CDR Justin McCormick, LCDR Keván Marie Lee-Steele

CDR Justin McCormick, PharmD, BCPS, NCPS, AE-C, is a Commissioned Officer in the USPHS working in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a Central Processing Pharmacist with Central Processing Pharmacy Services. He is stationed at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson West Virginia. At this duty location he operates collaborative practice agreements encompassing asthma, COPD, anticoagulation, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. CDR McCormick’s collateral duties include acting for the MXR Chief Pharmacist, co-leading the FBOP Mortality Review Workgroup, active membership in Medication Utilization Evaluation and Pharmacy Recognition Advisory Groups, and as a MOUD Clinical Consultant for the Northeast Region.

LCDR Keván Marie Lee-Steele, PharmD, BCACP, NCPS, graduated from the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy in 2009. In March 2010 she received her commission as an officer in the USPHS, and started working as a staff pharmacist at FCC Hazelton, a prison complex with a large inmate population within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In May of 2015, she transferred to FCI Morgantown , a Federal Prison Camp in Morgantown, WV, to become their Chief Pharmacist. The pharmacy provides pharmaceutical care for approximately 600 inmates, filling more than 100 prescriptions per day. As a clinical pharmacist, LCDR Lee-Steele manages patients in multiple clinics such as: diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, Hepatitis C, and opioid use disorder. She was the first pharmacist in the BOP to develop a Clinical Practice Agreement (CPA) for inmates taking Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) and she regularly helps other pharmacists to write their own CPA and run a MOUD clinics across the BOP. LCDR Lee-Steele is also the MOUD point of contact for her institution, and a regional MOUD consultant.  Additionally, she is BPS certified in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy and is a National Clinical Pharmacy Specialist.