Thomas S. Franko, PharmD, is a 2011 graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He completed a PGY1 residency at the Wilkes-Barre Veterans Affairs Medical Center. After residency he developed a pharmacist-run medication therapy management clinic focused on chronic noncancer pain at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. Franko joined the faculty at Wilkes University in 2013 with a focus in pain management and substance use disorder and maintains a clinical practice site at the Wright Center for Community Health in Wilkes-Barre. While at Wilkes, Franko authored several papers on innovative education methodologies for pain management, opioid use, and pharmacist involvement with naloxone. He was named chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in August 2024. He has presented over 40 hours of continuing education on pain and substance use disorder issues at the state and national level. He is the advisor for the Wilkes chapters of Rho Chi and Operation Substance Use Disorder, faculty liaison for Pennsylvania Pharmacist Recovery Program, and was named a Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champion for Pennsylvania in 2018. He is highly involved in the Pain, Palliative Care and Addiction Special Interest Group as well as the House of Delegates for the American Pharmacists Association, served on the Board of Directors for Rho Chi, and is a past president of the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association.