Established in 2023, Health Gameplan Associates is a management service organization (MSO) & a medical practice (Gameplan Medical) that offers an interprofessional, collaborative approach to patient care aimed at giving patients a comprehensive support team who help facilitate anactive role by patients in self-management of their health.
We leverage technology to provide a pathway for healthcare interactions to take place at a patient’s home in an effort to improve patient outcomes. Outcomes are not solely based on office encounters and an evidence-based medicine approach; they are rooted in what matters most to a patient. By gaining insight to where a patient is in their own life, we can optimize our efforts towards being understood and heard in our professional consultations to lead a better life.
CEO of Health Gameplan Associates
Amina Abubakar graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy University of the Sciences in 2005. She is the owner and manager of Avant Pharmacy & Wellness Center formerly known as Rx Clinic Pharmacy in Charlotte, NC, and the founder of the Avant Institute. She is an internationally recognized speaker and an award-winning clinical pharmacist, Certified HIV Specialty Pharmacist, a preceptor to UNC Chapel Hill residents and students from several schools of pharmacy. In support of value-based contracts with CMMI, Medicare Advantage, commercial health plans and Medicaid managed care, she leads care coordination, health education, integrated programs, quality reporting and improvement, risk adjustment to help practice transformation in Community Pharmacy, Primary Care Clinics, Health Systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Accountable Care Organization from fee-for-service to fee-for-value.
Chief Physiatry Officer
Dr. Lewis is board certified in Rehabilitation Medicine and completed his clinical training at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab of Northwestern University School of Medicine. He is the co-founder and chief physiatry officer for the Physiatry-Pharmacy Collaborative, a tech-enabled medical group that delivers home-based chronic disease rehabilitation, dementia prevention, and rehospitalization prevention within higher risk older populations. Dr. Lewis has extensive experience leading and developing telehealth versions of cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, and frailty prevention and has worked with leaders from the American Heart Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Dietetic Association on health coaching initiatives. He’s developed a first-of-it’s kind multi-condition tele-rehabilitation coaching platform called HEALTHGAMEPLAN and serves as an advisor to large healthcare organizations seeking input on digital transformation.
Chief Business Officer
Dr. Swat is a Board-Certified Medication Therapy Management Pharmacists Specialist with a background in Chemistry Research. He currently serves as the Director of Health Care Strategy & Analytics. Dr. Swat is a native of South Carolina, having completed his BS in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina Honors College in 2004. He continued at USC and earned an MS in Chemistry in 2008. After exposure to research & academia, Dr. Swat went on to complete his PharmD. In 2014 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Throughout his pharmacy education and now, Dr. Swat is involved in a myriad of pharmacy organizations and has received numerous awards for his contributions within these organizations. Currently he serves on the International Executive Committee of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Inc. one of the US’s oldest pharmacy organizations dating back to 1879.
Population Health Clinical Pharmacist – Implementation Specialist
Dr. Kimberly Varner is the Population Health Clinical Pharmacist – Implementation Specialist for Health GamePlan Associates. She completed the Population Health and Practice Development Fellowship through the Avant Institute where she worked in various settings from primary care clinics to assisted living and memory care facilities. Her focus was, and still is today, on addressing frailty, chronic disease rehabilitation, transitions of care, and cognitive health with her patients. Though, she is now able to focus on her passion of helping other pharmacists as well by teaching them to do the same in their communities.Kimberly is a 2022 graduate of the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy at High Point University where she also graduated with her Masters in Business Administration in 2021. When she is not developing new ways to advance the profession of pharmacy, Kimberly can be found developing new recipes in the kitchen and spending time in the NC mountains with her family.
AAHIVP CEO of Health Gameplan Associates
Amina Abubakar graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy University of the Sciences in 2005. She is the owner and manager of Avant Pharmacy & Wellness Center formerly known as Rx Clinic Pharmacy in Charlotte, NC, and the founder of the Avant Institute.
She is an internationally recognized speaker and an award-winning clinical pharmacist, Certified HIV Specialty Pharmacist, a preceptor to UNC Chapel Hill residents and students from several schools of pharmacy. In support of value-based contracts with CMMI, Medicare Advantage, commercial health plans and Medicaid managed care, she leads care coordination, health education, integrated programs, quality reporting and improvement, risk adjustment to help practice transformation in Community Pharmacy, Primary Care Clinics, Health Systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Accountable Care Organization from fee-for-service to fee-for-value. Amina was bestowed the honor by the National Community Pharmacists Association as 2020’s Independent Pharmacist of the Year and received the 2020 Bowl of Hygeia from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists for outstanding service to the community.
