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Chemist's
RESIDENCY PROGRAM

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PHARMACY
RESIDENCY Program

You can succeed in an temper of learning and support. At UCLA Wellness, our Allied Health Residencies will requite you the opportunity to work aslope the nigh experienced and knowledgeable practitioners, as you build your reputation for competence in the most challenging clinical situations.

PHARMACY
RESIDENCY PROGRAM

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PGY1 Pharmacy
RESIDENCY Plan

Goal
Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent practitioners of direct patient care in a diverse clinical environment with a focus in acute and critical care.

Description
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre and combined facilities have over 700 beds and serve as a pedagogy site for the David Geffen Schoolhouse of Medicine at UCLA and other allied health professions educational programs. Pharmacy residents piece of work as part of the health care team to provide patient education and pharmaceutical care. Chemist's shop residents have the unique opportunity to proceeds feel in a diverseness of acute intendance areas such as oncology, transplant, and critical care. Residents will rotate through a series of required and elective rotations and develop in-depth clinical, teaching, operational, and administrative experiences.

Resident Program Manager
Rita Jue Quan, Pharm.D., BCPS
Rjue@mednet.ucla.edu

Resident appointments are for i year starting July 1st of each twelvemonth.

Interviews anticipated annually in February (verbal dates and times to be individually scheduled).

  • Medical Intensive Care Unit
  • Cardiothoracic/Neurocritical Care
  • Inpatient Oncology/Outpatient Infusion
  • Intravenous Admixture Services
  • Investigational Drug Studies

Lawmaking Blue Certification
Residents will receive grooming and certification in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and be added to the roster equally the chemist on phone call. When they are on call, they will carry the Code Blue pager and respond to Lawmaking Dejection that are chosen within the hospital.
Discharge Pharmacy and Medication Reconciliation
Residents will act as the Meds to Beds pharmacist on weekends and provide medication counseling and delivery to patients being discharged from the hospital. They will also perform medication reconciliations on newly admitted patients to the hospital.
Diabetes Education
Residents will receive grooming from the Diabetes Educators and volition work as part of the health care squad to provide diabetes didactics and counseling to patients
Administrative
Residents volition participate in monthly Medication Safety meetings and fix Adverse Drug Reaction and Non-Formulary Medication reports for monthly Pharmacy and Therapeutics Meetings.
Teaching
Residents will set up four newsletter articles, participate in firm-staff instruction and in-service programs, conduct four formal departmental educational presentations, and lead a journal club session
Residency Projection
Each resident will choose a enquiry projection pertinent to their interests and work with their preceptor to assemble data and perform statistical analysis. They will prepare a presentation and present their findings to the almanac UC Pharmacy Collaborative Meeting and the UCLA Pharmacy and Therapeutics Coming together.
Medication Use Evaluation
Each resident will evaluate the appropriateness of the use of a drug in our wellness arrangement and set up a report containing their findings and recommendations to present to the Chemist's shop and Therapeutics Committee

ASHP Residency List information

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • Have successfully completed a chemist's shop educational plan with a Medico of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree
  • Be eligible to use for a license to practice chemist's in the State of California prior to entrance into the program
  • Demonstrate above-average academic achievement
  • Possess excellent exact and written advice skills
  • Iii Letters of Recommendation/Reference
  • Letter of Interest explaining specific qualities that make the applicant an platonic fit for the Chemist's shop Residency Program at UCLA
  • Transcript from their School of Pharmacy
  • Curriculum Vitae

Key dates to call back:

  • Application deadline—January i, 2022
  • Interviews—Feb, 2022
Bacon: Approximately $58,500/year
Omnipresence at professional meetings: ane calendar week
Vacation: ii weeks

MEET OUR Electric current RESIDENTS

Arman Manukyan, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Burbank, CA

Chemist's shop School:
University of Southern California Schoolhouse of Pharmacy (Los Angeles, CA)

Professional person Interests:
Critical Care, Cardiology, Internal Medicine

Favorite Things To Do:
Travel, try new foods, spend fourth dimension with family and friends, binge The Role

Quynh Dam, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Long Khanh, Vietnam

Chemist's shop Schoolhouse:
The Ohio Land University College of Pharmacy (Columbus, OH)

Professional Interests:
Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, and Disquisitional Care

Favorite Things To Exercise:
Baking, planting vegetables, traveling, hiking, snorkeling, scrolling through Yelp reviews to find good restaurants

Grace Bae, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Murrieta, CA

Pharmacy Schoolhouse:
University of California, San Francisco School of Chemist's shop (San Francisco, CA)

Professional Interests:
Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Preventive Medicine

