Meet the Preceptors

• Critical Care
• Infectious Diseases
• Pediatrics
• Internal Medicine
• Leadership and Administration
• Drug Policy and Medication Safety
• Ambulatory and Speciality Pharmacy
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Investigational Drug Service

Critical Care

Abigail Russell, PharmD, BCCCP, MPH

Rotation precepted: Emergency Medicine

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: CHI St. Luke's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

PGY2: Critical Care at CHI St. Luke's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center

Advice for career success: Some things to consider when pursuing a successful career in pharmacy is to keep an open mind, try not to be afraid to venture outside your comfort zone, and commit to being a lifelong learner.

Rotation precepted: Emergency Medicine

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Sarasota Memorial Health Care System

PGY2: Emergency Medicine Lakeland Regional Health

Advice for career success: “Speak softly and carry a big stick” - Teddy Roosevelt

Rotation precepted: Nutrition Support

Education: Arnold and Marie College of Pharmacy Long Island University

PGY1: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center

PGY2: Emory University Hospital

Advice for career success: "The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time" - Thomas Edison

Rotation precepted: Medical Intensive Care Unit

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: The University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy and University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

PGY2: Critical Care at The University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy and University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Advice for career success: Don't be afraid to challenge yourself and step out of your comfort zone!

Rotation precepted: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

Education: Purdue University College of Pharmacy

PGY1: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

PGY2: Critical Care at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Advice for career success: Always stay curious no matter how much experience you have. And always have an open mind. The best part of medicine is that there is almost always more than one way to achieve the same goal.

Rotations precepted: Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Academia

Education: UTHSC College of Pharmacy (Tennessee)

PGY1: The Johns Hopkins Hospital

PGY2: Critical Care at UPMC Presbyterian

Advice for career success: Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence. - Henry Chestter

Rotation precepted: Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Education: Purdue University College of Pharmacy

PGY1: OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital

PGY2: Critical Care at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

Advice for career success: "You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined."

Rotation precepted: Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Intensive Care Unit

Education: Ferris State University College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital

PGY2: Critical Care at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital

Advice for career success: "Aim to be visible, credible, and dependable in your role as a clinical pharmacist in order to promote the pharmacy profession in a good light and help to integrate your position within the patient care team. You don’t have to know everything, but applying these traits can help to grow both your knowledge and your team’s knowledge when providing patient care."

Rotation precepted: Medical Intensive Care Unit

Education: University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Valleywise Health

PGY2: Critical Care at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy

Advice for career success: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill

Rotation precepted: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Education: Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Tennessee Medical Center

PGY2: Cardiology at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

Advice for career success: Pharmacy is as small as everyone says it is. Take time to slow down, connect, and build relationships. You never know where you'll end up or who you'll work with in the future!

Rotation precepted: Vascular Intensive Care Unit

Education: University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

PGY1: Erlanger Health

PGY2: Critical Care at Erlanger Health

Advice for career success: Stay teachable! Guidelines will continuously change and new evidence will always emerge; the best clinicians remain curious, ask questions, and continuously refine their skills.

Rotations precepted: Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Academia

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: West Virginia Universityj

PGY2: Critical Care at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Advice for career success: "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out" - Robert Collier

Rotation precepted: Trauma Intensive Care Unit

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Cleveland Clinic Martin Health

PGY2: University of Rochester Medical Center

Advice for career success: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” - Maya Angelou

Rotation precepted: Neuromedicine Intensive Care Unit

Education: UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

PGY1: NorthShore University HealthSystem

PGY2: Critical Care at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Advice for career success: Keep feeding your passion for learning, and always look at mistakes or pitfalls as opportunities to get stronger

Infectious Diseases

Rotation precepted: Infections Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Education: Wingate University School of Pharmacy

PGY1: Medical University of South Carolina

PGY2: Infectious diseases Medical University of South Carolina

Advice for career success: Be careful not to underestimate the importance of strong communication, stay curious, and take time to learn something new every day!

