Leadership

President Nikkina Hankins, PharmD, BCACP is a native of Olive Branch, MS. She graduated from the Alpha Pi chapter (Howard University) in 2018. She currently serves as a Medical Science Liaison for Eli Lilly. Nikkina has a long record of service to Kappa Epsilon. She has served on the National Grand Council as VP Membership Recruitment, VP of Communications, and President Elect. When Nikkina is not concentrating on pharmacy and KE, she loves finding new crafts, reading books, and special cuddles with her cat. She finds most of her inspiration from Pinterest.

Shane Artiles is an alumnus of the Kappa Chapter of Kappa Epsilon at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville Campus. Currently a PGY1/2/MS Pharmacy Administration Resident at The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas, Shane’s career aspirations involve leadership in the outpatient realm of pharmacy including ambulatory care, specialty pharmacy, and home infusion services. In his free time, Shane is an avid board gamer and enjoys hosting game nights with friends. The proud father of four cats, he is a strong believer in fostering or adopting animals!

Dayna is a 2023 graduate of Purdue University (Pi Chapter) and has been involved with Kappa Epsilon for the past 6 years. During her time in Pi Chapter, she held various positions. In 2022, she became a member of the Intern Program, working under the current president, Nikkina Hankins. She currently resides in Monticello, IN and works as a pharmacist for Kroger Health.

CharLeigh’s involvement in KE began back in 2020 when she rushed the Alpha Lambda chapter in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before her service on Grand Council, she served as her chapter’s president in addition to serving on the National DEI Taskforce and the Convention Planning Committee.

Outside of KE, CharLeigh has been a dedicated member to her state pharmacy association as well as APhA.

Kim Gwiazdzinski serves as Vice President, Outcomes & Value  at Coeus Consulting Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm supporting life sciences companies, payors and health delivery systems.  In this role, she is develops revolutionary market access strategies on behalf of clients to drive value through proven clinical outcomes, optimizing market coverage and ensuring affordable access to products designed to improve patients lives.

Kim is a registered pharmacist with more than 20 years of direct market access experience holding key strategic positions at large National payers including Prime Therapeutics and Cigna, and industry leading pharmaceutical companies Merck, AstraZeneca and NovoNordisk.  She specializes in managed markets strategy, value-based contracting, commercial innovation, pricing and contracting, and affordability.

Foundation Ex Officio Salvatore Bottiglieri, originally from Montrose, New York, received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Albany College of Pharmacy in 2008. Sal was initiated into the Alpha Upsilon Chapter at Albany College of Pharmacy in 2004. Sal Bottiglieri completed his pharmacy practice residency in North Carolina at The Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro. Additionally, he completed his specialty residency in Hematology/Oncology with The University of Kentucky in Lexington, under the direction of Dr. Val Adams.

Sal Bottiglieri is currently the Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator in Medical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Bottiglieri oversees all clinical pharmacy services in medical oncology and provides direct patient care services to the gastrointestinal, head & neck, and endocrine cancer clinics. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he provides lectures and clinical rotations for several colleges of pharmacy in Florida. His professional memberships in addition to Kappa Epsilon include Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA), Phi Lambda Sigma, and Rho Chi.

His Kappa Epsilon involvement includes Grand President (2017-2019), President-Elect (2015-2017), Grand Council Secretary (2009-2011), Chair National Projects Committee (2007-2009), Alpha Upsilon Chapter Past-President (2006-2007), Alpha Upsilon Chapter National Convention Delegate (2005 & 2007), Alpha Upsilon Chapter President (2005-2006), and Alpha Upsilon Chapter Vice President (2004-2005). He is also a 2007 Zada M. Cooper Scholarship recipient.

For fun, Sal enjoys long distance running and foot race competitions, exploring the many restaurants and activities of Tampa Bay and Orlando regions, traveling, and various outdoor activities. He lives in Tampa Bay Florida with his wife Sue, daughter Abrianna, and Dalmatian Kona. Sal and his wife are also expecting their second child, a baby boy in October 2019.

Rosalie Sagraves is dean emerita and professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she served as dean and professor at the College of Pharmacy. She also served as co-director of the UIC/US Department of Health and Human Services Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. Later, she was a consultant for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) in the area of global pharmacy education. She previously served in various academic and clinical positions at the University of Oklahoma (OU), University of Texas at Austin and The Ohio State University (OSU). She received her BS degree in pharmacy from OSU and her PharmD degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Sciences (USciences). Her areas of education/research include pediatrics, women’s health and global pharmacy education.

