Jan N. Basile, MD, FACP, FASH, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center
Previous Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs AHA Council of Hypertension
US National Leader SURPASS-CVOT
Charleston, SC

Dr. Jan N. Basile earned his medical degree in 1978 from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He then completed his internship and residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where he was also Chief Resident. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the American Society of Hypertension (FASH), and the American Heart Association (FAHA). For many years he served on the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Board of Directors and has served within the AHA as Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs on the Council of Hypertension.

His honors and awards include the MUSC School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching award, the Golden Apple award, and, in 2014, he was the first recipient of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Hypertension Physician of the Year award. In 2019, he received the Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award from the American Heart Association Council on Hypertension. He was President of the Southern Medical Association from 2008-2009.

Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at MUSC in the Division of Cardiology. He spent 31 years at the Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center while faculty at MUSC having retired from federal service as Chief of Primary Care in 2009. He remains a volunteer at the VA, this his 43rd year at that hospital. At MUSC, he continues to teach all 3rd year medical students on hypertension during their 3rd year core medicine rotation and sees clinical patients in research trials on the tole of renal denervation in controlling hypertension.

Dr. Basile’s career research interests include outcome-based clinical trials involving hypertension, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has been involved in many large hypertension trials including the ALLHAT, ACCORD, VALUE, ONTARGET, ACCOMPLISH, ACCORD and SPRINT and SPRINT-MIND trials most under the auspices of the NHLBI. Most recently he has been involved in diabetes outcome trials with GLP1RA's including REWIND and most recently the SURPASS-CV Outcome trial, which is a cardiovascular outcome trial comparing Dulaglutide with the dual-agonist Tirzepatide.

He was a contributing reviewer of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) and the 2017 ACC-AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Dr. Basile has published more than 400 original papers, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as a textbook, Hot Topics: Hypertension. He continues to be a contributing author for the hypertension section of “Up To Date”.

Peter Buch, MD, FACG, AGAF, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, GI
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University
Manchester, CT

Dr. Peter Buch is a clinical Gastroenterologist with over 30 years of teaching experience. Teaching is his PASSION. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University. He has also taught at the University of Connecticut APRN School and at several PA Schools. Dr. Buch has mentored dozens of medical students, residents, GI fellows, nurses, PAs and APRNs. His teaching style is case based, practical, very interactive and fun. He always learns from his audiences and is looking forward to learning from you.

Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Associate Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Investigator, Center for Outcomes Research and Investigation
New Haven, CT

Dr. Nihar R. Desai is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, an Investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and Medical Director for Value Innovation at the Yale New Haven Health System Heart and Vascular Center. His interests focus on cardiovascular health services and comparative effectiveness research, examining patterns of care, identifying opportunities to improve clinical outcomes, and evaluating the impact of novel care delivery systems on cost and quality. In addition, he serves as a clinical consultant on the CMS acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery readmission and mortality measures. He graduated with highest honors from Lehigh University before completing an internship in the Clinton White House. He then attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received his Doctorate in Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health where he received his Master’s in Public Health. Dr. Desai completed his residency training in Internal Medicine as well as his clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He then completed a research fellowship at the TIMI Study Group with Dr. Eugene Braunwald. His scholarly work has been published in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME
Emergency Partner
BlueWater Health
Brunswick, ME

Dr. George L. Higgins graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center, an academic medical center located in Portland, Maine. For many years, he chaired MMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was privileged to advance the academic mission of the department and to be involved with the establishment of a successful resident training program in Emergency Medicine. His career path also provided him with attractive administrative opportunities, initially as the Associate Vice President of Performance Improvement and then as the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs for the institution. Eventually he returned to his true passion of caring for patients; teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine; and overseeing scholarly productivity as Director of Research. He also provides clinical services to small, rural hospitals, most recently Nantucket Cottage Hospital located on Nantucket Island, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and professionally rewarding.

