by PCCA

Last night at the International Seminar 2019 Awards Banquet, we proudly announced our Compounding Pharmacist of the Year and the recipient of our annual George Roentsch Scholarship. We also recognized our Canadian Compounding Pharmacist of the Year and the recipient of our Evelyn Timmons Advocacy Award, whom we originally honored at events earlier this year.

Congratulations to Jasper Lovoi III, PharmD, RPh, Our 2019 Dr. M. George Webber Compounding Pharmacist of the Year

L to R: PCCA’s Dave Sparks, Jasper Lovoi and PCCA’s Jim Smith

We presented this award to Jasper at the International Seminar Awards Banquet on October 10.

“Jasper is committed to being a resource for his colleagues and other pharmacy compounding industry professionals, especially in the sterile compounding realm,” PCCA President Jim Smith said. “His new, state-of-the-art sterile and nonsterile compounding labs are testaments to his high level of quality standards. He is well known and respected by his patients within his community and among fellow pharmacists within his PCCA colleague community.” 

After graduating from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy in 2002, Jasper joined his family at Lovoi and Sons Pharmacy in Beaumont, Texas, where he introduced the practice of specialty compounding. The pharmacy joined PCCA, and through the personal marketing of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, pediatrics and skin care, Jasper established a strong and growing compounding business for his family.

In 2008, he opened The Woodlands Compounding Pharmacy, an independent, compounding-only pharmacy. He is the pharmacist-in-charge, supervising the operation of over 26 employees, and prepares all sterile compounds. His wife, Keisha Lovoi, RPh, manages the pharmacy staff, and is also responsible for maintaining compliance with all state and federal regulations. Jasper is also the owner and founder of Bimini Cosmetics, a company he started in 2006 that provides pharmaceutical-grade anti-aging products to the public. 

Jasper has served a two-year term on PCCA’s Advisory Council; frequently attends educational seminars and symposiums to learn new, more effective ways of treating his patients; networks with his fellow compounding colleagues on a regular basis; and is passionate about advocating for the profession of pharmacy compounding. In the past year, he has hosted two Congressional visits at his pharmacy to demonstrate to lawmakers the role compounding plays in health care and share patient access barriers with them.

Established in 1987, this award is presented annually to an independent compounding pharmacist who has demonstrated service excellence to patients, health care providers and pharmacy colleagues. The late Dr. M. George Webber was a longtime professor at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, and was instrumental in the formation of PCCA in 1981. He was unwaveringly committed to meeting patient needs and upholding the highest quality and ethical standards, and shared his expertise and love for compounding with his colleagues and his students for more than 40 years.

Congratulations to Courtney Junop, BSP, the Recipient of Our 2019 George Roentsch Scholarship

L to R: PCCA’s Erin Michael and Dave Sparks; Courtney Junop; and PCCA’s Bill Letendre, Jim Smith, Lizzie Harbin and Cyndi Hicks

We presented this award to Courtney at the International Seminar Awards Banquet on October 10.

“Courtney is a true sharer and teacher, which makes her so deserving of this honor,” PCCA Director of Outside Sales Erin Michael, MBA, MS, CPhT, said. “She is always learning about new compounding opportunities and sharing these ideas as well as her own with her pharmacist colleagues. She precepts pharmacy students every year by offering a compounding and functional medicine rotation at her pharmacy. And she continually expands her practice to offer new services in order to meet the needs of patients and prescribers in her community.”

Courtney started her compounding career as a pharmacy technician, joining the staff of The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy & Compounding Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 2007. She decided to return to school, and graduated with her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from the University of Saskatchewan in 2011. She then served as the pharmacist and manager of The Medicine Shoppe until 2014, when she purchased the pharmacy. 

Known throughout the Saskatchewan medical community as a compounding and functional medicine expert, Courtney regularly hosts presentations for patients and other health care professionals on a variety of compounding topics. She has received specialized training in several areas, including adrenal fatigue, nutrition, pediatric compounding, pain management, hormone replacement therapy and integrative medicine. She is currently working on her Fellowship/Master in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine and Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine/Metabolic Medicine Institute.

In her four years as owner of The Medicine Shoppe, Courtney has gained the trust of her community. In turn, her business has grown, and she is considering expanding her practice with a second location to keep up with demand.

