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About PharmaSmart

The leader in hypertension education & management

PharmaSmart International makes and distributes clinically validated biometric kiosks and digital tools for managing hypertension — serving patients, pharmacists and physicians across the United States and Canada.

What we stand for

Four things we won’t compromise

Innovation

Kiosks and digital health tools that keep pace with technology — from EHR integration to remote monitoring.

Teamwork

We train and support our customers, not just supply hardware — onsite staff become blood pressure experts.

Ownership

Accuracy is never finished. We validate, re-validate and keep improving.

Solutions & results

Structured programs built for sustained, long-term results — not a box on the floor.

Leadership

Management team

Fred W. Sarkis II

Fred W. Sarkis II

Chief Executive Officer

Fred has spent more than 30 years improving how blood pressure is measured, managed and integrated into care. He entered the field in 1987 with a distributorship that introduced automated blood pressure kiosks across the US and Canada, and founded PharmaSmart International in 2004. Under his leadership, PharmaSmart pioneered and patented HIPAA/PIPEDA-compliant integration of self-measured biometrics into the clinical record, aligned its platforms with AHA, AMA and NIH hypertension guidelines, and has been recognized among Rochester’s Top 100 companies and on the Inc. 5000 list of North America’s fastest-growing companies.

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Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer

President

Larry is a general management, sales, marketing and operations executive with turnaround and growth leadership across hospitals, long-term care, retail pharmacy, physician practices and medical devices. His record includes building a $500M commercial organization at Cardinal Health’s Major Pharmaceuticals, growing AmerisourceBergen’s business from $800M by more than 150% over four years, and leading Stryker’s global launch of the first orthopedic image-guided system. Across four Fortune 500 companies and two private-equity-backed organizations, he has contributed to two successful private equity exits.

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Brett Thompson

Brett Thompson

Vice President, Solutions Architecture

Brett is a technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with more than nine years of experience as a Chief Technology Officer, focused on practical AI systems, scalable cloud infrastructure and enterprise integration. His background spans software architecture, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and security and compliance including HIPAA, PCI, PIPEDA and ISO — the engineering discipline behind PharmaSmart’s EHR integrations, remote kiosk management and data platforms.

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Ashley Mason

Ashley Mason

Vice President, Operations

Ashley runs the operation behind every PharmaSmart station in the field. She oversees global logistics and the supply chain — from component sourcing and manufacturing partners through fulfillment, installation and spare-parts inventory across the US and Canada — and leads the service organization and national technician network that keeps thousands of kiosks in pharmacies, clinics, workplaces and community sites measuring accurately every day. Her teams are behind the 24/7 support line, the 48–72-hour onsite response and the quality documentation completed on every visit. 

Jody L. Newman

Jody L. Newman

Director of Commercial Operations

Jody is a commercial and services operations leader in medical devices and healthcare. At PharmaSmart she directs commercial operations end to end — market development across the company’s twelve vertical programs, national trade-show and demo-fleet operations, distributor and independent-rep programs, and the sales pipeline. She holds MHSA and MBA degrees. A United States Marine Corps veteran, Jody is deeply passionate about veteran and military causes and works to improve the lives and quality of life of our service members.

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Regulatory

Cleared, listed and audited

  • FDA-cleared, Class II non-invasive —

    510(k) K063137, covering the PS-1000/PS-1500/PS-2000 family as a public-use blood pressure monitor

  • US Validated Device Listing —

    recognized on the AMA-backed national list of validated BP devices

  • Clinically evaluated —

    against the AAMI standard and a modified British Hypertension Society protocol

  • ISO 13485:2016 + MDSAP certified —

    audited annually by Intertek

Next step

Let’s talk about a pilot at your organization

Tell us your setting and we’ll bring the matching one-page overview, placement guidance and pricing. One station, one site, is enough to see how your population uses it.

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Request information

Your request goes straight to the PharmaSmart team — or call 800-781-0323, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm ET.