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).

Tao Long Serves as ISEF Grand Award Judge  PittPharmacy graduate student, Tao Long, was selected to serve as the grand award judge in the category of translational medical sciences of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair…

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…

Dziuba Awarded Top Pharmacy Quality Alliance Scholar  New Alumna Gabrielle Dziuba, PharmD '18 was awarded 1st place as the Top Scholar Award at the 2018 Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) Annual Conference hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, May 2018…

PittPharmacy Members Receive Poster Presentation Honors   Several PittPharmacy students recently received awards for their poster presentations. The annual University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine Research Day was held April 30 and May 1,…

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. Meyer will…

Prokopienko Receives Kidney STARS Program Award Alexander J. Prokopienko PharmD, has received an American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney STARS Program award.

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…

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…

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…

Feturi Receives First Place in 2018 Best Poster Medical Device Category Firuz Gamal Feturi, BS and PhD candidate was awarded first place for her poster presentation in the medical device category during the McGowan Research Retreat March 2018. Feturi's abstract was…

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-…

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.

Cultural Program of the Year Awarded to PittPharmacy SNPhA PittPharmacy's Student National Pharmaceutical Association, (SNPhA), won the University of Pittsburgh Blue Stars Red Carpet Cultural Program of the Year Award for their Black History Cultural…

APhA-ASP Chapter Wins the University of Pittsburgh Outstanding Program of the Year Award