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PittPharmacy Faculty Ensor Receives Grant for Novel Lung Transplant Medication Study

Assistant Professor Christopher R. Ensor, PharmD, BCPS-CV is the co-primary investigator, along with his colleague John McDyer, MD, who recently received an investigator-sponsored trial grant from…

PharmD Student Presents Research on Opioid Misuse at National Meeting

PittPharmacy student Justin Saver (class of 2018) recently presented at the annual Pharmacy Quality Alliance meeting at Arlington, Virginia in May 2016. Healthcare executives from health plans,…

AAPS Presents Award to Pharmaceutical Researcher

PittPharmacy graduate student Yu Zhang, a visiting scholar from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College was a recipient of 2015 AAPS Graduate Student…

Drug Take Back Day a Huge Success Due to PittPharmacy Students

150 individuals dropped off drugs to be properly disposed at the University Pharmacy on April 21, 2016.

237.5 lbs collected at this site

Totaling to 870 lbs from the last 3 events.…

Dziuba Receives Inaugural CVS Internship Gabrielle Dziuba (Class of 2018) has been accepted into the inaugural class of the CVS Summer Leadership Program in Washington, DC.
Tao Long Receives GPSG Leadership and Service Award

The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) of the University of Pittsburgh awarded the 2015-2016 Leadership and Service Award to Pitt Pharmacy graduate student Tao Long, BS…

ASHP Student Leadership Awardee PittPharmacy's Nolt Valerie Nolt (Class of 2016) has been awarded the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Student Leadership Award recognizing students with an interest in pharmacy practice in health-…
Hundreds of Pharmacists Gather at Capitol as “Now Is The Time.”

On Wednesday, April 6, hundreds of pharmacists and student pharmacists converged at the Capitol in Harrisburg for Pennsylvania Pharmacy Day to push the theme of "NOW is the time...

PittPharmacy Wins Blue Stars Red Carpet Award 2016

 The University of Pittsburgh Division of Student Affairs held the annual Blue Stars Red Carpet Awards Ceremony on April 24, 2016 to recognize individual leaders, advisors and…

AMCP Foundation/Pfizer, Inc. Internship Selects PittPharmacy's Marshall

Alex Marshall (Class of 2017) was selected for the AMCP Foundation/Pfizer, Inc. Managed Care Pharmacy Summer Internship Program.

PittPharmacy Student Johnson Interns in Hungary

Heather Johnson (Class of 2018) was awarded an internship to Semmelweis University Pharmacy Budapest, Hungary this summer. She will be interning at the University and at a community pharmacy…

PittPharmacy Presents at ISHLT Annual Meeting

  Update: April 19, 2016  Associate Professor Michael Shullo PharmD will serve as a Symposium Chair for a session at the ISHLT 36th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions to be held…

iGES Selects Squires for Young Investigator Award

Patrick Squires (Class of 2017) was selected for a Young Investigator Award and oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Gastrointestinal Electrophysiology Society (iGES) in…

Muzzio Accepts American Heart & Vascular Medicine Internship

Kathryn Muzzio (Class of 2019) was chosen for the AHA Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) for summer 2016.

Associate Dean Meyer Elected Rho Chi Society National President-elect

Delegates to the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Rho Chi Society elected Susan M. Meyer, PhD, associate dean for education and professor, PittPharmacy, as national president-elect. Meyer will serve a…