We are very excited that we have of some of the best local speakers for our CME program, COVID-19 Pandemic: What You Need to Know.
Our speakers include:
Anthony Lee, MPH, OSDH, Director, Acute Disease Service
Anthony Lee, MPH, is the Director of the Acute Disease Service of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Anthony has worked in Public Health for over 20 years in the areas of infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, and informatics. He has been involved with the inception and ongoing development of the Oklahoma Health Alert Network (OK-HAN) and the Public Health Investigation and Disease Detection of Oklahoma (PHIDDO) systems. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1998 with a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology.
Jerome Loughridge, OSDH, Secretary of Health
Jerome Loughridge was appointed Secretary of Health and Mental Health by Governor Kevin Stitt in March 2019. As Secretary, he is responsible for 54 agencies, boards and commissions, including the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Department of Health and Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
A native of Duncan, Oklahoma, Loughridge earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Baylor University and began his career at Children’s Memorial Medical Center, the pediatric teaching institution of Northwestern University in Chicago. A recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, he earned his Master of Public Policy from Harvard University as the school’s first Fellow in Business and Government. Following a tenure as an energy derivatives trader, in 2000 Loughridge returned to Baylor University as Chief of Staff, serving on the executive committee of the Big Twelve institution and helping drive Baylor 2012, the university’s 10-year vision. Loughridge was appointed to serve in the 2003-2004 class of White House Fellows, selected as one of twelve from an applicant class of 1,200 and assigned as special assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield. In that capacity, he worked on Iraqi reconstruction, spending time in the West Wing, at the Pentagon and in Baghdad.
For the last thirteen years, Loughridge has served professionally in leadership positions in the Oklahoma energy sector in both private equity-backed and publicly-traded companies. Loughridge currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for NextStream, an early-stage investment partnership with Baker Hughes focused on the next generation of technology in the energy industry. Prior to that he served for seven years as president of Great Plains Oilfield Rental, leading the company from inception inside Chesapeake Energy, through a public spin-out within Seventy Seven Energy, and finally through its sale to Patterson-UTI. Prior to leading Great Plains, Loughridge was founder and President of Black Mesa Energy Services, the oilfield investment arm of New York-based Ziff Brothers Investments. Loughridge previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Great White Energy Services, a portfolio company of Connecticut-based Wexford Capital.
Loughridge and his family make their home in northeast Oklahoma City. A Spanish speaker, Loughridge maintains an ongoing commitment to mission and humanitarian activity, regularly traveling to Central America and East Africa, where he has taught in universities and remote villages and has helped coordinate rural health care delivery through temporary clinics. In April of 2019, Loughridge won election to Oakdale Public Schools, where he is serving a three-year term. Loughridge remains an active member in a number of community organizations, recently retired as a volunteer middle-school soccer coach and currently teaches a weekly class at Oakdale Baptist Church. He is married to Tricia and has two sons, William (16) and Alexander (10), both in public schools in the Oklahoma City area. Loughridge maintains a small farm in Luther, Oklahoma, The Burrow, where he primarily grows stickers and ticks.
Dale Bratzler, DO, MPH, Enterprise Chief Quality Officer, OU Medicine
Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH, is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Health Administration and Policy at the Hudson College of Public Health, and
Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health
Sciences Center. He currently serves as the Enterprise Chief Quality Officer
for the three-hospital health system and faculty practice at OU Medicine. His experience in health care quality
improvement includes working with CMS on the development and maintenance of
national performance measures used to profile and report on the quality of
inpatient and outpatient health care. He
has served two terms as president of the American Health Quality Association
and is a past member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National
Advisory Council and the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory
Committee. He has given more than 600
lectures nationally on health care quality topics with a particular emphasis on
prevention of surgical site infections and adult vaccination. Board certified
in internal medicine, he is a Master Fellow of the American College of
Osteopathic Internists, and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America.
Marty Hendrick, PharmD, DDh, Executive Director, Pharmacy Board
Marty Hendrick, PharmD, DPh, is honored to begin his role as executive director of the Board. After growing up in Alva, OK, Marty graduated from Oklahoma University School of Pharmacy in 2006. Marty’s career as a pharmacist has taken him to Nevada, MO; Tulsa, OK; and Wilmington, NC. He previously worked as a compliance officer for the Board from 2015-2017, serving the central territory, before his family moved to the East Coast. Marty is married with an eight-year-old son, a dog, and three cats. In his free time he has spent countless hours renovating a 100-year-old house not far from the beach in North Carolina. Marty is going to miss living on the coast in Wilmington, but he is very excited to rejoin the Board and to be back in his home state of Oklahoma
Thomas Kupiec, PhD, ARL Bio Pharma
Dr. Thomas C. Kupiec is the CEO of ARL Bio Pharma and DNA Solutions Inc. Dr. Kupiec received his Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center College of Pharmacy. He currently serves as a graduate faculty member at the OU Health Sciences Center and has held teaching appointments at several universities. He has published numerous articles and abstracts in a variety of fields including pharmaceutical sciences, forensic sciences and pharmacogenomics. Dr. Kupiec is often requested as a speaker at national pharmaceutical conferences and has spoken at ASHP, IACP, ACA and for state pharmaceutical associations.
Dr. Kupiec’s vision of entrepreneurial research is manifested by his responsibilities at DNA Solutions and ARL, which include supplying technical expertise and business development in the pharmaceutical and forensic fields. Additionally, Dr. Kupiec offers consultation services for a variety of pharmacy related fields as well as expert witness testimony in the fields of forensic toxicology and pharmaceutical sciences. He has testified in over a hundred cases, both civil and criminal, in federal, state and municipal courts.
His professional experience includes various appointments at Northwest Toxicology Inc. (NWT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Oklahoma City Police Department. Dr. Kupiec is affiliated with numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Society of Forensic Toxicologists, and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
Larry Bookman, MD, OSMA President
Larry Bookman, M.D. received his medical degree from the OU College of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of California, Irvine. He entered private practice upon returning to Oklahoma in 1982 and in 1994 established Digestive Disease Specialists in Oklahoma City, now the largest GI group in the State of Oklahoma. Dr. Bookman has received numerous professional awards including the 2013 Ed Calhoun Leadership Award, from the Oklahoma State Medical Association and the Don Rhinehart Award from the Oklahoma County Medical Society in 2015. Dr. Bookman is an ardent supporter of community organizations, having served on the Boards of Directors of the Oklahoma Philharmonic and Lyric Theater.