Ronald R. Marotto received his BSPh from the UNM College of Pharmacy in 1966, resulting in a 56-year and counting career in Pharmacy. He began his career working at Sun Drug Pharmacy, soon after becoming the Director of Pharmacy at the Osteopathic Hospital. During his time as the Director of Pharmacy, Ronald took on many other responsibilities including ordering and preparing radio isotopes, acted as a consultant to the Bernalillo County Mental Health Center, helped set up the County Methdone Program, organized and became the first President of the NMSHP, served on the board of NMPhA, assisted in rewriting the Pharmacy Act, taught at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, and mentored many fellow alumni of the College as students.
Ronald Marotto moved back to California in 1973 after accepting a position at the Santa Barbara Hospital. After returning to California, Ronald purchased, owned, and worked at many retail chain pharmacies over the course of 15 years. During this time continuing to be incredible involved with the local and state Pharmacy associations. In 2005, Ronald began working at the University of California Santa Barbara Student Health Pharmacy and has been there ever since.
2017: Greg D’Amour, class of 1978 & 2003
2018: Joe Anderson, class of 1991
2019: Bob Shmaeff, class of 1961
2020: Mona N. Ghattas, class of 1984
2021: Michael C. Raburn, class of 1987
Dr. Monique Dodd has a unique education background which brings clinical laboratory diagnostics and pharmacy together. In 2007, she earned her Bachelor's of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences from the University of New Mexico. She was hired at Tricore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a Medical Technologist where she worked for the Infectious Disease Research and Development team for the next three years. In 2010, Monique was accepted to the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy where she interned in the infectious disease lab. Upon graduation in 2014, she entered a collaborative Post-Graduate Year-One Residency with Tricore and the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, with a focus in clinical pharmacy and laboratory diagnostics. Through this existing partnership, she continued her training and earned her Pharmacist Clinician license while completing a Pharmacy Fellowship in 2016 with Tricore.
Dr. Dodd is now the Manager of Enterprise Clinical Solutions for the Clinical Innovations team at Rhodes Group – a data analytics company and fully owned subsidiary of Tricore. Her role is to design laboratory-driven targeted interventions using longitudinal data to optimize screening, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of high cost, high risk and high frequency health conditions. As a Pharmacists Clinician, Dr. Dodd focuses on developing actionable and real-time clinical insights for payers, health systems and providers with the aim to improve how healthcare is delivered. Her current work is focused on developing a pharmacist-led, patient engagement service applying clinical intelligence to close care gaps in New Mexico’s high-risk patients and rural communities.
2017: Dr. Kimberly Neff, class of 2009
2018: Dr. Melissa Skelton Duke, class of 2008
2019: Dr. Jessica Conklin, class of 2011
2020: Dr. Adriane N. Irwin, class of 2010
2021: Dr. Davena M. Norris, class of 2012
Dr. Raissy received her PharmD from the University of New Mexico in 1999, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonary and Pharmacotherapy at UNM School of Medicine. She is currently A Research Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at UNM where she started her faculty position in 2001. Dr. Raissy’s research interest is pediatric asthma pharmacotherapy. She has been a principal investigator (PI)/Co-Investigator on more than 100 clinical trials, including PI for two NHLBI-funded networks and a large multi-site clinical trial in pediatric asthma. In collaboration with colleagues nationally, her research has been focused on asthma management from infancy to adulthood to learn about the natural history of asthma, and on evaluating existing and new therapies for asthma tailored to individual patients.
Dr. Raissy is currently the co-PI of the UNM Pediatric Clinical Trials Center (PCTN), which is one of 18 IDeA-state pediatric clinical trials network sites in the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. This network supports pediatric clinical trial research in the 5 focus areas of the ECHO program including: pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes; obesity; upper and lower airways; neurodevelopment; and positive health. With the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been funded as co-PI for both the adult and pediatric cohorts in the RECOVER study, which is investigating post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Raissy has been part of the UNM Clinical & Translational Science Center (CTSC) leadership team since its inception in 2010 and currently serves as the Director of Network Capacity at CTSC.
2020: C. Frank Bennett, class of 1980
2021 Dr. Brian J. Werth, class of 2010