Residency Graduates
Class of 2022
Emily Mignogni, PharmD
Current position: Oncology Specialty Clinical Pharmacist, Summit Health
Project: Concordance of high partial thromboplastin time value to anti-Xa levels during therapeutic unfractioned heparin management
Savan Patel, PharmD
Current position: PGY2 Medication-Use Safety/Drug Information Pharmacy Resident, Rutgers University
Project: Improving Safety of Cefepime dosing in the critically ill patient using a populations pharmacokinetic approach.
Class of 2021
Brynna Crovetto, PharmD
Current Position: MICU Clinical Pharmacist at NYCHHC Bellevue Hospital Center
Residency Project: The impact of a pharmacist-driven post ICU recovery service on medication management in an academic community hospital
Savanna SanFilippo, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacology Fellow, Tabula Rosa Healthcare and Rutgers University
Residency Project: Classification and assessment of medication risk in the elderly (CARE): use of a medication risk score to inform patients’ readmission likelihood after hospital discharge (top five research platform presentation finalist at NJSHP)
Class of 2020
Oumou Diawara, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist HMH Specialty Pharmacy Eatontown, New Jersey
Residency Project: Improving inhaler use and selection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using an interdisciplinary protocol
Residency Project: Social and clinical determinants of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation
Andrew Tsai, PharmD
Current Position: Senior Manager USCDMA Publications, Novartis, East Hanover, New Jersey
Residency Project: Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of hyperkalemia treatment in an academic community hospital
Class of 2019
Aamer Attaar, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Internal Medicine, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston Texas
PGY2 Residency: Internal Medicine, Ascension Seton, Austin, Texas, July
2019 –June 2020
Residency Project: Evaluating adherence to updated C. difficile guidelines
pre- and post-implementation of an electronic order set
Residency Project: Evaluation of oral vancomycin versus metronidazole for the treatment of initial or recurrent C. difficile infection and time to hospital discharge
Grace Rhee, PharmD
Current Position: Transitions of Care Pharmacist, Hackensack University Hospital, Hackensack, New Jersey
Residency Project: Procalcitonin-guided antimicrobial management in critically ill patients
Residency Project: Assessing the implementation of guideline-directed sacubitril-valsartan therapy in heart failure
Class of 2018
Rebecca Chow, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: Senior Pharmacist Anticoagulation Management Service, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Residency Project: Comparison of the impact of medication history completed at time of admission versus after admission
Residency Project: The association of off-label apixaban dose adjustments with hospital readmission in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Priya Shah, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware
Residency Project: Evaluation of a bayesian approach to management of vancomycin therapy
Residency Project: Effect of initial intravenous antihypertensive agent on the management of blood pressure during hypertensive emergencies
Class of 2017
Rajeev Shah, PharmD, AAHIVP, BCIDP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Infectious Disease, Lifespan, Providence,
Rhode Island
PGY2 Infectious Disease, Maine Medical Center July 2017 - June 2018
Residency Project: Evaluation of the impact of levetiracetam therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) on dosing adjustments
Residency Project: Incidence and predictors of mortality in obese patients with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia treated with vancomycin
Stephanie Wei, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: Pharmacy Systems Administrator, RWJUH Somerset, Somerville, New Jersey
Residency Project: Evaluation of running a decision support alert in test mode to determine opportunities to reduce supra-therapeutic acetaminophen dosing in the inpatient setting
Residency Project: Evaluation of the impact of tramadol therapy on the incidence of hypoglycemic episodes in hospitalized patients
Class of 2016
Serena Cheng, PharmD, BCAP - Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management at VA
San Diego Healthcare System
PGY2 Ambulatory Care, Veterans Affairs, San Diego Healthcare System, San
Diego, California July 2016 –June 2017
Residency Project: Influence of obesity on treatment outcomes in hospitalized patients with acute bacterial skin and soft structure infection
Residency Project: Relationship between docetaxel infusion and ethanol toxicity
Robyn Stoianovici, PharmD, BCCCP
Current Position: Critical Care Pharmacist UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento,
California.
PGY2 Critical Care, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont
July 2016 –June 2017
Residency Project: Evaluation of a vancomycin dosing protocol in adult inpatients with renal impairment
Residency Project: Comparison of melatonin and zolpidem for sleep in a community hospital: an analysis of patient perception and inpatient outcomes