Londonderry on the Tred Avon is pleased to welcome Brian Cotter to its Board of Directors. The Londonderry Board of Directors is comprised of residents and community members who volunteer their time to provide guidance and strategic direction to the cooperative and its management team.
“We are honored to have Brian Cotter join Londonderry’s Board of Directors,” said Christine Harrington, Londonderry CEO. “With his extensive experience in the pharmaceutical world as well as his dedication to helping his community, Brian is incredibly accomplished and will make many contributions to Londonderry as we continue to be the premier senior living community on the Eastern Shore.”
Mr. Cotter currently serves as the Senior Director of Pharmacy Services for the University of Maryland Medical System, where he coordinates the pharmacy operations for all system hospitals. His career spans four decades, and he has served as both a healthcare leader and educator mentoring the next generation of pharmacists. He is active in his professional community and holds memberships in a variety of industry organizations and associations.
He began working as a Staff Pharmacist at the New York State Office of Mental Health in 1983 and was later promoted to Director of Pharmacy in 1988. He went on to work for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY as their Assistant Director of Pharmacy in 1991 and became the Director of Pharmacy in 1993. He took up a professorship at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Clinical Assistant Professor while still working as Director of Pharmacy in 2002.
From 2005 to 2008, Cotter served Shore Health System, Inc. within the University of Maryland Medical System as their Director of Pharmacy Services. Since 2006, he has remained a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Cotter then became the Director of Pharmacy Services for the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center in 2008 and went on to become the Senior Director of Pharmacy Services at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), where he remains to this day.
Cotter is an alumnus of Duquesne University (BS Pharmacy), the University of Florida (MS Pharmacy – pharmaceutical economics), and the University of Notre Dame (Masters in Nonprofit Administration).
Cotter lives in Talbot County, close to his children and four grandsons. He is a parishioner at Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Easton and is the assistant varsity basketball coach at Saints Peter and Paul High School. In his free time, Cotter enjoys staying active by riding his bike or practicing yoga, traveling, and cheering on the Washington Nationals.
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