History of CSHP
In 2018, CSHP was proud to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. CSHP has benefited from a long legacy of distinguished leadership (see list of past presidents below).
In November of 1948, CSHP held its first meeting at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The meeting was presided over by John Zugich, the 1st CSHP president, 4th president of ASHP, and Director of Pharmacy at Yale New Haven from 1947 to 1951. In the first years, CSHP meetings where held exclusively in New Haven with meetings rotating between Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of Saint Raphael. In the 1950s, the CSHP meeting sites began to rotate around the state, and a joint meeting with the Massachusetts Society was held as well. CSHP continues to hold meetings at Connecticut hospitals and schools of pharmacy to this day.
CSHP was formally incorporated as a non-profit association (501c6) in 1981. Many individuals contributed to building the Society into the organization it is today. Some notables include our past presidents, many of whom continue to be active today.
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PAST PRESIDENTS
1948 – John Zugich 1949 – Sr Lucia 1950 – Thomas Heffernan 1951 – Francis J. Sullivan 1952 – Edmund Singer 1953 – David Burak 1954 – Steven Tyrell 1955 – John Webb 1956-1957 – Lester Burleson 1958 – Raphael Sylvester 1959 – Ugo F. Caruso 1960-1961 – Louis C. Annino 1962 – Vito D'Aiuto 1963-1965 – Ronald J. Souza 1966 – David Martin 1967 – Joseph Presto 1968 – William Brown 1969 – Robert Auger 1970 – William Cowell 1971 – Wes Shorts 1972 – Paul Pierpaoli 1973 – Robert Jacovino 1974 – Art Lippman 1975 – Robert Miller 1976 – James Dugas 1977 – Anthony Kubica 1978 – Greg Gousse 1979 – J. Ken Walters 1980 – Gerry Bowman 1981 – Sheldon Sones 1982 – John Cote 1983 – Alex Cardoni 1984 – Paul Davern 1985 – Ron Moleski 1986 – Mike Rubino 1987 – Harvey Martin 1988 – Jan Kozakiewicz 1989 – Mike Horvath 1990 – Coleen Cherici 1991 – Ralph Frank 1992 – Arthur LeMay 1993 – John Poniatowski 1994 – Dave Girouard 1995 – Amy Baumbach/Dave Girouard 1996 – Bob Theriault 1997 – Steve Burke 1998 – William Agostinucci 1999 – Richard Lisitano 2000 – Lisa Durland 2001 – Lisa Jaser 2002 – David A. Pudim 2003 – Sandra Alfano 2004 – Thomas Dailey 2005 – Maureen A. McCarthy 2006 – Jennifer Ellis 2007 – Lisa Stump 2008 – Craig Coleman 2009 – Bruce Sill 2010 – Fei Wang 2011 – Bill Baker 2012 - Robyn Wahl 2013 - Ron Abrahams 2014 - Sarah Kelly 2015 - Lori Lee 2016 - Eric Tichy 2017 - Stacy Vaeth 2018 - Nick Tessier |
About CSHPSince 1948, the Connecticut Society of Health-System Pharmacists has represented the professional interests and provided professional development for CT pharmacists, educators and pharmacists in training. |