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 awards among 144…

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 in Naples…

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 a row…

Seybert Elected Vice President of ACPE Amy Seybert, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, CHSE, was elected Vice President of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) for 2022-2023. She held the position of Treasurer of ACPE from 2021-2022.

Potoski Serves as Presenter at ASHP Midyear Meeting Pitt Pharmacy professor Brian Potoski,  PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID, served as faculty chair and presenter of two presentations at the 2021 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, held virtually in December 2021.…

Lipp Receives AAI Young Investigator Award Madeline Lipp, PharmD, received an American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Young Investigator Award for her work entitled, The effect of age and maternal antibodies on infant TRM response. This…

Juhl Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Juhl (right), receiving the award from Dean Donald Letendre of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy

Beumer Receives Multiple Awards, Eligible for Nearly $10 Million Over Five Years from NCI Contract Pitt Pharmacy professor Jan Beumer, PharmD, PhD, DABT, was awarded a new National Cancer Institute (NCI) contract for Preclinical Drug Development Research. Beumer is a faculty member in our…

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 Nurses…

Skledar Appointed Chair of ASHP Pharmacy Educators Advisory Group Sue Skledar (Pharm '88; MPH '91), BS, MPH, FASHP, Professor and Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, was…

Babalola and Lipp Receive AACP Walmart Scholars Award Pitt Pharmacy graduate Rebecca Babalola, and current graduate student Madeline Lipp, have each received 2021 AACP Walmart Scholar's Awards. Recipients of this award were chosen from across the…

Pitt Pharmacy Team Awarded HOPA Grant A team made up of Pitt Pharmacy Research Scientist Katherine M.

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

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 and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Huryn Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Donna Huryn, PhD, and Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was chosen as the winner of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS-PHL) Lifetime…