Residency Graduates
Pharmacy Residency Program at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset
Class of 2024
Asad Ghani, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
Residency Research: Targeted Interventions to Improve Antibiotic Administration
Timing in Patients with Presumed Sepsis
Kristen Stavenik, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist, TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital
Resident Research: Evaluation of Education on Alert Override Rates for
Pharmacists
Class of 2023
Sarah Troast, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist, Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Residency Research: Pharmacist-Driven Evaluation of Discharge Antibiotic
Prescriptions with Post-Discharge Culture and Sensitivity Results
Olivia Wierciszewski, PharmD
Current Position: Medication Optimization Pharmacist, RWJUH
Residency Research: Safety and Economic Analysis of a 3–5 day IV
Levothyroxine Hold Protocol
Class of 2022
Emily Mignogni, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: Oncology Specialty Clinical Pharmacist, Summit Health
Residency Research: Concordance of high PTT values to anti-Xa levels during
therapeutic unfractionated heparin management.
Savan Patel, PharmD
Current Position: Senior Medical Information Associate, Shionogi Inc.
Residency Research: Improving Safety of Cefepime Dosing in the Critically
Ill Patient Using a Population Pharmacokinetic Approach
PGY2 Residency: Drug Information & Medication Safety, Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick and Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Class of 2021
Brynna Crovetto, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: MICU Clinical Pharmacist, Bellevue Hospital Center, New
York, New York
Residency Research: The impact of a pharmacist-driven post-ICU recovery
service on medication management in an academic community hospital
PGY2 Residency: Critical Care, The Mount Sinai Hospital/Touro College of Pharmacy
Savanna SanFilippo, PharmD, MPH, BCPS
Current Position: Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pharmacy
and Health System Sciences, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern
University
Residency Research: Classification and assessment of medication risk in
the elderly (CARE): use of a medication risk score to inform patients’
readmission likelihood after hospital discharge
Alleviating geriatric inpatients’ medication-related iatrogenesis (AGING)
Fellowship: Clinical Pharmacology, Tabula Rasa HealthCare and Rutgers University
Class of 2020
Oumou Diawara, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist HMH Specialty Pharmacy Eatontown,
New Jersey
Residency Project: Improving inhaler use and selection in patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using an interdisciplinary protocol.
Residency Project: Social and clinical determinants of readmission for
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation
Andrew Tsai, PharmD
Current Position: Senior Manager USCDMA Publications, Novartis, East Hanover,
New Jersey
Residency Project: Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of hyperkalemia
treatment in an academic community hospital
Class of 2019
Aamer Attaar, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Internal Medicine,
Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston Texas
PGY2 Residency: Internal Medicine, Ascension Seton, Austin, Texas, July
2019 –June 2020
Residency Project: Evaluating adherence to updated C. difficile guidelines
pre- and post-implementation of an electronic order set
Residency Project: Evaluation of oral vancomycin versus metronidazole for
the treatment of initial or recurrent C. difficile infection and time
to hospital discharge
Grace Rhee, PharmD
Current Position: Transitions of Care Pharmacist, Hackensack University
Hospital, Hackensack, New Jersey
Residency Project: Procalcitonin-guided antimicrobial management in critically
ill patients
Residency Project: Assessing the implementation of guideline-directed sacubitril-valsartan
therapy in heart failure
Class of 2018
Rebecca Chow, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: Senior Pharmacist Anticoagulation Management Service,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Residency Project: Comparison of the impact of medication history completed
at time of admission versus after admission
Residency Project: The association of off-label apixaban dose adjustments
with hospital readmission in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Priya Shah, PharmD
Current Position: Clinical Pharmacist Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware
Residency Project: Evaluation of a bayesian approach to management of vancomycin therapy
Residency Project: Effect of initial intravenous antihypertensive agent
on the management of blood pressure during hypertensive emergencies
Class of 2017
Rajeev Shah, PharmD, AAHIVP, BCIDP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Infectious Disease, Lifespan, Providence,
Rhode Island
PGY2 Infectious Disease, Maine Medical Center July 2017 – June 2018
Residency Project: Evaluation of the impact of levetiracetam therapeutic
drug monitoring (TDM) on dosing adjustments
Residency Project: Incidence and predictors of mortality in obese patients
with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia treated with
vancomycin
Stephanie Wei, PharmD, BCPS
Current Position: Pharmacy Systems Administrator, RWJUH Somerset, Somerville,
New Jersey
Residency Project: Evaluation of running a decision support alert in test
mode to determine opportunities to reduce supra-therapeutic acetaminophen
dosing in the inpatient setting
Residency Project: Evaluation of the impact of tramadol therapy on the
incidence of hypoglycemic episodes in hospitalized patients
Class of 2016
Serena Cheng, PharmD, BCAP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management at VA San Diego Healthcare System
PGY2 Ambulatory Care, Veterans Affairs, San Diego Healthcare System, San
Diego, California July 2016 –June 2017
Residency Project: Influence of obesity on treatment outcomes in hospitalized
patients with acute bacterial skin and soft structure infection
Residency Project: Relationship between docetaxel infusion and ethanol toxicity
Robyn Stoianovici, PharmD, BCCCP
Current Position: Critical Care Pharmacist UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento,
California.
PGY2 Critical Care, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont
July 2016 –June 2017
Residency Project: Evaluation of a vancomycin dosing protocol in adult
inpatients with renal impairment
Residency Project: Comparison of melatonin and zolpidem for sleep in a
community hospital: an analysis of patient perception and inpatient outcomes