The Georgia Pharmacy Association
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The Georgia Pharmacy Association
6065 Barfield Road NE | Suite 100
Sandy Springs, GA 30328
(404) 231-5074
Fax to (404) 237-8435
Press inquiries, advertising, and sponsorship opportunities in our magazine, websites, convention, or other events and publications: Contact Dawn Randolph at (404) 231-5074.
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The 2023–2024 GPhA Board of Directors
President/Board Chair: Joe Ed Holt
Immediate Past President: Jonathan Sinyard
President Elect: Ben Ross
Bryce Allfrey, At-Large
Melanie DeFusco, AEP Representative
Andrew Holt, AIP Representative
Drew Miller, At-Large
Robert Murry, At-Large
Thomas Sherrer, At-Large
Kimberly Barefield, ACHP Representative
Izabela Welch, At-Large
GPhA Staff
Patricia Aguilar
Accounting Coordinator
paguilar@gpha.org
Lia Andros
Governance Manager
landros@gpha.org
Phillip Arrington
Vice President of Finance and Operations
parrington@gpha.org
Rhonda Bonner
AIP Member Service Representative
rbonner@gpha.org
Christine Cline-Dahlman
Interim Director of Education
cdahlman@gpha.org
Catherine Daniel
AIP Member Service Representative
cdaniel@gpha.org
Amanda Gaddy, RPh
AIP Director of Clinical Services
agaddy@gpha.org
Jonathan Marquess
PharmD, CDCES, FAPhA
Vice President of AIP
jmarquess@gpha.org
Dawn A. Randolph, MPA
Melissa Reybold
Vice President of Public Policy
mreybold@gpha.org
Mary Ritchie
Director of Membership
mritchie@gpha.org
Ashton Sullivan
AIP Member Service Representative
asullivan@gpha.org
GPhA Committees
According to the GPhA Bylaws, Article IX, The Association shall recognize the following standing and advisory committees:
Legislative Policy Committee
Dawn Sasine, Chair
Drew Miller, Vice Chair
Staff Liaison: Melissa Reybold
CPE Advisory Committee
Andi McKeever, Chair
Johnathan Hamrick, Vice Chair
Bylaws and other documents
Click here for the Georgia Pharmacy Association Bylaws (Revised and adopted June 2021)
Click here for the GPhA Antitrust Policy
Click here for the GPhA Policy Manual (Revised 12/2019)
Click here for information on the Bowl of Hygeia
Our official mission statement
“GPhA promotes, enhances, and advocates for the profession of pharmacy.”
Our history
In the summer of 1875, a concerned group of Georgia pharmacists sent a notice to all the pharmacists of the state, requesting them to assemble in Macon on October 20, 1875:
“…to consider the organization of a pharmaceutical association, binding each other with closer ties of friendship and to promote interest in the junior members of the fraternity and exciting the spirit of emulation and ambition; the interchange and dissemination of scientific researches; the framing of laws to be enacted that will result not only in the protection of the profession but the public in general.”
Georgia’s newspapers published the notice at no charge and the railroads agreed to provide reduced rates from any point in the state to Macon for anyone who wished to attend the meeting. At least twenty pharmacists were present in Macon at Freeman’s Hall at eight o’clock on the evening of October 20, 1875. The meeting included brief presentations by a member of the State Board of Health and three physicians from the Macon Medical Society, all of whom assured cooperation and support from their organizations. Following these presentations, the delegation of pharmacists adopted a constitution with an objective to bring together all the “reputable druggists” of the state in an association in the interests of the profession at large, specifying that every druggist and apothecary of good moral and professional standing whether in business, or in retirement from business, or employed by another, and the teachers of pharmacy, chemistry, materia medica, and botany, who may be professors in any college of pharmacy, should constitute the membership of the association. Thus, the Georgia Pharmaceutical Association was established. Today the Georgia Pharmacy Association is a nationally respected voice for the pharmacy profession.