Our Preceptors

Shane Chordas, PharmD, BCPS is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. He completed his post graduate year one pharmacy practice residency at West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, FL. Following his residency year, he focused on building the antimicrobial stewardship program and precepting students/residents. He is a member of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Florida Society of Health System Pharmacists, the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists and holds an Advanced Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases (MAD-ID) Antimicrobial Stewardship certificate. Shane is currently serving as the director of pharmacy.

Meghan is a current preceptor following the completion of her PGY-1 at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital.  A native of Pensacola, FL, Meghan attended Samford University for her undergraduate coursework before receiving her Doctorate of Pharmacy from Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy in May of 2018.  After completing various clinical rotations, Meghan decided to pursue a PGY1 residency to broaden her clinical knowledge and learning experiences. Her primary areas of precepting include orientation, internal medicine, progressive care, and longitudinal staffing.  Meghan is enthusiastic to return home to the Panhandle in addition to maturing professionally among the remarkable staff at Sacred Heart Hospital. In her free time, Meghan enjoys paddle-boarding, finding good restaurants, and traveling.

Heather Doyle, PharmD is a graduate of The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy and completed her Post-Graduate Year 1 residency with a focus in pediatrics at Sacred Heart Hospital. She is Ascension Sacred Heart's informatics pharmacist working closely with our pharmacy administrative team on electronic health record processes.  Her current elective rotation is in informatics.  

Dr. Joseph W. Glovacz Jr. earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2011 from Samford University’s, McWhorter School of Pharmacy. He subsequently completed a 1-year ambulatory care focused, pharmacy practice residency at the Veterans Administration (VA) Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Joint Ambulatory Care Center (JACC). Prior to joining Sacred Heart in 2017, Dr. Glovacz worked full time at the VA Gulf Coast JACC imbedded within primary care and serving as a physician extender autonomously managing multiple chronic disease states including but limited to diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, anticoagulation, and chronic pain. Dr. Glovacz is a Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) and during his time at the VA was the residency program director, a voting member on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) committee and the opiate safety oversight committee, while sitting on several other local and regional committees. Dr. Glovacz has presented at conferences and meetings locally, regionally, and nationally. Dr. Glovacz has overseen numerous quality improvement projects during his time as the resident program director and assisted in an average annual pharmaceutical cost savings of 1.3 million dollars for the VA Gulf Coast.  Dr. Glovacz oversees our PGY1 resident core ambulatory care learning experiences, the two month block PGY1 rotation in ambulatory care, and the founder and director of our ASHP accredited PGY2 pharmacy ambulatory care program.  

Glenn Grantner, PharmD, BCPS is graduate of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Following graduation, he completed his PGY-1 Residency at West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. He serves as a clinical staff pharmacist, working primarily with the cardiac and progressive care units, critical care, as well as the emergency department. His primary interests include antimicrobial stewardship, pharmacokinetic monitoring, heart failure management, and literature evaluation. He is also closely involved with precepting students and residents for internal medicine learning experiences and longitudinal staffing.  Dr. Grantner also serves as the adult PGY1 residency program coordinator (RPC).

Sabrina Gregory, PharmD is a graduate of University of Colorado Denver, School of Pharmacy. Following graduation, she began her career as a clinical staff pharmacist at University of Colorado Colorado Springs Memorial Health Hospital with a focus on critical care and perioperative services. She joined the Sacred Heart Hospital team in 2015 and has focused on building a perioperative pharmacy service line and a kidney transplant service line. She is an active member in several committees and has a passion for antimicrobial stewardship, process and protocol development and implementation, patient safety, medication review and monitoring, and being an active preceptor for the perioperative pharmacy elective.

Chloe Huang, PharmD, BCPS is a graduate of University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. Following graduation, she completed her PGY-1 pharmacy residency at St. Vincent’s HealthCare in Jacksonville, Florida. She currently serves as a critical pharmacist and a core preceptor to for our PGY1 resident critical learning experience.  Her major interests include antimicrobial stewardship, critical care, internal medicine and literature evaluation.  Additionally, Dr. Huang, assists with the oversight of our medication use evaluations committee and assists residents with developing and completing medication use evaluations.  She is also a member of our residency advisory committee.

Elizabeth Lessmann, PharmD, BCPS is a 2015 graduate from Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY-1 & PGY-2 in Solid Organ Transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. She came to Sacred Heart Health System to help establish our Renal Transplant program. She is actively involved in both the inpatient and outpatient renal transplant care. She serves as the primary preceptor for the renal transplant elective offered for our residency program as well as various schools of pharmacy.

Kylie Lucas, PharmD, BCPS is a graduate of the Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at St. Vincent's Health System in Birmingham, AL, during which time she earned her teaching and research certifications. She serves as a primary preceptor for our PGY1 critical care learning experiences at Ascension Sacred Heart.  Dr. Lucas is also an active member of our residency advisory committee and our research committee.  

Stephanie Luke, PharmD, BCPS is a clinical staff pharmacist who works primarily in the adult critical care pharmacy satellite and is a preceptor to students and residents during their critical care experiences. Her other interests include drug information and parenteral nutrition. She works alongside nurses, physicians and other ancillary staff on a daily basis to ensure optimal patient care. Her responsibilities include in-depth medication profile review, multidisciplinary rounds in the SICU and MICU, kinetic and TPN services, anticoagulation monitoring, and renal dosage adjustments, as well as order processing and medication dispensing. Stephanie earned her PharmD from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and is a native of the Florida panhandle.