She has fostered an environment that showcases the impact of community pharmacists on patient care by collaborating with medical providers and expanding pharmacist-led clinical services in her community. Her desire to help others advance the pharmacy profession inspired her to establish the Avant Institute to offer training to pharmacies across the country on the practical application of clinical pharmacy services through developing sustainable physician collaborations. Currently, she shares her passion for pharmacy advancements with pharmacists, patients, and policy makers all over the country through Pharmacogenomics. She was invited to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to the FDA to discuss the role of pharmacists in pharmacogenomics.
FABPMR Chief Physiatry Officer
Dr. Lewis is board certified in Rehabilitation Medicine and completed his clinical training at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab of Northwestern University School of Medicine. He is the co-founder and chief physiatry officer for the Physiatry-Pharmacy Collaborative, a tech-enabled medical group that delivers home-based chronic disease rehabilitation, dementia prevention, and rehospitalization prevention within higher risk older populations.
Dr. Lewis has extensive experience leading and developing telehealth versions of cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation, and frailty prevention and has worked with leaders from the American Heart Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Dietetic Association on health coaching initiatives. He’s developed a first-of-it’s kind multi-condition tele-rehabilitation coaching platform called HEALTHGAMEPLAN and serves as an advisor to large healthcare organizations seeking input on digital transformation.
He has advanced training in geriatric medicine from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and integrative medicine from Harvard. Dr. Lewis serves as clinical assistant professor, volunteer faculty, at Virtua Health College of Medicine.
BCMTMS Chief Business Officer
Dr. Swat is a Board-Certified Medication Therapy Management Pharmacists Specialist with a background in Chemistry Research. He currently serves as the Director of Health Care Strategy & Analytics. Dr. Swat is a native of South Carolina, having completed his BS in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina Honors College in 2004. He continued at USC and earned an MS in Chemistry in 2008. After exposure to research & academia, Dr. Swat went on to complete his PharmD. In 2014 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Throughout his pharmacy education and now, Dr. Swat is involved in a myriad of pharmacy organizations and has received numerous awards for his contributions within these organizations. Currently he serves on the International Executive Committee of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Inc. one of the US’s oldest pharmacy organizations dating back to 1879.
Dr. Swat continues to collaborate with health care organizations with a focus on transformational leadership. Prior to his work with Health Gameplan Associates, Dr. Swat served as the Pharmacy Clinical Service Manager for Walmart Health & Wellness in Charlotte, NC where he was responsible for the implementation and analysis of 14 practice locations across the Charlotte, NC area. After serving in this role, Dr. Swat then transitioned to serve as the Chief Operations Officer and now Chief Strategic Officer of Avant Pharmacy & Wellness and Director of Strategy and Health Data Analytics for the Avant Institute. Swat has collaborated with his teams to develop innovative methodologies for analytical solutions with large amounts of health care data as medical entities transition to value-based contracting. Impacts from these analyses include drug utilization analytics, cost containment strategies, identification, and improvement of inefficient systems, redefining the nature and structure of a health plan and its relationship to patients and improved patient outcomes. Dr. Swat is an advocate for pioneering innovative and creative expansion for providing exceptional quality patient care with an emphasis in financial growth and sustainability of an organization.
Population Health Clinical Pharmacist – Implementation Specialist
Dr. Kimberly Varner is the Population Health Clinical Pharmacist – Implementation Specialist for Health GamePlan Associates. She completed the Population Health and Practice Development Fellowship through the Avant Institute where she worked in various settings from primary care clinics to assisted living and memory care facilities. Her focus was, and still is today, on addressing frailty, chronic disease rehabilitation, transitions of care, and cognitive health with her patients. Though, she is now able to focus on her passion of helping other pharmacists as well by teaching them to do the same in their communities.Kimberly is a 2022 graduate of the Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy at High Point University where she also graduated with her Masters in Business Administration in 2021. When she is not developing new ways to advance the profession of pharmacy, Kimberly can be found developing new recipes in the kitchen and spending time in the NC mountains with her family.