Rotation precepted: Infections Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Bay Pines VA HCS

PGY2: Infectious Diseases at UF Health Shands Hospital

Advice for career success: Set specific 1 year, 5 year, 10 year, and career goals early and revisit often. Acknowledge when you are achieving a goal and celebrate your successes.

Rotation precepted: Infections Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Education: University of California, San Francisco

PGY1: Henry Ford Health

PGY2: Infectious Diseases at Henry Ford Health

Advice for career success: Progress over perfection.

Rotation precepted: Infectious Diseases

Education: University of Charleston School of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Mississippi Medical Center

PGY2: Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico Hospitals

Advice for career success: In pharmacy, we deal predominantly in relationships, so try to know what you don't know and remain humble in your interactions with others.

Rotation precepted: Infections Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship

Education: University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Kentucky Medical Center

PGY2: Infectious Diseases at University of Kentucky Medical Center

Pediatrics

Rotation precepted: Academia

Education: University of Georgia College of Pharmacy

PGY1: UF Health Shands Hospital

PGY2: Pediatrics at Medical University of South Carolina

Rotation precepted: Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: UF Health Shands Hospital

PGY2: University of North Carolina Hospital

Advice for career success: Become a life-long learner.

Rotation precepted: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Seattle Children's Hospital

PGY2: Oncology at Seattle Children's Hospital

Advice for career success: Spend the years after finishing residency figuring out who you are and what you like to do outside of being a pharmacist, and maximize your time off to do those things you love. It will help you be a more well-rounded and less stressed human being.

Rotation precepted: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: AdventHealth Orlando

PGY2: Pediatrics at AdventHealth for Children

Advice for career success: Remember to keep an open mind!

Rotation precepted: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Education: The University of North Texas Health Science Center College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport

PGY2: Pediatrics at UVA Health

Advice for career success: "The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability."

Rotation precepted: General Pediatrics

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center

PGY2: Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota

Advice for career success: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." by Mark Twain

Internal Medicine

Rotation precepted: Internal Medicine

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Morton Plant Hospital

Advice for career success: One of the keys to success in practicing pharmacy in a hospital environment is to foster positive relationships with all members of the team. Take time to build and continue to foster those relationships and your patients will have better outcomes for it.

Rotation precepted: Internal Medicine

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Minnesota

Additional Training: Internal Medicine Pharmacy Fellowship, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida

Advice for career success: Pharmacy is not an easy journey, but with dedication, you will find it incredibly rewarding. Success as a pharmacist goes beyond clinical skills - it's about seizing every chance to learn and looking for ways to improve patient care.

Leadership

Rotation precepted: Hospital Pharmacy Administration and Leadership

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of North Carolina Hospitals

PGY2: Solid Organ Transplant at the University of North Carolina Hospitals

Advice for career success: Foster your growth mindset. You will have some days, weeks, months that are tougher for you. Know that this is normal and part of your professional growth journey. Use healthy strategies to recharge and keep the long view in mind.

Rotations precepted: Pharmacy Administration, Ambulatory Pharmacy Administration

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Advice for career success: Always focus on continuous learning and be open to new learning experiences outside your comfort zone.

Rotation precepted: Administration

Education: Lipscomb University

PGY1: Cone Health

PGY2: HSPAL at Cone Health

Additional Training: UNC Chapel Hill - Master of Health System Pharmacy Administration

Rotation precepted: Administration

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Kentucky Healthcare

PGY2: Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky Healthcare

Favorite quote: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” by Mark Twain

Rotations precepted: PGY1 Administration Rotation, PGY2 HSPAL Operations Management

Education: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

PGY1: Wolfson Children's Hospital

Advice for Career Success: Reviewing the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a great start!

Education: University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

PGY1: The Johns Hopkins Hospital

PGY2: Oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Advice for career success: Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better- Maya Angelou

Rotation precepted: PGY2 HSPAL Clinical Management, PGY2 SOT Staffing

Education: University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

PGY1: Cone Health – Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital

PGY2: HSPAL at Cone Health

Advice for career success: Focus on building up your strengths and surround yourself with people who excel in your areas of weakness.

