Angela’s expertise and experience made her a leader early on in her career at Sentara.

A few years into my career at WCH, I was given the opportunity to start and manage the Anticoagulation Clinic,” she says. “Our clinic is now the model for current clinics.”

In her 30+ years as a pharmacist, Angela has seen many changes. When she started, her team used fax machines to transmit orders to the pharmacy and completed medication runs every hour. In the years before the Internet, she and her team relied on “big books” to look up medication questions. But she says the most interesting evolution is the use of cell phones.

“When I started, we did not have them,” she says. “A few years later, most employees had cell phones but we either kept them in our cars or turned off in our purses. Then there were the years of taking the occasional phone call, progressing to the occasional text (still hiding the phones in our purse). Today we can’t do our jobs without them! But no matter what, our focus has always been on supporting our patients safely along their path to improved health.”