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Preceptors

PGY1 Residency Director

Nicholas Ferraro, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Internal Medicine/Transitions of Care 
Director, PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

  • Areas of Interest: COPD, Diabetes, Heart Failure, Patient Education
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Temple University Hospital: Jeanes Campus (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

PGY1 Residency Coordinator

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]

Temple University Hospital – Main Campus Preceptors

Jenny Au, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Lung Transplant

  • Areas of Interest: Lung Transplant/Immunosuppressants
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Shenandoah University (Winchester, VA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1, Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Contact Information [email protected]

 

Matthew Baiocchi, PharmD
Director of Pharmacy – TUH Main Campus

  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

Hiba Dabbas, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Ambulatory Care, Pulmonary

  • Areas of Interest: Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Public Health, Ambulatory Care
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Jefferson Abington Hospital (Abington, PA)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

Adam Diamond, PharmD, BCPS, FAST
System Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services, Education and Residency

  • Areas of Interest: Hospital Pharmacy Administration, Formulary Management, Project Management, Solid Organ Transplant
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA); PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant – Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL)
  • 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]

 

Nur Kazzaz, PharmD, MPH, BCPS 
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Pulmonary 

  • Areas of Interest: Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Transplant, Rheumatology
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Bayhealth Medical Center (Dover, DE); Master of Public Health (Temple University)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

David Koren, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP, AAHIVP, FIDSA
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - ID/HIV

  • Areas of Interest: HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Vaccine preventable diseases, and Public Health
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1, Yale New Haven Hospital (New Haven, CT); PGY2 Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH); Master of Public Health (Temple University)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

Kevin Ly, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Abdominal Organ Transplant

  • Areas of Interest: Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation; post transplant recurrence of autoimmune disease; immunosuppression pharmacokinetics
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy - Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 - Temple University Hospital (PGY1), PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant - Temple University Hospital (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]

 

Jenna Murray-Kasznel, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Investigational Drug Services

  • Area of Interest: Investigational Drugs, Clinical Trials
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy — Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

Christine Owens, PharmD 
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Hepatology
IPPE and APPE Coordinator

  • Areas of Interest: Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, Ambulatory Care, Pharmacy Education
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – UPMC St. Margaret (Pittsburgh, PA); Faculty Development Fellowship – UPMC St. Margaret (Pittsburgh, PA)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

 

Hiral Patel, PharmD, MHA
Senior Director of Pharmacy

  • Areas of Interest: USP 797/800 compliance, finance, Lean processes and quality improvement
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Hahnemann University Hospital (Philadelphia, PA), Master of Health Administration (Western Governors University)
  • Contact information: [email protected]

 

Maria Piddoubny, PharmD, BCOP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist/Educator – Oncology

  • Areas of Interest: Malignant Hematology and Oncology
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – University at Buffalo, School of Pharmacy (Buffalo, NY)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Indiana University Health; PGY2 Hematology/Oncology – Indiana University Health (Indianapolis, IN)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]


 

Remya Radhakrishnan, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Investigational Drug Services

  • Areas of Interest: Investigational Drugs, Clinical Trials
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (Suwanee, GA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Shore Medical Center (Somers Point, NJ)
  • 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]

 

Ishani Shah, PharmD, BCTXP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Educator, Lung Transplant

  • Areas of Interest: Lung transplant, transplant infectious diseases, anticoagulation use in transplant patients
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Rutgers University (NJ)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – Temple University Health System, PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant – Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

 

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]

 

Nina Thoguluva, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Ambulatory Care, Endocrinology

  • Areas of Interest: Diabetes mellitus management
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Temple University School of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – St. Jospeh’s University Medical Center, PGY2 Ambulatory Care – St. Joseph’s Medical Center (Paterson, NJ)
  • 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]

Temple University Hospital – Jeanes Campus Preceptors

Jessie Cerankowski, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Bone Marrow Transplant

  • Area of Interest: Hematology and Oncology
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Thomas Jefferson University College of Pharmacy (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 - Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, PA)
  • 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]

 

Seth Kolpack, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Bone Marrow Transplant

  • Area of Interest: Malignant hematology, cellular therapies
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy - Temple University School of Pharmacy
  • Postgraduate Training: Temple University Hospital – Jeanes Campus (PGY1)
  • Contact Information: [email protected]

Temple University Hospital – Women & Families Campus Preceptors

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]

Temple University School of Pharmacy Preceptors

Nima M. Patel-Shori, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Professor, Temple University School of Pharmacy
Preceptor: Ambulatory Care

  • Areas of Interest: Ambulatory Care, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Women's Health
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Ernest Mario College of Pharmacy, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 – University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center (Chicago, IL); PGY2 Outcomes Research Specialized Residency – Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Health Group/University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center/TAP Pharmaceuticals (Chicago, IL)
  • 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]

 

Divita Singh, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Temple University School of Pharmacy
Teaching Certificate Program Coordinator, Temple University School of Pharmacy
Preceptor: Teaching Certificate Program Coordinator and Recitation 

  • Area of Interest: Internal Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Drug Information
  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy – Ernest Maria School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
  • Postgraduate Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice – Monmouth Medical Center (Long Branch, NJ); PGY2 Ambulatory Care – University of Florida College of Pharmacy/ University of Florida Health (Gainesville, FL)
  • 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]