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NPPA Staff Bios
Dale J. Kroll:
President & CEO, Editor-In-Chief
Dale J. Kroll,
a native of South Bend, Indiana, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1970. He began his pharmacy career
in the early 1970’s at Bronson Methodist
Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan as a Pharmacy Technician, and quickly became the Pharmacy Buyer of this 450-bed
hospital.
He transitioned
to group purchasing in 1977, when at Pacific Health Resources in Los Angeles,
California, a nine-hospital group, he became the first Pharmacy Contract Administrator
for Associated Hospital Systems, which eventually merged with other purchasing groups and became American Healthcare Systems
(AmHS). In 1986, he was hired directly by American Healthcare Systems, which
had established a corporate office in San Diego, where he
continued as the group’s (then comprised of over 1,000 hospitals) Pharmacy Contract Administrator.
As an entrepreneur,
he founded the publishing firm Summerdale Enterprises in 1991, and began Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook
newsletter in March of 1994. At the beginning of 2006, the company incorporated,
becoming Summerdale Enterprises, Inc. In 1997, he presided over the 1st Annual
Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, a tradition which has grown every year, with the 12th and
largest ever conference being held in August of 2008. In addition to his writing,
as Editor-In-Chief of this subscription trade publication for the pharmacy purchasing specialty, he also performs consulting
and speaking in this, his field of expertise.
Francine
Morgano: Vice President, Event Supervisor & Editor
Ms. Morgano
grew up in Long Island, New York, and Boulder, Colorado.
After moving
to San Diego with her family in 1983, she went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara, then returned to
San Diego, where she worked as an Accounting Assistant for a few years.
Francine started
to work with Summerdale Enterprises (the founding company of NPPA, the first-ever National Pharmacy Purchasing Association),
from its very beginnings in 1994. This included the planning, organization and
supervising, of every single Conference from its start in 1997 to the current one, now 15 years later. She is currently the NPPA Vice President & Event Supervisor and Editor (for the NPPA official publication,
Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook).
By coincidence, her father just so happens to be a retired Pharmacist
Michael Thomas, CPhT: Event & Editorial Assistant, Webmaster
Mike started his career like most pharmacy buyers–as a pharmacy technician, at St.
Joseph Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He soon moved on to Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital, where he was one of the test subjects for the soon-to-be-initiated ASHP Pharmacy Technician Training
Program. He spent the next eight years honing his technician skills and learning
to master a new tool–the computer, where he designed over 100 programs for the department. After a short stint in the IT department there, he moved to John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, where his
pharmacy buying skills were fine tuned. After 14 years at JFK, he had a short
stay as Pharmacy Buyer at Jeanes Hospital, then moved to Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Cherry Hill, New Jersey as a Clinical
Pharmacy Technician.
Mike discovered Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook
and the Annual Conferences in 1999, and jumped in head-first as an active and enthusiastic subscriber and attendee. In 2002, in his off-time (while still living on the East Coast and working full-time), he designed and
published the company’s first website; and since 2004, has served as the official NPPA Conference Moderator. Then in 2007, Mike moved out West to officially join the staff of NPPA.
He currently serves as NPPA’s Event & Editorial Assistant, Webmaster, & Conference Moderator.
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