Alan R. Pires M.S., M.N.O., RPh.:  Mr. Pires is known for his dedication and commitment to underserved populations.  Trained as a clinical pharmacist, Mr. Pires has worked in a variety of academic settings and private sector healthcare organizations in and around Boston.  He volunteered to bring his expertise to the Soviet Union in 1986 following the Chernobyl incident. He later traveled to Brazil and Portugal to work with nonprofit, nongovernmental and communal organizations.  He founded H.S.D. Consulting while working on contract in Alaska in 1989.  Three years later he was in Mogadishu, Somalia working as a pharmacy consultant on a cooperative grant from USAID and the EEC.  He returned to school obtaining a Masters of Science in Organizational Behavior and Analysis, and a Masters in Nonprofit Management from Case Western Reserve University.  He further enhanced his healthcare focus with a Health Systems Management Certificate from Case Western’s Weatherhead School of Management.  In addition to healthcare consulting, he has conducted a series of Appreciative Inquiries in monasteries, prisons and therapeutic comminutes.  He has become known for his organizational diagnostic tool MIND BODY SPIRIT, and his Gestalt workshop. Let’s GESTARTED! now offered through H.S.D. Consulting.  Currently he is the Director of Pharmacy for the Ohio Department of Mental Health at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare System.