Rotation Precepted: Microhospital Pharmacy Services

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

PGY1: Oregon Health & Sciences University Hospital and Clinics

PGY2: Critical Care at University of Nebraska Medical Center

Advice for career success: Your career may take you places you don’t expect. Be open to new opportunities, but know that sometimes the timing may not be right for the answer to always be “yes”. If you’re willing to learn and grow, and develop solid relationships, you’ll likely succeed in whatever path you choose.

Drug Policy and Medication Safety

Rotation precepted: Drug Policy/Medication Safety

Education: Creighton University

PGY1: University of Colorado

PGY2: Critical Care/Infectious Diseases University of Missouri-Kansas City

Advice for career success: The best advice I have for residents is to trust the process and to celebrate personal growth as well as professional. Additionally, always have something planned that you look forward to in order to get you through the tough times.

Rotation precepted: Drug Policy/Medication Safety

Education: Auburn University

PGY1: North Florida/South Georgia Veteran's Health System

Advice for career success: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure" - Colin Powell

Rotation precepted: Drug Policy/Medication Safety

Education: University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis

PGY1: University of Kentucky HealthCare

PGY2: Critical care at the University of Kentucky HealthCare

Advice for career success: “Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.” - Charlie Munger

Ambulatory Care/Specialty

Rotation precepted: Speciality Pharmacy

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Ambulatory Care at the University of Florida

Additional Training:

Test and Treat Certification

Collaborative Practice Certification

Certified to Administer Immunizations

Certified in Implementing Pharmacogenomics into Clinical Practice

Advice for career success: "The path is easily read, it's lined with all the doubters, regretting all they said" - Lyric, Edwin McCain

Rotation precepted: Community Pharmacy Practice

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Advice for career success: Networking is one of the most important things you will do in your career. Leave a positive impression everywhere you go.

Rotation precepted: Community Dermatology

Education: Palm Beach Atlantic University

PGY1: Community at Bayhealth Medical Center

Advice for career success: Every challenge you face is shaping you into the professional you are meant to become. Don’t give up, your future patients are counting on you.

Rotation precepted: Transitions of Care

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Advice for career success: Always be open to change and approach all changes as an opportunity to create or improve.

Rotations precepted: Ambulatory Care longitudinal rotations, Ambulatory Care elective

Education: U Toronto, Shenandoah University

Advice for Career Success: Be adaptable. Networking is important. Review your goals and priorities often. Prioritize people over details.

Rotation precepted: Specialty Pharmacy

Education: University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

PGY1: Community Pharmacy at The Mississippi State Department of Health

PGY2: HSPAL with a focus in Population Health and Ambulatory Care

Advice for career success: You never know where your career could take you so keep an open mind!

Rotation precepted: Specialty Pharmacy

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Advice for career success: Find the niche of pharmacy you love and that excites you each day.

Solid Organ Transplant

Rotation precepted: Abdominal Solid Organ Transplant (Liver)

Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

PGY1: Yale New Haven Hospital

PGY2: Solid organ Transplant at Yale New Haven Hospital

Rotation precepted: Abdominal Solid Organ Transplant (Kidney-Adults/Pediatrics)

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Duke University Hospital

PGY2: Solid Organ Transplant at Duke University Hospital

Advice for career success: One of the most valuable things I’ve learned in my career is to learn with others. Share what you know, and don’t be afraid to ask others to do the same. We’re part of an incredible community of pharmacists with diverse training and unique skill sets—use that. Ask questions, swap ideas, and stay curious. Feed that curiosity as often as you can.

Rotation precepted: Cardiothoracic Solid Organ Transplant (Heart/Lung)

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville, FL

PGY2: Solid Organ Transplant at The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Advice for career success: Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for yourself. The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth. There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

Rotation precepted: Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiothoracic Transplantation Clinic

Education: University of Florida College of Pharmacy

PGY1: UF Health Shands Hospital

PGY2: Critical Care at UF Health Shands Hospital

Investigational Drug Service

Rotation precepted: Investigational Drug Service

Education: St. Louis College of Pharmacy

PGY1: University of Utah Hospital

PGY2: Oncology National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

Advice for career success: Adaptability and resilience are as important as clinical knowledge.