Pharmacy Practice and Science

Jennifer L. Rodis, PharmD, FAPhA received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University. She is a graduate of the Community/Ambulatory Care Residency at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy (COP). Dr. Rodis is a Regular Clinical Track Faculty Member and serves as Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement at COP. She created Partner for Promotion in 2005 and has served as director since its initiation. This nationally-recognized program joins students and community-based pharmacy practitioners to develop and implement advanced patient care services. She has facilitated adoption of PFP at eight colleges of pharmacy across the U.S. since 2009. In addition to this experiential teaching, Dr. Rodis leads professional development threads through the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum with a focus on leadership and professional identity formation. 

Dr. Rodis’s research aligns with her aim to advance patient access to pharmacist-provided care which involves investigations and papers on individual service developments, multi-site or statewide advancement projects, student education on practice and professional advancement, as well as policy papers that influence these topics. She co-leads an academic Pharmacy Practice Advancement and Advocacy Fellowship to support these endeavors.

In her role as Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, Dr. Rodis recently led OSU to receive the AACP Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award twice – in 2017 and 2023 – the first college to do so in the U.S. Learn more about the college’s Outreach and Engagement efforts here. 

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Dr. Michel’s educational background includes a BS in Biological Sciences from Ohio Northern University, a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Cincinnati and a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University within the Collaborative for STEM Education and Outreach. He joined Ohio State University in 2022, as a lecturer for the Center for Life Sciences Education. He is currently a senior lecturer at the College of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science, where he serves as the director of the Generation Rx Lab at COSI.

Bella H. Mehta, Pharm.D., R.Ph, FAPhA received her B.S. in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from The Ohio State University (OSU). She was the third graduate of the Ambulatory Care Residency at OSU. She is a Regular Clinical Track Faculty Member at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Integrative Medicine. From May 2020, Dr. Mehta serves as Professor and Chair, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science. Previously, she served as the OSU College of Pharmacy, Director, Continuing Professional Development and Practice Advancement from 2014-2020. She served for 11 years as Director of the Clinical Partners Program, a nationally recognized College of Pharmacy ambulatory/community care clinic whose mission was to help patients make the best use of medications and to educate students, residents, and pharmacists through innovative practice, teaching, and scholarship. She has developed and implemented pharmacy services as part of a prototype Patient-Centered Medical Home. In her current role, she is leading development of the OSU College of Pharmacy Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Practice and Policy Change (CAPPC) through which she will lead in development of transformative pharmacy practice locally and globally. Her areas of focus include developing and advancing innovative practice in ambulatory/community care and self-care/complementary and alternative medicines. 

Dr. Mehta is a nationally sought speaker in the area of complementary and alternative medicines and herbs and dietary supplements. She has developed direct patient care services and educational experiences in this area. She is a past recipient of the ASHP Foundation Best Practices in Health Systems Pharmacy Award, American Pharmacists Association (APhA)- Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APPM) Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award, the Ohio Pharmacists Association Beal Award and OSU’s Josephine S. Failer Award. Dr. Mehta has been actively involved in pharmacy leadership as: an elected APhA-APPM Executive Committee Member-At-Large officer, appointed member of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association’s Editorial Advisory Board, founder of the APhA-APPM Medical Home/ACO Special Interest Group, a selected faculty member for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program, selected Chair, AACP Professional Affairs Committee and as an appointed member of the AACP Innovative Practice Models and Leadership Task Force.

Casey Combs May, PharmD, BCCCP, FNCS is an Associate Professor – Clinical in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency training and PGY2 critical care pharmacy residency training at The University of Kentucky Healthcare. Dr. May also serves as the Director of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program. 

Dr. May practices as a neurocritical care specialty practice pharmacist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where she provides innovative patient-centered care to critically ill patients with a neurological injury. In this setting, she works with an interdisciplinary team to help manage the pharmacotherapy for a variety of neurologic injuries including but not limited to ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, status epilepticus, myasthenia gravis, meningitis and brain tumors. In addition to direct patient care, Dr. May uses her expertise to help craft institutional evidence-based guidelines and protocols to standardize care.

Within the academic setting, Dr. May takes on the role of co-coordinator for the fourth and final course sequence in the integrated pharmacotherapy course (IP4). In this capacity, she skillfully designs and guides small group activities within the team-based learning framework, delivering comprehensive content on general critical care topics. Beyond this, Dr. May assumes the responsibility of leading a Critical Care Elective (PHR 7250 Introduction to Critical Care Pharmacy Practice). In this elective, she endeavors to immerse students in the critical care specialty through engaging methods such as literature evaluation, patient simulations, and in-depth patient case discussions.

Dr. May holds the position of Chair for the Communications Committee within the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).  In addition, she plays a vital role as a member of both the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) Pharmacy Section Leadership Committee and the NCS Pharmacy Research and Scholarship Committee. Her dedication extends beyond conventional roles, as she passionately advocates for the integration of pharmacists at the bedside, within established guidelines, and in various other influential spheres.

Her research interest lies in anticoagulation reversal and improving the time to bundled care delivery in the setting of hemorrhagic stroke, optimization of antiplatelet pharmacotherapy after neuroendovascular procedures, and optimizing nutritional status and evaluating pharmacokinetic variations in the neurocritically ill patient. She also has an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning, specifically around preparing clinicians to teach in the didactic and experiential setting.