Comings and Goings
Josh Guffey joins the physician assistant program this semester as an assistant professor. He will be working remotely on a part-time basis. For the past year, he’s served as director of Continuing Professional Development at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy – an institution at which he’s also worked as a clinical assistant professor since 2013. In addition, he’s spent the past three years working as a clinical professor and director of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy at North Greenville University’s Department of Physician Assistant Medicine in Greer, South Carolina. Josh has also been the director of pharmacy education and a clinical pharmacy specialist at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2013. Previously, he worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist for the Greenville Health System in Greenville, South Carolina, and clinical assistant professor with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. Josh holds a doctor of pharmacy degree from Wingate University School of Pharmacy and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Brittany, and daughter, Annelise.
The university has hired Heidi Hopkins to work as the field coordination specialist in the bachelors and masters of social work programs. For the past three and a half years she has worked as a mindfulness educator teaching short courses in Newberg Public Schools as well as leading retreats, workshops and classes in the community. Heidi has also worked since 2016 as a spiritual director for private clients and PsyD graduate students at George Fox as part of their degree requirements. Previously, from 2007 to 2018, she hosted children in a weekly, Montessori-based, contemplative Christian experience. Heidi earned a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University in 1995. She lives in Dundee with her husband and three children and attends Journey Church.
Nick Sullivan joins the university to work as manager of the maker hub in the Klages Center. A 2013 graduate of Norwich University and a 2015 graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering. For three years, he was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where, as an Air Force captain and developmental engineer, he conducted engineering work on the F-35 Lightning II. He worked in the squadron’s Threat Modeling Team, where he managed a team of active duty military members, civilians, and contractors that built and tested radar simulations. Nick has worked the past year as an associate recreation minister for Crosspoint United Methodist Church in Niceville, Florida, leading a small recreation team and facilitating both adult and youth sports leagues. He lives in Wilsonville and attends Red Hills Church.
Josiah Philipsen (IT) and Jim Steele (Business) are no longer with the university.