Darren Townzen is currently the Senior Director of Health and Wellness Pharmacy Audit, Billing, Reconciliation, and Health Care data for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. In 1988, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University School of Pharmacy and in 2006, a Master of Business Administration from Webster University. In 1989, he began work for the Wal-Mart Pharmacy division as a pharmacist in east Texas before moving into the Walmart Bentonville, Arkansas home office in 1995 for various other responsibilities. His currently responsibilities are pharmacy audits, billing and reconciliation of pharmacy transactions, industry standards, and the long-term health care data strategy for pharmacy transactions.

Darren has been a member of NCPDP since 2001 and is active in Work Group 1 Telecommunication and Work Group 2 Product Identification. He has served in the past as Work Group 2 Co-Chair, Standardization Committee Co-Chair, NCPDP Board of Trustees, and as past Board of Trustees Chair in 2014-2015.

Pooja Babbrah is PBM Practice Lead with Point-of-Care Partners. She specializes in strategic planning and go-to-market strategies and execution. With more than 25 years’ experience in a variety of health care IT companies, she brings unique expertise as she understands perspectives of all stakeholders - PBMs, health plans, patients, physicians, pharmacies, EHR vendors and health systems. Pooja was previously Task Group leader of the Specialty ePrescribing and Biologic and Biosimilar Access/Traceability Task Group and a Co-Chair of Workgroup 18 Specialty Pharmacy.

Pooja started her career in a Strategic Planning role with a large Hospital System and spent nearly 5 years on the strategic planning side of a nationwide PBM, initially focused on the company’s pharmaceutical clients, then moving into eBusiness strategy focused on early-stage ePrescribing. Throughout her career, Pooja’s efforts have been instrumental in bringing relevant and critical information into a prescriber’s workflow, and earlier this year, her expertise was recognized when she was asked to testify before Congress about the need for accurate, real-time drug cost information at the point of care. Pooja has her BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from Arizona State University.

Morgan Bojorquez, Director, Pharmacy Clinical Integration at Humana, Inc., is a dynamic team player who seizes opportunities and is sought by upper level management for special projects and initiatives. He is a proven leader who thrives on challenge while displaying energy and enthusiasm. He will always take the initiative to make things happen with a very thoughtful and strategic approach.

Morgan has been with Humana's Pharmacy Benefits Manager since 2006 and has filled various roles. Initially focused on Six Sigma initiatives and process improvements, he currently serves as the Director of Pharmacy Clinical Integration. In this role, Morgan is responsible for Humana’s PBM HIT capabilities, which includes ePA and Real-time Benefit Check. He has owned and implemented several innovative industry solutions to facilitate better transparency and efficiency between health care providers and Humana. He continues to spearhead major initiatives that enable innovation in healthcare.

Prior to Humana, Morgan worked at Cott Beverages in Elizabethtown, KY where he led numerous Continuous Improvements teams and earned his certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt. Morgan earned a Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Louisville.

Michele Davidson is a pharmacist who graduated from the University of Florida. In her current role as the Senior Manager, Pharmacy Technical Standards, Development & Policy, Government Relations, Walgreen, Michele leads efforts with Walgreen to influence public policy as it applies to pharmacy technical standards. She has been instrumental in ensuring nationwide adoption of electronic prescribing; improving REMs processes, ensuring compliance with CMS rules as well as ensuring billing practices comply with HIPAA standards.

She actively engages and advises members of the government relations team as well as internal and external stakeholders about standards such as NCPDP, while ensuring compliance with these standards. Prior to assuming her current role in 2009, she worked for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) as the Director of Telecommunication Standards. While at NACDS, Michele led the chain pharmacy industry through the implementation of the NPI. She ensured a smooth implementation of the Tamper Resistant Prescription Pad (TRPP) rules for the industry by producing detailed guidance for pharmacies and Medicaid Directors. She was also instrumental in assuring that millions of hurricane victims received needed medications by acting as conduit between HHS and the pharmacy industry to secure engagement of the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP).

Michele has dedicated her entire career to the practice of pharmacy and specifically on supporting and playing a critical role in the development of NCPDP standards. She has been an active member in NCPDP for the past 18 years where she has served on the Board of Trustees for 9 years (Chair in 2015-2016) and Standardization Committee for 4 years (Chair for 2 years) and was responsible for the creation of the mentorship program. She was the recipient of NCPDP’s TIME (The Individual Member Excellence) Award in 2014. Additionally, she led the Awards, Education, MLDC, By-Laws and Annual Conference Committees, was co-chair of WG 9 for 4 years and WG 11 (8 years) and led approximately 20 task groups throughout her career.

Kim Boyd serves as the VP, Industry Relations and Government Affairs of CoverMyMeds where she successfully develops and executes on healthcare policy strategies, builds political relationships, and leads a team that focuses on legislative and regulatory advocacy, stakeholder and industry engagement and standards engagement on a range of healthcare priorities. Kim’s years of healthcare advocacy has resulted in passage of legislation and regulation in over 25 states, as well as, federal policy, much of which promotes NCPDP standards utilization. The most recent success was the inclusion of electronic prior authorization (ePA) in HR 6 – SUPPORT Act (2018).

