Tripp Dixon, PharmD graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in 2004 and completed a PGY-1 residency at Huntsville Hospital in 2006. He is currently a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious disease and chairs the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Dr. Dixon is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Adult Medicine for the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and was awarded Preceptor of the Year for the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience in 2016. He is a past-president of the Mississippi Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) and received the MSHP Service Award of Excellence for 2012 and Pharmacist of the Year in 2013. Dr. Dixon has served as the Mississippi Pharmacists Association (MPhA) Education Chairman for the past 3 years and was named MPhA Member of the Year in 2016. The Mississippi Business Journal selected him as a Healthcare Hero in 2014. Dr. Dixon and his wife Kelly have four children and reside in Madison, MS. They enjoy serving the community through the orphan care ministry in their local church and as a foster family in Madison County.

Dr. Buddy Ogletree graduated from the University of Mississippi. Since 2001 he has been staff pharmacist for Walmart Pharmacy. Prior to 2017, he served as a coordinator for Drug Information and Investigational Drugs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center spending over 30 years at UMMC. He was also on the faculty of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy for over 20 years. He has given numerous presentations and has an extensive list of publications ranging from Supplements 101 to Glucocorticoid-induced Osteoporosis.

Peyton Herrington graduated from The University of Mississippi in 2006 and currently works as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at UMMC. Peyton previously worked for two different retail chains, two hospitals, and has worked as a relief pharmacist at an independently owned pharmacy. Peyton has maintained membership in APhA since graduating and has been a member of MPhA since 2009. Peyton received MPhA's Distinguished Young Pharmacist award in 2013 and co-chaired the MPhA membership committee for two years before later joining the Executive Committee in 2017. Peyton and his wife, Sarah Denley, have three children and live in Flowood, MS. Peyton stays active in his community and within those organizations that he feels positively impact his community.

Olivia Strain, PharmD, is a Clinical Services Pharmacist and the PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program Director for Walgreens in Jackson, Mississippi. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) in 2007. Originally from Madison, Mississippi, Olivia began working for Walgreens 15 years ago (2005) in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a pharmacy intern. Following graduation, she began her career with Walgreens in the Jackson, Mississippi area holding various roles such as a market pharmacist, pharmacy manager (for seven years), immunization and travel health lead and certified trainer, MTM lead, summer intern coordinator, and residency preceptor. Currently, Olivia encourages lifelong learning by serving as an APPE preceptor to Ole Miss and William Carey Pharmacy students, a residency preceptor with two community pharmacy residency
programs, and a part-time UMSOP Clinical Associate Professor. Olivia is actively involved with MPhA presently serving as the Education Committee Chair (two years), an Awards and Nominations committee member (three years), and a Mississippi delegate at the annual American Pharmacists Association (APhA) House of Delegates meeting (five years). Nationally, Olivia was elected as the 2020-21 APhA-APPM Medication Management SIG Coordinator-elect and serves on the APhA Immunization SIG Travel Health Committee, APhA Preceptor SIG Preceptor Toolkit Taskforce, and the APhA Medication Management SIG Payment Based on Quality Measures Project Committee. Olivia received the Walgreen’s national 2019 Excellence
in Residency Precepting award, an APhA-APPM Certificate of Recognition from the Immunizing Pharmacists SIG in 2017 and the Medication Management SIG in 2019 for her work done within these committees, and was formerly named Walgreens D244 Pharmacy Manager of the Year in 2014. Outside of pharmacy, Olivia is actively involved in coaching youth athletics and with her church, where she has served as a Central Mississippi Volleyball Head Coach for elementary-aged girls for two years, pre-K4 Sunday school teacher for two years, Senior High School Youth Leader for five years, and Mom2Mom Bible study co-leader for the past three years. Olivia resides in Madison with her husband of almost 13 years, Chandler, and their house full of girls. Olivia enjoys running, traveling, being outdoors, watching or playing sports, and spending quality time with friends and family.

Emily Melton Bond, PharmD, BCMTMS, graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in 2012. After graduation, Emily worked for Walgreens throughout the state as a staff pharmacist and a pharmacy manager. Currently, Emily serves as a staff pharmacist at Covenant Pharmacy in Ridgeland, a long term care pharmacy, supervising non-sterile compounding. Emily has been an active member on many committees for MPhA--including Education (four years), Awards and Nominations (four years currently), and Membership (nine years currently). She has previously served as District 1 Co-Chair and chairwoman for the Membership Committee. Her passion for the association has been awarded with the J.D. Slater District Achievement Award (2016) and the Distinguished Young Pharmacist (2017). Emily is a member of the American Pharmacists Association, the National Community Pharmacists Association, Phi Lambda Sigma National Pharmacy Leadership Society, and Phi Delta Chi Fraternity. Emily supports the Arts serving as Secretary of the Board of The Center Players Community Theatre in Madison. She serves the middle and high school aged youth of her church by serving as Team Leader for the Youth Team, actively raising funds for camp and mission trips. Emily actively supports the missions of the American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, and Alzheimer's Association through donations and community events. When not at home, she can most often be found in Walt Disney World with her family. Emily resides in Brandon and attends Northside Baptist Church in Clinton with her husband.

J. Cliff Kelly graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and began working in a retail-chain environment upon graduation. Ten years later in 1991, he purchased C&C Drugs, which he grew into a successful, four-store business. Cliff has been a member of MPhA over the last 40 years; during this time, he also became an active member of APhA, along with the Mississippi Independent Pharmacies Association (MIPA). He served two terms on the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy, with two years as president. Cliff and his wife, Jane P Kelly of 44 years, have three children and eight grandchildren. Cliff is very active in his community of Mount Olive, Miss., where he is serving his second term as mayor.

Bob Wilbanks is the Director of Pharmacy at Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland and has vast experience as both an independent and a chain pharmacist in the retail sector. He currently serves as a MPhA Executive Committee Member-at-Large, and has also served MPhA as a member of the Education and Membership committees. He has participated in 18 medical mission trips to Mexico, Peru, and Costa Rica. A communicant of Calvary Episcopal Church, Bob is a former senior warden and is a lay reader and choir member. He is a past president of the Delta Arts Alliance and The Crosstie Arts Council, and is the longtime Foundation Chair for the Cleveland Rotary Club. Bob is a past Bowl of Hygeia and Spirit of Pharmacy award winner, and has received the Mercy Award from Lifepoint Hospitals. He is a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow, and has received the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce President’s Award and the Lucy R. Janoush Citizenship Award. Bob was named the Crosstie Patron of the Year in 2019, and was honored to be the King of the Junior Auxiliary of Cleveland Children’s Benefit Ball last year. He and his wife Wilma were named the Distinguished Pharmacy Alumni of the Year by the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in April 2022 and share three children and five grandchildren.