Residency Program

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the pharmacy residency programs offered at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center!  We take great pride in the quality and vitality of our residency programs, and believe that you will find the diversity of specialties and highly qualified preceptors at our site to be a great match to your interests.  A dynamic and growing department of pharmacy within an equally dynamic academic medical center makes for a great combination for learning and developing clinical knowledge and skills essential to being a successful clinical pharmacist.  This institution provides a somewhat unique combination of a large academic medical center providing cutting edge care and world-class teaching located in a relatively small urban-suburban community with ready access to the many recreational activities of the Finger Lakes and Great Lakes region of New York State.  I hope that you take some time to learn more about our outstanding residency programs and equally outstanding medical center, and then reach the conclusion that pursuing advanced pharmacy training at the UR Medical Center is a good choice for your career.

Curtis Haas, Pharm.D., FCCP
Director of Pharmacy

As a large multi-center system, the UR Medicine/Strong Memorial Hospital offers a variety of providers and services intertwined to serve a diverse population. This network of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and hospitals work in concert with the community to create an enhanced quality of life for patients.

It's this system that provides an ideal setting for teaching the fundamentals of pharmacy practice. Strong Memorial Hospital, where the resident will spend time in an 800-bed care center that provides a comprehensive range of general and highly specialized services. The hospital is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals” in U.S. News & World Report magazine's annual survey.

Various specialties have been recognized among the best in the nation, including cardiac care, neurosurgery, urology, gynecology, cancer and pediatrics. The Department of Pharmacy also has academic affiliations with the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College, D'Youville School of Pharmacy, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and others.

ASHP Match
 

The Pharmacy Residencies at the University of Rochester Medical Center are ASHP accredited residencies and utilizes the Resident Matching Program. In compliance with the rules and regulations of the National Matching Services and ASHP, the residency site agrees that no person will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any residency applicant.

General Information and Application Process
 

General Information and Application Process

New York State License Requirements
 

Awards and Recognition
 

2003 – ASHP Best Practices Award – Establishment of an Ambulatory Pharmacy in a Community Mental Health Center. Thomas E. O'Brien, Pharm.D., M.S., FASHP; Kumar Maharj, MSBA, BCPP, FASCP; David Olsen, Ph.D., R.Ph.

2005 – ASHP Best Practices Award – Pharmacists Enhancing Patient Safety During Trauma Resuscitations. Sarah Kelly-Pisciotti, Pharm.D.; Daniel Hays, Pharm.D., BCPS; Thomas O'Brien, Pharm.D., M.S., FASHP; Mark Gestring, M.D., FACS; Rollin Fairbanks, M.D., M.S.; and Matthew Metz, M.D.

2008 – ASHP Best Practices Award – Pharmacists Enhancing the Time to Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Patient Safety During Acute Myocardial Infarction Presentation to the Emergency Department. Nicole Acquisto, Pharm.D.; Daniel Hays, Pharm.D., BCPS; Rolin Fairbanks, M.D., M.S.; Manish Shaw, M.D.; Joseph Delehanty, M.D.; Flavia Nobay, M.D.; Curtis Haas, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS.

2007, 2009 (2), 2013 - Emergency Medicine - Four-time recipient of ASHP Foundation Research Grants

2011 – NYS ACCP Researcher of the Year (Acquisto NM)

2013 – ASHP Pharmacy Residency Excellence Awards – New Preceptor Award (Acquisto NM)

2013 – ASHP Literature Award – Pharmacy Practice Research Award (Patanwala AE, Sanders AB, Thomas MC, Acquisto NM, et al.  A prospective multicenter study of the methods of medication error interception by emergency department pharmacists. Ann Emerg Med 2012;59:369-373.)

2014 – ACCP New Clinical Practitioner Award (Acquisto NM)

2016 – ACCP Emergency Medicine PRN – Outstanding Paper of the Year (Vollman KE, Adams CB, Shah MN, Acquisto NM.  Survey of Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Education Opportunities for Students and Residents.  Hosp Pharm 2015;50:690-9.)

2015, 2017 - Adult Code Team (2015), Rapid Response Team (2015) and Sepsis Improvement Team (2017) recognized by University of Rochester Team Excellence Awards

2017 – NYS ACCP Clinical Practitioner of the Year (Schult RF)

2017 – American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting Best Poster Finalist (Zaeem M, Porter B, Delibert S, Jones CMC, Acquisto NM.  Evaluation of outcomes in patients with ICH receiving 4F-PCC:  a comparison of patients with and without ICH trial exclusion criteria)

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