Deena E. Kuruvilla, MD, FAHS
Medical Director
Westport Headache Institute
Westport, CT

Dr. Deena E. Kuruvilla is a board certified neurologist, headache specialist and Director of the Westport Headache Institute. She has served as assistant professor and associate program director for the Headache fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and is a medical advisor for Healthline.

Dr. Kuruvilla completed her medical internship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Subsequently, she completed her Neurology residency at Brown University in Rhode Island, where she was chief resident. She went on to complete a fellowship in Headache and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Kuruvilla has published research on medical devices, complementary and integrative medicine, procedural approaches for the treatment of headache disorders and headache in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. She is the former chair of the complementary and integrative medicine section and current chair of the women's health section of the American Headache Society.

Dr. Kuruvilla’s research and clinical work has been widely featured in the press, including Prevention Magazine, the Food Network, Neurology Today, the Hartford Courant, and the Wall Street Journal.

John H. Post III, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
Martha Jefferson Hospital
Charlottesville, VA

Dr. John H. Post is an Orthopedic Surgeon from Charlottesville, Virginia with expertise in Sports Medicine, arthroscopy of the knee and shoulder, and knee replacement surgery. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, served as a U.S. Marine helicopter pilot and subsequent helicopter instructor for the U.S. Navy. He received his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a Fellow in the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and is a volunteer COVID 19 vaccinator for the Blue Ridge Health District. He enjoys outdoor exercise and has competed in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and the English Channel Swim and enjoys hiking with his family. His wife is the Director of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Northridge Clinic. They have three children, a granddaughter, and two labs.

Susan E. Spratt, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health
Diabetes and Metabolism Specialist, Endocrinologist
Duke University of Medicine
Durham, NC

Dr. Susan E. Spratt is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition at Duke University and a Senior Medical Director at Duke Population Health Management Office. Dr. Spratt's career has focused on population health initiatives to improve the lives of patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. She is an advisor for the North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council. She is a member of the Duke Bone Lab.

Richard P. Usatine, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Medical Director, University Health System Skin Clinic
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Richard P. Usatine is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at University of Texas Health, San Antonio. He received his MD from Columbia University and completed his family medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. He is the lead author of 8 medical books including The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine and Dermatological and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Usatine has been working with medical students to provide health care to homeless families and the medically underserved since 1984. He is the founding director of the University Health System Skin Clinic in San Antonio. He also directs the only underserved dermatology fellowship for family physicians in the US.

C. Wayne Weart, PharmD, FASHP, FAPhA
Professor Emeritus Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Professor of Family Medicine
MUSC Department of Family Medicine
Charleston, SC

Dr. C. Wayne Weart received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy in 1971 from the University of Georgia. He served his residency in Hospital Pharmacy at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC in 1972. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1974.Dr. Weart is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), as well as Professor of Family Medicine in the College of Medicine, MUSC. Prior to his teaching at the Medical University, Dr. Weart instructed at West Virginia University in pharmacy and family medicine.

Dr. Weart has more than 100 publications and he has given scores of lectures to numerous professional groups and societies. He has received outstanding teacher awards at both West Virginia University and MUSC and has been named Hospital Pharmacist of the Year in both South Carolina and West Virginia.

In 1991, Dr. Weart was among the first pharmacists to become a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. In 1992, he was honored for his excellence in pharmacy practice and designated a Fellow of the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. Dr. Weart was named a Primary Care Policy Fellow for 1999 by the U.S. Public Health Service and he was honored by the Alumni Association of the MUSC College of Pharmacy as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2002. He also received the Bowl of Hygeia Award from the SC Pharmacy Association in 2003 for outstanding service to the community and the profession of pharmacy and the George D. Schwerin Mentor Award, from the South Carolina Society of Health System Pharmacists in 2004. In 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 he was recognized by the MUSC College of Pharmacy student body for his excellence in education by the Golden Mortar and Pestle Award. In 2008 the MUSC Board of Trustees named Dr. Weart as a Master Teacher. In 2012 he received the Proctor and Gamble National Leadership Award from the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. In 2014 he was awarded the Ralph M. Wilkie Distinguished Lifetime Service Award by the SC Pharmacy Association Board of Directors. In 2015 he received the Kenneth Flinchum Distinguished Service Award from the SC Society of Health System Pharmacists. In 2021 he was awarded the James A. McFarland, MD, FACP Award by the SC Chapter of the American College of Physicians for his scholarship and teaching. Dr Weart served on the Board of Directors of the SC Pharmacists Association and as President and Chairman of the Board for 2010-2011. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy from 2009-2013 and President of the Waring Library Society for 2014-2015. He is one of many Hot Dog Ministry volunteers involved with serving the homeless of Charleston.

