Educating Tomorrow's Pharmacists This article first appeared in PittPharmacy, Spring 2014, and is the first in a multi-part series about PittPharmacy innovations in teaching. The air is bitter cold and the light is dim in the…

PittPharmacy Students AMCP National Committee Members Class of 2015 members Cathy Cao and Brianna Hicks will be active on the  Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) committee for the 2014-2015 year.

Shelia Grab Receives GPSG Leadership and Service Award The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG)  of the University of Pittsburgh awarded the 2013-2014 Leadership and Service Award to PittPharamcy graduate student Shelia Grab,…

Kappa Psi Generation Rx Project Wins Award for Best Educational Program on Pitt's Campus PittPharmacy's Kappa Psi won the Blue Star Red Carpet Award for Best Educational Program on the University of Pittsburgh campus for their project  "Breaking Bad in the Lounge" at the Blue Stars…

RxGeneration Award Goes to PittPharmacy The PittPharmcy APhA-ASP chapter was presented the Region 2 Generation Rx award at the recent 2014 APhA Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

PittPharmacy Student Recognized in National Patient Counseling Competition PittPharmacy student Adrienne Jantzi, (class of 2015), was recognized as one of the top ten finalists in this year's National Patient Counseling Competition at the recent APhA meeting in Orlando,…

Susan M. Meyer Presents at University of Illinois Associate Dean Susan M.

PittPharmacy Attends Legislative Day 2014 More than 115 student pharmacists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy converged on the Capitol for the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association (PPA) Pharmacy Legislative Day on…

Jianqin Lu to Present at Controlled Release Society Graduate student Jianqin Lu has been selected for a podium presentation at the 41st Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society to be held in Chicago, Illinois, July 13-16, 2014.

Shilpa Sant Receives NIH Grant Assistant Professor Shilpa Sant, PhD  has received a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH, NIBIB) for the study entitled Engineered Microenvironments to Model Effect of Size in Tumor…

Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Chapter Editors Christine Ruby and Thomas Nolin PittPharmacy faculty members Christine M. Ruby, PharmD, BCPS and Thomas D.

PittPharmacy CE: Issues and Opportunities in Current Practice The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy presents the Spring Continuing Education Seminar on Sunday, April 13, 2014.

PittPharmacy Faculty Member Kane-Gill Presenter for Pre-Residency Excellence Program (PREP) Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP  is invited to be a faculty presenter for the Pre-Residency Excellence Program (PREP) by the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association.  Kane-…

Graduate Student Mengxi Jiang to Present at Endocrine Society Meeting Graduate Student Mengxi Jiang has been chosen for a podium presentation at the Endocrine Society annual meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois, in June 21-24, 2014.  Jiang will speak at the…

Invited Speaker to Toxicology Meeting: Wen Xie PittPharmacy faculty member Wen Xie, MD, PhD was an invited speaker at the 53rd Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona on March 23-27, 2014.