Dr. Sagraves has been actively involved in the pharmacy profession throughout her career. Some of her professional activities include service to AACP as chair and secretary of the Section of Teachers of Pharmacy Practice, chair of the Council of Deans, member of the Board of Directors, Brodie Scholar, Interim Chief Science Officer and a founder and first chair of the Global Pharmacy Education SIG. She was a member of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Board of Trustees, president of its Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science, a founding associate editor of Pharmacy Today and an APhA fellow. She is an American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) fellow and chaired its Women’s Health Task Force. She served on the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health Advisory Board, its Women’s Health Research for the 21st Century Task Force and other advisory committees.

She has served Kappa Epsilon (KE) in various capacities including chapter advisor at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oklahoma, national president and treasurer, and the KE Foundation as president and board member. She is a member of Rho Chi, Phi Lambda Sigma and Lambda Kappa Sigma (honorary member).

Dr. Sagraves has received various awards for outstanding teaching and leadership such as the KE Merck Vanguard Leadership Award, Career Achievement Award and Key of Excellence. The Professional Fraternity Association presented her with its Career Achievement Award. The OU College of Pharmacy presented her with a Teaching Excellence Award and ACCP gave her an Outstanding Educator Award. The OSU College of Pharmacy presented her with a Distinguished Alumnus Award. She has been awarded multiple Who’s Who awards including the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Sagraves gave the 2018 OSU Doctor of Pharmacy graduation/hooding presentation.

Jeanie Brown was initiated into Kappa Epsilon Mu Chapter at the University of Kansas in 1984. She received her BS Pharmacy, PharmD and MBA from KU. Jeanie has served as the Mu Chapter Advisor or Co-advisor since 1989 and was the Grand Council VP Alumni Development from 2003-2005. Her professional pharmacy career includes retail, university student health, long term care, pharmacy benefit management, pharmacy director at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, and currently as a pharmaceutical medical science liaison.

Gay Dodson is a 1969 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy. After graduation, Gay worked as a community pharmacist in the Dallas area for 13 years. While working as a community pharmacist, she was an active member of the local, state, and national pharmacy associations.

Gay has retired from her employment with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy on December 1, 2017. She began her employment with the agency in November 1982 by serving for 2 years as Field Compliance Officer in the Houston Area, 3 years as Senior Compliance Officer in the Austin office, and almost 10 years as Director of Compliance.  On June 28, 1997 she was appointed as Executive Director/Secretary of the Board. In her position as Executive Director, Gay served as the chief executive officer of the agency and an ex-officio member and secretary of the Board of Pharmacy. She also served as the District 6 Representative to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Executive Committee from 2016 to 2017.

Her awards and recognitions include: 2013 Kappa Epsilon Career Achievement Award; 2012 State Agency Council to the Governor’s Commission for Women, Outstanding Women in Texas Government; 2010 Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists’ Distinguished Service Award; 2007 National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s Lester E. Hosto Distinguished Service Award; 2006 Texas Pharmacy Association’s Distinguished Service Award; 2000 University of Texas College of Pharmacy William J. Sheffield Outstanding Alumnus Award; 1997, Recognition Award from the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists in “ recognition of her commitment, leadership, and dedication in advancing the practice for pharmacists and the patients they serve ,” 1993 award for Outstanding Service from the Texas Pharmacy Association; and the 1989 Linda T. Rodgers Memorial Leadership Award from Kappa Epsilon. She is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Texas Pharmacy Association, Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Capitol Area Pharmacy Association, and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. She is currently serving as Chair of the Texas Health Professions Council. Ms. Dodson is also a Past-President of the University of Texas College of Pharmacy Alumni Association and is an active member of the University of Texas Longhorn Alumni Band (LHAB). As a member of LHAB, Ms. Dodson marched in the 2017 London New Year’s Day Parade and in 2019 participated with LHAB in two parades and 3 concerts during the 75^thAnniversary of D-Day in Normandy and Paris, France.

