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Pitt Pharmacy Shines Bright at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX


With one of the largest sections of student and faculty attendance, PittPharmacy APhA-ASP Students - earned FIVE awards at the conference.  The students competed for these national…

Pitt's Annual Health Sciences Symposium is Getting a New Name

The Pittwire recently featured Gordon J. Vanscoy (PHARM ’84, BUS ’91G), and his wife, Bethann, in a story about the renaming of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences annual symposium…

Potoski Serves as Presenter at ASHP Midyear Meeting

Pitt Pharmacy professor Brian Potoski,  PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID, served as faculty chair and presenter of two presentations at the 2021 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, held virtually in…

Juhl Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Juhl (right), receiving the award from Dean Donald Letendre of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
Coons Receives ASHP Foundation Collaborative Care Grant

Pitt Pharmacy professor Jim Coons, PharmD ('01), FCCP, FACC, BCCP was recently awarded a Collaborative Care grant from the American Society of Health-System Pharma

Skledar Appointed Chair of ASHP Pharmacy Educators Advisory Group

Sue Skledar (Pharm '88; MPH '91), BS, MPH, FASHP, Professor and Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy,…

Pitt Pharmacy Team Awarded HOPA Grant

A team made up of Pitt Pharmacy Research Scientist Katherine M.

Pitt Pharmacy Team Publishes Study in Lancet Oncology

A team of Pitt Pharmacy researchers, including graduate student and primary author Morgan Casal, PharmD (’19), and faculty members

Kane-Gill Awarded Two NIDDK Grants

Pitt Pharmacy professor Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, was recently awarded two grants from the

Smithburger, Durkin, and Vanderneck Receive Preceptor of the Year Awards

Pitt Pharmacy students selected three of our valued preceptors for 2020-2021 with the Preceptor of the Year Award, which is an annual award from the Experie…

Ma Awarded NIH Grant

Pitt Pharmacy Associate Professor Xiaochao Ma, PhD, was awarded an NIH R01 grant for his work titled, “The ABCG2 transporter in protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) disposition: From toxicity to therapy…

Skledar Receives Teacher of the Year Award

Sue Skledar (Pharm '88, MPH '91), RPh, MPH, FASHP, Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development, and Professor, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, received the 2021…