Pharmacy Postgraduate Residencies
Overview
The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy offers two Pharmacy Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2) Residency Programs:
These programs are designed to further refine skills obtained during a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice residency and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in advanced or specialized practice. The goal of the residency program is to produce a practitioner with the ability to deliver pharmaceutical care to a diverse patient population and to provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care that improves medication therapy.
Residents who successfully complete the program should possess competencies that qualify them for clinical pharmacist and/or faculty positions and position them to be eligible for attainment of board certification in that practice area. Resident activities will include participating as a member of a multidisciplinary team in a variety of patient care settings and completing a longitudinal research project. The resident will participate in the didactic and experiential education of PharmD students and will complete a Teaching and Learning Curriculum Program.
Preceptors
Meet the preceptors who, in participation with the Department of Pharmacy Practice, will help guide you through your postgraduate work.
Teaching and Learning Certificate
The resident is required to participate in a 12-month teaching and learning certificate program (unless such a program has been completed as part of prior training).
The resident participates in mentor-lead discussions in the following areas:
- Purpose and structure of a teaching portfolio
- Writing a teaching philosophy statement
- Educational/learning theories
- Objective writing
- Exam question writing
- Active learning
- Team-based learning
- Classroom technology
- Course management systems
- Academic integrity and professionalism
- ACPE PharmD standards
- Peer observation of teaching
During the course of the program, the resident participates in the following teaching activities:
- Completes a teaching philosophy statement and portfolio
- Teaches at least one didactic lecture (preferably to a large lecture section)
- Teaches a small group of students in at least one section of a multi-instructor course
- Serves as a primary preceptor for a P4 PharmD student APPE
- Gives an ACPE-accredited Continuing Education Program
The Department of Pharmacy Practice will award a teaching certificate after completion of the requirements.
Salary & Benefits
The resident will be an employee of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and will receive an annual stipend distributed over the 12-month period of the program by the payroll department at Saint Joseph’s.
Saint Joseph’s benefits programs available to the resident include health, dental, disability, life insurance, Saint Joseph’s tuition remission, tuition reimbursement, athletic recreation center, and healthcare, dependent care and transit reimbursement accounts. For more information, please refer to the Human Resources web pages.
Paid time off for the resident includes nine standard University holidays, 10 personal days and 5 sick days during the 12-month program. The resident will not be financially compensated for unused leave time.
Approved leaves of absence are granted per Saint Joseph’s policy. Resident leaves of absence cannot exceed 3 months. Leave time that exceeds unused time accrued will be unpaid. Residents do not receive benefits during a leave of absence.
The resident is encouraged to attend professional meetings and receives a travel stipend.
The resident will receive a faculty appointment as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice.
The resident will have a designated work area in an office shared with other residents and fellows. The resident will have access to one Microsoft Office-compatible computer and printer for their personal use in their Saint Joseph’s office. Through Saint Joseph’s, the resident has access to a wide variety of Microsoft Office-based computer software programs for word processing, data management and data analysis. Saint Joseph’s also maintains a password-protected web-based teaching tool and learning management system for maintaining practice site-related documents such as readings, guidelines and protocols, as well as teaching-related materials for didactic and experiential teaching. Administrative assistant support for word-processing, editing and formatting of resident work-related materials and correspondence will also be provided.
Alumni
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ASHP-accredited since 2017
2024
Erika Mackie, PharmD
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Bailey Smith, PharmD
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Anisa Sulaj, PharmD
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John Wageh, PharmD, BCCCP
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Michelle Lipski, PharmD
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Christine Pham, PharmD
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St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Paterson, NJ2020
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Wilmington, DE
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Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
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Mary McIntyre, PharmD, BCCCP
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Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Lancaster, PA
Song Oh, PharmD, BCCCP
First position: Assistant Professor
California Northstate University College of Pharmacy
Elk Grove, CA
2018
Alyssa B. Polotti, PharmD, BCCCP
First position: Neurointensive Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Diana M. Solomon, PharmD, BCCCP
First position: Assistant Professor, Critical Care
Howard University College of Pharmacy
Washington, DC
2017
Haley L. Kavelak, PharmD, BCCCP
First position: Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
St. Luke’s University Hospital
Bethlehem, PA
2012
Laura Siemianowski, PharmD
First Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
2011
Lauren Igneri, PharmD
First Position: Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
St. Mary Medical Center
Langhorne, PA
2010
Leena Kansagra, PharmD
First Position: Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Crozer Chester Medical Center
Upland, PA
2004
Fernando Rodriguez, PharmD
Current position: Pharmacy Consultant, Premier, Inc.
2003
Christina Rose, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Professor, Critical Care
Temple University School of Pharmacy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001
Sarjita Naik, Pharm.D.
Current position: Clinical Pharmacist-Heart Failure/Transplant
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ
1999
Teena Abraham (Eappen), PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Practice and Pharmacy Practice Residency Program Director
New York Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn, New York
Formerly Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Arnold and Marie Schwartz School of Pharmacy, Long Island University
Brooklyn, NY
1995-96
Michael Cawley, PharmD
First Position: Faculty, Critical Care
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Katherine M. Kramer, PharmD
First Position: Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1992
Eric T. Wittbrodt, BS, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Science Liaison, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Takeda Pharmaceuticals (2007)
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1992-2007)
1991
Maya C. Smith, BS, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Genentech, Inc
San Francisco, California
1990
Frank M. Buter, PharmD
Current Position: Critical Care Pharmacist
Chicago, Illinois -
ASHP-accredited since 2017
2024
Amy Eller, PharmD
First position: Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Jefferson College of Pharmacy
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2023
Arielle Hopkins, PharmD, BCPS
First position: Clinical Assistant Professor
Rutgers The State University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Piscataway, NJ
2022
Caitlyn Valerio, PharmD, BCPS
First position: Transitions of Care/Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Overlook Medical Center
Summit, NJ
2021
Teney Mathew, PharmD, BCPS
First position: Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Internal Medicine & Transitions of Care
Mount Sinai Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York
2020
Shannon Haar, PharmD, BCPS
First position: Clinical Pharmacist
Chester County Hospital
West Chester, Pennsylvania
2019
Nicholas Cowley, PharmD, BCPS
First position: Clinical Pharmacist
Christiana Care Health System
Wilmington, Delaware
2018
Ryan J. Steiner, PharmD
First Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Christiana Care Health System
Newark, Delaware
2017
Brooklyn T. Olumba, PharmD, BCPS
First Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Ambulatory Care
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
2016
Manuel Isherwood, PharmD
First position: Clinical Pharmacist
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA
2015
Monique Mounce, PharmD
First Position: Assistant Professor, Clinical and Administrative Sciences
Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, MD
2014
Melissa Rotz, PharmD
First Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Philadelphia, PA