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Monday, July 7, 2018
Potoski and Falcione Members of Center of Excellence for Antimicrobial Stewardship.

Faculty members Brian Potoski, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Director of the UPMC Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, and Associate Professor Bonnie Falcione, PharmD, BCPS (AQ-ID) received accolades

Thursday, July 7, 2018
Beumer Publishes First of White Paper Series on Oncology Drug Monitoring A Therapeutic Drug Monitoring standard completed by Jan H. Beumer, PharmD, PhD, DABT and endorsed by the International Association for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring has recently been published in…
Monday, July 7, 2018
Ayers Presents at American Geriatrics Society 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting Gina Ayers, PharmD, a current  PGY2 Geriatric Pharmacy Resident at UPMC St. Margaret, presented her poster "Outpatient Medication Burden of Patients Prior to Hospital Death" during the Presidential…
Thursday, June 6, 2018
Kane-Gill Guest Editor for Pharmacotherapy Publication Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP is the guest editor for the Pharmacotherapy July 2018 themed issue on innovations in medication safety. Innovations in medication safety in all patient care…
Tuesday, June 6, 2018
PittPharmacy Day at the Zoo! On Saturday, June 2nd, 72 of our closest friends joined us for PittPharmacy Day at the Zoo. Co-sponsored by the Pitt Alumni Association, this fun, family friendly event invited all members of the…
Tuesday, June 6, 2018
Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships    PhD candidate Katherine Eichinger, MS, PharmD was recently selected as a
Thursday, June 6, 2018
ACCP Student Award Winner PittPharmacy's Zhang Hongfei Zhang, MS was selected as a Student Award Winner by the 2018 Annual Meeting Committee of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) based on her research work titled "Altered…
Tuesday, June 6, 2018
Ruby Selected Chair-Elect to AACP Geriatric Special Interest Group Christine Ruby, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, FASCP was recently elected as Chair-Elect for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Geriatric Special Interest Group (SIG).
Thursday, June 6, 2018
Tao Long Serves as ISEF Grand Award Judge PittPharmacy graduate student, Tao Long, was selected to serve as the grand award judge in the category of translational medical sciences of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (…
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Potoski Appointed to ASHP Council Associate Professor Brian Potoski, PharmD, BCPS was appointed to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Council on Therapeutics. ASHP's Council on Therapeutics focuses on ASHP…
Tuesday, June 6, 2018
Dziuba Awarded Top Pharmacy Quality Alliance Scholar New Alumna Gabrielle Dziuba, PharmD '18 was awarded 1st place as the Top Scholar Award at the 2018 Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) Annual Conference hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, May 2018. Dziuba…
Thursday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy Members Receive Poster Presentation Honors   Several PittPharmacy students recently received awards for their poster presentations. The annual University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine Research Day was held April 30 and May 1, 2018…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy's Meyer Appointed National President of Rho Chi Society Susan M. Meyer, PhD, associate dean for education, was installed as national president of The Rho Chi Society on March 18, 2018, at the Society's annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thursday, May 5, 2018
Prokopienko Receives Kidney STARS Program Award Alexander J. Prokopienko PharmD, has received an American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney STARS Program award.
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy Achieves Merit Awards from APhA   PittPharmacy's research from the Community Leadership, Innovation, and Practice (CLIP) Center was recognized at the 2018 Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Pharmacists Association (…