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May 5, 2020
A Podcast Prescription for Transformative Pharmacy Care Photo Above: Stephanie McGrath, Executive Director, PPCN interviews national Flip the Pharmacy Leaders Randy McDonough and Suzanne Feeney for the inaugural "Beyond the Sig" podcast.
May 4, 2020
Verrico Wins UPMC Speak Up for Safety Award Assistant Professor Peg Verrico, was awarded the 2020 Richard L. Simmons, MD, Speak Up for Safety Award from UPMC. This competitive award is presented annually to staff members whose actions…
April 30, 2020
Predicting COVID-19 Outcomes – There’s a Test for That PittPharmacy Assistant Professor Christian Fernandez, PhD was awarded a COVID-19 Pilot Grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Pittsburgh.  
April 22, 2020
We Have a Winner! Congratulations to PittPharmacy’s Xin (Oliver) Tong the 3MT People’s Choice Awardee in the 2020 Pitt Competition!
April 21, 2020
Virtually Healthy Health Fair 2020 The 11th Annual Health Fair by PittPharmacy’s P1 class was successfully held “virtually” on Friday, April 17, 2020. Members of the Class of 2023 researched and presented health topics from Blood…
April 16, 2020
Little Did They Know Just How Critical Their Work Would Be PittPharmacy’s Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program for the Underserved: Ensuring Patient Access to Medication and Health Monitoring during COVID-19 Pandemic
April 15, 2020
Message From Dean Kroboth Dear Friends,
April 14, 2020
High Probability of Success Against COVID-19 from Pitt Pharmacy Associate Dean Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie and his laboratory have discovered six already marketed compounds that have high probability of inhibiting COVID-19 replication. This was accomplished by a…
April 13, 2020
Pharmacist an Integral Part of the Multidisciplinary Team Caring for COVID Patients Ashley Quintili, PharmD, PittPharmacy ‘08, is practicing on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Adult Critical Care Clinical Coordinator at Hershey Medical Center. Pharmacists at…
April 7, 2020
Alumni Help Community Pharmacy APPE Remote Rotation Adapt and Evolve   The pandemic has created an unprecedented need for pharmacists and their teams to address health care in the community, while adapting to a rapidly evolving pandemic. 
April 2, 2020
PittPharmacy Experience Like No Other Elizabeth Donnelly, (Class of 2023), P-1 student, shares pandemic front-line experiences in her blog The Pitt Prescription.
April 1, 2020
Making a Difference and Protecting Patients and Students Telehealth Ed – ICU Faculty Created an Innovative Solution. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for all and that includes the way that pharmacy students learn and faculty teach. Among other initiatives, PittPharmacy took on a grand challenge with…
March 31, 2020
PittPharmacy Student Forges New Role to Fight Pandemic Rachel Douglas, a current P4 student and upcoming Class of 2020 graduate was on her experiential learning rotation at Excela Westmoreland when news of COVID-19 began popping up in public health…
March 3, 2020
Single Honor For APhA Carl F. Emswiller Summer Internship to Kulusich Brooke Kulusich (Class of 2022) has been selected as the Carl F. Emswiller Summer Intern in Association Management through the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) for the summer of 2020.…