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Check out our vaccine playbook for independent community pharmacists!

COVID-19 Vaccination Playbook for Pennsylvania’s Independent Community Pharmacies – Community Leadership and Innovation in Practice Center Advancing pharmacy practice and the health of people in our communities through discovery, innovation, training, implementation, and collaboration

Check out our latest publication from Luke Berenbrok, Nico Gabriel, Kim Coley, and Inmaculada Hernandez in JAMA!

Encounters With Primary Care Physicians vs Pharmacies Among Medicare Beneficiaries This cross-sectional study uses 2016 Medicare claims data to assess the frequency of patient encounters with community pharmacists compared with primary care physicians for preventive care and chronic disease management.

Check out our latest publication from resident alumna, Dr. Amber Lapping (Brown), and team!

Implementation strategies from deployment of the National Diabetes Prevention Program in Pennsylvania community pharmacies To identify implementation strategies used by community pharmacists when initiating the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP).This study was a q…

National Pharmacy Organizations Unite to Take a Stand Against Racial Injustice CONTACT: Chad Clinton 202.429.7558; [email protected] Aretha Hankinson 301.664.8799; [email protected] The National Pharmaceutical Association and 13 national pharmacy associations have issued a joint statement in support of the ongoing fight against racism and discrimination: The recent deaths of G...

Check out this recent publication from the and Giant Eagle Pharmacy team!

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1a~0x,60n7dsJ0

Increasing adult vaccinations at a regional supermarket chain pharmacy: A multi-site demonstration project Millions of American adults do not receive the recommended vaccinations each year. Community pharmacies are well positioned to help fill this gap thro…

The pandemic is positioning pharmacists to be a critical access point for . Any pharmacy staff member can join the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) virtually to learn how to do this important and timely skill! 🙌

Register here: bit.ly/pittpharmacyPOCT

Allegheny County Pharmacists Association Virtual Food Drive Please join the Allegheny County Pharmacists Association (ACPA) in our continued efforts to support the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank through a virtual food drive! The Food Bank has seen a huge increase in need over the last month, so no matter how big or ...

Check out this national PSA about pharmacy teams' responses to COVID-19!

https://www.nacds.org/news/national-psa-on-covid-19-focuses-on-resolve-of-nation-pharmacies/?MessageRunDetailID=1641253680&PostID=13746429&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io

Mr. Yuk is coming to an Allegheny County pharmacy near you! Thanks to University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and Duquesne University student pharmacists and Allegheny County Pharmacists Association pharmacists for helping out with kit packaging night! Thanks to Allegheny County Health Department, Mr. Yuk - Pittsburgh Poison Center, and Disposerx for providing materials for our kits!

Our Pitt Pharmacy faculty and students came together on Thursday, January 30, to participate in the annual Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS) Auction! The list of auction items included a steak dinner with our very own Dean, bowling and laster tag with faculty, VIP karaoke night with professors, potluck lunch hosted by APhA-ASP, and many more. Congratulations to all of our bidders and raffle winners! Our PLS chapter raised $18,042 towards the Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program for the Underserved, and we want to thank everyone who attended, hosted, and organized this amazing and successful event!

PittPharamcy at PPA! OTC competition 2020

Luke Berenbrok shares his vision for The Primary Care Pharmacist in the next issue of JAPhA from the APhA - American Pharmacists Association (Guest Editorial, in press)!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544319119305977?via%3Dihub

Way to go Rob Maher, Stephanie Harriman McGrath, and the whole CPESN/Pennsylvania Pharmacist Care Network!

Pennsylvania pharmacists help older adults age in place Rob Maher, PharmD, and his bedside delivery transitions-of-care pharmacy team was asked to fill prescriptions for “Ruth,” an older adult patient who was awaiting discharge at a nearby hospital. When his team looked at her records, they noticed that she had been in and out of the hospital numerou...

Celebrating 30 years of our commitment to community service! Our P1-P3 students are looking snappy in their new PittPharmacy T-Shirts!

National Day of Service National Day of Service is organized through the Act Pharmacy Collaborative.

The National Day of Service is happening in Pennsylvania!

National Day of Service National Day of Service is organized through the Act Pharmacy Collaborative.

Congratulations from everyone at Pitt Pharmacy to Jenny Bacci for being named 2019 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year, by the Washington State Pharmacist Association.

We are kicking off the ACT Pharmacy Collaborative National Day of Service in Pittsburgh!

Stop by the pharmacy tomorrow from 12-2p and support one of our local students by receiving a free blood pressure check! 😃

Our University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy residents, fellows, students, staff, and alumni in collaboration with Duquesne University School of Pharmacy residents and staff helped with the annual Allegheny County Health Department employee flu point-of-dispensing again this year. Over 100 people were immunized! This annual event also serves as an emergency preparedness and response practice drill for the health department.

Today is the first day of - 40 pharmacies in Pennsylvania and over 1,000 pharmacies nationwide received their "change packages" today! Check them out at: https://www.flipthepharmacy.com/change-packages

Change Packages | Flip the Pharmacy FtP Change Packages Download

The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy fam is all here!

Congrats to University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy students, leadership, faculty, and alumni for all of the awards won tonight at the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association annual meeting!

Check out our PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Leadership Residency! We are looking for pharmacist leaders for our program! For more information visit www.pharmacy.pitt.edu and click on "Educational Programs"
Giant Eagle
Rite Aid
Asti's South Hills Pharmacy

Things are happening at Pitt’s Community Engagement Center in Homewood! PittPharmacy faculty Drs. Karen Steinmetz Pater and Catherine Rebitch were at the CEC this afternoon providing medication education for people in the community.

Allegheny County Health Department is making Narcan available at no cost today and Sept 25th and PittPharmacy is there in nearly every location - check it out: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2019/09/16/Free-naloxone-kits-distribution-overdoses-antidote-Sept-18-25-Pittsburgh/stories/201909160111

Meet the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy team!

PittPharmacy Team Leads Community Pharmacy Practice Transformation – ePittPharmacy Associate Dean for Community Partnerships Melissa McGivney and the PittPharmacy team of Professor Kim Coley, Senior Program Manager Joni Carroll, Senior Program Manager Stephanie McGrath and Fellow Sophia Cothrel received a grant from Community Pharmacy Foundation entitled “Community Pharmacy Prac...

Check out the latest issue of JACCP - special issue on Clinical Community Practice!
Excited our Pitt faculty and alumni have articles featured:
https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25749870

JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY - Wiley Online Library What are the aims and scope of the journal?JACCP is devoted to publishing papers across the spectrum of clinical pharmacy practice, including: