Speakers

Conference Co-Chair:

Meghan Walsh, PharmD
ITPA President
Clinical Pharmacist – Solid Organ Transplant
Loyola University Medical Center

Dr. Meghan Walsh is the current president of ITPA. She is a Clinical Transplant Pharmacist at Loyola University Medical Center where she covers abdominal transplant and hepatology. She obtained her PharmD from the University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Residencies at Rush University Medical Center.

Conference Co-Chair:

Claire Schmidt, PharmD
ITPA Vice-President
Clinical Pharmacist – Solid Organ Transplant
Loyola University Medical Center

Dr. Claire Schmidt is the current vice president of ITPA. She is a clinical transplant pharmacist at Loyola University Medical Center. She completed her pharmacy school at Creighton University and residency training at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Loyola University Medical Center. She enjoys participating in trainee education and connecting with all the other awesome transplant pharmacists across the country at meetings and events.

Kellie J. Goodlet, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, BCTXP
Associate Professor
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy – Glendale, AZ

Dr. Kellie J. Goodlet, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, BCTXP is an Associate Professor at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy in Glendale, Arizona. She received her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Arizona and subsequently completed two years of pharmacy residency training at Hartford Hospital, including a PGY2 in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Goodlet maintains a clinical practice site at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, which is the flagship hospital of the Dignity Health system and home to the Norton Thoracic Institute, one of the busiest lung transplant programs in the United States. Dr. Goodlet’s research interests include antimicrobial stewardship and opportunistic infection prevention and management in solid organ transplantation. She has authored over 40 publications and book chapters in these areas, and currently serves as a panelist for the upcoming Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidance on Infectious Complications Associated with Immunomodulatory Therapies. She is an active member of various professional organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (2022-2023 Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Educational Steering Committee Chair), the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (2021-2022 BCIDP Recertification Committee Chair) and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Transplantation Practice and Research Network.

Anesia Reticker, PharmD, BCTXP
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Solid Organ Transplant
University of Chicago Medicine

Dr. Anesia Reticker, PharmD is a solid organ transplant clinical pharmacist specialist at the University of Chicago Medicine. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Science at the University of Georgia and her Doctorate of Pharmacy at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy. She also completed her PGY1 and PGY2 in Solid Organ Transplant at the University of Illinois Hospital. Currently, she is the co-director and founder of the Access to Transplant through Novel Approaches to Weight Loss (ACTNOW) Clinic. She also serves as an executive board member of the University of Chicago Latino Transplant Program and previously served as the president and vice president of the Illinois Transplant Pharmacists’ Association.

Erika Meredith, Pharm.D., BCTXP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant
Emory University Hospital

Dr. Erika Meredith is a Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She also serves as residency program director for the solid organ transplant second year residency program. She is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Mercer University College of Pharmacy and in Atlanta, Georgia and the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy in Athens, GA. Dr. Meredith received her Pharm.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, where she also went on to complete her PGY1 general practice residency as well as her PGY2 specialty residency in solid organ transplantation. Her areas of interest include CMV, hyperparathyroidism, HIV and kidney transplant, and belatacept.

Nathan Lamb, PharmD, BCPPS
Pharmacogenomics Coordinator
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Dr. Nathan Lamb completed PGY1 training at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and PGY2 at Boston Children’s Hospital. He completed a Precision Medicine: Applied Pharmacogenomics certificate through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and is currently the Pharmacogenomics Coordinator for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.