Established in 2010, this scholarship is given annually during International Seminar to an up-and-coming independent pharmacist and PCCA member who embodies the innovative and sharing nature for which George Roentsch was well known in the pharmacy compounding community. It provided Courtney with an all-expenses-paid trip to our 2019 International Seminar. The late George Roentsch, RPh, was the owner and pharmacist of The Apothecary in Keene, New Hampshire, and is fondly remembered for his work, which advanced the art and science of custom-made prescription medications. George was passionate about pharmacy compounding and generously shared many of his formulas and innovations with fellow compounders.

Congratulations to Jarron Yee, BSP, Our Canadian Compounding Pharmacist of the Year

L to R: PCCA’s Mike De Lisio, Corinn Ponton and Cheryl Spicer; Jarron Yee; and PCCA’s Amanda Cassel and Sebastian Denison

We presented this award to Jarron on June 20 during our HRT, Autoimmune & Pain Symposium in Toronto, Ontario.

In a video prepared for the ceremony, Sebastian Denison, RPh, PCCA Clinical Compounding Pharmacist, spoke to Jarron’s qualifications: “I think it had something to do with his advocacy, passion, marketing, attendance at events and great voice in the compounding community.”

In the same video, PCCA North American Sales Director Mike De Lisio added, “Jarron, you’ve been heavily involved not only within your province of Saskatchewan, but you’ve also led an advocacy effort in Canada, and I think this was the major reason you were selected as the 2019 Canadian Compounding Pharmacist of the Year.”

While accepting the award, Jarron said, “It is an honor to be recognized with previous recipients of the award. PCCA has been the backbone supporting my efforts to provide the best options to my patients. Sebastian has been a tremendous mentor and has been instrumental in guiding me in my career.”

Jarron graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2006. He has been serving the city of Regina and the surrounding area with his compounding services since 2010, when he opened the Northgate Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy. His interests revolve around helping patients with chronic pain and hormone balance issues to achieve positive health outcomes.

Jarron has achieved the professional designations of Hormone Specialist and Dermatology-Wound-Scar Specialist through PCCA’s rigorous Comprehensive Core Concepts in Compounding (C4) program. He is also currently completing his Fellowship in Anti-Aging Medicine through the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Jarron hopes to combine all these specialties to provide his patients with his much sought-after expertise.

PCCA Canada’s Compounding Pharmacist of the Year award is presented annually to a Canadian independent pharmacist who has demonstrated service excellence to patients, health care providers and pharmacy colleagues.

Congratulations to Cathy Hance, RPh, Recipient of the 2019 Evelyn Timmons Advocacy Award

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L to R: PCCA’s Jim Smith and Lizzie Harbin, Cathy Hance, and PCCA member Jennifer Burch

We presented this award to Cathy on April 9 during our 2019 ACT Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

“Cathy Hance truly shares the passion of Evelyn Timmons and is well deserving of this honor,” said PCCA President Jim Smith. “Cathy and her co-owner sister, Anne Marie Megibben, are second-generation pharmacists who are well known and respected in the medical community they serve. Anne Marie’s commitment to running the daily pharmacy operations allows Cathy the opportunity to regularly attend national and local meetings to protect the profession of pharmacy compounding.”

Cathy was chosen from among 10 finalists. She has more than 30 years of experience as a pharmacist and more than 12 years of experience in compounding and pharmacy ownership. A graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, she and her sister learned to be the pharmacists they are today by watching their father run his own independent pharmacy for many years. They opened Compound Care Rx Plus in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2008, specializing in many areas of compounding, including male and female hormone replacement therapy, pain management, ophthalmology, dermatology, pediatrics, dental and veterinary. They also offer private consultations for hormone replacement therapy as well as lifestyle and wellness. 

Some of Cathy’s advocacy efforts on behalf of her community and the compounding industry include regularly attending PCCA’s annual ACT Legislative Conferences and IACP’s annual Compounders on Capitol Hill events to promote compounding at the federal level. She also holds a constant presence at Kentucky State Board of Pharmacy meetings and hosts members of Congress at her pharmacy to secure their support for compounding. She also continually enhances her knowledge about pharmacy compounding and shares this knowledge with her pharmacy colleagues, patients and medical community.

Established a year after her death in 2011, this annual advocacy award pays tribute to Evelyn Timmons, RPh, a pioneer and nationally renowned figure in the use of bioidentical hormones for women, as well as a long-standing advocate of pharmacy compounding. As one of the first female pharmacists in Arizona, she received numerous national awards during her career. Evelyn was the first woman president of the American College of Apothecaries (ACA), and was among the first full fellows of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP).

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