Meet the Preceptors at HCA Florida Blake Hospital

Learn more about the Pharmacy Residency Program preceptors at HCA Florida Blake Hospital.

Pharmacy Residency Program Preceptors

Anthony Spann, PharmD, CPh

Director of Pharmacy

Preceptor: Administration

Anthony J. Spann is the pharmacy director at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. Originally from Dothan, Alabama, he earned his doctor of pharmacy degree from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. After graduation, he completed a PGY-1 residency at Bayfront Health St. Petersburg. While there, he served as the cardiology preceptor and critical care preceptor for the residency program. He was also the education coordinator, responsible for managing the IPPE and APPE rotations for various colleges of pharmacy that rotated through Bayfront. He started the antimicrobial stewardship program at Bayfront and served on various other committees.

After working in critical care for a number of years, he left Bayfront to become the pharmacy clinical coordinator at Northside Hospital. There he served as antimicrobial stewardship chair. Anthony then moved to Largo Medical Center where he was the assistant director of pharmacy. After a short time there, he became pharmacy director at HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital where he worked for the past 5 years prior to his arrival at Blake.

Jourdan Boyle, PharmD

Preceptor: Emergency Medicine

Jourdan Boyle-Taylor, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. She attended Santa Fe College for her undergraduate studies, where she received her Associates degree with a Pre-Pharmacy track in 2017. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2022 from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy - Jacksonville campus. Dr. Boyle-Taylor completed her Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency at UF Health Jacksonville in 2023. She also obtained her Residency Teaching Certificate through the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in 2023. Her professional interests include emergency medicine, trauma, neurology, and cardiology. Her professional goals are to become a board-certified emergency medicine pharmacist (BCEMP) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology (DABAT). In her free time, she enjoys activities such as volleyball, fishing, scalloping and hanging out with her fiancée and 4 animals.

Hanna Lefebo, PharmD

Preceptor: Internal Medicine

Hanna Lefebo, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. She attended Temple University for her undergraduate studies, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience: Cellular and Molecular in 2018. She then earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2022 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Lefebo completed her Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency at Duke Regional Hospital. She also obtained her Residency Teaching Certificate through the Duke Health System. Her professional interests include internal medicine and infectious diseases. Her professional goals are to become board-certified and grow into an administrative role. In her free time, she enjoys activities such as golf, frisbee and hanging out with her friends and 2 cats.

Gary J. Algozzine, PharmD, CPh

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Internal Medicine

Gary is the staff pharmacist at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. He was born in Catskill, NY, and received his BS in Pharmacy with Honors from Albany College of Pharmacy in 1979; and his Pharm D from the University of Florida in 1981. He moved to Bradenton and was the Clinical Coordinator at Blake from 1981 to 2003 when he became the Director of Pharmacy for about 8 years from 2003 to 2011. After stepping down from the Directors position, he was a part time remote order entry pharmacist for the West Florida Division of HCA from 2013 to 2019, serving Fawcett, Sarasota Doctors, Blake, Pasadena and Engelwood Hospital Pharmacies while maintaining a part-time staff position at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. He also has worked retail pharmacy at Publix Pharmacies part time from 2009 – 2013 for locations in the Manatee County area. In addition he serves a Consultant Pharmacist for 4 area ambulatory surgery centers. He was Board Certified in Nutrition Support Pharmacy in 1992 and recertified in 1999. He has precepted pharmacy students from UF and other pharmacy schools for many years and was Preceptor of the Year for UF multiple times. He has authored multiple publications and has published a handbook on critical care drugs, titled “Critical Care Intravenous Infusion Drug Handbook”, Mosby.

Donald Bogar, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Internal Medicine

Don Bogar, PharmD, BCPS, has been at HCA Florida Blake Hospital since February 2017. He initially obtained a BS degree in Pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma in 1982 then went on to complete a residency in hospital pharmacy administration. After moving to Florida, Don worked as a staff pharmacist and then as a director of pharmacy for several years. He went back to the University of Oklahoma and obtained his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 1996 followed by a PGY2 residency in critical care. Don worked as a clinical pharmacist in critical care in Florida and Virginia until 2015 when he became an assistant director of pharmacy at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. In 2017 he moved with his wife to Bradenton and joined the staff at BMC.

Shameema Challa, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Hospital Orientation

Shameema Challa, PharmD, BCPS went to pharmacy school at the prestigious NAAC accredited Kakatiya University, Warangal, India and completed PharmD in University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO. She is a Board Certified pharmacist 2013 and got re-certified in 2020.She has more than 20 years of experience in administration, acute care hospital critical care, ID and in Clinical pharmacy de-centralized model pharmacy services. She served as a Chair, Anti-Microbial Stewardship Committee at AdventHealth Lake Wales, Glycemic Management Committee AdventHealth Sebring and in Fall Prevention Committee, Highlands Regional Medical Center. She enjoys spending time with the family, reading books and traveling.

Nicholas Hodgin, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Pharmacokinetics, PN Therapy and Infectious Disease

Nicholas Hodgin, PharmD is a clinical pharmacist and previous resident at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2020 from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy- Bradenton Campus. Upon finishing pharmacy school, he completed his PGY-1 residency at HCA Florida Blake Hospital . His interests include critical care, burn and infectious disease. Nicholas continues with HCA Florida Blake Hospital since completing his residency.

Lily Reyes, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Cardiology

Lily Reyes, PharmD is a clinical pharmacist and recent inaugural residency program graduate at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. Originally from Cuba, has lived in Florida for 26 years; graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences and subsequently attended and graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (Bradenton Campus) in 2019. Upon completion of PGY1 at BMC, Lily stayed on board as a clinical pharmacist with a special interest in Cardiology. Dr. Reyes plans on building a Cardiology program that will form a solid foundation for our future residents.

Torry Schilling, PharmD, BCCCP

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Critical Care, Burn and Trauma

Torry Schilling, PharmD, BCCCP is the Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. A native of Florida, she received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from Mercer University in 2003 and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in 2004. Dr. Schilling moved to West Palm Beach and practiced as an Oncology Clinical Pharmacist while teaching oncology pharmacy to Palm Beach Atlantic University pharmacy students as an adjunct professor. She then moved back to her hometown of Orlando to work as a Clinical Specialist in Bone Marrow Transplant at Florida Hospital Orlando. After spending ten years specializing in Hematology/Oncology, Dr. Schilling moved to the west coast of Florida, where her exposure to trauma and critical care inspired her to change her specialty. Dr. Schilling has worked for HCA Florida Blake Hospital for seven years, and achieved her board certification in Critical Care Pharmacy in 2017.

Dr. Schilling is certified in ACLS, PALS and ABLS. She is an active member of FSHP and SCCM.

Thao Stromgren, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist

Preceptor: Pharmacokinetics & PN Therapy

Thao Stromgren, PharmD is a clinical pharmacist at HCA Florida Blake Hospital. She attended Florida State University for undergraduate studies, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences in 2016. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2020 from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine - School of Pharmacy. Dr. Stromgren completed her Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency at HCA Florida Blake Hospital in 2021, and then stayed on as a clinical pharmacist. She also obtained her Residency Teaching Certificate through the University of South Florida - Taneja College of Pharmacy in 2021. Her professional interests include pediatrics, critical care, cardiology and internal medicine. She has authored a publication in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics in 2020. Her professional goals are to become a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS) and a board-certified critical care pharmacist (BCCCP) in the coming years.