Preceptors

Maggie Taylor, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist/Educator – Medical/Respiratory Intensive Care Unit

• Areas of Interest: Sedation/Analgesia, Anticoagulation, Glycemic Control, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Washington, DC); PGY2 Critical Care – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Cooper University Hospital (Philadelphia, PA)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Elizabeth Tencza, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine

• Areas of Interest: Emergency Medicine, Toxicology
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)P; PGY2 Emergency Medicine – Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami, FL)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Sheriff Gbadamosi, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit

• Areas of Interest: Trauma/coagulopathy, Septic shock, Anticoagulation, Thromboelastography, Sedation, Analgesia
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (Baltimore, MD)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Suburban Hospital – John Hopkins Medicine (Bethesda, MD); PGY2 Critical Care – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Kazumi Morita, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Infectious Diseases 

• Areas of Interest: Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY); Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy, Kitasato University (Tokyo, Japan)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY); PGY2 Infectious Diseases - University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Christina Ruggia-Check, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP, BCTXP, AACC, FAST
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Failure, Heart Transplant

• Areas of Interest: Acute Decompensated Heart Failure, Heart Transplant, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Meghan Vallejo, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist/Educator - Neurocritical Care

• Areas of Interest: Traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, status epilepticus
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN); PGY2 Critical Care – University of North Carolina Hospitals (Chapel Hill, NC)
• Contact Information [email protected]

Hannah Higgins, PharmD
Medication Safety/Regulatory Manager for Temple Health

• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 - Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Sharon Camperchioli, PharmD, BCPPS 
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist — Pediatrics

• Areas of Interest: Neonatology, Pediatrics, Medication Safety, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
• Postgraduate Training: ASHP/ISMP Medication Safety Certification Program
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Laura Mentzer, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Critical Care

• Area of Interest: Anticoagulation, Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1, Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Christina Rose, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM
Clinical Professor in Pharmacy Practice, Director of the PGY2 Residency in Critical Care, Clinical Specialist in Critical Care 
Preceptor: Intensive Care Unit

• Area of Interest: Critical Care Pharmacotherapy, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacy Education
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (Richmond, VA); PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacotherapy – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
• Contact Information: [email protected]

Craig Whitman, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, Temple University School of Pharmacy 
Preceptor: Medical /Respiratory Intensive Care Unit

• Area of Interest: Critical Care, Pharmacy Education
• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
• Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – VA Western NY Healthcare System (Buffalo, NY); PGY2 Critical Care – University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy (Buffalo, NY)
• Contact Information: [email protected]