Residency Graduates and Project Names
Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital are proud to have one of the longest running emergency medicine pharmacy residency programs. For the past 40 years Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has served as the training site for many current and past leaders in emergency medicine pharmacy including:
Class of 2025
Emily Medina, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – Rutgers
University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy/University Hospital, Newark, NJ
Residency Research: Description and Evaluation of Contemporary Systemic
Thrombolysis for Pulmonary Embolism
Marybeth McLaverty, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Community
Medical Center, Toms River, NJ
Residency Research: Characterizing Emergency Department Evaluation of Blood
Culture Growth Following Patient Discharge
Class of 2024
Joss Delaune, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – JFK University
Medical Center, Edison, NJ
Residency Research: Simultaneous Administration of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
in the Emergency Department for Sepsis and Impact on Patient Outcomes
Mohil Trivedi, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Residency Research: Simultaneous Administration of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
in the Emergency Department for Sepsis and Impact on Patient Outcomes
Class of 2023
David Kingsley, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, CT
Residency Research: Adverse Events Amongst Elderly Patients Receiving Sedation for Agitation
in the Emergency Department
Class of 2022
Deena Omar, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine/Critical Care – University
of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Residency Research: Evaluation of Management and Outcomes in Patients Treated
with Discordant Antibiotics for Cystitis in the Emergency Department
Ashley Yeh, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Capital
Health Regional Medical Center, Trenton, NJ
Residency Research: Social and Demographic Determinants of Empiric Treatment
of Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Emergency Department Patients
Class of 2021
Angela Antoniello, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Cooperman
Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
Residency Research: Impact of an Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter Protocol
on Anticoagulation Prescribing Practices in an Academic Medical Center
Emergency Department Observation Unit
Patrick Pauls, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Residency Research: Emergency Department Culture Follow-Up Program Process
and Impacts in a Pediatric Population
Class of 2020
Jesica Laub, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – New York
Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Residency Research: Medication Utilization Evaluation of Four-Factor Prothrombin
Complex Concentrate for Warfarin Reversal
Jeffrey Obciana, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Residency Research: Medication Utilization Evaluation of Four-Factor Prothrombin
Complex Concentrate for Warfarin Reversal
Class of 2019
Parth Parikh, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
–
Emergency Medicine –
Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Residency Research: Evaluation of Time to Active Gram-Negative Antibiotic
Coverage in Patients with Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock and Documented
Penicillin Allergy
Raghad Saadi, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Morristown
Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
Residency Research: Characterization of Predictors of ESBL Organisms in
Urine Cultures of Emergency Department Patients
Class of 2018
Kimberly Friend, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Residency Research: Prior to Admission Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
and Angiotension Receptor Blocker Effects on Vasopressor Requirements
in Patients with Septic Shock
Larissa Woloszczuk, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Jersey
Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ
Residency Research: Push Dose Vasopressors: A Time Motion Study
Class of 2017
Tara Jawaro, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Frederick Health
Hospital, Frederick, MD
Residency Research: Evaluation of the Prevalence of Drug-Drug Interactions
in Patients Discharged from an Academic Emergency Department
Jillian Cavallari, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Bridgeport
Hospital, Bridgeport, CT
Residency Research: Survey of Medical Resident Comfort in Prescribing Medications
for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women in the Emergency Department
Class of 2016
Stephanie Komura, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Zuckerberg San Francisco
General Hospital, San Francisco, CA
Residency Research: Impact of Weight Estimation on Patient Oriented Outcomes
in Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Retrospective Review
Victorya Kotic, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Critical Care – University of Massachusetts
Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Residency Research: Safety and Efficacy of High Dose vs. Low Dose Naloxone
in Reversing Opioid Overdose
Class of 2015
Colleen Martin, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Montefiore Nyack
Hospital, Nyack, NY
Residency Research: Safety and Efficacy of a Bivalirudin Based Purge Solution
for a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device
Deval Patel, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Jersey City Medical
Center, Jersey City, NJ
Class of 2014
Christina McKenzie, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Akron General Medical Center
Steven Nerenberg, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – Rutgers
University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy/St. Joseph’s University
Medical Center
Class of 2013
Nadia Awad, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Class of 2012
Ajay Maduri, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – Rutgers
University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy/Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital, Somerset, NJ
Class of 2011
Craig Cocchio, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – New York University
Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Residency Research: Physiochemical Stability of Intravenous Fat Emulsion
in Combination with Medications Used for Resuscitation
Class of 2010
Frank Diaz, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – JFK University Medical
Center, Edison, NJ
Residency Research: Clinical pharmacy roles on the brain attack team: focus
on timely administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
Class of 2009
Eric Gillam, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – The Queens Medical
Center, Honolulu, HI
Residency Research: Impact of an emergency department antibiogram on out-patient
treatment of urinary tract infections
Class of 2008
Rachel Perritt, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine – Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Residency Research: Determining degradation with fragment formation of
pre-hospital succinylcholine by mass spectrometry
Class of 2007
Patrick Bridgeman, PharmD
Clinical Manager – Emergency Medicine – New York Presbyterian
Hospital, New York, NY
Residency Research: Community acquired methicillin resistant infections
in the emergency department
Class of 2006
Renee Petzel, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – University
of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Knoxville, TN
Residency Research: Assessment of oral vs. IV acetylcysteine in the management
of acetaminophen overdose
Class of 2005
Brian Faley, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – Rutgers
University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy/Hackensack University Medical
Center, Hackensack, NJ
Residency Research: Assessment of rabies vaccination practices in the emergency
department
Class of 2004
Shannon Rankin, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – University of New
Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM
Residency Research: Pharmacist opportunities to improve prescribing practices
among emergency department physicians
Class of 2003
Phillipe Menter, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine – Community Medical
Centers, Fresno, CA
Residency Research: Multi-drug resistant UTI's and physician prescribing
habits in the emergency department setting
Class of 2002
Heather Eyrich, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Emergency Medicine – University
of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Residency Research: Effects of pharmaceutical care on asthma outcomes in
emergency department patients with acute exacerbations of asthma
Class of 2001
Frank Hughes, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor – Critical Care – Rutgers University
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy/Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital,
New Brunswick, NJ
Residency Research: Development of a culture follow-up program in the emergency
department