Stephanie Hammonds earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2004 from Purdue University, where she also pursued a nuclear pharmacy certification and a French minor, created an experiential clerkship rotation at Lilly France (Eli Lilly and Company) in Suresnes, and focused her final project on the differences in pharmacy practice between France and the U.S. Upon graduation, she joined The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, as a point-of-care pharmacist, focused in pediatric oncology. Additionally, she co-founded the hospital’s Pediatric Pharmacy Safety Committee, and served on the compliance committee to update the hospital’s sterile compounding areas to the United States Pharmacopeial Convention’s chapter 797 standards.

In 2006, Hammonds moved to Brooklyn, New York, to work in the New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical Center’s surgery pharmacy. She also served as the interim chair of the Legislative Action Committee for the New York City Society of the New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists and volunteer tutored high school biology and chemistry. In September 2007, she returned to her hometown of York, Pennsylvania, to assist her family in caring for her grandmother while working as a community pharmacist for Target and pursuing graduate coursework in health policy.

In 2008, Hammonds was selected as the ASHP/ACCP/VCU Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow and obtained placement in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Majority Health policy office, chaired by senators Kennedy and Harkin (after Senator Kennedy’s death). Her work focused on antimicrobial resistance, global health, and health quality and delivery system improvement initiatives for the national health reform debate. Although she contributed to other sections, she wrote section 3503 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), Medication Management in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases.

In 2010, she joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office of Pharmacy Affairs, where her work focused on the 340B Drug Pricing Program, the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, and Affordable Care Act provisions related to the patient-centered medical home, care coordination during transitions of care and clinical pharmacy services. After the office restructured in 2011, she returned to Baltimore, where her work blended policy and practice to manage the successful launch of two new outpatient hospital pharmacies at LifeBridge Health. Concurrently, she was appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to one of two health system pharmacy seats on the Maryland Board of Pharmacy.

Stephanie moved in 2012 to the DHHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where her work focuses on policy for the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D). She has particular interest in the comparative economics and policy of global pharmaceutical care services delivery and, in her spare time, enjoys cooking, dancing, competing in triathlons and travelling.