Alum Larry Merlo announced as 2017 Pitt Graduate and Professional Doctorates Commencement speaker. PittPharmacy alum Larry Merlo announced as 2017 Pitt Graduate and Professional Doctorates Commencement speaker. This is from the University Times: The top executive of the nation’s largest pharmacy…

PittPharmacy's Rho Chi Society 2015-2016 Chapter Achievement Awardee PittPharmacy’s Alpha Omicron Chapter of the Rho Chi Society was selected as the recipient of the 2015-2016 Chapter Achievement Award. The announcement was made at the Rho Chi Society's Annual Meeting…

PittPharmacy Students on Winning Big Idea Competition Team PharmD students Lauren Brock (class of 2020), and Collin Wolf (class of 2019) along with computer science students Chris Corsi and Edwin Mellet were grand prize winners of the Randall Family Big Idea…

Kirisci Serves as Editor in International Journal Levent Kirisci, PhD served as an editor for a special issue in the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine titled Introduction to Metrics in Person Centered Medicine Resea

Huryn Accepts Summer Fellowship in Italy Research Professor Donna Huryn, PhD has been awarded a senior visiting fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Alma Mater Studiorum

PittPharmacy's Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Project at Harbor Lights PittPharmacy class of 2018 students, Dilafruz Khakimova and Brittany Lewis, conducted an interactive workshop related to opioid overdose prevention and naloxone at the Salvation Army Harbor Light…

Feturi Receives First Place in 2017 Best Poster Medical Device Category Firuz Gamal Feturi, BS was awarded first place for her poster presentation in the medical device catego

PittPharmacy's Coley PPA Editorial Chair Kim Coley, PharmD, FCCP, was appointed as Chair of the editorial board for the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association's Pennsylvania Pharmacist publication.

PittPharmacy Graduate Students Receive Fellowships Sheila Grab,BS, a PittPharmacy graduate student, received a TL-1 pre-doctoral fellowship award from the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute of the University of Pittsburgh (CTSI).

Professor Venkataramanan Recognized as AAiPS Distinguished Scientist Raman Venkataramanan, PhD received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAiPS), at the annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 16…

Smithburger Accepts Role As Critical Care Medicine Liaison Pamela Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS has been appointed liaison between the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the National Quality Forum (NQF)

PittPharmacy Student Badzik Accepted to PQA Rotation Marissa Badzik (Class of 2018) was accepted to a highly competitive Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) rotation with Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) in Washington, DC.  She will be…

Skledar Appointed to Pharmacy Quality Alliance Panel PittPharmacy Professor Susan Skledar, RPh, MPH, FASHP, has been appointed as Co-Chair of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) national Quality Measure Update Panel for 2017-18. As Co-Chair,…

Hernandez In Top 4 For Research Consideration A research idea submitted by PittPharmacy's Inmaculada Hernandez, PharmD, PhD was one in four selected among 200 submissions for a AHA/PCORI researcher and clinician challenge.

PittPharmacy's Empey Receives NIH Grants Assistant Professor Philip Empey, PharmD, PhD is the co-investigator with primary investigator Steven Reis, MD for their research titled Precision Approach to HealthCare enrollment Site (PA CARES)…