"Dr. Kvitko proudly Presents An Interview with Cameron McNamee, Legislative Liason, Ohio State Board of Pharmacy”, Episode 354

Episode #354 Air Date: 10/19/14

Cameron McNamee currently serves as the legislative and regulatory affairs liaison for the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. In this role, Cameron is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies to advance the Board’s legislative initiatives and other interests relating to the General Assembly. He works closely with the Ohio General Assembly on legislation to address prescription drug abuse. Most recently, Cameron worked with state representatives to ensure the successful passage of HB 341, which mandates the registration and use of Ohio’s Prescription Monitoring Program, the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System.

Prior to joining the Board, Cameron served as a Policy Specialist for the Violence and Injury Prevention Program (VIPP) at the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). In this role, he promoted program goals of the VIPP by cataloguing, analyzing and monitoring injury prevention related regulatory, organizational and legislative policies at the federal, state and local level. Cameron also worked on issues relating to Ohio’s prescription drug overdose epidemic. He developed Ohio’s first naloxone distribution and overdose reversal program, Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone), in Portsmouth, Ohio and facilitated the expansion of the program to five additional counties. Cameron also served on the Governor’s Cabinet Opiate Action Team and assisted with the development of prescribing guidelines for opioids and other controlled substances.

Cameron has extensive experience in the field of public policy and legislative politics. Prior to his position with the Violence and Injury Prevention Program, he served as the Legislative Liaison for the Ohio Department of Health where he directly lobbied state legislators to support agency priorities. In addition to lobbying on behalf of the agency, he also became an active member of the Ohio Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force, serving as a coordinator of the regulatory work group and member of the writing team responsible for producing the final report. Preceding this, he served as a policy analyst in the Ohio Senate. Cameron received a Bachelor of Arts in Government and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.