Western District Candidates for 2016 Board Election
The Western District seat is presently held by Bill Mixon, who will complete his term in April 2017.
Mr. Mixon is seeking re-election.
Candidates are listed alphabetically by last name. Please scroll down to see all five (5) candidates for the Western District seat.
Frank (Chip) Etier
Frank C. “Chip” Etier, Sr. has over forty years management experience in independent and chain pharmacy as well as sales management with Dale Carnegie Training. He has held leadership positions in chambers of commerce, service clubs (Kiwanis, Optimists), his church, and several small businesses. He was president of the largest homeowners association in Baton Rouge (over 5,000 homes.)
He served as government affairs contact for Eckerd Drugs in Baton Rouge where he was actively involved in working with both the legislature and the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy.
He has a track record of managing information, assembling facts, and leading groups to a consensus for sound decisions, with compassion for the individuals involved, while protecting the company’s assets.
Etier is a native of Mangham, Louisiana.
He earned a B.S. in pharmacy at Northeast Louisiana University (currently University of Louisiana-Monroe) in 1974 and was licensed by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy on February 20, 1975.
His career began in Alexandria, LA with independent pharmacy, Pearson Drugs.
He spent most of his adult life in Baton Rouge where he was a pharmacy area manager for Eckerd Drugs and also worked the counter for Eckerd, Rite-Aid, and Winn Dixie and did relief work for Baton Rouge General Hospital.
Hurricane Katrina motivated him to seek safer harbor in the mountains of western North Carolina where he became pharmacist manager/PIC for Walmart in Sylva.
In February 2013, Etier went to work with Ingles Markets # 55 in Canton, NC as pharmacy manager.
He currently teaches classes for PTCB candidates at Western Carolina University and is a certified expert witness for district and superior court in Haywood and Buncombe Counties.
He retired from officiating high school football after the 2012 season.
He is a father, grandfather, pharmacist, photographer, golfer, published author, guardian ad litem and is active in the United Methodist Church and Gideons International.
A widower, Etier lives in Haywood County near Cold Mountain with three dogs and two cats.
Tim Gentilcore, PharmD
I have proudly served the patients of western North Carolina as a pharmacist since relocating to the Asheville area in 2008. When arriving in Asheville, I served as the district pharmacy supervisor for CVS, managing the day to day operations of 23 pharmacies. In 2012, I had the opportunity to bring my passion for community pharmacy into a health system setting. Since 2012, I have proudly led an exemplary team of pharmacists and technicians at Mission Health System as their Director of Retail Pharmacy. Including our medication assistance pharmacy, we currently operate 11 community pharmacies across the western North Carolina region.
I feel that my current position within a community health system has well-rounded my
experience to understand more fully the many facets of pharmacy within North Carolina, and
better prepare me to serve the patients and pharmacy professionals of this great state. While
most of my experience is in the traditional community/retail setting, my work at Mission has
branched into so much more. At Mission, I have the pleasure of working intimately with
inpatient pharmacy teams, medication assistance teams, transitions of care teams, outpatient
clinical teams, infusion center teams, and additionally, hospital pharmacy leadership from across
western North Carolina.
It is my belief that a board member serving both patients and pharmacy professionals in our state for the next five years should possess these following three strengths:
1. A well-rounded approach to understanding the public’s interaction with pharmacists across all arenas of patient care. (How all patients access us)
2. A respect for the traditional practice of pharmacy. Recognizing where our profession has strengths, and where we have opportunities. (How we got here)
3. A strong embrace of innovative technologies that allow patients and pharmacists to interact in new ways that reduce barriers and maximize the patient care experience. (Where we are going)
I believe I am the candidate that currently possesses the above strengths and look forward to the opportunity to serve pharmacists and patients as a member of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. Thank you for your consideration.
Cathy Huie
Dr. Cathy Huie, graduate of Campbell University College of Pharmacy, is owner of Brame Huie Pharmacy in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Upon high school graduation, Dr. Huie joined Kmart Pharmacy working in Wilkesboro, Elkin and Conover. After receiving her license she staffed at Kmart Wilkesboro as pharmacist and for a time, as needed, for Wilkes Regional Medical Center. With the 2002 closure of the Kmart, she joined CVS until the fall of 2005 when, along with Richard “Rick” Brame, she opened Brame Huie Pharmacy. Dr. Huie and her husband, Mark, purchased Mr. Brame’s shares after his 2008 death. Brame Huie Pharmacy has since been named Small Business of the Year by the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce on two occasions.
Dr. Huie is a member of National Community Pharmacist Association (NCPA), North Carolina Association of Pharmacist (NCAP), American Pharmacist Association (APhA) and serves on the NCAP Provider status task force. She has presented for many groups including NCAP, Mountain AHEC, Charlotte AHEC, CE for the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy and participated in a White House panel discussion about overdose and opioid use. As a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, she works with area doctors in women's health and in 2014 became an International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) Fellow.
