Events

Keynote Speaker - Tina Bayuse, Pharm.D.

Lead Pharmacist, NASA

Bayuse is the lead pharmacist for the first and only NASA pharmacy, which launched in 2003. As founder of the pharmacy she designed its physical layout and developed the policy and procedures for medication management and implementation of pharmacy practice programs.

Today, as a clinical staff team member, Bayuse works with the Johnson Space Center Clinic and Medical Operations Group in support of crewmember and employee health. Her responsibilities including medical kit design, medication selection and process development for the International Space Station (ISS), Commercial Crew, Moon to Mars and Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Programs.

Bayuse has received numerous awards for her work, including the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, which is the highest honor awarded to a non-government individual for their contribution to the agency. She has shared her extensive knowledge and experience in space medicine through numerous professional presentations, papers, and book chapters. She is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and American Pharmacists Association, as well as an active member in the Space Medicine Association and was named a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association.

Bayuse obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Alumni Speaker - Jennifer Han, Pharm.D., '17

Han is a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist managing the interdisciplinary pain program at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System in Syracuse, New York; and the co-founder of Seen Nutrition, a foodtech startup focused on bone health.

Han was inspired to create Seen Nutrition after fracturing her back just two months postpartum. Following a diagnosis of pre-menopausal osteoporosis, she began researching calcium supplements and quickly realized the limitations of existing products. Determined to find a better solution, she partnered with a food studies researcher at Cornell to co-found Seen Nutrition, formulating the first calcium chew made entirely from real food. 

Prior to these roles, Han worked at Pomona Valley Hospital in Los Angeles, California, where she created the first interdisciplinary clinical pharmacy practice at the Women and Family Medicine Clinic. She also served as the first pharmacist clinical faculty of the Physician Family Medicine Residency Program and served as pharmacy residency coordinator. 

Han obtained her bachelor’s degree and Doctor of Pharmacy from UC San Diego and completed her PGY-1 residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and PG2 residency in ambulatory care at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health System. While at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences she served as president of the school’s student chapter of the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 

Read a Q&A with Jennifer Han