disease, & Cardiology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2013
- Email: Evan.Roberts@coxhealth.com
Brian Grace, PharmD, BCACP
Program Director, PGY2 Ambulatory Care
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: Harding University College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Inpatient, Transitions of Care, Outpatient - CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Ambulatory Care, Population Health, Transitions of Care, Cardiology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2012
- Email: Brian.Grace@coxhealth.com
“The best way to learn something well is to ask somebody to help you with it. But it takes hours and hours of practice to be really good at it. In fact, it takes a lot of practice to be good at almost everything. But it’s worth it.” - Fred Rogers
Sarah Stone, PharmD, BCPS
Program Coordinator, PGY1 Programs
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson; PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 - CoxHealth: Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Float pool, critical care, emergency medicine, pharmacist education
- Clinical interests: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Nutrition, Education
- Joined CoxHealth: 2015
- Email: Sarah.Stone@coxhealth.com
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn." - Phil Collins
Abdullah Aloqaybi, PharmD
Program Coordinator, PGY2 Ambulatory Care
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson; PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: MCPHS University, Worcester, MA
- Residency: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency – Mass General Brigham Cooley Dickinson Hospital; PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency – CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Ambulatory care, endocrinology, transitions of care, and medication access
- Clinical interests: Heart failure, geriatrics, and social determinants of health
- Joined CoxHealth: 2025
- Email: Abdullah.Aloqaybi@coxhealth.com
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
Chris Baker, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Branson
- Education: St. Louis College of Pharmacy
- Practice experience: Pharmacy Practice: Joplin MO, Springfield MO, Monett MO, Branson MO
- Clinical interests: Patient Safety, Infectious disease, Transitions of Care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2017
- Email: Christopher.Baker@coxhealth.com
Ryan Baker, PharmD, BCACP
Preceptor: PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City at MU
- Residency: PGY1, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.; PGY2 Ambulatory Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Ambulatory Care Assistant Director: CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Biologics, biostatistics, drug cost containment, population health
- Joined CoxHealth: 2013
- Email: Ryan.Baker@coxhealth.com
“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.”
Jonathan Barton, PharmD, MBA
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis
- Practice experience: Administrative Director of Pharmacy; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Leadership, patient safety, transitions of care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: Jonathan.Barton@coxhealth.com
Heather Lyons-Burney, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- 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)
- Email: lyonsburneyh@umkc.edu
"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
Kristen Butler, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield, PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: Drake University
- Residency: PGY1 – MercyONE: Des Moines, IA; PGY2 CC – CoxHealth South: Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Emergency Medicine: Des Moines, IA; Critical Care: Springfield,
- Clinical interests: Trauma, Sepsis, Pain Management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2022
- Email: Kristen.Butler@coxhealth.com
Allison Chen, PharmD, JD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield, PGY1 Branson
- 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: PGY1 Springfield, PGY2 Ambulatory 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
Shelbie Fuller, PharmD, BCCCP
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Residency: PGY1, Princeton Baptist Medical Center; PGY2 Critical Care, CoxHealth
- Practice experience: Birmingham, AL: Critical Care: Springfield, MO, Branson, MO | Clinical Coordinator: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Pain, agitation and delirium, infectious disease, sustained neuromuscular blockades
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: Shelbie.Fuller@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.”
Nick Goetzinger, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Branson
- 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.”
Thomas Gregory, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCEMP, CPE, FASPE
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY
- Practice experience: Critical Care Cooperstown, NY; Kansas City, MO; Emergency Medicine Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Sedation and analgesia, Stroke, BLS/ACLS/PALS
- Joined CoxHealth: 2015
- Email: Thomas.Gregory@coxhealth.com
“See one, do one, teach one in order to gain mastery of any skill.”
Whitney Hardesty, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield, MO
- Education: University of Missouri Kansas City- Springfield, MO Satellite Campus
- Residency: PGY1 – CoxHealth: Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Meyer Orthopedic and Surgical Hospital: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Transitions of Care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2019
- Email: Whitney.Hardesty@coxhealth.com
Stefanie Hawkins, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield, PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- 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."
Kevin Howk, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1 – CoxHealth: Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: System Float: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Trauma, Sepsis management
- Joined CoxHealth: 2022
- Email: Kevin.Howk2@coxhealth.com
Kris Jones, BSPharm
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: South Dakota State University
- Practice experience: CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Critical care with specialty interest in Neurocritical care, Nephrology
- 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: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- 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
Lance Lake, BSPharm
Preceptor: PGY1 Sprinfield
- Education: South Dakota State University, BS
- Practice experience: Mobridge, SD; Springfield, MO; Ozark, MO; Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Informatics, infectious disease, diabetes, oncology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2012
- Email: Lance.Lake@coxhealth.com
Chelsea Landgraf, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson
- 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."
