Nick Gazda

Assistant Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services at Cone Health

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Nicholas P Gazda, PharmD, MS, BCPS, CSP is Assistant Director of Pharmacy at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina. He oversees URAC/ACHC accredited specialty pharmacy operations including the specialty pharmacy call center, home-delivery program, and medication access program as well as the embedded ambulatory clinical pharmacists. Nick completed his BS and PharmD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and a two-year PGY1/PGY2/MS Health-System Pharmacy Administration residency at Cone Health.

Nick has been involved in numerous professional organizations including NCAP, and ASHP. He currently serves as the Chair of the Section Advisory Group of Business Development and System Integration in the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders. He is an active contributor to the literature and through national presentations on topics including specialty pharmacy, pharmacy technicians, the medication use process, medication access, ambulatory pharmacists and billing, and pharmacy leadership essentials.

Nick also gives back to the profession through teaching. He is faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as a Clinical Professor and helps coordinate multiple courses through the PharmD curriculum and the Master's in pharmacy administration and leadership. He has also precepted students from UNC, High Point and Campbell schools of Pharmacy.