Mary Abdelmalak was a community pharmacist with Rite Aid in Cleveland, Ohio. A native of Egypt, she moved to the United States at age 12. Abdelmalak earned her bachelor’s degree in biology and philosophy from John Carroll University and her Pharm.D. from The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. She also completed a PGY1 Community Care Pharmacy Practice Residency at Ohio State. Her areas of interest in health policy include the correlation between behavioral/mental health policy, economic/social legislation and health outcomes as well as preventive medicine policies, population health analysis and access determination.

Abdelmalak’s Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow experiences, which began July of 2016, included a week with the Brookings Institution and three weeks at ACCP with Edwin Webb, associate executive director, and John McGlew, director of government affairs. Following three weeks with ASHP’s Office of Policy, Planning and Communications, under the mentorship of Joe Hill of the government affairs staff, she began her placement with the office of Senator Charles “Chuck” Grassley of Iowa, who sits on the Senate Finance; Budget; Judiciary; and Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.