Jacqueline Mbwille Sakaya

About

Establishing Blue Dove Pharmacy on a foundation of community altruism, Jacqueline Mbwille

Sakaya is a longstanding pharmacy professional with over two decades of experience optimizing

practice compliances, improving team unification/diversity, and advancing new levels of patient

care. Currently licensed in Michigan and Maryland, Jacqueline holds an extensive background

involving regulatory requirement implementation, quality assurance processes, and securing

compliance relations for both corporate and independent pharmacy operations. Even more,

enjoys leveraging her service and leadership acumen to not only exceed both patient and

operational expectations, but do so all while propelling various community initiatives forward –

especially concerning bridging the gaps of care and racial disparities across

the healthcare landscapes.

Originally from Tanzania and coming to the US in pursuit for a better life and opportunity,

Jacqueline is brought with her an innate value of hard work and perseverance. Part of this stems

from initially coming to the States as a camp counselor for the girl scout of Camp Chanyatah of

Arcadia Florida (selected among thousands of Tanzanian high schooler applicants), and part

from her ambitious nature to continue higher education to pursue a career within the pharmacy

industry. Coupled with her subsequent vision to foster larger-picture change, it became the

catalyst for Jacqueline to earn her Doctor of Pharmacy at Howard University College of

Pharmacy in 2004, along with a Healthcare MBA from George Washington University in 2021.

Furthermore, Jacqueline undertook advanced certifications in Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacist

Immunization Delivery. Since then, Jacqueline made Belleville, Michigan her home and has

worked in several practices, initially going from a Staff Pharmacist to the Pharmacy Manager at

Walgreens, working within both the retail and ambulatory hospital spaces, to later blending that

dynamicity to develop Blue Dove Pharmacy in 2020.

Collectively, Jacqueline’s unprecedented efforts in optimizing practice ethics, patient care, and

field diversity have led to measurable results. This includes closing gaps between individualized

care and department development, sales performance increases, forming mutually respected

community connections, and highlighting the notions of sustainable growth through intentional

integrity. In addition, this has led to her earning awarded recognition by Walgreens for excellent

customer service and for her dedication to academic success and support of the Howard

University Center of Excellent Programs. But more characteristically, Jacqueline has gained

appreciation for her ongoing community services both within and outside of Blue Dove

Pharmacy, her attentive listening skills, and for her firm belief that strong reformation stems

from the development of strong, shared-value teams.

Alongside operating Blue Dove Pharmacy, Jacqueline serves as a preceptor for PharmD students

at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, is an active member of the Michigan

Pharmacy Association, the American Pharmacist Association, the Westland Chambers of

Commerce, and is a board member of the nonprofit DCDI. In addition, Jacqueline is a service

volunteer at the MPA Government affair Committee and the MPA Public affair Committee. In

her free time, Jacqueline enjoys reading and frequently traveling to discover new people, places,

and cultures.