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Potoski Appointed to Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Specialty Council

Potoski, far left, pictured with members of the 2022 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Specialty Council.

Hallisey and Mapel Selected as Pitt Pharmacy Recipients of AACP Preceptor of the Year Award

Peter Hallisey, PharmD., and Joan Mapel, PharmD. (PHARM '92), were chosen as the Pitt Pharmacy recipients of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Preceptor of the Year…

Pitt Interprofessional Team Places Second in National Competition

A team made up of students from three of the Schools of Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh placed second against 20 other universities in the annual CLARION competition. The…

Pitt-UPMC Residency Programs Receive Maximum Accreditation

Nine pharmacy residency programs, offered in conjunction between Pitt Pharmacy and UPMC, recently received the maximum 8-year cycle of accreditation from ASHP!

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…

Pitt Pharmacy APhA-ASP Chapter Wins 2020-2021 Operation Heart Regional Award

Pitt Pharmacy’s APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) chapter has done it again! They were selected as a regional winner of Operation Heart for 2020-2021, marking the second year in…

Seybert Elected Vice President of ACPE

Amy Seybert, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, CHSE,

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 Pharmacists Foundation and American…

Pitt Pharmacy Team Awarded HOPA Grant

A team made up of Pitt Pharmacy Research Scientist Katherine M. Eichinger, PharmD, PhD, MS (PhD ’19), graduate student Keito Hoshitsuki, PharmD (PharmD ’17) and Associate Professor Christian…

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 Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, and Thomas Nolin, PharmD (’99), PhD (’03…

Kane-Gill Awarded Two NIDDK Grants

Pitt Pharmacy professor Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP, was recently awarded two grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive a