About Ascend Pharmacy

Ascend is the only pharmacy in the country exclusively dedicated to lower extremity complications and treatments

Ascend Pharmacy is a podiatry-focused pharmacy currently specialized in non-sterile, patient specific compounding. Ascend is a member pharmacy of Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA), the industry’s leading compounding pharmacy association. We have passed rigorous National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) inspections complying with the highest standards. Ascend is the only pharmacy in the country exclusively dedicated to lower extremity complications and treatments.

Our Pharmacist

Ashley Dick, Pharm.D.

Director of Pharmacy

Ashley joined the Ascend team in early 2020 and has been working to build a clinically sound formulary that has produced positive outcomes for our patients.


Ashley Dick, Pharm.D. is a native of Kentucky and graduated from Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy in Birmingham, Alabama.  After her graduation, Ashley moved to middle Tennessee to complete a Community Care Practice Residency with a focus on compounding through the University of Tennessee. In 2007, she opened a compounding pharmacy in Mt. Juliet where she grew the business into a diverse practice offering services in bio-identical hormone therapies, autism care, and pain management. As a result of those efforts, she was awarded PCCA’s inaugural George Roentsch Scholarship Award for her innovation based on formulas created for children on the autism spectrum. In the same year, the Tennessee Pharmacist Association named her the Pharmacist Mutual Tennessee Young Pharmacist of the Year recognizing her impact through leadership and innovation. Ashley has also spoken on the subjects of compounding and autism in workshops and seminars for the National Community Pharmacists Association and the Professional Compounding Centers of America. For the last several years, her focus has been on wound care and nail infection compounds utilizing DNA-guided therapy to create patient-specific treatments.