Alzheimer's Association Grants Hernandez Research

PittPharmacy faculty member Inmaculada Hernandez, PharmD, PhD received an award through the Alzheimer's Association for her research titled Claims Data Mining to Predict Side Effects of Anti-…

Pitt Pharmacy APhA-ASP Chapter Wins National Patient Care Award

The American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) presented its annual Patient Care Achievement Award to the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy at the…

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…

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…

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 Research. This…

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 University of Bologna. Huryn will be spending the…

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 category during the McGowan Research Retreat March 2017. Firuz's abstract was titled Ultrasound…

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…

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). Smithburger’s appointment comes as a…

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,…