Laura Wilson is an Outcomes Liaison Director for the North America General Medicines Division of Sanofi.   She received her Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Kansas and participated in a Pharmacoeconomics Research Fellowship with Thomas Jefferson University.  Laura’s experience within the pharmaceutical industry has continued for twenty years, with  varies roles of increasing responsibility within field based medical affairs.  She has been recognized by her organization with the North America Rising Star award for exceptional performance.  Laura is a current and active member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, the American Diabetes Association and Kappa Epsilon.  She also takes an active role with local philanthropic organizations.  She was a founding member of the Kansas Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, a member of the Kansas Asthma Coalition, created a women’s breakfast series in downtown Kansas City, ran the pharmacy for a medical mission in Honduras, and provided medical support for a clinic in Malawi, Africa.  Laura was initiated into Mu Chapter in 1997, was Mu Chapter President 1998-1999, served on Grand Council as Vice President of New Member Recruitment 1999-2001, and is currently the Foundation Board of Trustees President.  Laura was the 2020 Merck Vanguard Leadership Award Recipient.  She credits Kappa Epsilon with providing a foundation with which to build her leadership skills.

Immediate Past President Christine Bryant was born in Anaheim, California but spent most of her childhood growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana. She joined Kappa Epsilon as a pre-pharmacy student in 2010 and was officially initiated into the Pi Chapter in 2012. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Purdue University in 2016 and continued her post-graduate education with a pharmacy practice residency in Indianapolis at Indiana University Health. She then went on to complete her specialty residency in pediatrics at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.

Christine now lives in Crozet, Virginia where she is the Team Lead for Clinical Operations, Pediatrics and PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency Program Director at UVA Health Children’s specializing in pediatric solid organ transplant and hospital medicine. Given her passion for preparing the next generation of pharmacists a lot of her practice focuses on precepting students and pharmacy residents in a variety of pediatric subspecialties, to show them that pediatrics isn’t so bad!

Her Kappa Epsilon involvement includes serving as historian, vice president, and president of Pi chapter during her collegiate years. Upon graduation from Purdue, she became involved with the Indiana Alumni Chapter in Indianapolis until she moved to Virginia. This is her fifth biennium on Grand Council, serving previously as VP Membership Recruitment, VP Collegiate Development, President-Elect, and most recently Grand President. She is ecstatic at the opportunity to continue to serve the Fraternity on Grand Council and help pave the way for the next generation of pharmacists, our future pharmacy, and fraternity leaders.

In her free time, Christine enjoys running, hiking, rock climbing, country music, border collies, and anything leopard print.

Priya has more than 24 years of combined experience in business and technology strategy development within Pharma, Medical Device, and Supply Chain consulting.  Priya started her career as a senior architect at a Supply Chain services company prior to joining BMS. She joined Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, in 2001, as an IT Business Partner and held roles of increasing responsibilities for several business functions.  In 2008 she was the Global IT Transition Manager as ConvaTec was divested from BMS and she was part of the CIO leadership team at Convatec, Inc as Director of Global Application Management from 2008-2012.  In 2012 she joined Merck & Co. as the manufacturing division SAP Enablement Program Director and was responsible for multiple analytics and process improvement initiatives.  She rejoined BMS in 2015 as the Head, Digital partner for the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization and drove the digital capabilities for Supply Chain Transformation and later also led the Integrated Global Quality digital transformation at BMS.  Priya joined Eli Lilly & Co. in 2019 as Associate Vice President, Digital Quality, Drug Product & Devices where she has been accountable for providing quality leadership and partnership in the identification, selection, and deployment of applications of technology to implement connected health solutions that enable Lilly’s Connected Care & digital strategy.  In Nov 2022, Priya transitioned to a newly created role of Associate Vice President, Information Systems Quality with a broader global remit.  In this role, she will be accountable for the design, execution, and monitoring of information systems quality management.  She is also accountable for Manufacturing and Quality data governance and will drive innovative approaches to information systems to meet compliance expectations. 
 
Priya holds a Ph.D. in Civil & Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and is an alumna of the Harvard Business School from the Executive Education program.  She also holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from UNLV.  She is a published author in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at several industry conferences.

Sarah serves as the executive director for Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and account executive for the association management company since 2022. From 2012 – 2021, she led the alumnae team for a national women’s association headquarters, focusing on member engagement through practical vision alignment with the organization’s strategic plan. Previous roles include director of a regional youth services organization serving 3 counties in the state of Indiana; event manager for the IUP Natatorium, IUPUI and served as the lead for a national swimming competition, Olympic trials, regional and local competitions, and oversaw a 10-week camp program. Sarah is a graduate of Ball State University.