Mahlon Davidson Press Release
THE GPHA BOARD NAMES MAHLON DAVIDSON AS PRESIDENT
ATLANTA (February 11, 2021) The Georgia Pharmacy Association (GPhA) Board of Directors named Mahlon Davidson, RPh, as president, with his installation occurring at the Georgia Pharmacy Convention in June 2021. He will replace Wes Chapman, RPh, as GPhA Board President. Davidson grew up in Camilla, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy in 1982, with a specialty in diabetes management. Davidson has been practicing in Conyers/Covington area for the past 33 years (Big B Drugs and Kroger). He is a UGA preceptor and enjoys working with students. He resides in Oxford, Georgia, with Peaches the cat. He has two sons, Nick (an attorney) and Blake (a geologist). His second love after pharmacy is fishing.
Davidson has been an active member of GPhA since 1985 and has a long list of achievements. In 1997, Davidson served on the Pharmacy Practice Act Revision Commission, representing employee pharmacists. Davidson was instrumental in founding the Academy of Employee Pharmacists, serving as chairman from 2002-2003. He was named Employee Pharmacist of the Year in 2003. He has served two terms as Georgia Fifth Region President and was recognized as the Mal T Anderson Outstanding Region President in 2004. He chaired the Pharmacy Membership Linkage Committee 2016-2017. Davidson is a gold-level contributor to PharmPAC and was formerly chairman of its board from 2019-2020. “GPhA offered me the ability to shape my future. It gave me the chance to sit around with pharmacists from different work settings and discuss what changes were needed in our profession,” said Davidson.
We asked Davidson why he went into pharmacy and he shared that his mother was a type 1 diabetic and because of it, he had many interactions with their local pharmacy. Through his frequent encounters, he realized the importance of the relationship to his mother’s care and well-being. “Our small-town pharmacy was the first-line entry to our local healthcare system,” he said. “I wanted to be that important piece of my own patient’s healthcare system. I get up every day with the intent to make a positive impact.”
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