Program Overview
Cone Health has a legacy of pharmacy residency training since 1968 and has trained pediatric clinical specialists for over 25 years – initially with a NICU fellowship, then the only ASHP approved PGY2 NICU Residency Program, and now an ASHP Accredited PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency Program. We are located within the Women’s and Children’s Center at Moses Cone Hospital which opened in February 2020. Our year-long program is designed to prepare the resident to develop advanced knowledge, clinical skills, and expertise to serve as a pediatric pharmacy specialist on a multidisciplinary team. Mentorship by pharmacists, physicians and administrators throughout the year gives our residents a unique training experience.
The resident will work closely with the program director and coordinator to develop a schedule that is tailored to match the resident’s personal goals and residency requirements. In addition to core rotations listed below, our collaborative relationships with nearby tertiary centers allow the resident to experience a variety of specialty patient populations including ECMO, hematology/oncology, transplant, and pediatric infectious diseases. The program structure will remain flexible throughout the year to ensure that all goals and learning opportunities are accomplished.
Required Experiences:
- Orientation
- General Pediatrics
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit I
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit II
- High Risk Obstetrics
- Pediatric Intensive Care (offsite)
- Pediatric Administration
- Pediatric Emergency Department
- Research
Longitudinal Rotations:
- Pharmacy Practice Management
- Staffing every fourth weekend
- On-Call Program
- Pediatric and neonatal code response
- Project Management (Flipped Research Model)
- Medication Safety and Quality
- Teaching and Precepting
- Ambulatory Pediatric Specialists Complex Care Clinic
- Pediatric Population Health
Elective Opportunities:
- Advanced Precepting
- Infectious Disease
- Ambulatory Pediatric Specialists Endocrinology Clinic
- Repetition of Core Rotation(s) at Advanced Level
- Additional experiences may be offered based on resident interest and preceptor availability
2024-2025
Amanda Kan, PharmD
Pediatric/NICU/OB Clinical Pharmacist
St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
2023-2024
Michelle Gronski, PharmD, BCPPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pediatric ICU and Children's Emergency Department
Leigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
2022-2023
Thomas Jacky, PharmD, BCPPS
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Atrium Wake Forest Baptist, Brenner Children's, Winston Salem, NC
2021-2022
Shannon McGrath, PharmD, MSPH, BCPPS
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Cone Health, Greensboro, NC
2020-2021
Allie Rivera, PharmD, BCPPS, MHSA
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Cone Health, Greensboro, NC
2019-2020
Susannah Franco, PharmD
Neonatal and Pediatric Senior Clinical Pharmacist
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY
2018-2019
Victoria Forrest, PharmD, BCPPS
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Cone Health, Greensboro, NC
2017-2018
Giang Le, PharmD
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
2016-2017
Caitlin Schwirian, PharmD
NICU Clinical Pharmacist
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
2015-2016
Roshni Patel, PharmD, BCPPS
Neonatal Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Bon Secours Health System, Richmond, VA