Lamanh Le, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield, PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: University of Michigan
- Residency: PGY1: Detroit Medical Center–Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit MI
- Practice experience: Emergency Medicine: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Anticoagulation Reversal, Infectious Diseases, Stroke
- Joined CoxHealth: 2016
- Email: Lamanh.Le@coxhealth.com
" Don't promise when you're happy, don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad." -Ziad K Abdelnour
Kelsey Marquardt, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Pharmacy at Springfield
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Critical Care, Emergency Medicine
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: Kelsey.Marquardt2@coxhealth.com
Doug Melton, PharmD, BCCCP
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri Kansas City (Springfield Campus), Pharm.D.
- Residency: PGY1, Cox Medical Center Branson: Branson, MO
- Practice experience: Critical Care: Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Disease
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: douglas.melton2@coxhealth.com
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who will argue with you." - John Wooden
Chris Morrison, BSPharm, MBA
Preceptor: PGY1 Branson, PGY1 Springfield
- Education: The Ohio State University, BS, Western Governors University, MBA Healthcare Management
- Practice experience: Grove City, OH; Columbus, OH; Springfield, MO; Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Transitions of Care, Patient Safety
- Joined CoxHealth: 2020
- Email: Chris.Morrison@coxhealth.com
William Pearl, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Practice experience: Internal medicine: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Cardiology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2020
- Email: Will.Pearl@coxhealth.com
Shiva Raoof-Rasti, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: Pharm. D. North Dakota State University 2014
- Practice experience: Acute Care Clinical Pharmacist Essentia Health Hospital. Fargo, ND. 2014-2021 | Critical care Pharmacist CoxHealth Hospital Springfield MO. 2021- Present
- Clinical interests: Critical care, Trauma, Cardiology, Neurology
- Joined CoxHealth: 2021
- Email: Shiva.Raoof-Rasti@coxhealth.com
Heather Redden, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City
- Residency: PGY1, Central Arkansas Veterans Affairs, Little Rock, AR
- Practice experience: Little Rock, AR; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Neurology, Internal Medicine
- Joined CoxHealth: 2002
- Email: Heather.Redden@coxhealth.com
"Try to leave this world better than you found it."
Andy Snyder, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson
- Education: Creighton University, Pharm.D.
- Residency: PGY1, CoxHealth - Springfield
- Practice experience: Clinical Coordinator Springfield, MO; Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Transitions of Care, Informatics, Practice Advancement
- Joined CoxHealth: 2008
- Email: Andrew.Snyder@coxhealth.com
Brittany Sturgeon, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- 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
Laura Vanderpluym, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Pharm.D.
- Practice experience: Branson, MO
- Clinical interests: Oncology, patient safety and education
- Joined CoxHealth: 2009
- Email: Laura.Vanderpluym@CoxHealth.com
Wei Wei, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson
- Education: University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy
- Practice experience: Internal Medicine: Springfield, MO; Branson, MO; Monett, MO
- Clinical interests: Internal medicine, critical care, transition of care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2012
- Email: Wei.Wei@CoxHealth.com
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Maggie Wolf, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY2 Ambulatory Care
- Education: Ohio Northern University School of Pharmacy
- Residency: Pharmacy Practice Residency with an Emphasis in Ambulatory Care
- Practice experience: Ambulatory care, Lima Ohio; Springfield MO | Community Pharmacy, Springfield MO | Inpatient/Critical Care, Springfield MO
- Clinical interests: Endocrinology, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Underserved healthcare
- Joined CoxHealth: 2023
- Email: Maggie.Wolf@coxhealth.com
" You are built to handle the pressure that comes with your calling” – Unknown
Brandee Wright, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Louisiana Monroe College of Pharmacy
- Residency: PGY1, Cox Medical Center Branson, Branson, MO
- Practice experience: Emergency Medicine: Branson, MO; Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Trauma, Stroke
- Joined CoxHealth: 2022
- Email: Brandee.Wright@coxhealth.com
Kara Wu, PharmD
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield
- Education: University of Missouri - Kansas City (MSU Campus)
- Residency: PGY1 – Cox Medical Center South - Springfield, MO
- Practice experience: Meyer Orthopedic and Surgical Hospital and Pharmacy Float Pool: Springfield, MO
- Clinical interests: Critical Care
- Joined CoxHealth: 2018
- Email: Kara.Wu@coxhealth.com
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think" - Albert Einstein
J. Drew Zimmer, PharmD, BCPS
Preceptor: PGY1 Springfield; PGY1 Branson; PGY2 Critical Care
- Education: BS Pharmacy – St. Louis College of Pharmacy, PharmD – University of Colorado School of Pharmacy Practice 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”