Pharmacy of Grace Board of Directors
John Yost, PharmD, MBA
John Yost has spent many years in the pharmacy and pharmaceuticals business. After graduating with his pharmacy degree from KU, he worked in a community pharmacy and started a pharmacy in Oklahoma. He eventually sold the business to shift his career to selling pharmaceuticals for Roche Labs
in Topeka. His experience launched a career in managing and training sales people until he was promoted to operations director, and then Regional Manager at Agouron, Warner Lambert and then Pfizer (by acquisition) in the HIV treatment space, where he spent nine years. Yost survived a few more pharmaceutical acquisitions before eventually feeling called to something greater: starting a charitable pharmacy in KCK.
Sara Yost, PharmD, PMP, BCMAS
Medical Information Specialist Team Lead
ProPharma Group.
Doctor of Pharmacy focused on patient care through safe and effective medication use. Information Technology professional, experienced in development, analysis, design and project management. Particularly interested in combining experience and skills to optimize medication-related health outcomes.
Liz Sutherlin, R. Ph.
Business Consultant with over 30 years of experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit business segments specializing in general management, coaching and mentoring, strategic planning, team and leadership development and achievement of business results.
Michael R. Dunaway
Mike Dunaway has over 40 years of healthcare experience in clinical, hospital administration and trade associations. Most recently, Mike was the senior vice president for the Kansas City Metropolitan Hospital Council – a regional office of the Missouri and Kansas hospital associations – representing 45 hospitals in the bi-state Kansas City region.
Currently, Mike is a health care consultant and serves as the Executive Director for the Conference of Metropolitan Hospital Associations, an affinity group of 19 metropolitan hospital association across the United States. He has undergraduate degrees in allied health education and business administration, as well as a master’s degree in health care administration and serves on a number of not-for-profit boards.
Mary Jane Muchow
Mary Jane Muchow is currently a Therapeutic Area Manager at Genetech, a biotechnology research company.
"As someone who works in the healthcare industry I understand the devastating effects of untreated chronic disease. The need for therapeutic medicine is often denied to those who can’t afford it and they suffer most. Pharmacy of Grace can break the dependence of pharmaceutical acquisition based on cost."
Ryan Mathews
Sr. Vice President at CHC Consulting, LLC
Ryan Mathews is an experienced Vice President of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Sales Management, Contact Centers, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Solution Selling, and Direct Sales. Strong business development professional with a Masters Business Administration (MBA) focused in Finance and Entrepreneurial Business from University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Troy Ross
Director, Business Development & Market Access Consulting
DongJoo "DJ" Kim
DongJoo Kim, also known as DJ, is an associate attorney with Bridge Builder Tax +Legal Services, P.A. He practices primarily in the firm’s Estate Planning and Business Law area. DJ was born and raised as the son of a pastor whose mission was helping homeless elders. His mom is a social worker who currently owns a faith-based nursing home in South Korea. DJ has a heart for others in need due to being raised so immersed in the charitable community and witnessing his parents’ ministry.
DJ received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his law
degree from the University of Kansas School of Law. DJ was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 2018 and the Kansas Bar in 2020. During law school, he interned at Kansas Legal Services, where he was introduced to the nonprofit legal practice. Prior to attending law school, he served in the US-South Korea Alliance Special Force, and then worked as a diplomat for South Korea in Dallas, Texas. DJ’s military and government experience helped him learn how to serve his clients with integrity and loyalty.
Additional Board Members:
Jason Gant | Lead Pastor
Children & Family Ministries Church of the Resurrection
Janelle Ruisinger, Pharm.D., FAPhA
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Clinical Professor
Community Pharmacy Residency Director
Department of Pharmacy Practice
KU School of Pharmacy
Carlos E. Salazar
United Way of Greater Kansas City
Director Community Engagement- Retired