Solid Organ Transplantation Pharmacy

Dr. Bernard divides her time between administrative leadership as the Senior Clinical Manager supporting Solid Organ Transplant, Cardiovascular Surgery, and the Neurosciences ICU as well as maintaining a clinical practice within solid organ transplant at Mayo Clinic. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University; PGY1 residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant residency at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Bernard has experience working in investigation, regulatory research, and academia at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. She founded the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement role and Solid Organ Transplant PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Program in Rochester, MN. Dr. Bernard is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Fellow Member with the Mayo Clinic Academy of Educational Excellence, and has received the honor of Associate Appointment for unusually important contributions to the practice, research, and educational activities of Mayo Clinic.

Evan was born in the small town of La Grande, Oregon and spent much of his formative years in the Pacific Northwest.  He graduated from Gonzaga University with a BS in biology and then went to University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for his Doctor of Pharmacy degree. His pharmacy practice residency was at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, after which he worked as a Transplant/ICU clinical pharmacist at UCSF for 1 year before moving back to Seattle to work as a Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist on the abdominal transplant team at UW, where he stayed for 13 years before being recruited to his first role in industry as a transplant Medical Science Liaison (MSL).  His background as a transplant clinical pharmacist gives him a comprehensive understanding of the patient journey and turned him into a fierce patient advocate. He aims to help transform transplantation by bridging science and practice, translating frontline patient care experience into product development and scientific engagement strategies that address significant unmet needs in organ rejection, graft-versus host disease, immunosuppression burden, and long-term outcomes. In his spare time he is an outdoor enthusiast, skier, trail runner, and builder.

I went to St. Johns University in Queens, New York for my undergraduate degree in Pharmacy in 1993. I achieved my Doctor of Pharmacy degree at University of Florida in 1999. I started my clinical Pharmacy career as an internal medicine pharmacist, transitioned to critical care and for the past 15 years as a solid organ transplant pharmacist. My interest is in one on one education of pharmacy students and residents to expose them to the field of solid organ transplant, biostatistics and publications.

Mary Moss Chandran is a Medical Science Liaison with Eli Lilly, specializing in cardiometabolic health. In this role, she engages with healthcare professionals and scientific leaders to advance evidence-based understanding of cardiometabolic diseases and therapeutic innovation.

She currently holds an adjunct associate professor appointment and serves as course director for the transplant elective at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Previously, Dr. Chandran served as a clinical pharmacist practitioner specializing in abdominal solid organ transplantation, delivering care in outpatient transplant clinics at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and Clinics.

Prior to her UNC role, she was a clinical pharmacist specialist in pediatric solid organ transplant at Children’s Hospital Colorado and a clinical pharmacist specialist in solid organ transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center, supporting both abdominal and cardiothoracic transplant populations.

Dr. Chandran completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice and PGY2 solid organ transplant pharmacy residencies at the University of North Carolina Medical Center. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy (Class of 2012) and holds a Bachelor of Science in human biology from the University of California San Diego.
She is board-certified as a Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) and a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS).

Feist graduated from University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2005 and completed her residency training at UC San Diego Health. Following her residency, she served as a Pharmacist Specialist in Solid Organ Transplantation at UC San Diego Health focusing on heart and lung transplantation in both inpatient and ambulatory care settings. In this role, she successfully implemented and expanded clinical pharmacy services across all transplant programs at UCSD. She was the founding chair for the UC Wide Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist Collaborative Committee providing a network for transplant pharmacists at all University of California campuses. She helped develop the PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency at UC San Diego Health acting as the director for nine years. Feist is currently practicing as a Clinical Professor at University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In addition to teaching, she continues to provide patient care in the ambulatory setting for both the lung and heart transplant programs at UC San Diego Health. Her research focuses on clinical outcomes in transplantation, specifically studying pharmacokinetics, drug interactions and adverse effects.

Karen Khalil is the Senior Project Manager in Xenotransplant at NYU Langone Health, where she facilitates and oversees the ongoing xenotransplant research at the institution. This includes the first-in-human clinical xenotransplantation trials. She received her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Northeastern University in Boston. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA where her interest in solid organ transplant began. She then completed a PGY2 in Solid Organ Transplant at University of Illinois at Chicago and joined the NYU Langone Health Transplant Team in 2018 where she managed kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant recipients before transitioning into her current role.

Dr. Nicholas Lange is currently employed as a Regional Medical Liaison for Calliditas Therapeutics covering the Northeast US territory. Prior to his recent transition into the pharmaceutical industry, he practiced as a Clinical Pharmacy Manager at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where he supported the adult kidney/pancreas transplant program at Columbia University Medical Center from 2017-2025. He also served as the Residency Program Director for the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program. While in practice, he published extensively on solid organ transplant pharmacotherapy , with a particular focus on the assessment of complex drug-drug interactions and evaluation of real-world outcomes associated with novel therapeutics.

Leick is the Pharmacist Program Coordinator for Solid Organ Transplantation at Nebraska Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy. She also serves as a Pharmacist Specialist for hepatology, intestinal rehabilitation, and adult liver and intestinal transplantation. Leick received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant residencies at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.

Megan Moravec is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist with Pediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, a division of Northwell. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency at Stony Brook University Hospital. She worked as a pediatric pharmacist at her current hospital and transitioned into her current role when the pediatric kidney transplant program began in 2017.  The intricacies of a specialty within a specialty has always kept her motivated to push for better care for vulnerable patient populations.  She currently provides patient care to pediatric nephrology patients in the inpatient and ambulatory environments. Dr. Moravec has a professional interest in transitions of care with a focus on discharge from hospitalization as well as expanding telehealth services

Simard is a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist for the kidney and pancreas transplant programs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Concordia University Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Aurora Health Care Metro, Inc. She completed her PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant residency at the University of Michigan Health System. She currently serves as the Residency Program Director for the PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Summers is an abdominal transplant pharmacist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from Wingate University School of Pharmacy near Charlotte, North Carolina. He then went on to do a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and a PGY2 Transplant Pharmacy Residency at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Summers has previously written several transplant publications and has also served as a content editor for the Infectious Disease Pharmacotherapy Self Assessment Program modules. His professional interests include calcineurin minimization/withdrawal, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis C, and transplant quality improvement. In his free time he enjoys ultrarunning, trail running, hiking, lifting weights, movies, and board games.

Yakubu is a Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University. He founded the PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency Program at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, and currently serves as the Residency Program Director. Yakubu received both his Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Toledo Medical Center and PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center.