Anne Policastri Named New Director, ASHP Membership and Affiliate Relations Division
Anne Policastri, Pharm.D., M.B.A., FASHP, FKSHP, will join ASHP as the new Director, Membership and Affiliate Relations Division within the Office of Member Relations. The position will lead efforts to oversee relationships with state affiliates, among others, and to assist in membership growth and development.
Anne is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and received her M.B.A. from Murray State University. Most recently she served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and Director of Experiential Education. She also served as the Executive Vice President of the Kentucky Society of Health-System Pharmacists where she led notable changes in member engagement, strategic planning, financial management, and increasing student and resident services.
Anne has served as a past president of KSHP and on the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy. Most recently, she served as Chair of ASHP’s Commission on Affiliate Relations.
Anne will be relocating to Bethesda, MD and will start on March 15, 2018, and we wish her the best.
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.