PittPharmacy Team Reports on Expanded Role of Pharmacy Technicians The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy Community Leadership and Innovation in Practice (CLIP) Center partnered with NACDS to develop a report on the benefits of the expanded role of…

Poloyac and McDermott Receive NIH Grant for New Drug Discovery in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest         PittPharmacy faculty members Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD and Lee A.

American Geriatrics Society Awards Niznik Twice PittPharmacy graduate student Joshua Niznik, PharmD  was recently awarded two major awards at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Niznik was recipient of…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships    PhD candidate Katherine Eichinger, MS, PharmD

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…

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).

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 (…

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…

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.…

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,…