Ascension Columbia St. Mary's-Milwaukee
PGY1/2 HSPAL
Meet Our Preceptors
Andrew Ticcioni, PharmD, BCPS
earned his PharmD from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus in 2011. He completed a PGY1 Pharmacy residency at Ascension St. Joseph in Milwaukee and stayed on staff to be a clinical staff pharmacist and the Internal Medicine preceptor. Andy also served as the Residency Program Coordinator at St. Joseph from 2013-2017. In 2017, Andy transferred to Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee to be a Lead Staff Pharmacist and help launch the PGY1 Pharmacy residency program. In 2024, Andy became the Pharmacy Manager at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee.
Andy is the Residency Program Coordinator for the PGY1/2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership residency program.
Andy is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Greater Milwaukee College of Clinical Pharmacy. Andy serves on the Village Park Reimagined Committee for Thiensville, Wisconsin.
In his free time, Andy can be found with his family, working on his old house, or planning a trip to a national park.
Chris Bell, PharmD, MS
received his PharmD degree from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in Lawrence, Kansas. Following graduation, he completed a combined PGY1/2 Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Residency and M.S. in Hospital Pharmacy Administration at the University of Kansas Health System, located in Kansas City, Kansas.
Chris currently serves as Senior Director and Medication Safety Officer for Ascension focused on national medication safety initiatives, acute care pharmacy operations support, pharmacy regulatory and accreditation compliance standards and guidance, as well as medication supply chain operations and shortage resilience efforts. Prior to joining Ascension, Chris spent much of his 16+ year career with the University of Kansas Health System in various leadership roles including Director of System Inpatient Pharmacy Operations, and Senior Director of Pharmacy System Support and Biomedical Engineering.
Christopher Dykstra, PharmD, MBA
Ginny Mendoza, BPharm
Michael Torhorst, RPh
Mohammad (Mo) Kharbat, Rph, MBA, FACHE
is a healthcare executive with expertise in healthcare operations and finance, supply chain operations, pharmacy services, value-based care and population health. Mo is a registered pharmacist with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Jordan University of Science and Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Mo also completed training in operations management and obtained a black belt certificate in Six Sigma.
Over the past 20+ years, Mo practiced as a clinical pharmacist in community and health system pharmacy settings before transitioning to executive leadership roles where he was involved in strategic
planning and operations management across integrated delivery networks of hospitals, clinics, infusion centers, post-acute sites, retail establishments and centralized distribution hubs.
Currently, Mo serves as the Vice President of Pharmacy Services at Ascension Health, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Throughout his career, Mo made it a top priority to train, coach and develop other leaders with focus on clinicians who had little management experience. Over the years, some of the leaders trained by Mo rose to senior leadership roles here in Wisconsin and at health-systems across the country.
Mo is a Fellow of American College of Healthcare Executives and a 2022 winner of the Executive of the Year award by the InBusiness Magazine.