Blake T. Barta is a fourth year Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and a pharmacy technician at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He is pursuing a Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residency. Blake’s professional interests include inpatient operations and automation, sterile compounding, data analytics, and infectious diseases.