Colleen M. Culley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Culley earned both a BS Pharmacy with a minor in French and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Butler University. She completed an American Society of Health-System Pharmacy (ASHP)-accredited Specialty Residency in Drug Information at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Hoechst Marion Roussel (now known as sanofi). She is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
For 19 years, Dr Culley provided clinical services in drug information and formulary management at UPMC in the drug information center and Drug Use Disease State Management Program at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, and the UPMC Pharmacy Service Center in UPMC Corporate Services. These teams provided the infrastructure for active promotion of safe, effective and science-based use of medication throughout the UPMC. Dr. Culley has been recognized for quality improvement work, as part of several multidisciplinary teams, by the UPMC Presbyterian Quality and Innovation Fair with President's Performance Award for Patient Safety in 2003 and 2008, and the Quality Cup (overall winner) in 2008.
Dr Culley is a member of a team of investigators developing active medication monitoring systems to enhance the detection and management of adverse events in the nursing home and inpatient settings.
She provides education on drug information skills, biomedical literature evaluation, and effective written and verbal presentation of the literature throughout the University of Pittsburgh Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum.
Dr Culley is currently on the editorial board of Clin-Alert and has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. She is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
