NSU Horizons Spring 2017

32 NSU HORIZONS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Armando Bardisa , Pharm.D. (’97), is the founder and chief executive officer of SMP Pharmacy Solutions. In 2003, Bardisa opened South Miami Pharmacy to provide more personalized pharmacy service. With sales exceeding $78 million and a second location, he changed the company name to SMP Pharmacy Solutions in 2015. Today, Bardisa’s company is cited as one of the fastest-growing private companies by Inc. Magazine and recognized by J.D. Power & Associates for earning the highest rating in customer satisfaction. The company also is named as one of the Top 500 Hispanic-Owned Business by Hispanic Business Magazine . At NSU, Bardisa serves as an instructor to pharmacy interns and is a member of the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Advisory Board. He is on the board of directors at Pharmacy Development Services and a member of several industry groups. Bardisa supports philanthropic partnerships such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Re- search Hospital. His company has provided medicine and supplies for medical missions to Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida International University (FIU) and his consultant pharmacist license from the University of Florida. In 2010, Bardisa was awarded an honorary M.B.A. from FIU. COLLEGE OF PSYCHOLOGY Brad Donohue , Ph.D. (’95), has been a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), since 1998. Donohue teaches and serves as director of Family Research and Services; an adviser to doctoral students; and the principal investi- gator in federal, state, and private grants, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Cirque du Soleil. After earning his doctoral degree in clinical psychology at NSU, Donohue completed a psychology internship and post-doctoral fellowship, also at NSU. He taught as an adjunct professor and served as director of NSU’s Youth Center. During the early 1990s, while still a graduate student, he worked as a clinician at several counseling programs at Nova University and the University of Miami. Donohue received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Kansas in 1989. His numerous honors include the 2016 Faculty Excel- lence Award at UNLV and the title of honorary faculty representative of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society in 2015. H. WAYNE HUIZENGA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Alan Koenigsberg , B.S. (’92), M.B.A. (’94), is managing director and the head of the corporate banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Koenigsberg worked for more than two decades for financial firms J.P. Morgan and American Express, where he held leadership roles in areas such as sales, banking, marketing, and operations. Koenigsberg, who earned two business degrees at NSU, serves as a key speaker at industry conferences and is featured in leading periodicals. Recognized as an industry expert, he has held leadership roles on numerous industry boards and councils, including cochair and founding member of the International Payments Framework. NSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL Avi Jay Stein (’95), Ph.D., is an emergency management specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is assigned to the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Since joining the CDC, Stein has helped lead the response to public health emergencies, including the Zika virus in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and served as one of the first CDC members on the ground during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He was commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) in 2012. Prior to joining the USPHS, Stein worked as a firefighter and paramedic. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Public Health Service (PHS) Commendation Medal, the PHS Citation, and the Presidential Unit Citation. Stein received his Master of Public Health degree in 2001 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychosocial Medicine and Public Health Care in 1999 from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His Ph.D. in Epidemiology is from Walden University. SHEPARD BROAD COLLEGE OF LAW Summer L. Robertson , B.S. (’97), J.D. (’00), is a manag- ing partner at the Broward law firm of Hackley & Robertson, P.A., as well as an advocate and fund-raiser for research and charitable organizations. She is a member of the Royal Dames of Cancer Research, an organization that raises money for research at NSU’s Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research. In 2013, Robertson was named one of the Top Attorneys in Florida by Super Lawyers . She was also named among the 100 Outstand- ing Women of Broward in both 2009 and 2016. n Continued from page 31