Supreme Directorum
Leonardo Ortega (Salsa)
14 Kossuth Place
Wayne, NJ 07470
salsarx@optonline.net
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Lenny "Salsa" Ortega was born in Paterson, NJ from Puerto Rican and Nicaraguan descent. He graduated from Rutgers College of Pharmacy in 2001, pledged AZO Epsilon chapter in the spring of 1997. He has been actively involved through various elected and appointed positions in Epsilon ever since pledging and in Supreme since the summer of 1999. He currently works in a family owned independent retail pharmacy. On a side note, he likes to dance to all types of Latin music hence the nickname.
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Supreme Sub-Directorum
Stephen Imperato
8 Goldstar Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
pi1023@hotmail.com
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Stephen Imperato is a 2005 graduate of Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. He currently resides in Princeton, NJ and is a Pharmacy Manager for CVS in Somerset, NJ. Since joining in the fall of 1999 he has held almost every office within the Epsilon Chapter, most notably as Directorum and Pledgemaster of the UG chapter. Stephen has also served Supreme as Undergraduate Representative, Bellarum, Excheque, and AZOAN Editor. Additionally he is a recipient of the Supreme Undergraduate Award (2004).
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Supreme Signare
Mel Lessing
5225 Pooks Hill Road, Apt. 1708-S,
Bethesda, MD 20814
captainmel@comcast.net
| A native Baltimorean, Mel graduated from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1966, entering the finest healthcare profession there is.
Thereafter he matriculated at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, School of Pharmacy, majoring in pharmaceutical chemistry with a minor in pharmacology. he joined Kappa Chapter, AZO in 1965 and later enjoyed the privilege of participating in the formation of an alumni chapter in Kansas City. For two consecutive years he served as Directorum of Kappa Chapter and last year was the Supreme Bellarum. His career path has primarily been as a Public Health Service Commissioned Officer, employed in drug regulation. Following retirement from the Service, he began his current career as the Assistant Editor of the AMSUS journal Military Medicine. |
Supreme Associate Signare
Diane Medeiros
348 Valley Road
New Bedford, MA 02745
mcpgal79@hotmail.com
| Diane Medeiros is from New Bedford, Massachusetts. She works in Providence, Rhode Island at Butler Hospital. She graduated with a PharmD degree in 2003 from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, Mass. She joined the Tau Chapter of AZO in 2001 and has remained active since.
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Supreme Ex-Cheque
John Chin
8 Riviera Drive
Monroe, NJ 08831
jwchin53@gmail.com | John Chin was born in Brooklyn, NY and eventually moved to Queens, NY. He joined IOTA Chapter while at the Campus of Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, in Brooklyn, NY in 1977. The College moved to the grounds of Long Island University along DeKalb Ave in Brooklyn, NY and also was closer to the famous "Juniors" Restaurant. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy in 1978 and Masters in Pharmacotherapeutics in 1982 also from the same campus. He joined NY Alumni in 1978 and joined the Epsilon chapter when he moved to New Jersey and now a member of both Chapters. Currently, for the last 8 years, has been practicing Pharmacy in a independent retail pharmacy. He has been serving, in some capacity, AZO Supreme since 2001. Go AZO!
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Supreme Bellarum
Izzat Janajreh
Izzy2434@gmail.com
| Izzat Janajreh, better known as Izzy, is part of the 2010 class of Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Recently graduated, Izzy is an employee of Walgreens, where he looks to soon be a floating pharmacist for the NJ North District. Having pledged in Spring 2005, he has held many positions since for the Epsilon Chapter on both the undergraduate and alumni levels. He has served as Pledgemaster, Undergraduate Excheque, and Chapter Excheque to name a few. Izzy has also received both the Undergraduate Service award (2008) and the Simon Sless award (2009). This is Izzy’s first position on the Supreme level. |
Supreme Undergraduate Representative
Megan Burns
Megan.Burns@utoledo.edu |
Megan Burns is from Kettering, Ohio. She attends the University of Toledo and is a 4th year student pursuing a PharmD. She pledged the Sigma chapter in fall of 2007. She was a member of pledge committee the following spring and was pledgemaster in fall of 2008. Currently, she is the associate undergraduate representative as well as the Sigma chapter representative to the undergraduate council.
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Associate Undergraduate Representative
Nicole Saracino
nicole.saracino@my.mcphs.edu |
Nicole is from Oceanside, New York and attends Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, MA. Nicole will be graduating with a BS in Pharmaceutical and Health Care Business (Health Psychology Minor) in 2012. She plans to attend graduate school and major in regulatory affairs. She pledged the Tau chapter in spring of 2009, and has since held five positions within the chapter. Nicole is currently the historian of the Tau Chapter, as well as the Tau chapter representative to the undergraduate council.
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