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SNPhA Blue Stars Red Carpet Winner!

PittPharmacy’s Student National Pharmaceutical Association, (SNPhA), won the 2019 Cultural Program of the Year Award for their Black History Cultural…

PittPharmacy Graduate Students Awarded AFPE Fellowships
Karryn Crisamore

Graduate student Karr

Smithburger Leads SCCM Taskforce

PittPharmacy Associate Professor Pamela L.

Winning Legacy Continues at APhA-ASP Annual Meeting

Šejla Jukic (Class of 2021) showed her patient counseling skills and placed as one of the top 10 finalists in National Patient Counseling Competition…

Coons Appointed to ACC Work Group

PittPharmacy faculty member Jim Coons, PharmD, FCCP, BCCP was appointed to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Simulation Work Group.

Horn Elected Vice-Chair ISHLT Pharmacy and Pharmacology Council

Edward T. Horn, PharmD, BCCCP, was elected as Vice-Chair for the Pharmacy and Pharmacology Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung…

Johnson Receives Pharmacy Specialty Inaugural Appointment

Heather J. Johnson, PharmD, BCPS has been designated to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties Solid Organ Transplantation Pharmacy Specialty Council Inaugural Appointment  

Inactive Ingredients - Not in This Case

Sravan Kumar Patel, MS, PhD, a PittPharmacy Instructor of Pharmaceutical Science with the Lisa Rohan research group was recently interviewed by NBC news…

PharmD Students Published in Infectious Disease Journal

SSHP project leaders of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Professional Project, Mohamed Kashkoush (Class of 2021) Diana Mansour and Julia Heo (Class of 2020), were recently published to the…

Novel Medicine Formulation Helps Injured Nerves Fire Again.
Professor Raman Venkataramanan
PittPharmacy Students Awarded at Skills Competition

PittPharmacy students Melanie Umbaugh and Jessica Mattox (Class of 2021) were awarded third place in the Kroger/Student National Pharmaceutical Association…

Huryn Leads Pharm Sci in Prestigious AAAS

Donna M. Huryn, PhD was elected Chair-elect of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her…

Smithburger Receives ACCM Fellowship

Pamela L. Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP, FCCM, was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 48th Annual…

ASHP New Drug Update Competition Winners

PittPharmacy students Julia Heo and Varsh Prakasam (Class of 2020) were recently awarded second place in the ASHP New Drug Update Competition held fall of…