Favorite Things To Do:
Cross stitching, drinking java and Korean grain tea, visiting bakeries and eating crusty European-mode artisanal bread, listening to hymns

Brandon Truong, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Sacramento, CA

Pharmacy School:
University of the Pacific TJL School of Pharmacy (Stockton, CA)

Professional Interests:
Disquisitional Care, Emergency Medicine

Favorite Things To Do:
Golf, working out, skating, building computers, binging Crunchyroll and reading manga

PGY2 PHARMACY RESIDENCY– Infectious Diseases

Goal
This PGY2 Programme in Infectious Diseases will assist you lot become a competent practitioner in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship so yous may pursue clinical specialist or tenure-rail positions inside bookish medical centers or schools of chemist's shop. You volition too be prepared to sit for the advanced practise Board Certification exam in Infectious Diseases (BCIDP). This plan provides a well-rounded feel in direct patient care, longitudinal/collaborative research, teaching/lecturing, too as leadership, mentoring and organizational skill evolution.

Clarification
Y'all will:

  • Raise your clinical knowledge in infectious diseases pharmacotherapy, clinical microbiology and disease country direction
  • Serve every bit clinical practiced for infectious diseases to multiple disciplines
  • Perform antimicrobial stewardship activities/audits efficiently and accurately
  • Communicate appropriate recommendations to promote antimicrobial therapy and monitoring of these agents to optimize patient care
  • Serve every bit co-preceptor to Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) pharmacy students and UCLA PGY1 pharmacy residents
  • Participate in ambulatory care clinics
  • Advance key research, including pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic therapeutic drug modeling studies or anti-infective utilization or consequence-based studies
  • Present research results at a major pharmacy or infectious diseases conference
  • Participate in leadership development activities
  • Contribute to medication safety efforts
  • Co-chair Antibiotic Subcommittee meetings, etc.

Residency Program Director
Meganne Kanatani, Pharm.D.
mkanatani@mednet.ucla.edu

Resident appointments are for 1 year starting in July of each year.

Interviews predictable annually in Feb (exact dates and times to be individually scheduled).

  • Adult Infectious Diseases (Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center)
  • Adult Infectious Diseases (Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center)
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • Liver Transplantation Infectious Diseases
  • Heart & Lung Transplantation Infectious Diseases
  • Neurocritical Care Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
  • Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy
  • Research & Data Drove
  • Adult Infectious Diseases Ii (Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre)
  • Developed Infectious Diseases Two (Santa Monica UCLA Medical Centre)
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2
  • Liver Transplantation Infectious Diseases Two
  • Center & Lung Transplantation Infectious Diseases II
  • Kidney & Bone Marrow Transplantation Infectious Diseases
  • Neurocritical Care Infectious Diseases II
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
  • Global Experience/Outreach
  • The resident may opt to extend previously listed required rotations, or participate in rotations offered through the PGY1 Chemist's Practice Residency

Inpatient Chemist's Staffing:
The resident will rotate through 2-3 weekend day shifts per month, supporting inpatient pharmacy staff with hospital-wide pharmacokinetic monitoring and dosing for vancomycin and aminoglycosides.
Infectious Diseases Chemist's shop Committees:
The resident will participate in meetings and contribute to efforts organized by multiple committees, including the Antibody Subcommittee, the Antibiotic Stewardship Program, and the Infectious Diseases UC Pharmacy Collaborative. Residents will be required to co-chair meetings for the Antibody Subcommittee and serve as a chairperson for the Infectious Diseases Residency Network plan for the Infectious Diseases UC Pharmacy Collaborative.
Research Project:
The resident will complete a inquiry projection throughout the residency year. The project should exist of interest to the resident, of benefit to the department/profession, and result in a quality paper suitable for eventual publication. The resident will present findings at the annual UC collaborative and a major pharmacy or infectious diseases conference.
Medication Use Evaluation:
The resident will complete a medication use evaluation throughout the residency yr. The projection should be of interest to the resident and of do good to the section/ profession.
Medication Safe:
The resident will contribute to medication safe efforts, including working with medication safety chemist's to review medication events related to antimicrobial therapy.
Education:
The resident volition serve as co-preceptor to APPE pharmacy students and UCLA PGY1 pharmacy residents. The resident will contribute to the evolution and dissemination of education to pharmacy, physician, and nursing groups for various infectious diseases pharmacy initiatives.