Dr. Huie is preceptor for the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wingate University School of Pharmacy, Bill Gatton School of Pharmacy at East Tennessee State University and PGY1 community pharmacy residency preceptor for UNC. She received Wingate University School of Pharmacy’s preceptor of the year award in 2014.
Dr. Huie serves on the Wilkes Education Foundation, Wilkes Economic Development, BB&T Wilkesboro, Wilkes Community College Endowment and Health Foundation boards while active in her church. Since its inception, she has been involved with Project Lazarus, a model for overdose prevention and safe opioid use. Dr. Huie recently rotated off Wilkes Chamber of Commerce and Mutual Drug Retail Advisory Boards.
Dr. Huie lives in Purlear, North Carolina with her husband Mark and 2 children.
David L. Landers, BS PHAR, MPA
I have been a NC resident for more than 20 years and now reside in Marshall, NC. Pharmacy has been a part of my life since early childhood when my father opened the first of four drugs stores where I grew up, working at every task from filling scripts to the Soda Fountain. My daughter, Allison, is a UNC grad and is a Pharmacist at Wake Med Cary where she lives with my 3 Grandchildren.
I finished Pharmacy School at the University of Georgia and completed a Masters in Public Administration (Concentration in Health Care) at Troy University. After Pharmacy School I worked at several chain stores in Georgia before moving to Augusta, GA and transitioned into Hospital Pharmacy. In 1982 I started my own company (Pharmacist Consultant Services, Inc) which provided Director and Consultant Services to more than 20 Facilities in NC, TN and GA. I moved to Johnson City, TN while my wife completed a Psychiatry Residency, in 1992 and served as Acting Pharmacy Chief, Risk and QA Manager at the 1000+ bed Mountain Home VA for three years. This was followed by 3 years as a Senior Manager at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, NC.
In 1997 I joined the RxInnovations division of FHC Health Systems (one of the largest Managed Health Care Companies in the US) as Executive Director of National Operations for their PBM and Pharmacy Operations at their 7 owned, inpatient facilities in the US and Puerto Rico. When they opened TrialStar, Inc., (a Clinical Research Company,) in 1998, I moved to Nashville and became President and CEO until the company was sold/merged in 2004. Since leaving TrialStar I have served in various interim/consultant positions (Pharmacy Director, COO, Chief Pharmacy Officer) and executive leadership roles all over the US. This has taken me to seven states and all sizes and types of organizations from statewide systems to small rural hospitals. This diversity has given me a very complete and excellent understanding of the complexities and challenges facing Pharmacists and Pharmacy Boards in this new era of Pharmacy Practice.
I believe my wide range of experience at all levels of leadership and in every area of Pharmacy Practice, plus my very relevant advanced degree and experience working with many State Pharmacy Boards, makes me uniquely qualified to serve as your next North Carolina Board Member.
William (Bill) Mixon, RPh, MS, FIACP, FACA
William (Bill) Mixon, RPh, MS, FIACP, FACA, is seeking reelection as a member of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. Bill, who was elected to the Board in 2011, is currently serving as president of the Board. As such, his duties have included serving as a member of the Pharmacy Compounding Task Force and the Telepharmacy Task Force, a representative of the Board of Pharmacy at several national meetings, and a voting delegate at the last two National Association of Boards of Pharmacy annual meetings.
Bill believes that members of the Board should listen to — and respond to — all pharmacists in the state of North Carolina and should help them to be better practitioners. As a Board member, he will always keep an open door and will remain available to pharmacists to hear their concerns.
Bill is the former owner of The Compounding Pharmacy in Hickory, North Carolina, where he and his wife live. He received the BS degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1977 and the MS degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. He has completed two hospital pharmacy residencies, is a certified diabetes educator and a certified geriatric pharmacist, and a fellow of both the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists and the American College of Apothecaries. His former pharmacy has been accredited by the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board since 2007. He served on the United States Pharmacopeia Expert Committee for Compounding during its 2010 to 2015 cycle and was reappointed to that committee for its 2015 to 2020 cycle. He also serves as the nonvoting industry representative to the United States Food and Drug Administration Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee.
In addition to the memberships cited above, Bill is chairman of the Catawba County Board of Health and a Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board surveyor for the Accreditation Commission for Healthcare. He frequently serves as an expert witness in litigation involving pharmacy compounding.
Bill is also a member of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, the American Pharmacists Association, the National Community Pharmacists Association, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the American Society for Pharmacy Law, and the American College of Apothecaries. His 35 years of experience in hospital and community pharmacy, long-term care, and hospice care have prepared him well to serve the pharmacists of North Carolina and provide insight into a very diverse group of practice settings and many of the issues facing pharmacists today.
PLEASE CONTACT KRISTIN MOORE OR JAY CAMPBELL AT THE NC BOARD OF PHARMACY OFFICE
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ELECTION.