Xie's Grant Researches Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Management  

ASHP Task Force Selects Smithburger Pamela Smithburger, PharmD, MS, BCPS was selected to be a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Task Force to update and revise the goals and objectives for critical care…

PittPharmacy's Beumer Receives DABT Designation Jan H. Beumer, PharmD, PhD has received the designation of Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT). DABT exams are held once a year simultaneously in 5 locations in the world and…

Faculty Member Skledar Appointed National PQA Panel Susan J. Skledar, RPh, MPH, FASHP has been re-appointed to the national 2016-17 Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) Measure Update Panel. This panel has the responsibility to review the PQA-endorsed…

PittPharmacy Graduate Student Hagos Presents at AAPS/ITC Workshop Fanuel Hagos presented at the at the 2016, Joint AAPS/ITC Workshop on Drug Transporters in ADME, held in Baltimore, Md. in April.  The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists…

RxPedition This article first appeared in the PittPharmacy magazine. As education adapts to engage student learners, courses incorporate application of concepts.

PittPharmacy Front and Center in the Fight to Stem Drug Overdose Epidemic This article first appeared in the PittPharmacy magazine. Risky1 Opioids, including both prescription narcotics and heroin, are in the news almost daily because of overdose deaths. More people…

Faculty Member Abraham Presents Pediatric Studies  

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, PBMs…

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 Exemplary…

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. More information…

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-…