John is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, College of Pharmacy in Omaha, Nebraska where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees.
Prior to becoming a founding partner of RJM Group, John’s experience in healthcare includes positions as a Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics in Chicago, Illinois, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator and Assistant Director of Clinical Services at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and Director of Pharmacy and Central Supply at St. Anthony Medical Center, Crown Point, Indiana. While employed at Cook County, he was an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Illinois. After leaving the institutional practice environment, he provided consultant pharmacist services for 11 years for patients residing in Long-Term Care facilities.
His clinical practice experience focused on infectious disease, surgery and trauma. In all of his practice locations, he was responsible for the initiation of and ongoing management of clinical pharmacy services. He served as a member of the advisory board for a pharmaceutical buying group and secretary of pharmacy and therapeutics committees in institutions where he was employed.
He has lectured and published both nationally and internationally on topics including disease management, drug utilization, management of infections in the elderly, pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research.
He is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance and the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists.
Gary is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy. He completed post-graduate training at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine in Nosocomial Infections and Hospital Epidemiology. He was Associate Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at The INOVA Health System, Falls Church, Virginia.
Gary has been a consultant to the Medical Review Organization of Virginia, Health and Human Services (HHS) and a volunteer to the House of Representatives of the United States, specifically for the office of Fortney (Pete) Stark (D-Ca). He has held faculty appointments at the Medical College of Virginia and University of Kentucky Schools of Pharmacy.
He has also been a consultant and lecturer internationally to health policy decision-makers in the United Kingdom, People’s Republic of China, Japan, Australia and Italy. He has published papers on pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research in the United States as well as in Europe and Asia.