West Virginia University Hospitals Pharmacy Residency Program

August flew by for the pharmacy residents! Over the month, we:

🏈 Tailgated for WVU game day
⛳️ Mini-golfed
🎤 Saw the Plain White T’s in concert
⛰️ Went on early morning hikes
🗺️ And explored the bars and restaurants of Morgantown together!

Can’t wait to see what else everyone gets into next month!

📣 Meet our next resident spotlight, one of our PGY1 HSPALs, !!

Swipe to learn about him and keep tuning into the weekly spotlights!

Our HSPALs and admin team provided a tailgate themed dinner for Rosenbaum Family House in honor of the first WVU game day this weekend! 💙💛

This week’s resident spotlight goes to !! Swipe to learn more about her and see her cute dog, Boone!🐶🤩

New residency year means it’s time for spotlights again! The first for the 2024-2025 class is 📸 🌟

Tune in every week to keep meeting the residents!

Group photos from the WVU Medicine Pharmacy Resident picture day!

Swipe to see sitting pretty for the camera with us

First month of residency ✔️ Here’s a recap of what the residents were up to!

• checking out local restaurants and breweries 🌯
• enjoying orientation activities ☀️
• ice cream stops 🍦
• baseball games ⚾️
• cookouts 🌭
• office fun!
• rooftop views🌇
• trivia 📝

11 more months of fun and learning! We hope you continue to follow our journey!
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This year the WVUH pharmacy residents and staff got to enjoy the annual Black Bears Baseball game with furry friends! Such a fun Pharmacy Department Social! ⚾️💛💙🐾

Stay tuned to see what else we’re up to this year!

The PGY2-Pediatrics residents spent a week as medical staff at Camp Kno-Koma, a summer camp for children ages 7 to 15 with diabetes. They were responsible for blood glucose checks throughout the day and overnight, dosing insulin, and treating highs and lows. They also got to participate in camp activities including tubing down the river, a high ropes course, and swimming at the pool!

Recap of the annual Residency Low Ropes Team Bonding trip!

PGY1 and PGY2 residents got to know each other better over some activities at ‘s Outdoor Education Center 🏔️ 🛖 ☀️

Residents made a splash at the pool party today! ☀️⛱️ Thank you to our RPD, Ashlee McMillan, for hosting!

And that’s a wrap on the 2023-2024 Pharmacy Residency year for WVU Medicine - WVU Hospitals!!

Thank you to everyone who joined us along the way, in-person and virtually. The residents would like to take a moment to thank their preceptors, mentors, RPDs, co-workers/peers, and friends and family for supporting them throughout the year.

And with one chapter concluded, we looking forward to welcoming the incoming residents, so stay tuned for another year of fun! 💙💛

We are SO excited to acknowledge and congratulate the following residents for completing either a PGY1 or PGY2 program with us at WVU Medicine - WVU Hospitals this year!! Tonight, our residency banquet will acknowledge these residents, and those staying on for their PGY2 year!

Want to know where all of these residents are all headed?? Swipe and see! 💙💛

Our PGY1 Community Resident, Marisa Barton, and our PGY2 Ambulatory Care Resident, Siyu Liu, had a great time at ASHP Pharmacy Futures! They both presented their research with the support of their RPDs!

Shout out to Abbi, the community RPD, and Krupa, one of our specialty pharmacy technician supervisors, for presenting a pearls!

This was the last conference this 23-24 year class attended, but each one was a blast!

🛶🌊🛶 Another Annual Resident Rafting Trip is in the books! Thank you to for organizing, and thank you to the Cantrell Ultimate Rafting group for showing us a great time!

May was a month of birthdays and lots of memorable experiences! Here’s a sneak peek at what the residents were up to:

• birthday dinners! 🥳
• enjoying the outdoor weather ☀️
• ice cream and milkshakes 🍦
• HSPAL trip to Philly 🌃
• MHA graduation for our PGY2 HSPAL residents 🎓
• fun hospital related events 🏥

We can’t believe we only have one more monthly recap to round out this amazing year🥹

We are excited to announce that WVU Hospitals will be recruiting our first PGY1 Ambulatory Care Focus Resident for our 2025-2026 residency class! If you’re interested in ambulatory care, save this post and remember to apply by January 2nd, 2025! 🎉💙💛

Please contact Ashlee McMillan at [email protected] with any questions!

Thank you to one of our PGY1 Acute Care residents, Amanda Kan, for providing her continuing education on long acting injectable antipsychotics!💉

Only a few more CEs to round out this year!

The PGY1 Acute Care and PGY1 HSPAL residents presented their research today at Western PA Region Pharmacy Resident Research Day!

Amazing seeing all of the hard work pay off!

Would you look at that!? Time for an April recap! Lots of fun events happened including:

• Top Golf (thank you for planning!)⛳️
• Hiking Cooper’s rock (only a mention off a rattlesnake🐍, but no actual sighting)
• April birthday dinners and ice cream!🍦
• Morgantown festivals featuring dog ice cream

Thanks for looking through our memories! Can’t wait to see what May and June have in store!

Thank you to our PGY 1 Community resident Marisa Barton for presenting her CE on THC and CBD! Very educational 👏

Only a couple of more months of CEs before wrapping up this residency year!

🫀Our PGY2 Cardiology pharmacy resident, Sara Hudson, recently attended the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2024 Conference in Atlanta, GA. Sara was able to present her research on Anticoagulation After Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion During Cardiac Surgery, as well as explore the city during here time there!

Way to go, Sara!! 💙💛

📱Thank you to Chelsea Moyer, one of our PGY1 HSPAL residents, for teaching WVUH pharmacists about what digiceuticals are! Excited to see where this technology takes us in the future 👏

Only a few more months of resident CEs, so keep looking out for more CE topics!

🎙️INTRODUCING THE OFFICIAL 2024-2025 WVU MEDICINE - WVU HOSPITALS PHARMACY RESIDENCY CLASS‼️

We are SO excited to welcome these residents to Morgantown, WV, and are beyond thrilled to meet our newest mountaineers for the upcoming year! 💙💛

🌒🌑🌘 Some of our residents and technicians got a chance to witness The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse right outside of the hospital! Swipe to see some of our solar shenanigans 😎

🏥 We are so proud of Dixie Pyles, one of our PGY1 Acute Care residents, who recently presented her Continuing Education (CE) presentation on Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome! Great job Dixie 🫶🏼

Watch out for the remaining CE presentations from our residents as we wrap up the 2023-2024 residency year!

Let’s hear it for our PGY1 Pediatrics resident, Shaylee Gunzenhauser, who presented her CE on empiric antibiotic use in pediatric emergency medicine! Great job🎉

We’re excited to share the remaining CEs we have this year!

💙💛 Proud of Julia Miller, one of our PGY1 Acute care residents, who presented her continuing education on SGLT2s!

Watch out for other CE presentations these WVU Medicine - WVU Hospitals pharmacy residents will be presenting!

🍀 March Recap: Swipe to see what our residents have been up to during the month of March!

Our residents had a great month celebrating birthdays, taking fun day/weekend trips, and getting to go out to dinners and to bars to spend time together! Thank you to everyone who has been following on our adventures, and stay tuned for more shenanigans coming next month! 🌼

🙌🏼 Last week, some of our residents spent time right next door at the Morgantown Rosenbaum Family House preparing a meal for families of patients staying at WVU Medicine Ruby Memorial.

🍝 Our residents divided into shifts to prepare, serve, and clean up a spaghetti dinner!