Dr. Powell is the pharmacy operations manager for Ascension Sacred Heart.  He completed his PGY-1 at Ascension Sacred Heart. Born into military family, originally from Clarksville, Tennessee, Justin attended the University of West Florida in Pensacola graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Pre-professional studies. Justin was accepted into the Marshall University School of Pharmacy and graduated with his Doctorate of Pharmacy in May of 2018. Upon completing a clinical rotation at Sacred Heart Hospital, he knew he wanted to find a way to impact the patients care through clinical knowledge. This led him to pursue a PGY1 residency to further develop his clinical knowledge, proficiencies and expand his experiences in research as well as teaching.  Dr. Powell was the first PGY2 ambulatory care resident with the Ascension Medical Group.  Since coming back full time in the hospital as our operations manager on 2022, Dr. Powell has continued to be involved with our residency program precepting the core pharmacy administration learning experience, the medication diversion 10-week component of our longitudinal pharmacy practice longitudinal experience, and is an active member of our residency advisory committee.

Sasha Ward, PharmD, BCPS is our current regional pharmacy clinical manager after being our Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Specialist lead. She developed her passion for ID early in her schooling, completing her bachelor's degree in microbiology and found herself gravitating towards the roles microbes play in human disease states. She completed both of her Post Graduate Years of training (PGY-1 & PGY-2) in Gainesville, FL at UF Health Shands. The PGY-1 training was a general pharmacy practice residency aimed to equip her to join the general clinical pharmacy workforce or to complete a PGY-2 in a specialty area. Sasha further honed her passion for ID by completing a PGY-2 in infectious diseases. She brings an amazing amount of knowledge and skill to better our patient outcomes as well as our antimicrobial stewardship program.  Dr. Ward has brought her talents to the clinical pharmacy management setting and assists with leading our residency research committee, participating in our residency advisory committee, and leading the 10 week portion of our longitudinal pharmacy practice management experience focused on pharmacy and therapeutics.  

Alyssa Weideling, PharmD, BCPS is a graduate of East Tennessee State University – Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. Following graduation, she completed her PGY-1 Residency at University Health in Shreveport, Louisiana. She serves as a clinical staff pharmacist, working primarily in the Emergency Department.  Dr. Weideling works closely with our multidisciplinary ED team to care for patients and manage critical and non-critical situations in the ED. She serves as one of the primary preceptors for the PGY1 Emergency Medicine elective rotation for residents.  She is also the founder and director of our ASHP accredited PGY2 Emergency Medicine pharmacy residency.  In addition, Dr. Weideling, participates in the residency advisory committee as a PGY2 residency program director.

Keyosha Stallworth, PharmD is a graduate of Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She completed her PGY-1 pediatric-focused residency at Wolfson Children's Hospital/Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL. Having a strong interest in critical care, Keyosha serves as the for the PGY1 pediatric internal rotations. Her clinical responsibilities include, but are not limited to, multidisciplinary rounding and pharmacokinetic monitoring for all pediatric units, TPN services, as well as order processing and medication dispensing.  Dr. Stallworth is an active member of the residency advisory committee and the PGY1 pediatric residency program coordinator.  

Jonathan Street, PharmD is a graduate of St. Louis College of Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to joining the Sacred Heart Hospital pharmacy team, Jonathan spent 4 years as the primary Emergency Pharmacist at a Level II Trauma center in St. Louis. He works primarily on the medical surgical floors as a clinical staff pharmacist at Sacred Heart Hospital. His responsibilities include but are not limited to pharmacokinetic monitoring, multidisciplinary rounds, CHF discharge counseling, patient medication review and general staffing duties. Dr. Street services a one of the primary preceptors for our core internal medicine 1 and 2 learning experiences, and our advanced internal medicine elective experience.

Meredith Romano, PharmD, BCPS is a graduate of Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. Meredith completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. Following residency, she joined the clinical staff pharmacist team at Sacred Heart Hospital where she now primarily works in the progressive and critical care setting.  Dr. Romano oversees our residency research program.  Her interests include research, internal medicine and infectious diseases, with a focus on cystic fibrosis.  She thoroughly enjoys precepting students and residents and is an active member of our residency advisory committee.

Janesha W. Thomas, PharmD, BCPPS is a graduate of Florida A & M University College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. She completed her PGY-1 pediatric-focused residency at Huntsville Hospital located in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a board certified pediatric pharmacy specialist and serves as the primary preceptor for our PGY1 Pediatric Ambulatory Care/Infusion Therapy CORE Learning Experience and our elective pediatric hematology/oncology learning experience.  She oversees our residency program well-being program and is an ASHP certified well-being ambassador.  Dr. Thomas is an active member of our residency advisory committee as well.

Dr. Wassil is the Pediatric Clinical Pharmacy Manager at The Studer Family Children's Hospital at Sacred Heart in Pensacola, Florida. Prior to this role she practiced as a pediatric clinical pharmacist at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Her primary areas of practice were the pediatric intensive care unit, cardiac intensive care unit and emergency department.

Dr. Wassil obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology at Florida State University and then went on to work in pediatric HIV research at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Working with the clinical team and participating in pharmacokinetic trials in the lab sparked her interest in pharmacy and her desire to become a pediatric clinical pharmacist. Dr. Wassil obtained her PharmD from the University of Tennessee. She then completed a pediatric specialty residency at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee.