Decision '08; PPAG Board Election Results

PPAG is pleased to announce the election of David Knoppert, MScPharm, and Amy Potts, PharmD, to the Board of Directors.

 

David C. Knoppert is Liaison Neonatology and Coordinator of the Clinical Pharmacy Program at St. Joseph's Health Care in London, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Knoppert earned a Bachelor of Science Degree (University of Western Ontario, 1976), Bachelors of Education Degree (University of Toronto,1977), Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (University of Toronto, 1980), and a Master of Science in Pharmacy (University of Toronto, 1986). He completed a hospital pharmacy residency at University Hospital in London, Ontario in 1981. He also received a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (University of Western Ontario, 2004).

Mr. Knoppert has been a member of PPAG since 1999 and has served on the Research Committee since 2000, and co-chaired the committee from 2004-06. He has also served as a Scientific Abstract Reviewers since 2000. Mr. Knoppert has also led the PPAG International Inititiatives, which has resulted in the first International Pediatric Symposium that will be held in conjunction with ACCP in April 2009.

Amy Potts, PharmD, is currently Medication Safety Program Director at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Previously Dr. Potts served as the NICU Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and Director, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, TN. She is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has completed two years of post-graduate residency training in pharmacy practice and pediatrics both at Vanderbilt. She was the Clinical Coordinator and NICU Clinical Pharmacist at Children’s Hospital of Austin in Texas and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh before returning to Vanderbilt Children’s in 2006.
Dr. Potts has been a member of PPAG for 7 years and has actively served on both the Advocacy and Education Committees. She has helped develop and co-author many position statements relevant to pediatric pharmacy practice and helped in the planning and organization of the annual and specialty meetings this past year. She has also served as a mentor to new authors for the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics.