Hello WMSHP Members! It's that time of year again. Voting is now open for next year's E-board. Voting will remain open throughout the month of November 2024, and can be completed at the following link: WMSHP E-board Voting 2024. We will announce your new E-board members in December 2024. Please see below for the biographies of our nominees.

President-Elect:

Ashley Blanchette has served as a board member of WMSHP for the past two years and as the Resident at Large member from 2020-2021. She is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the MSHP Organizational Affairs Committee, Vice Chair of the MPA Government Affairs Committee, and working to improve transitions of care as the Manager of the Corewell Health Medication History team. She has previous experience as President of the Macomb County Pharmacy Association, board member of the Oakland County Pharmacists Association, and committee member of the MPA Local Association Development Committee. If elected, she hopes to apply her passion for advocacy and team-building to further strengthen our region's professional community.

Secretary:

Brad Miller is an Informatics Pharmacist at Corewell Health in Grand Rapids. He graduated from Ferris State University over two decades ago. After working as an Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at Spectrum Health Butterworth for several years, he joined the pharmacy informatics team. Brad has been the secretary of WMSHP since 2004.

E-board (3 Openings):

Bryan Homberg is a 2021 graduate from Ferris State University College of Pharmacy. He started his pharmacy career in independent pharmacy practice as Pharmacist Manager, PIC, and LTC Coordinator for Flint Family Pharmacy. In 2022 he joined Genesee County Pharmacists Association as a board member at large, and was involved in legislative action and MPA house of delegates. He has since started work at Bronson Battle Creek as an Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist in September of 2024, and looks forward to bringing his experiences to the west Michigan area.

Hi everyone! My name is Kristina Stoncius and I am interested in continuing as a WMSHP board member. I have been a board member since 2021, beginning as the PGY1 resident board member and after that continuing on as an E-board member! I am currently a pharmacist at Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, where my clinical interests are internal medicine and oncology! 

Megan Van Baren is a clinical pharmacist with Corewell Health in Grand Rapids. She completed her pharmacy school education at Ferris State University. After graduation in 2021, she completed a PGY-1 residency with Corewell (Spectrum) Health. Post residency, she has worked as a clinical pharmacist for Corewell Health Butterworth. Her current areas of practice include cardiology and oncology. In her free time she enjoys attempting to stay on track with her Goodreads reading challenge. In pharmacy school she was involved with multiple student organizations and is looking forward to becoming more involved with professional organizations in the future.