Term Exp 12/23

Term Exp 12/23

Term Exp 12/23

Roger Panella is the Chief Administrative Officer for the Michigan Peer Review Organization (MPRO) and has more than 30 years of experience in automotive, logistics, and nonprofit charitable businesses. He is a strategic business, supply chain, and human resources executive driving process improvements and savings in the materials management, vehicle transportation, health care, compensation/organization planning, and finance functions. Prior to MPRO, Roger was COO at the Greater Detroit Area Health Council; VP Strategy, Safety, Quality and Risk Management at Allied Systems Holdings, Inc.; and was an executive at Chrysler, LLC.  At Chrysler, Roger was the executive responsible for the company’s health care programs, covering 350,000 people at an annual cost of $2.5 billion. In that role, Roger co-led national negotiations with the UAW on health care programs in 2003 and 2007, collaborations that reduced costs and saved thousands of autoworker jobs. Roger has an MBA from the University of Michigan (Ross School of Business) and BA in Materials and Logistics Management from Michigan State University (Broad College of Business). He has also completed an executive development program at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Named 2021 Pharmacist of the Year by the Michigan Society of Community Pharmacists, Rony Foumia has been a licensed pharmacist in Michigan since 1999 after earning his bachelor’s from the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder in 2017 to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and reappointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2019. He also serves as an executive board member on the Oakland County Pharmacists Association, executive board member for the Chaldean American Association for Health Professionals and as a representative on the Lakes Area Community Coalition. Foumia is passionate about helping the less fortunate and those in need, along with mentoring dozens of pharmacy students across the country. He is also actively involved in helping combat the opioid crisis by holding community events throughout Michigan. He was named the 2020 National Person of the Year by Dispensary of Hope, a charitable medication distributor that delivers critical medicine--free of cost--to people in need.

Brian Cousins

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With 29 years of sobriety under his belt, Brian Cousins uses his skills to “give back” or “pay it forward” in the realm of behavioral health services such as addiction, mental health, and recovery. He is a proven leader who took over in 2017 as Executive Director for Faith Recovery Center, a transitional home for individuals suffering from addiction and/or mental illness. Through mentorship and support, he led the efforts to implement best practices that made significant impacts in the lives of his clients, their family, and their friends. Brian continued to serve this population as Clinic Director at AIM Recovery, where he was the primary liaison between the medical and therapeutic side of the facility and his primary focus was in business development and admissions. Currently, Brian navigates the overwhelming path of entering treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental illness for individuals in need. Part of Foundations Recovery Network, the treatment division of UHS, Inc., Brian works with a portfolio of facilities throughout the country, including Skywood Recovery in Michigan. Most important, he is committed to finding the best clinical fit for an individual, regardless of the company. Brian is honored to join the Executive Board of Families Against Narcotics, where he will continue to impact lives with a team of like-minded people.

Adam Shammami, DO

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Dr. Shammami attended Wayne State University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in radiation therapy technology in 2002. He obtained his medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2008 and completed his residency training in family medicine at St. John Providence in Southfield in 2011.  Following residency, Dr. Shammami developed an interest in addiction medicine and has practiced in both inpatient residential and outpatient addiction treatment centers. His professional interest includes addiction medicine and academic medicine. Dr. Shammami has an academic appointment at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and is faculty physician at the Beaumont Family Medicine Residency Program in Sterling Heights. In 2018, he was the recipient of substantial grant funding to develop a Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Clinic at the Family Medicine Center, where he is collaborating with a multidisciplinary interprofessional team to expand and implement a Substance Use Disorder Clinic and serves as the SUD Clinic Medical Director. A co-leader of several committees at his institution that focus on continued expansion of SUD services within the community, Dr. Shammami enjoys spending time with his wife and four children and traveling in his spare time.