In concert with her role at CoverMyMeds, she has successfully grown her leadership in NCPDP. Kim is a 19-year member that engages in standards advancement for real-time prescription, price transparency, prior authorization and specialty pharmacy services. Kim serves on NCPDP’s Finance, Strategic Planning and Annual Conference Committees and leads the Mentor/Mentee Program, and with the help of talented mentors successfully grows new leaders in healthcare and NCPDP.

She previously served as Senior Director, Government Affairs and Regulatory Compliance for PBM/Ancillary Services Providers, Helios and MSC (now OneCall) and as Senior Director, Business Development, NCPDP. She is a member of Health Innovation Alliance; Opioid Safety Alliance; HIMSS, Council for Affordable Healthcare; Public Affairs Council; P4HA; HL7, Women Business Leaders and Greenhouse Ministries.

Mark Gingrich played a key role in creating the nation’s largest health information network. As the company’s first employee in 2001, he led engineering, operations, and standards development through every phase of the company’s growth. Prior to joining Surescripts, Gingrich held management roles at McKesson, Abaton.com, and UnitedHealthcare.

With 30 years of healthcare experience, Mark is currently serving on the NCPDP Strategic Planning Committee, the Argonaut Steering Committee, and the Da Vinci Operating Committee. His past industry standards involvement supported e-prescribing adoption and included Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), and Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). For EHNAC, Gingrich served three terms as Commissioner, Standards Chair, and Executive Committee member. In addition, Mark has been involved in various regional eHealth exchange initiatives including Minnesota e-Health Initiative, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium/MA Share, Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health, and KatrinaHealth.org.

Mark received his MS in AI from the University of Pennsylvania and his BS in CS from Virginia Tech. He also serves on the board of Anser Innovation, creator PetChatz and Ōmcare. Within the community, Mark has held roles as church financial officer and district board member, booster treasurer, youth coach, and President of the Minnesota Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association for 20 years.

As a Vice President with Cigna/Express Scripts, Laurie Littlecreek is responsible for management of the Supply Chain Business Product Operations team that supports all Supply Chain technology capabilities including the retail point-of-sale systems. She has an extensive background in retail operations including Point-of-Sale Adjudication Services, and Retail Systems Management. She leads a team of business and technical experts that support all lines of business including Medicare, Medicaid, Workers Compensation, Health Insurance Marketplace, and the Department of Defense. She has been involved in all facets of payer/pharmacy operations for the past 30 years

As a member of NCPDP since 1999, Laurie has been involved with NCPDP at every level of the organization including Annual Conference, Educational Summit and Work Group attendance; a Work Group co-chair; an Awards, Nominating and Strategic Planning Committee member; a Leadership Development chair and vice-chair; a Board Trustee; a Mentor; a Buddy; a Women in Leadership Steering Committee member; and a Time Award recipient. She continues to be highly engaged and supportive of the NCPDP mission.

Rear Admiral (RADM) Pamela Schweitzer retired in September 2018 from a four-year term as the Assistant Surgeon General and 10th Chief Pharmacist Officer of the United States Public Health Service (PHS).

RADM (ret) Schweitzer received her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from California State University Fullerton (CSUF), earned her Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy, completed an Ambulatory Care/Administrative Residency at University of California Irvine Medical Center.

Currently, with Summit Healthcare, LLC, she is supporting the pharmacy profession and HHS efforts to increase access to pharmacy services, especially in ambulatory and community pharmacy settings. She provides support for a number of public health related projects, including improving health and access to healthcare services in rural communities. She also provides strategic support to the pharmacy profession regarding Medicaid reimbursement for pharmacist clinical services and the COVID-19 pandemic.

She is an advisory member of the Pharmacists Public Health Initiatives (PPHI) and a member of the Public Health-Pharmacy Partnership Navigator Team (COVID-19 pandemic response). She serves on multiple Boards including the NCPA Innovation Center, Board of Directors, Tabula Rasa Healthcare (TRHC), Board of Directors, NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (ACPHS) Board of Trustees, and the FDA and MediMergent Advisory Board on Medication Adherence/Persistence.

Krista Ward, MBA, is Vice President, Pharmacy Innovation for CareSource. She has 24 years of health care experience, 15+ years of it spent in Medicaid. Most of her healthcare background has been spent working for both managed care plans and a PBM helping to build health plan operations and pharmacy benefit programs. She has extensive experience with health plan operations, medical and pharmacy provider contracting, product development, and provider data management.

At CareSource, Krista is responsible for helping build and execute pharmacy department strategies as well as helping to design their pharmacy benefit plans, programs, and operations. She has testified before a number of legislative committees and has been a speaker/panelist at a number of industry conferences and events on Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, PBM-related topics, and 340B. She previously co-chaired a number of NCPDP groups related to Medicaid, co-chaired Work Group 9, and participated in the NCPDP Strategic Planning Committee.