David G. Weismiller, MD, ScM, FAAFP
Professor
Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV

Dr. David G. Weismiller is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He provides full-scope care that includes inpatient and maternity care. Dr. Weismiller is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville and a fellowship in Maternal-Child Health and graduate degree in Epidemiology at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence. A proponent of "reflection in practice" and "learner-centered instruction," he is recognized nationally for his work in continuing medical education and faculty development. Having taught board review programs for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for more than 25 years, he is the founding and current chair of the AAFP Family Medicine Board Review Express™, as well as the AAFP's annual Family Medicine Update live course. He is a frequent presenter at AAFP Family Medicine Experience (FMX) and teaches American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Knowledge Self-Assessments throughout the country. Dr. Weismiller is the author of numerous publications on issues related to women's and children's health, and he is an advocate for empowering individuals to make sound health care choices.

Jan N. Basile, MD, FACP, FASH, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center
Previous Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs AHA Council of Hypertension
US National Leader SURPASS-CVOT
Charleston, SC

Dr. Jan N. Basile earned his medical degree in 1978 from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He then completed his internship and residency at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where he was also Chief Resident. He is board certified in internal medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the American Society of Hypertension (FASH), and the American Heart Association (FAHA). For many years he served on the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Board of Directors and has served within the AHA as Vice-Chair of Clinical Programs on the Council of Hypertension.

His honors and awards include the MUSC School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching award, the Golden Apple award, and, in 2014, he was the first recipient of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Hypertension Physician of the Year award. In 2019, he received the Marvin Moser Clinical Hypertension Award from the American Heart Association Council on Hypertension. He was President of the Southern Medical Association from 2008-2009.

Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at MUSC in the Division of Cardiology. He spent 31 years at the Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center while faculty at MUSC having retired from federal service as Chief of Primary Care in 2009. He remains a volunteer at the VA, this his 43rd year at that hospital. At MUSC, he continues to teach all 3rd year medical students on hypertension during their 3rd year core medicine rotation and sees clinical patients in research trials on the tole of renal denervation in controlling hypertension.

Dr. Basile’s career research interests include outcome-based clinical trials involving hypertension, lipid disorders, and diabetes. He has been involved in many large hypertension trials including the ALLHAT, ACCORD, VALUE, ONTARGET, ACCOMPLISH, ACCORD and SPRINT and SPRINT-MIND trials most under the auspices of the NHLBI. Most recently he has been involved in diabetes outcome trials with GLP1RA's including REWIND and most recently the SURPASS-CV Outcome trial, which is a cardiovascular outcome trial comparing Dulaglutide with the dual-agonist Tirzepatide.

He was a contributing reviewer of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) and the 2017 ACC-AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Dr. Basile has published more than 400 original papers, abstracts, and book chapters, as well as a textbook, Hot Topics: Hypertension. He continues to be a contributing author for the hypertension section of “Up To Date”.

Peter Buch, MD, FACG, AGAF, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, GI
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Frank H Netter School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University
Manchester, CT

Dr. Peter Buch is a clinical Gastroenterologist with over 30 years of teaching experience. Teaching is his PASSION. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine/Quinnipiac University. He has also taught at the University of Connecticut APRN School and at several PA Schools. Dr. Buch has mentored dozens of medical students, residents, GI fellows, nurses, PAs and APRNs. His teaching style is case based, practical, very interactive and fun. He always learns from his audiences and is looking forward to learning from you.

Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Associate Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Investigator, Center for Outcomes Research and Investigation
New Haven, CT

Dr. Nihar R. Desai is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, an Investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and Medical Director for Value Innovation at the Yale New Haven Health System Heart and Vascular Center. His interests focus on cardiovascular health services and comparative effectiveness research, examining patterns of care, identifying opportunities to improve clinical outcomes, and evaluating the impact of novel care delivery systems on cost and quality. In addition, he serves as a clinical consultant on the CMS acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery readmission and mortality measures. He graduated with highest honors from Lehigh University before completing an internship in the Clinton White House. He then attended the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where he received his Doctorate in Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health where he received his Master’s in Public Health. Dr. Desai completed his residency training in Internal Medicine as well as his clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He then completed a research fellowship at the TIMI Study Group with Dr. Eugene Braunwald. His scholarly work has been published in New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

George L. Higgins III, MD, FACEP
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine
Maine Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME
Emergency Partner
BlueWater Health
Brunswick, ME

Dr. George L. Higgins graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians, and currently holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in Emergency Medicine at Maine Medical Center, an academic medical center located in Portland, Maine. For many years, he chaired MMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was privileged to advance the academic mission of the department and to be involved with the establishment of a successful resident training program in Emergency Medicine. His career path also provided him with attractive administrative opportunities, initially as the Associate Vice President of Performance Improvement and then as the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Medical Affairs for the institution. Eventually he returned to his true passion of caring for patients; teaching residents, APPs and medical students about the exciting field of Emergency Medicine; and overseeing scholarly productivity as Director of Research. He also provides clinical services to small, rural hospitals, most recently Nantucket Cottage Hospital located on Nantucket Island, an experience he finds challenging, meaningful and professionally rewarding.

John H. Post III, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
Martha Jefferson Hospital
Charlottesville, VA

Dr. John H. Post is an Orthopedic Surgeon from Charlottesville, Virginia with expertise in Sports Medicine, arthroscopy of the knee and shoulder, and knee replacement surgery. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, served as a U.S. Marine helicopter pilot and subsequent helicopter instructor for the U.S. Navy. He received his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a Fellow in the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and is a volunteer COVID 19 vaccinator for the Blue Ridge Health District. He enjoys outdoor exercise and has competed in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and the English Channel Swim and enjoys hiking with his family. His wife is the Director of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Northridge Clinic. They have three children, a granddaughter, and two labs.

Kay Roussos-Ross, MD
Associate Professor
Chief, Division Academic Specialist in General Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL

Dr. Dikea (Kay) Roussos-Ross is an Associate Professor in the departments of OBGYN and Psychiatry. She joined the faculty of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in January 2012. Dr. Roussos-Ross is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. Her areas of focus include high-risk obstetric patients with co-morbid psychiatric and substance use disorders. Dr. Roussos-Ross’s clinical practice also includes general obstetrics, gynecology and surgical gynecology. Dr. Roussos-Ross is the Chief of the Division of Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is also the Director of Women’s Health at the UF Health Shands Medical Plaza.

David Sadava, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Cancer Cell Biology
City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, CA
Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, Emeritus
The Keck Science Center
Claremont, CA

Dr. David Sadava is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cancer Cell Biology at the City of Hope Medical Center and Pritzker Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at The Keck Science Center, Claremont, California.

Dr. Sadava graduated from Carleton University as science medalist. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he received a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at San Diego. Following research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he joined the faculty at Claremont. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado and at the California Institute of Technology. He currently serves as an Advisory Board member at the Keck Graduate Institute and at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and is a trustee emeritus of Western University of Health Sciences.

