Graduate Student Shilpaa Mukundan Receives Sigma Xi Grant Shilpaa Mukundan, a first year PhD student working in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Shilpa Sant, PhD, has received the prestigious Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research (GIAR) award for her…

Deanne L. Hall Selected For ASHP Panel Associate Professor Deanne L. Hall, PharmD has been selected to serve on the Recommendation Consensus Panel for the Ambulatory Care Conference and Summit. The conference is held by the American…

Pharmacy Clinical Skills Competition Winners 2013 Update January 5, 2014: PharmD students, Pamela Lyons and Evan Williams (Class of 2014), competed in the National Clinical Skills Competition at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting on December 7th and…

PittPharmacy APhA-ASP Chapter Awarded The Cardinal Health Foundation Grant PittPharmacy's APhA-ASP chapter was recently awarded a grant through The Cardinal Health Foundation's Prescription Drug Abuse and Misuse Prevention Grant Program. PharmD students Meera Vachhani, (…

Associate Professor Janet Pringle Co-Authors Research Book School of Pharmacy faculty member Janice L. Pringle, PhD is a co-author of the recent publication Understanding Education Research: A Guide to Critical Reading. Understanding Education Research is…

PittPharmacy Toy Delivery Comes Early

PittPharmacy faculty, staff and students shared holiday joy by donating, collecting and delivering gifts to the Matilda Theiss Center located in the city’s Hill District. Over 20 bags of toys,…

PittPharmacy Faculty Member Song Li Receives NCI Grant Professor Song Li, MD, PhD  has received a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his study titled Targeted Combination Therapy for Breast Cancer. The goal of this five year study is to…

Assistant Professor Carolyn Thorpe Receives Vasculitis Foundation Grant The Vasculitis Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to Assistant Professor Carolyn Thorpe, PhD, MPH, for her study, Impact of Healthcare Utilization and Informal Caregiver for Primary Systemic…

Sandra Kane-Gill Appointed Vice-Chair for SCCM Task Force Faculty member Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP was appointed vice-chair for the Critical Care Practitioners as Educators Task Force for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Pharmacy Student Karen Hoang Elected Kappa Psi Parliamentarian PittPharmacy student Karen Hoang (Class of 2016) was elected to the Province Executive Board as the first Parliamentarian at the Kappa Psi Mountain East Province Fall Assembly in Buffalo, New York,…

PittPharmacy's PDC Chapter Wins Achievement Award Pitt Pharmacy's Phi Delta Chi Mu Chapter has been awarded the Achievement Award based on the successful submission of all the items in the monthly reports during the academic year. Each month has a…

Wen Xie Invited Speaker at AAPS Meeting Faculty member Wen Xie, MD, PhD was an invited speaker at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) annual meeting held in San Antonio, Texas, on November 10-14, 2013.  Xie spoke…

Raman Venkataramanan Presents at NIH Conference School of Pharmacy faculty member Raman Venkataramanan presented at the 14th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies at the National Institutes of…

Pharmacy Career Round Table 2013 Connects Present with Future The School of Pharmacy P1 students (Class of 2017)  had the opportunity to listen, ask questions and learn about the different areas of pharmacy during the annual Career Roundtables held on October…

Lori Schmotzer Serves on SAC Transportation Committee School of Pharmacy staff member Lori Schmotzer has been elected as a member of the Health, Safety, Technology and Transportation Committee for the University of Pittsburgh, Staff Association Council…