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Wednesday, July 7, 2018
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.
Monday, July 7, 2018
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 accolades

Thursday, July 7, 2018
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…
Thursday, June 6, 2018
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…
Thursday, June 6, 2018
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…
Tuesday, June 6, 2018
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).
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
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…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy's Meyer Appointed National President of Rho Chi Society Susan M. Meyer, PhD, associate dean for education, was installed as national president of The Rho Chi Society on March 18, 2018, at the Society's annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy Achieves Merit Awards from APhA   PittPharmacy's research from the Community Leadership, Innovation, and Practice (CLIP) Center was recognized at the 2018 Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Pharmacists Association (…
Thursday, May 5, 2018
McGivney Active with AACP Initiative and ACC Conferences Associate Dean for Community Partnerships Melissa A. Somma McGivney, PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA  has been appointed by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) to the American Pharmacists…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
Collaboration Between Pitt Schools Receives Grant PittPhamarcy Alumna Ashley Firm, PharmD '14  from the Physician Assistant Studies Program, PittPharmacy faculty, Luke Berenbrok, PharmD '13, MS and Lorin Grieve, PharmD '14 were awarded an Advisory…
Tuesday, May 5, 2018
Alumna Johnson Selected Walmart Scholars Program Recent PharmD graduate and new alumna Heather Johnson '18 was selected for the Walmart Scholars Program.  Associate Professor Karen Pater, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, and Johnson were one of 85 faculty-mentor…
Thursday, May 5, 2018
PittPharmacy Faculty Benedict and Team Honored for Outstanding Work in National Pharmacy Journal Associate Professor Neal Benedict and co-authors have been awarded the 2018 Rufus A. Lyman Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This award is presented annually to the author(s…
Monday, April 4, 2018
PittPharmacy to Lead New Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence The University of Pittsburgh and Thermo Fisher Scientific have established a new Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence in the School of Pharmacy that aims to discover and validate medication response…
Tuesday, March 3, 2018
Venkataramanan Presents at International Cancer Research Meeting
Raman Venkataramanan, PhD, FACCP, FAAPS recently gave a presentation at the Sri Shankara Hospital and Research Center in Bangalore India. His presentation “Clinical Pharmacology Aids in the…