Outstanding Professional Development Project Award to PittPharmacy Students The University of Pittsburgh Chapter of Student Societies of Health-System Pharmacy (SSHP) recently won the Outstanding Professional Development Project Award from American Society of Heath-System…

PittPharmacy Graduate Student Feturi to Attend TERMIS-AM Conference  Graduate student Firuz G.

Student Organization Wins Government Relations Award The 2014 Student Government Relations Award  was recently presented to PittPharmacy students by The Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) during their Annual Conference held…

3 Time Winners: PittPharmacy Students Achieving Independence Competition PittPharmacy students were the team winners of the Achieving Independence Competition for the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW during the competition at Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) Annual…

Stanton J. Jonas Receives PPA Mortar and Pestle Award  The Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) recently honored Stanton Jonas PharmBS '51, MPH with the Mortar and Pestle Award during PPA’s 2014 Annual Conference held at the Four Points by…

PittPharmacy Scott Drab 2014 PPA Pharmacist of the Year The Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) recently presented Scott R. Drab, PharmD, CDE, BC-ADM with the 2014 Pharmacist of the Year Award during PPA’s 2014 Annual Conference held on September…

Jonas Salk Fellowship Recipient Chelsea Henderson: JHF Health Care Participant On September 22, 2014 the Jewish Health Care Foundation welcomed 42 multidisciplinary graduate students who will deploy systems thinking t

PittPharmacy Students Win ACCP Poster Competition Update October 15, 2014: Our students won the best poster at ACCP! Class of 2015 students Nick Farina, Kevin Ordons, Rachel Filiaggi, Marissa Csovelak and Melissa Shook are finalists…

PittPharmacy Faculty Sean Xie Awarded NIH Grant Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie, EMBA, PhD, was awarded a $5.4 million NIH center grant to establish a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Center of Excellence for Computatio

PittPharmacy Alumna Lichvar ACCP Travel Awardee Alicia Lichvar, PharmD '13  was awarded the 2014 American College of Clinical Pharmacy GI/Liver/Nutrition PRN Travel Award.

APhA President Osterhaus Meets Students On September 19,2014 Matthew Osterhaus, President of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) visited PittPharmacy.

Kane-Gill ACCP Platform Presentation Finalist Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP  is a co-investigator on the study "The impact of a clinical pharmacist managed acid suppression program on inappropriate therapy in general ward…

Wen Xie Invited Speaker Tamburro Liver Symposium Wen Xie, MD, PhD was an invited speaker at the Tamburro Liver Symposium held in Louisville, Kentucky, September 11-12, 2014.

Statewide OD Prevention Website Launched Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy has received funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to develop an overdose…

Pringle Study: Community Pharmacist Intervention Boosts Drug Adherence, Reduces Health Costs  According to a new study, “The Pennsylvania Project: Pharmacist Intervention Improved Medication Adherence And Reduced Health Care Costs” led by PittPharmacy faculty member Janice L. Pringle,…