Our Staff

Ron Del Gaudio
After earning his bachelor's degree in pharmacy in 1979 from the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Ron Del Gaudio began his career as a pharmacist. Soon thereafter, he joined the independent drugstore chain, Kings Pharmacy. Today, after rising through the ranks, he is the company's president and owner.
With a steadfast reputation for superb professional support and technical expertise, he operates two pharmacies in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan that provide daily hypertension screenings, ADA recognized diabetes education and other classes, as well as patient compliance programs and IV home infusion services.
Kings Pharmacy has an extensive compounding specialty, where skilled pharmacists work closely with physicians to customize prescriptions and to provide more effective treatment and preventive care for patients with a broad range of health-related conditions. Their success with infertility, allergy, HIV and hormone replacement therapy drugs is known and recognized throughout the region.
In addition to his professional obligations, Mr. Del Gaudio gives generously of his time to a variety of health-related causes. He is a longtime board member and the current president of the Brooklyn-Queens chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Also active on behalf of his profession, Mr. Del Gaudio is a member of the board of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York (PSSNY) and is a regional representative for the New York City Pharmacists Society. His outstanding professional achievements have been recognized by the National Federation of Italian-American Societies, which honored him as a distinguished member in 2001.

Barry A. Reiter
Mr. Reiter is a detail-oriented, results-focused Chief Operating Officer with over 25 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Barry has extensive knowledge in vendor and customer relations. He is also skilled at hands on project management, problem solving and in the development and implementation of new methods and procedures. Barry possesses extensive knowledge of the DEA and other regulatory agencies and is fully versed in the in the running of a large specialty pharmacy that is fully "Chapter 797" compliant.
Mr. Reiter spent the majority of his career as the Chief Operating Officer of Remo Drug Corp. which at the time was the 7th largest independently owned and operated pharmaceutical distributor in the nation. After Remo closed its doors in 2002 he joined the Kings Pharmacy team becoming its Chief Operating Officer. In addition to his Bachlor of Science degree from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass, Barry has also been trained and schooled by some of the best academic professors and consultants from The Wharton School of Business, Harvard University and Stanford University.

Leonard Chiarello
Mr. Chiarello was educated at Long Island University's, Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and has been a member of the Kings family for over 30 years. His current role as Director of Pharmacy Operations requires him to manage the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy, including all specialty divisions, such as, Transplant, IVF, Dialysis, HIV, and Hepatitis C. Lenny is an expert at all third party billings and has extensive knowledge of all insurance companies, whether private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. His accreditations include PCCA Compounding Techniques, NIPCO accredited Arthritis Care, and NIPCO accredited Community Aging, Assisted Living and Long-Term Care.

Sweta Chawla, PharmD, MS, CDE
Dr. Sweta Chawla, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Long Island Universityês Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy joined the faculty there in 2002. She attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science where she earned a B.S. in Pharmacy and a Pharm.D. After graduation, she completed a one-year community pharmacy residency at Banks Apothecary in Philadelphia where she had affiliations with USP, Albert Einstein Medical Center, and Temple University Hospital. During the residency, she specialized in diabetes, HIV and hepatitis. She continues to implement disease state management programs here at Kings Pharmacy, where she is the director of the community pharmacy residency program. She also precepts three sixth-year Pharm.D. students from LIU every month. In addition, she recently graduated with an M.S. in pharmaceutical marketing from Long Island University and has received board certification as a diabetes.

Renita Rambarat, Pharm.D.
Renita Rambarat, Pharm.D. graduated from St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions in May 2009. She is currently a community pharmacy resident at Kings Pharmacy where she educates patients in various disease state management programs, including diabetes, HIV, hepatitis, as well as general medication management. Renita has been appointed as a Clinical Instructor of Pharmacy Practice at Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy for the year that she will be a resident, where she teaches 4th year pharmacy students. She also assists in precepting three 6th year pharmacy students who come to Kings Pharmacy every month for their clinical rotations. Renita's responsibilities also include staffing in the pharmacy and clean room, where she makes connections between traditional pharmacy dispensing and clinical pharmacy. As part of her major project for the year, Renita will be implementing a smoking cessation clinic at Kings Pharmacy and performing a study of patients concerns about weight gain, results of which will possibly be published in a medical journal later next year. After the completion of her residency, Renita hopes to become a certified diabetes educator and continue to advance the practice of pharmacy in the community setting.

Mary Ellen Figueroa
Mary Ellen Figueroa, RN Kings Pharmacy 24-hour infertility nurse specializes in reproductive endocrinology. She graduated as the valedictorian from Long Island College Hospital School of Nursing. She worked at Long Island College Hospital as a volunteer sexual assault and domestic violence counselor before she became certified as a sexual assault examiner through Jamaica Hospital School of Nursing. She has worked at Long Island College Hospital as a nurse in the OB/GYN specialty with a subspecialty in oncology and URO/GYN and as a crisis center volunteer after the September 11th tragedy. There, she educated infertility patients on the self-administration of medications. Currently, Mary Ellen works as the on-call nurse for Reproductive Specialists of New York and Kings Pharmacy. She answers calls from patients who have questions about their medications at any time of the day. She is a valuable asset to the Kings Pharmacy patient community.

George Meikle
Mr. Meikle is a graduate of Columbia University with a BA in Economics, a graduate of Binghamton University with an MBA and graduate of Syracuse University with a Juris Doctor. He spent more than 15 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry in a variety of capacities: Sales representative, Sales Trainer and Product Manager. He has worked for Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Procter and Gamble, Tap pharmaceuticals, Forest laboratories and Inventiv Health. Currently, he is the Key Account Representative for Kings Pharmacy.