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Dan Wagner has been a well-known community pharmacist/herbalist and nutritional counselor in the North Hills area of Pittsburgh for over 25 years. Dr. Daniel Thomas Wagner
CV Biography Dan Wagner is a 1975 graduate of the School of Pharmacy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received an international M.B.A. in 1993, and attained a Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University in 2000. He was an adjunct, assistant professor in pharmacy practice at Duquesne from 1991-1999. He was president of the Allegheny County Pharmacist Association in 1987 and in 2000. Dan has done extensive traveling and research on plant medicines in the rainforests of Belize, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Amazon, Guatemala, and Africa. He has worked closely with some of the leading ethnobotanists and herbalists in the field, and has incorporated his knowledge and experience into his natural pharmacy practice. He is president and founder of the Student Rainforest Fund, a non-profit, educational student organization that leads college health-profession students on expeditions to the rainforest. For the last 13 years he has lead a group of 25-30 pharmacy and pre-med students to the jungles of Belize, Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica to study natural products and do field work in medicinal plant collections for the National Cancer Institute. Dan is actively involved with Global Links and The World Health Vision, two Pittsburgh-based, charitable organizations dedicated to improving the health of the underprivileged people in the Third World. Dan is the founder and director of World Health Vision started in 2005. He has traveled as a volunteer to Nigeria, Cuba, Egypt, Peru and Ecuador to assist in providing medical supplies, vitamins, drugs, education, and professional services to impoverished hospitals and clinics. |
****************************************************** Twice in 2001, Dr. Wagner returned to Cuba to help deliver more medical supplies and equipment from Global Links to hospitals in Havana and Matanzas. In June, 2001, he was keynote speaker at the First Inter-American Conference on Pharmacy and Nutrition in Havana, Cuba. In July 2001, he delivered an extensive shipment of hospital beds, wheelchairs, and equipment to the Espino Hospital in Quito, Ecuador. He efforts were recognized by the U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador. In August, 2002, Dan was invited by the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), headed by renowned ethnobotanist, Dr. Mark Plotkin, to travel to Suriname, South America. There he collected plant samples of lianas for the herbarium at the Suriname University, and work at the ACT natural medicine clinic in Kwamalasemutu.
Dan was presented with a most prestigious honor on March 4, 2006 when the Azara Traditional Council of Azara-Nassarwa State, Nigeria, named him Sarkin Turawan Azara (Chief of the Whiteman of Azara).
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Dan does professional counseling with patients who take both prescription and complementary medicine. As an “integrative” practitioner, he believes in the health advantages of balancing conventional therapies with natural ones. His natural pharmacy practice was the recipient of “The Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award for 2000,” presented by Dupont Pharmaceuticals and PPA. Each Friday he hosts a radio talk show entitled “Adventures in Natural Medicine” which airs Fridays 12 noon-1 PM on WKHB Radio 620 in Greensburg, PA.
Dan was sited for setting up a community diabetes-screening and education clinics at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria in 1999 and 2000. He has continued to establish diabetes screening clinics at hospitals in Bauchi, Gombe, Yola and Lafia, Nigeria in 2004-2007. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s annual “Readers Choice Award” voted Dan the GOLD WINNER as best pharmacist and pharmacy in the North Pittsburgh area in both 2006 and 2007.
Dr. Dan has established a number of free diabetes screening clinics throughout six states in Nigeria and dozens of hospitals and villages. He was instrumental in distributing thousands of doses of free diabetes medicines and vitamins to the needy. On a personal note, Dan has contributed financially for the digging of a new borehole (well) which was completed early in 2007 and now provides clean water to the village of 20,000 people. In 2006, he left WHM and established The World Health Vision, an organization for health professionals who wish to volunteer their services to the poorest communities in Nigeria and Ecuador. In March 2008, Dan lead a team of five medical professionals to work with diabetes, hypertension and HIV/AIDS patients in the cities of Lafia, Jos, Gusau, Keffi, Bauchi and Doma. He returned to Azara with in January 2010 and in addition to screening a thousand patients for diabetes and hypertension, he initiated a new vitamin A supplement program in rural villages to eradicate an eye affliction called xerophthalmia, a leading cause blindness among Africa’s poorest children.
It is a distinctive honor given only to non-Nigerians who exercise distinct service to the common people of their village Dr. Dan was installed as the white chief at a grand turbanning ceremony in the village of Azara by His Royal Highness, the Emir of Azara, Chief Dr. Kabiru Musa Ibrahim II on January 13, 2007. In January, 2010, Dr. Dan was chosen by the His Royal Highness, the Andoma of Doma (the Emir of Doma in Nasarawa State, Nigeria) as a lifetime member of the Senior Traditional Inner Caucus, and was given the traditional name “Adra.”