Arizona Board of Pharmacy gets New Board Member and Not So New Compliance Officer With Knowledge of Compounding

The Board staff is pleased to report that Governor
Jan Brewer has appointed Darren Kennedy, a pharmacist employed at
Walgreens Healthcare Plus, to the Board, replacing Dan Milovich
whose five-year term expired. Mr Kennedy graduated from
the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in 1997 with a
bachelor of science degree in pharmacy. He began his career
as a staff pharmacist for Walgreens in the Phoenix, AZ, area
and has held positions as a retail pharmacy manager and
district pharmacy supervisor. Mr Kennedy is currently the
operations manager at Walgreens Central Pharmacy Operations in Tempe, AZ,
where he is responsible for Walgreens
mail order and regional retail centralization. Mr Kennedy
is also an adjunct faculty member at Midwestern College of
Pharmacy and the University ofWyoming. He is a member of
both the NationalAssociation of Drug Diversion Investigators
and Strategic National Stockpile team for Maricopa County.
Mr Kennedy resides in Gilbert, AZ, with his wife Jennifer
and their two children Gavin and Sydney. Welcome Darren
and many thanks to Mr Milovich for his five years of service.
The Board members and staff wish him well in his new home
amid the cool pines of Happy Jack, AZ.
Board staff is also pleased to announce the re-hiring of
Dennis Waggoner as the Board’s fifth compliance officer.
Some readers will remember that he previously served in
the same capacity from 2000 to 2003. Dennis returns to the
Board after a 10-year hiatus, eight years of which were spent
in drug manufacturing, an area in which he has an extensive
background. His knowledge and skills in this area were recognized when he was appointed to the Board’s Compounding
Task Force, which reviewsthe Board’s existing compounding
statutes and rulesin order to update and revise them. One goal
is to ensure that Arizona remains a modern and progressive
state that allows the proud tradition of pharmacy compounding to flourish while maintaining its history of protecting the
citizens in this state and of states where products from this
state are shipped. Coincidentally, the staff is finally back to
18 full-time employees, which was the number of employees
before the budget crunch and hiring freeze that began in 2009

quoted from Arizonia Board of Pharmacy July 2013 Newsletter