Leadership

Dr. Rosko is the founding Director of the Center for Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Research Excellence (CAPPRE) at the Idaho State University L.S Skaggs College of Pharmacy. In this role, he will lead the efforts of the University to help identify and disseminate practice models and billing methodologies that lead to the sustainment and spread of advanced pharmacy practice models across the care continuum.

Dr. Rosko previously served as the Director of Pharmacy and Care Teams at a multisite FQHC system in Oregon, where he implemented and sustained integrated clinical pharmacy services via traditional medical billing pathways and launched the system's first in house dispensing pharmacy and 340B program. As an independent consultant, he has worked with a wide variety of practices throughout the country to assist in the implementation and sustainment of clinical pharmacy services.

Dr. Rosko maintains a clinical practice and provides telehealth primary care and urgent care medical services to patients throughout Idaho in his own telehealth clinic, and is presently working on starting a specialty OUD outpatient pharmacist clinic in Southern Nevada. As a resident of Nevada, he also serves as a Member at Large on the Board of the Nevada Pharmacy Alliance, and will begin a term as the President-Elect in 2025. His practice interests include addiction medicine, preventative medicine and respiratory disease.

Dr. Wadsworth is the Dean for the College of Pharmacy and Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences. He previously served as Assistant Dean for Alaska programs at Idaho State University. Dr. Wadsworth earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from ISU in 2002 and completed an ASHP accredited Primary Care Pharmacy Specialty Residency at the Boise VA Medical Center in 2007.

Prior to residency, Dr. Wadsworth served 4 years as a Clinical Pharmacist at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a registered pharmacist in Idaho and Alaska and has significant experience in primary care, community pharmacy, and home infusion pharmacy. Dr. Wadsworth is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and served as an Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist at St. Luke's Internal Medicine in Boise, Idaho for 9 years.

Dr. Wadsworth has a variety of research interests including obesity, diabetes, statin myopathy, QT-prolonging medications, and quality outcomes in medication management. More recently, Dr. Wadsworth has been integral to the development and implementation of the Doctor of Pharmacy program with the University of Alaska Anchorage in Anchorage Alaska and serves as the administrative officer at the Anchorage campus. Dr. Wadsworth is also the principle investigator of the SETMuPP demonstration initiative, which seeks to mobilize community and primary care pharmacists to address the current gap in preventative and health management services available to Alaskans with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Silk is the Chair of the Clinical Psychopharmacology Program and a Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy at Idaho State University. Dr. Silk has an extensive history of experience in psychopharmacology and assessment of psychological, neuropsychological, and substance use disorders.

Dr. Silk earned a B.S. in psychology from Michigan State University. He completed a M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He then worked as a Research Coordinator at the Substance Use Research Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute affiliated with the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. His Ph.D. is in Clinical Psychology with a Specialization in Neuropsychology from Nova Southeastern University. He also completed a post-doc M.S. in psychopharmacology at Nova Southeastern.

Dr. Silk’s career path led him to Wyoming, where he continued to teach, developed a psychological practice, and pursued leadership in the Wyoming Psychological Association. He was an associate professor of psychology at Northwest College and is currently an Assistant Lecturer at University of Wyoming and University of Idaho. He was the president of the Wyoming Psychological Association from 2017-2018. Dr. Silk is a licensed clinical psychologist in Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho.

Rob received his PharmD from Idaho State University in 2012 and later a Master of Business

Administration from Western Governors University. He started his pharmacist career as a staff pharmacist in Ontario, Oregon for Rite Aid and was quickly promoted to Pharmacy Manager out of necessity. After a few years as a Pharmacy Manager, he moved his family to the other side of Oregon and took a position as a Pharmacy District Manager overseeing Southern Oregon.

Following his tenure with Rite Aid he returned to his roots in Idaho, right as the state embarked on changing from a traditional regulatory model to a standard of care model. Rob was one of the first pharmacists to supervise technicians immunizing back in 2016 and while managing a pharmacy for Albertsons Companies. After a short time practicing as a traditional pharmacist again, he was promoted to be the Pharmacy Operations Manager supporting the Eastern Region of Albertsons. Within the first year of that role a position became available within Albertsons to lead their Pharmacy Legislative and Regulatory Affairs efforts.

During his time as Director of Pharmacy Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, he was successful in advancing the practice of pharmacy in several states. These advancements include helping Colorado and Montana adopt broad prescriptive authority for pharmacists and assisting many states to permanently allow technicians to administer immunizations. Recently he joined CVS Health as an Executive Director of Pharmacy Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs, where he can continue advocating for the advancement of the pharmacist profession.

When Rob is not working, he spends time with his wife Britney and their five children. With a large family, there is always a sporting event or school activity to attend. When he is not busy coaching baseball or watching soccer, he enjoys participating in Spartan obstacle course races.

Katie Erickson attended University of Oregon where she earned her Bachelors of Science in Psychology and General Science before completing her Doctor of Pharmacy at Oregon State University/Oregon Health and Science University. After her PharmD, she completed a general pharmacy practice residency and an ambulatory care residency at the Boise VA where she continued to work after residency developing integrated pharmacy services within a primary care telehealth program. After developing the program and expanding it across multiple locations she changed career paths to work for St. Luke’s Health Partners working to implement programs that increase quality of care while decreasing the total cost of healthcare. In 2022, Katie transitioned to St. Luke’s Health Plan working to connect people with affordable, hassle-free health care through building better health insurance together.

Jordin Millward is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. She also serves as the Primary Care Section Lead for the Director of the Center for Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Research Excellence. She is board-certified in pharmacotherapy and is also a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.  Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Public Health degree to further explore the role of the pharmacist within public health initiatives.

Dr. Millward graduated from Idaho State University College of Pharmacy in 2019 and completed a PGY1/PGY2 combined Pharmacotherapy Residency at Idaho State University in 2021, gaining diverse experience in inpatient, outpatient, managed care, and community-based settings. She also has extensive experience in the retail pharmacy sector. She currently works in several primary care clinics with the Patient Quality Alliance in Pocatello, where she takes students on rotation. Her clinical practice focuses on chronic disease management, particularly diabetes care and education.

Her research interests include pharmacist-led chronic disease management, practice advancement, population health, and technology-based healthcare solutions. Dr. Millward coordinates the Endocrine Module in the PharmD program, facilitates case studies, and mentors students in advanced pharmacy practice experiences.

Dr. Nguyen joined Idaho State University (SU) L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy in 2017. She works to optimize healthcare delivery, especially for rural and underserved populations. She is particularly interested in pharmacy practice, evidence-based diabetes services, and immunizations. 

Dr. Nguyen graduated from the University of Iowa with her Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health degrees. She has completed a two-year ambulatory care residency at the Boise VA Medical Center and a two-year health economics and outcomes research fellowship at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital. She is board certified in ambulatory care, and continues to practice at the Boise VA Medical Center.

At ISU, she co-coordinates PHAR942 Fundamentals of Pharmacy Practice and Literature Evaluation in the spring of P1 year. She also offers elective independent study opportunities and introductory and advanced rotations in academia and research.