Southeastern District Candidates for 2015 Board Election
The Board convened by conference call on Monday, May 18, and certified the election results. Click here to see vote counts.
J. Andrew Bowman received the highest number of votes. Jennifer Askew Buxton received the second highest number of votes and has requested a runoff. The runoff election between the two candidates begins on Tuesday, May 26 and will last through June 23. (Bios are below.)
Pharmacists residing in North Carolina and actively licensed as of March 15, 2015 are eligible to vote in the runoff election. Follow this link to log in and cast your vote now: https://www.ncbop1.org/online/pharmacistelection/login.asp. Voting takes less than a minute.
**Any pharmacist eligible to vote may instead request a paper ballot by notifying the Board in writing on or before June 5, 2015. Send a fax, letter, or email to the Board and include your name, license number, and home address. Written requests for a paper ballot must actually be received by the Board on or before June 5. Fax your request to 919.246.1056, attention Kristin Moore; mail to NCBOP Election, 6015 Farrington Road, Suite 201, Chapel Hill, NC 27517; or email kmoore@ncbop.org.**
The Board and its staff would like to thank each of the six candidates who ran in this year’s election: Ashley Abode, Lisa Ashworth, Andy Bowman, Jennifer Buxton, Henry Herring, and Mark Lyons.
J. Andrew Bowman, PharmD ("Andy")
Andy is the Director of Continuing Professional Education and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. He works part-time at Walgreens and, for the past two years, served as the founding Pharmacy Manager for the Campbell University Health Center Pharmacy, a Mutual Drug pharmacy.
Andy began his journey in pharmacy in 1985 at age 16 with a part-time job at Revco Discount Drug in Roanoke, VA. After being mentored by a number of veteran pharmacists, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a pharmacist at Campbell University School of Pharmacy where he graduated with his Doctor of Pharmacy in 1993. His professional career began at Kroger Pharmacy in Roanoke, Virginia. He has an extensive retail management and operations background developed while serving as a Pharmacy Coordinator for Kroger. He also hosted a weekly pharmacy question and answer radio show on WFIR 960 AM. After a seven-year tenure with Kroger, Andy returned to his alma mater in 2000 as the Director of Continuing Education.
Along with his responsibilities as an administrator at Campbell, Andy teaches courses in Patient Counseling, Advanced Patient Counseling, Pharmaceutical Calculations, and Interpersonal Skills. He is also an APhA Certified Immunization Trainer. When not in the classroom, he is coordinating continuing professional education programs for pharmacists around the state.
Andy has continued his involvement in radio broadcasting. From 2007 until 2011, he hosted a monthly pharmacy radio show at WFNC 107.3 FM in Fayetteville. In 2011, he coupled his love for collegiate athletics and his experience in broadcasting when he was asked to serve as color commentator for the Campbell University Fighting Camels football games. During the 2012 season, Andy moved down to the field to serve as the sideline reporter, a position he still serves in today.
Andy has held numerous leadership positions in North Carolina including: Chairman and Board of Directors member for the North Carolina Pharmacist Recovery Network (NCPRN), Vice-President of the Harnett County Pharmaceutical Association, and College of Pharmacy liaison to the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. Andy currently serves on the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) Board of Directors.
Andy is passionate about Health Literacy and Patient Counseling. He has presented numerous continuing education programs on these topics. Andy has a broad perspective on the profession of pharmacy and is well-informed regarding the challenges that our profession faces including: third party reimbursement, pharmacist work conditions, health literacy, patient counseling, provider status, pharmacy manpower issues, and pharmacy security and safety.
Andy is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors at Cape Fear Christian Academy in Erwin, NC, where his two daughters, Summer and Sarah attend school. Andy and his wife, Sarah H. Bowman, reside in Buies Creek with their daughters.
“The profession of pharmacy is faced with many challenges including: increased workload demands, fair reimbursement for pharmacists’ services, and the increasing supply of pharmacists in our state. Although each pharmacist practicing in our state may face different challenges, we must unite as pharmacists and confront these challenges thereby advancing our practice and our profession together. It would be my great honor to represent the pharmacists, the profession of pharmacy, and the patients of North Carolina by serving on the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. I would sincerely appreciate your support.”
Please cast your ballot for Andy Bowman.
Jennifer Askew Buxton, BS, PharmD, CPP
Jennifer Askew Buxton, a North Carolina native, received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill and completed a Primary Care Residency with Coastal AHEC and New Hanover Regional Medical Center. In her almost 12 years of pharmacy practice, Dr. Buxton has worked in hospital, community, ambulatory care, and home infusion practice settings in distributive, clinical, and administrative roles. Currently, she is the Director of Pharmacy and Co-Director of Mental Health Services at Cape Fear Clinic, Inc., a clinic serving low-income, uninsured patients in the Wilmington area where she volunteered for almost 10 years.
Dr. Buxton has held local, state, and national leadership positions with the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and American Pharmacists Association (APhA) – including President of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. She currently serves as a Director-at-Large for the ASHP Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners and a member of the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Application Review Committee for the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. She has also served several terms on the NCAP Board of Directors, and has participated in both the ASHP and APhA Houses of Delegates. Locally, she is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Cape Fear HealthNet and as a member of the New Hanover County Healthcare Coalition.
Dr. Buxton regularly precepts pharmacy students from all North Carolina schools of pharmacy and pharmacy technician students from her local community college, and she is the author of a book entitled From Student to Pharmacist: Making the Transition in association with APhA. She is also the winner of the 2014 Wilma Women to Watch Award in Healthcare, the 2014 Wilmington Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Healthcare Professional of the Year Award, the 2014 Wingate University School of Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year Award, the 2008 NCAP Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award, the 2008 UNC School of Pharmacy Hospital Preceptor of the Year Award, and the 2009 ASHP Distinguished Service Award.
PLEASE CONTACT KRISTIN MOORE OR JAY CAMPBELL AT THE NC BOARD OF PHARMACY OFFICE
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ELECTION.