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UPMC Shadyside PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program

The Shadyside PGY2 Ambulatory Care Program emphasizes continuity and depth of experience, with opportunities to develop deep practice ownership and longer-term caring relationships in a teaching setting with physician learner colleagues. Expanded primary care pharmacist services include substance use recovery clinic, HIV care, Liver Clinic (Hepatitis C care), pharmacogenomics clinic, and interprofessional home visits.

About Our Program

The PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program at UPMC Shadyside is committed to developing competent, compassionate ambulatory care pharmacist practitioners who are adaptable and prepared to provide patient-centered care in interprofessional teams for patients in vulnerable and underserved communities.

Graduates will be well-prepared to support and lead health care change; to sustain, build and evaluate ambulatory care programs; to share and socialize their work; and to educate students, pharmacy/medical residents and practicing health care professionals.

We train clinical pharmacists to offer services ranging from medication access to collaborative disease state management, population health, home-based care, telemedicine, group visits, and beyond, with the aim to increase patient access and support primary care expansion.

Primary location:

UPMC Shadyside Family Health Center
5215 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Additional Information
  • Orientation – one month.
  • Family Medicine I – five months longitudinal.
  • Primary clinic site. Includes Pharmacotherapy Clinic (disease state management and polypharmacy/medication management scheduled with pharmacist), HCV/Liver Clinic, HIV panel management, population health, CGM/diabetes telemedicine, home visits, substance use recovery clinic, social drivers team care.
  • Family Medicine II – six months.
  • Center for Precision Medicine – five months.
  • Genomics, family medicine.
  • UPMC PACT Infectious Diseases – two to four week block.
  • HIV primary care.
  • Outpatient Internal Medicine – one month.
  • primary care, PrEP, Fibromyalgia Clinic, HTN Management, Diabetes Clinic, HCV.
  • Family Health Center Transitions Service.
  • staffing requirement every third weekend.

Teaching Experiences

  • Pitt Mastery of Teaching Program (elective).
  • Rotation precepting.
  • Small group facilitation (two sessions).
  • Large group instruction (one session).
  • Inservice to clinic staff (one session).
  • PULSE Continuing Education Seminar (one session).
  • Family Medicine Program Teaching:
  • UPMC St. Margaret Faculty Development Fellowship Intensive (elective).
  • Family Medicine Physician Residency Didactics (one session).
  • Evidence based medicine facilitator (one session).
  • Family medicine PGY1 physician resident teaching (five sessions).

Quality Improvement and Scholarship Experiences

  • Research seminars, project development including protocol, project execution including data analysis, manuscript, and presentation at Resident Research Day. View Resident Research Series.
  • Mentored writing of publishable quality – e.g. letter, case report or equivalent (Required).
  • UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Scholarship Day (Required).
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Family Medicine Regional Scholarship Day (Required).
  • Quality improvement certificate through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Elective).
  • Longitudinal Family Medicine Quality Improvement Curriculum (Elective).
  • UPMC Graduate Medical Education Quality and Safety Symposium (Elective).

Professional development experiences

  • Protocol/collaborative practice/policy development (one required).
  • Committee involvement (one required).
  • Pharmacist billing training.

Electives

  • Academia at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
  • Geriatrics – UPMC Benedum Geriatrics and UPMC Senior Care.
  • Inpatient Family Medicine/Transitions of Care at UPMC Shadyside Hospital.
  • Primary Care Genomics at the Center for Precision Medicine (block rotation).
  • International experiences (Honduras with Shoulder-to-Shoulder).
  • Heart and Vascular Institute.
  • Specialty Pharmacy.
  • Faculty Development Summer Intensive at UPMC St. Margaret/Department of Family Medicine at University of Pittsburgh.

Residency Program Director

  • Stephanie L. Ballard, PharmD, BCACP  

Preceptors

  • Lucas Berenbrok, PharmD, MS, BCACP , TTS – UPMC Primary Care Precision Medicine/University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
  • Thomas Glowa, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP – UPMC Pittsburgh AIDS Center for Treatment
  • Carly Gabriel, PharmD, BCACP – UPMC General Internal Medicine Oakland
  • Michele Hebda, PharmD, BCPS – UPMC Shadyside Hospital
  • Trisha Miller , PharmD, MPH, BCACP – Shea Medical Center/ Management
  • Christine Ruby-Scelsi, PharmD, BCGP – UPMC Senior Care Institute / University of Pittsburgh Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine
  • Erin Suhrie, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP – Benedum Geriatric Center
  • Gretchen Shelesky, MD, MMEd, FAAFP – St. Margaret Faculty Development Fellowship

Current Residents

  • Igor Naumovski, PharmD

Former Residents and First Positions

  • 2025 Resident
    • Carly Messenger, PharmD – Primary Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association
  • 2024 Resident
    • Brenda Shih, PharmD, BCACP – First post-residency position: Pharmacist, OnePoint; Clearway Health
  • 2023 Resident
    • Michelle S. Koverman, PharmD, BCACP – Strategic Pharmacist, University of Pittsburgh Health Hub
  • 2022 Resident
    • Caroline D. Crossey, PharmD, BCACP – Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Specialty Pharmacy) – Inova Health System, Fairfax, VA
  • 2021 Resident
    • Carly T. Gabriel, PharmD, BCACP – Clinical Pharmacist - Ambulatory Care and Internal Medicine Residency Teaching Faculty, UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside/UPMC General Internal Medicine Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2020 Resident
    • Marilyn (Schoenle) Sauk, PharmD, AAHIVP, BCGP – PGY2 Ambulatory Care, Family Medicine Track – Clinical Pharmacist at Devoted Health, Houston, TX

 

  • Deadline: January 2
  • Submit a completed application via PhORCAS, including three recommendations.
  • Interview required.
  • Stipend.
  • Benefits (PDF).
  • Travel: The amount provided for professional meetings is determined yearly and may not cover all related expenses.
  • Sonoda K, Messenger CA. Liver Fibrosis Stage Based on the Fibrosis-4 Score or Forns Index in Adults With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection. Am Family Phys 2025;111(4):315-316 https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2025/0400/cochrane-liver-fibrosis-stage-chronic-hepatitis-c.html
  • Sauk (Schoenle) MK, Sonoda K, Gabriel CT, Patel A, Salter CS, McAnaney CR, Ballard SL. Impact of an Interprofessional HIV Quality Improvement Team on Patient Care and Resident Learning Opportunities. PRiMER (Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education Research (family medicine)) 2023;7:32. https://doi.org/10.22454/PRiMER.2023.691851
  • Koverman MS, Sun C, Berman N, Munro C, Phillips, B, Rowe K, Massart M, Berenbrok L. Primary care is what’s missing: A response to a comparison of targeted vs. expanded pharmacogenomic testing. J Am Pharm Assoc 2023; 63:1677-1680 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2023.07.003
  • Crossey CD, Garcia A, Berenbrok LA. An approach to insulin tapering and discontinuation after glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist initiation. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 2022; 79(22):1978–1979 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxac230
  • Katz DS, Gabriel CT, Berenbrok LA. Expansion of pharmacy preceptors’ cannabidiol knowledge and confidence to ensure patient safety. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2021; 61(4): e212-e213 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2021.03.021
  • Schoenle MK, Ballard SL. Response to "Effect of monacolin K and COQ10 supplementation in hypertensive and hypercholesterolemic subjects with metabolic syndrome". Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. 2019; 109: 448-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2018.10.038
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