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • Take successfully completed a chemist's educational program with a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree
  • Accept successfully completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency with experience in acute intendance
  • Be eligible to apply for a license to practice pharmacy in the Land of California prior to entrance into the programme
  • Demonstrate above average academic achievement
  • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
ASHP Residency Listing information

Interested candidates should contact the Residency Plan Director and send the following:

  • Three Letters of Recommendations/Reference
  • Letter of Interest explaining specific qualities that make the applicant an platonic fit for the Pharmacy Residency Programme at UCLA
  • Curriculum Vitae

Bacon: Approximately $62,500/yr
Omnipresence at professional meetings: 1 week
Vacation: 2 weeks

Encounter OUR Current RESIDENT

Grace Lee, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Cerritos, CA

Pharmacy Schoolhouse:
University of California, San Francisco School of Chemist's shop (San Francisco, CA)

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Eye

Professional Interests: Infectious Diseases, Pharmacokinetics, Antibiotic Stewardship

PGY2 PHARMACY RESIDENCY– Solid Organ Transplant

Goal
The PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center volition build upon the experience gained from the Doctor of Pharmacy education and PGY1 chemist's residency program to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of exercise. The PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant program will provide the resident with the opportunity to function independently as a practitioner by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other avant-garde practice settings. Residents who successfully consummate the PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, bookish, or other specialized positions as well as board certification, if available.

Description
The PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Resident will accept the opportunity to work in an academic tertiary medical center in both the inpatient and convalescent care settings. The resident will be exposed to a various constituency of patients, healthcare providers, residents and students. The PGY2 pharmacy resident will practise at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre and will participate in clinical rotations focused in the area of solid organ transplant, perform a longitudinal residency inquiry project and drug use evaluation, and staff in the pharmacy department on a decentralized clinical pharmacist shift that encompasses solid organ transplant patients. Equally one of the major transplant centers within the nation, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Heart provides a variety of fantabulous opportunities to abound as a solid organ transplant clinical pharmacist and provides access to a strong group of preceptors and an exciting environment to nurture education skills.

Residency Program Directors

Sabrina Lee, Pharm.D. BCPS
sabrinalee@mednet.ucla.edu

Theodore Sievers, Pharm.D.
tsievers@mednet.ucla.edu

Resident appointments are for i twelvemonth and will begin in July of each twelvemonth.

Interviews anticipated annually in February (exact dates and times to be individually scheduled).

  • Hospital & Departmental Orientation
  • Transplant Infectious Diseases
  • Outpatient Renal Transplant Clinic
  • Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics
  • Transplant Clinical Research

Administrative:
The resident with have the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary transplant committee meetings (e.g. selection committee), quality improvement meetings, and UC Collaborative meetings.
Ambulatory Transplant Clinic:
The resident will have an opportunity to be involved in the convalescent transplant clinic setting by helping with the transition of care, completing outpatient pre-transplant evaluations, and serving as a drug information resource for providers.
Educational activity:
The resident will serve as a co-preceptor for PGY1 chemist's shop do residents and pharmacy students rotating through transplant services. The resident volition have the opportunity to present patient cases, journal clubs, and research as well as provide in-services to medical, nursing, and chemist's shop staff.
Inquiry Project:
The resident will complete a research project throughout the residency year. The project should be of interest to the resident, of do good to the department/profession, and result in a quality paper suitable for publication. The resident will present findings at the annual UC collaborative and a major chemist's or transplant conference.
Medication Utilize Evaluation:
The resident will consummate a medication use evaluation throughout the residency yr. The projection should be of interest to the resident and of do good to the department/profession.
Inpatient Pharmacy Staffing:
The resident will rotate through ii-3 weekend shifts per month on a decentralized clinical pharmacist shift that provides care for solid organ transplant patients. The resident will receive lawmaking blue training and ACLS certification equally well as participate in the Medical Heart's code blue team.

Candidates must meet the post-obit criteria:

  • Accept successfully completed a pharmacy educational program with a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree
  • Take successfully completed a PGY1 chemist's shop residency with experiences in acute care
  • Be eligible to apply for a license to practice pharmacy in the Country of California prior to entrance into the programme
  • Demonstrate above boilerplate academic achievement
  • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

ASHP Residency Listing data

Interested candidates should contact the Residency Programme Directors and transport the following:

  • 3 Letters of Recommendations/Reference
  • Letter of the alphabet of Interest explaining specific qualities that brand the bidder an ideal fit for the Pharmacy Residency Program at UCLA
  • Curriculum Vitae
Bacon: Approximately $62,500/yr
Attendance at professional meetings: 1 week
Vacation: 2 weeks

Meet OUR Electric current RESIDENT

Lauren Shitanishi, Pharm.D.

Hometown:
Honolulu, Hi

Pharmacy School:
Creighton Academy Schoolhouse of Pharmacy (Omaha, NE)

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Professional Interests:
Solid Organ Transplant – Middle Transplant