Board of Directors

Starlin Haydon-Greatting, MS-MPH, BSPharm, CDM, FAPhA, FADCES serves through SHG Clinical Consulting as the Illinois Pharmacists Association’s Director of Clinical Programs and Population Health, to establish community-based chronic disease and comprehensive medication management programs to improve person centered care and medication optimization. As the Network Coordinator, for diabetes, pre-diabetes, diabetes prevention (DPP) and cardiovascular health programs and sees patients in the pharmacist-based chronic care management programs for self-insured employers, Health Options for Public Entities-HFS, and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).  She currently is active as a Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, a DPP Lifestyle Coach and serves on the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (ADCES) Board of Directors.
Specializing in pharmacoepidemiology and health economics, she is an expert in the field of healthcare outcomes research, drug-use analysis, and reimbursement, with 30+ years’ experience in medical-pharmacy claims analysis and population health management, especially in quality care and underserved populations. Well published and research oriented, she is recognized as a national expert and speaker as well as being associated with many schools of pharmacy as an elective clinical research instructor and as a keynote special topics speaker.
Haydon-Greatting has been very active in the profession across the United States, from her Indian Health Service residency in public health in Anchorage, Alaska, multiple short-term training programs in Boston, Los Angles, Minneapolis, and San Francisco and a Healthcare and Public Policy Fellowship, Wash DC, as the late Senator Paul Simon’s policy analysts for Medicare/Medicaid’s OBRA’90.  She has practiced as a clinical pharmacist in health system pharmacies and community-based pharmacies for 10 years and 23 years as the Director of Quality Assurance and Drug Utilization for Illinois Medicaid and the Federal Medicaid programs, advising five governors and four presidents . She continues to consult with the Illinois Health and Human Services to prevent the misuse of prescription and non-prescription medication, break the stigma of substance use disorders (SUD), and supports patients in recovery and the ongoing opioid crisis response.
She consults on multiple projects for State and Federal Population Health Work-groups including the CDC 1815- Improving the Health of Americans through Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke CDC-RFA-DP18-1815. As a  member of the National Telehealth Advisory Committee and the CDC COVID-19 Task Force she provided support, resources and technical assistance to the State of Illinois and the Federal Government during the pandemic. Currently she was appointed to the Illinois Public Health Collaborative [covering infectious diseases, disaster and emergency preparedness, medication shortages, state gaps in care and immunization/vaccine delivery]
She also is appointed to serve on the Pharmacy Quality Alliance’s (PQA) SDOH and DEI work-group, the National Quality Forum (NQF) Endocrine/Primary Care and Chronic Illness Standing Committee Measure Evaluation and a 12-year member of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)-Council setting standards and competencies in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice.
Her list of honors and awards include: the American Lung Association of Illinois Outstanding Volunteer Award; American Diabetes Association’s Kiss the Pig Runner-up; Smithsonian Award for Information Technology in Medicine; ICHP’s President’s Award; IPhA’s Innovative Pharmacy Practice-1997; the 2008 Pharmacist of the Year Award by the Illinois Pharmacists Association (IPhA); the 2011 St. Louis College of Pharmacy’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the Profession and was inducted into their Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Society, Alpha Theta Chapter in 2016. She was named by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) in 2013 as a Fellow of The Alpha-Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM).  And in 2022 as a Fellow of the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE), School of Pharmacy awarded her the Preceptor Excellence Award in Alternative Practice-2014. In 2017, she received the Lambda Kappa Sigma (LKS) Women in Pharmacy Vanguard Leadership Award, a 2nd IPhA Excellence in Innovation Award 2017and the 2017 recipient of the ASHP Distinguished Service Award by the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners. She was awarded pharmacy’s highest honor, the 2018 Bowl of Hygeia Award for outstanding community service in Illinois. In 2020 Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ICHP) awarded her their Pharmacists of the Year Award; and IPhA Foundation awarded her the Sister Margaret Wright 2022 Leadership in Pharmacy Award.
Ms. Haydon-Greatting works daily on the impact of pharmacy-based engagement to close gaps in care for persons with diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic diseases.  Her current focus is toward recognizing pharmacists as providers in underserved areas to increase person-centered care and strives for improved access of care with pharmacist-provider team-based care.