A bench scientist throughout his career, he has held numerous research grants and written over 60 peer-reviewed scientific research papers. For the past 28 years, his research has focused on resistance to chemotherapy in human lung cancer, with a view to developing new, plant and mold-based medicines to treat this disease. Much of this work has been presented at clinical conferences and published in leading journals. He is the co-author of five books, including the upcoming twelfth edition of a leading biology textbook, Life: The Science of Biology; a new innovative conceptual text, Principles of Life; and Plants, Genes and Crop Biotechnology. Committed to educating the general public, he has presented innumerable public talks on biological topics and has given free public courses on cancer. He recently created “What Science Knows about Cancer” for The Great Courses (Teaching Company) and several years ago created another highly successful course for them, “Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes and Their Real-World Applications”.

Susan E. Spratt, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health
Diabetes and Metabolism Specialist, Endocrinologist
Duke University of Medicine
Durham, NC

Dr. Susan E. Spratt is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition at Duke University and a Senior Medical Director at Duke Population Health Management Office. Dr. Spratt's career has focused on population health initiatives to improve the lives of patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. She is an advisor for the North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council. She is a member of the Duke Bone Lab.

Richard P. Usatine, MD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Medical Director, University Health System Skin Clinic
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Richard P. Usatine is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at University of Texas Health, San Antonio. He received his MD from Columbia University and completed his family medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center. He is the lead author of 8 medical books including The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine and Dermatological and Cosmetic Procedures in Office Practice. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Usatine has been working with medical students to provide health care to homeless families and the medically underserved since 1984. He is the founding director of the University Health System Skin Clinic in San Antonio. He also directs the only underserved dermatology fellowship for family physicians in the US.

C. Wayne Weart, PharmD, FASHP, FAPhA
Professor Emeritus Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy
Professor of Family Medicine
MUSC Department of Family Medicine
Charleston, SC

Dr. C. Wayne Weart received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy in 1971 from the University of Georgia. He served his residency in Hospital Pharmacy at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC in 1972. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1974.Dr. Weart is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcome Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), as well as Professor of Family Medicine in the College of Medicine, MUSC. Prior to his teaching at the Medical University, Dr. Weart instructed at West Virginia University in pharmacy and family medicine.

Dr. Weart has more than 100 publications and he has given scores of lectures to numerous professional groups and societies. He has received outstanding teacher awards at both West Virginia University and MUSC and has been named Hospital Pharmacist of the Year in both South Carolina and West Virginia.

In 1991, Dr. Weart was among the first pharmacists to become a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. In 1992, he was honored for his excellence in pharmacy practice and designated a Fellow of the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. Dr. Weart was named a Primary Care Policy Fellow for 1999 by the U.S. Public Health Service and he was honored by the Alumni Association of the MUSC College of Pharmacy as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2002. He also received the Bowl of Hygeia Award from the SC Pharmacy Association in 2003 for outstanding service to the community and the profession of pharmacy and the George D. Schwerin Mentor Award, from the South Carolina Society of Health System Pharmacists in 2004. In 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 he was recognized by the MUSC College of Pharmacy student body for his excellence in education by the Golden Mortar and Pestle Award. In 2008 the MUSC Board of Trustees named Dr. Weart as a Master Teacher. In 2012 he received the Proctor and Gamble National Leadership Award from the Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society. In 2014 he was awarded the Ralph M. Wilkie Distinguished Lifetime Service Award by the SC Pharmacy Association Board of Directors. In 2015 he received the Kenneth Flinchum Distinguished Service Award from the SC Society of Health System Pharmacists. In 2021 he was awarded the James A. McFarland, MD, FACP Award by the SC Chapter of the American College of Physicians for his scholarship and teaching. Dr Weart served on the Board of Directors of the SC Pharmacists Association and as President and Chairman of the Board for 2010-2011. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy from 2009-2013 and President of the Waring Library Society for 2014-2015. He is one of many Hot Dog Ministry volunteers involved with serving the homeless of Charleston.