Office of Experiential Education

Dr. Baker joined the Husson University School of Pharmacy in June, 2012. He earned his BS degree in pharmacy from Ferris State University and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota. He also completed a post-doctoral residency in drug information practice at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC, trained at the National Library of Medicine and is a certified medical writer. Dr. Baker began his career as the Director, Drug Information Services at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. Since then, he has built, expanded and globalized drug/medical information services at major pharmaceutical companies including The Upjohn Company, Astra USA and Roche.

Dr. Baker has been active in the Drug Information Association (DIA) where he led the Medical Communications section, presented posters, published papers and presented at many DIA workshops and national meetings. He co-created the Core Curriculum for Industry-based Medical Information Professionals, one of DIA’s most attended workshops and its first certification program. In 1998, Dr. Baker received an outstanding service award for his contributions to the DIA.

Bob grew up in East Millinocket, ME and enjoys bicycling, golf and detailing automobiles. He and his wife, Cathie, reside in Orrington, ME and enjoy their camp in Sherman, ME.

I joined the profession during the so-called ‘clinical pharmacy movement’ and have since tried to advance the profession by expanding the scope of practice opportunities for pharmacists and through training and developing pharmacy students, postgraduate residents and young practitioners. I am honored to join this faculty, many of whom have come from far away, to build this School of Pharmacy for the State of Maine.

Prior to joining the faculty at Husson University, Greg worked for Hannaford Pharmacy as a pharmacy manager and a regional support pharmacist. Prior to working for Hannaford, Mr. Cameron worked 15 years as the Senior Pharmacy Inspector for the Maine Board of Pharmacy where he was involved with enforcement of pharmacy law as well as development of new regulations.

Mr. Cameron currently co-lectures the required Pharmacy Law Class and visits the experiential sites on a regular basis through out the year. Mr. Cameron speaks through out the State on Pharmacy Law to help ensure that all pharmacists who need live credits on law meet those requirements.

Mr. Cameron is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy where he received his BS in Pharmacy. He is currently an active member of the Maine Pharmacy Association and is active on a number of committees at Husson University.

Jane Jarvi, Ed.D., joined the School of Pharmacy, Husson University, as the Manager of Educational Programming for Experiential Education in the Department of Pharmacy Practice in August 2012. Her educational journey is varied and diverse having attended and/or worked at seven different universities from coast to coast. She earned her B.S. at Washington State University (Recreation), her M.S. from Memphis State University (Therapeutic Recreation, CTRS) and her Ed.D. from Idaho State University (Higher Education Leadership). University job experiences range from physical plant, art galleries, and student affairs, to medical and pharmacy schools. This diversity brings a plethora of experience to her new position.

Since 2009, Jane has been the volunteer coordinator of the White Art Gallery at Husson and became an instructor of “Husson Experience” starting in 2011; Husson Experience has two different avenues (active and passive), in which students can hone life-long learning skills. Her new position allows her to provide the educational programing that will facilitate pharmacy students, preceptors, and faculty success in the experiential education segment of the pharmacy curriculum.

The Jarvi family moved to Maine in 2008. Her husband, Eric, is the Associate Dean for the School of Pharmacy, Husson. Their oldest son is a member of the inaugural pharmacy class at Husson. Their youngest son started his education at University of Maine and is currently serving in U.S. Navy.

Dr. Reed joined the School of Pharmacy, Husson University, as Professor & Chair of Pharmacy Practice on August 2, 2010. Immediately prior to this, Ron was in pharmaceutical industry research & development-scientific affairs for 9.5 years. He was an Associate Scientific Director of Neuroscience for the Abbott Global Pharmaceutical Research & Development. Prior to that, he spent approximately one year with GlaxoSmithKline.

Many years ago, Ron received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Pharmacy from the University of Cincinnati, and completed an ASHP-accredited residency in Clinical Pharmacy at the Cincinnati Veterans' Administration Hospital simultaneously with graduate school.

Ron began his career in clinical pharmacy hospital practice at the University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC), and after several years, switched to a full-time academic position, at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio. At Case Western Ron was an Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and a Senior Instructor in the Department of Medicine (Pulmonary Division). He also served as Director of the Division of Clinical Research, Department of Neurology, CWRU, for 8 years, being Principal or Co-Investigator for over 80 clinical studies. Though-out his 22 year career at UHC/CWRU plus 9.5 years in the industry, Ron has authored/co-authored over 95 original manuscripts and abstracts in peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature. While with GSK, Ron was promoted to a national, ad-hoc "Train the Trainer" position. In 2004, he received Abbott's President's Award in recognition of his research work at Abbott. Ron has maintained long-standing memberships in many professional organizations, most notably including the American Epilepsy Society (AES), American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and the College of Psychiatric & Neurologic Pharmacy (CPNP).

Ron is married to, Susan, BS, Chemistry, who is known for her masterful and creative house-working skills. He has three children: One daughter, Kaitlin, is a BSN RN (Cleveland, Ohio); his other daughter, Brittany, completed her PharmD degree recently and works at a local hospital in Cleveland; and son Brandon, MS, Aerospace Engineering, who claims that aerospace science has, "bigger, bad equations than anything pharmacists have seen in pharmacokinetics."

Ron spends any spare time reading history, studying chess, and playing with his devoted three Australian shepherds-- Piper, Bleu and Binx.