Stephanie Bellows, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, Phoenix, AZ

Stephanie is a native of Jacksonville, FL. After attaining a PharmD from Mercer University in Georgia, she continued to complete a PGY-1 Community Residency with Medicine Mart in South Carolina. Then she completed a PGY-2 in Ambulatory Care with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her next four years were spent back in North Carolina, this time working in a rural settingStephanie Bellows, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, for chronic disease state management, led local Covid vaccine efforts, and managed the specialty mail order side of the business as well. From there, she moved to Arizona where she is now expanding her scope through working with oral oncology medications at Banner MD Anderson. In this role, she also collaborates with providers to assist patients in disease state management.

Within APhA, she has served many roles. Since graduation, she has served as APhA-APPM New Practitioner Officer from 2019-2021, as a poster judge, as New Practitioner Mentor, as an abstract reviewer, as a sub-committee member on various special interests’ groups, as an APhA-APPM delegate, as a member of the communications and education committee within APhA-APPM, and she led the first residency standing committee within APhA-APPM. She has also enjoyed serving as a preceptor for student pharmacists since graduating. Locally she is involved with the Arizona Pharmacy Association where she recently spoke on how pharmacists can integrate into a physician's office.

Jessica Comstock, BS, PharmD, BCNP Delphi, IN

Jessica Comstock, PharmD, BCNP is the Vice President of Pharmacy Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for PharmaLogic Holdings Corp. She received her BS in Nuclear Engineering/Radiation Health Physics from Oregon State University in 2011, her PharmD in from Purdue University in 2016 and earned her Board Certification in Nuclear Pharmacy (BCNP) in 2018. Jessica is responsible for the creation, implementation, and oversight of the quality assurance program for 40+ SPECT and PET pharmacies in the United States. As an active member in the profession, Jessica currently holds leadership positions in the Society of Nuclear Medicine, American Pharmacist Association, and the National Association of Nuclear Pharmacies.

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, Ellicott City MD

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA is currently a professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She most recently completed a ten-year term as associate dean of student affairs and continues to be highly engaged in teaching and mentorship of student pharmacists. Early in her career, Cherokee championed efforts to support and expand pharmacist-provided vaccinations in Maryland and has served as an immunization trainer since 2006. She has had over 20 years of experience in training and mentoring student pharmacists and served as co-advisor for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy APhA-ASP chapter with her goal to support student pharmacists’ professional development and engagement with APhA.

Cherokee also served as a PGY-1 community-based residency program director for 12 years and continues to precept community residents in teaching and research. It has been important to Cherokee to give back to the profession through service at the state and national level.

She has held numerous positions with the Maryland Pharmacists Association, including serving as president from 2017-2018. With the American Pharmacists Association, she has served the association in numerous areas including serving as APhA-ASP co-advisor, participating in various advisory groups and task forces, poster and abstract reviewer, delegate, speaker and moderator. She has received numerous awards for leadership and service from the University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Pharmacists Association, Phi Lambda Sigma, and the American Pharmacists Association. Outside of pharmacy, Cherokee loves traveling with her family and supporting their work in music and the arts.

Tessa Schnelle, PharmD, MPH, DPLA, Louisburg, Kansas

Dr. Tessa Schnelle, PharmD, DPLA graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in 2020. Following graduation, she began working as a clinical pharmacist for Western Missouri Medical Center and continued her education at George Washington University as a Master of Public Health Candidate. In 2021 she accepted a position working for the State of Kansas in the role of Lead Clinical Pharmacist & Clinical Coordinator for Osawatomie State Hospital, a state-funded inpatient psychiatric facility. In 2022 Dr. Schnelle changed practice settings and now serves as Director of Pharmacy at Cass Regional Medical Center, a federally funded critical access hospital and corresponding safety net clinics. She continues to practice clinically in the inpatient hospital setting at The University of Kansas Health-System.

Dr. Schnelle’s involvement in association leadership began as a student and continued beyond her transition to new practitioner. She currently serves as APhA New Practitioner Network Education Standing Committee Member, Learning Extension Facilitator for the APhA Foundation Incentive Grant Program, and as a Health-System Core Leadership Group Member of the Health-System Pharmacy Career Tools Workgroup Locally she serves as President of the Kansas Pharmacists Association, Kansas Pharmacists Recovery Network Committee on Impaired Pharmacy Practice Committee Member and Path to New Practitioner Programming Coordinator for the Kansas New Practitioners Network.