PittPharmacy Faculty 2015 SCCM Safety Awardees

Pamela L. Smithburger and Sandra Kane-Gill were awarded the 2015 Society of Critical Care Medicine's Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section's Medication Safety Award for their project, A…

PittPharmacy Students Team Grant Winners for MEDIvate

Christina Xia and Kelsey Moss and  (class of 2016) were recently awarded the Innovation Institute - Pitt Ventures 1st Gear Enterprise Creation Team grant to serve as Student Entrepreneurial…

Wen Xie Member of NIH SIEE Study Section

PittPharmacy Professor Wen Xie, MD, PhD will serve as a member of the Systemic Injury by Environmental Exposure (SIEE) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, for the term beginning…

Paul Johnston Co-Investigator in NIH Grant for Cancer Research Associate Professor Paul A.

Smithburger Elected to ACCP Critical Care Practice Research Network Position

Pamela Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS was awarded the 2014 ACCP Critical Care PRN's 2014 Leadership for her leadership in the setting of the Secretary/Treasurer of the PRN as well as the inaugural…

Professor Wen Xie GLNRC Chairperson

PittPharmacy Professor Wen Xie, MD, PhD chaired the session Metabolism and Physiology at the 6th Great Lakes Nuclear Receptor Conference (GLNRC) held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 17-18…

Jennifer Bacci Recognized as PPA 10 Under 10

PittPharmacy Alumna Jennifer Bacci PharmD '11  was recently recognized as one of ten outstanding pharmacists who have been practicing for less than ten years by the The Pennsylvania…

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…

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 Computational Chemogenomics Drug Abuse…

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. The Tamburro Liver Symposium, sponsored by the National Institute of…

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…

Donihi ACCP PRN Chair-Elect

PittPharmacy faculty member Amy Donihi, PharmD, BCPS was elected chair-elect of the ACCP Endocrine & Metabolism Practice and Research Network for the 2014-2015 term. She will then serve…