The College of Pharmacy in conjunction with facilities throughout the State provides a variety of outstanding PGY1 and PGY2 Practice Residencies in Pharmacy Practice, Community-based Practice, Ambulatory Care, Internal Medicine, and many more. Clinical Science Fellowships for pharmacy graduates who wish to pursue advanced clinical practice or research training are also offered. In addition, the College offers advanced training in combination with a graduate degree (M.S. or Ph.D.).
Postgraduate Year One (PGY1)
Build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and outcomes to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists responsible for medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions.
Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2)
Designed as an advanced practice experience for those with a Pharm.D. degree and possessing professional and clinical experience approximating a pharmacy practice residency.
Fellowships
The skills obtained can be utilized when providing medication and practice-related education to patients, caregivers, health care professionals, students, and the public (individuals and groups) in an experiential or didactic role.
Pharmacotherapy Rounds
Austin/Temple/Rio Grande Valley (RGV)
Pharmacotherapy Rounds (PT Rounds) presentation topics focus on a clinical controversy or an emerging issue—the purpose of this seminar is to disseminate up-to-date clinical information at the post-graduate level. Presentations are in-depth and reflect the presenter’s ability to integrate opposing views and apparently conflicting information, and to develop and clearly articulate his/her own conclusion(s). Participation in PT Rounds is determined by each program’s Residency Program Director, but is highly encouraged by the College. It is an opportunity for formative feedback to each resident that participates.
At the completion of this conference series, the resident will demonstrate proficiency in the delivery of a formal verbal presentation including the development of a handout and the effective use of visual aids. A secondary objective of this conference series is to provide a regularly scheduled forum for the sharing of ideas and information relating to clinical practice, education, research, and other program- or profession-related issues.
September 11th, 2020
Health is Wealth: Disparities in the Healthcare Setting
3pm - Tina Ou
Central Texas VA PGY2 Health Outcomes & Analytics Resident
COVID-19 and Coagulopathy: Evaluation of Inpatient Prophylaxis in Severe Patients
4pm - Jordan Bates
CommUnityCare PGY2 Ambulatory Care Resident
September 18th, 2020
PO Has Got to Go! Injectable Antipsychotics as First Line Therapy in Schizophrenia
3pm - Kaitlyn Morgan
Central Texas VA PGY2 Psychiatry Resident
Psilocybin for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
4pm - Sarah Bockman
Central Texas VA PGY2 Psychiatry Resident
Additional handout
September 22nd, 2020
Phenotyping in Heart Failure Preserved Ejection Fraction
12pm - Mitchell Crouch
Central Texas VA PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
September 25th, 2020
Management of Diabetes in Cirrhosis
3pm - Ashley Cubley
Ascension Seton PGY2 Internal Medicine Resident
First-Line Option or Last Ditch Effort: Dalbavancin for Deep-Seated Infections
4pm - Emily Shephard
Ascension Seton PGY2 Infectious Diseases Resident
September 29th, 2020
Evaluation of the place in therapy for the first oral GLP-1 receptor agonist
12pm - Nardos Estifanos
Central Texas VA PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
October 2nd, 2020
Throw it in Reverse: Appropriateness of 4-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate in Apixaban or Rivaroxaban Reversal
3pm - Angela Pascuzzi
Ascension Seton PGY1 Pharmacy Administration Resident
Something to Hang your HAT On? Metabolic Resuscitation in Sepsis in Adults
4pm - Kelly Gamble
Ascension Seton PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
October 9th, 2020
Salvage Therapy for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Induced Vasoplegia
3pm - Brittany Bittner
Ascension Seton PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Can Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) be Safely Used in the Pediatric Oncology Population?
4pm - Susie Park
Ascension Seton PGY1 Pharmacy Resident (Pediatrics emphasis)
October 16th, 2020
Drug Induced QT Prolongation: Fact or Fiction?
3pm - Janci Addison
Ascension Seton PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
October 23rd, 2020
Pharmacists Prescribing Birth Control
3pm - Jessica Frasier
Tarrytown Pharmacy PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
Probiotics in the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes
4pm - Emily Peel
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
October 27th, 2020
Buprenorphine-Naloxone versus Extended-Release Naltrexone: A Comparison of Efficacy and Safety
12pm - Lindsey Loera
Pharmacy Addictions Research & Medicine Fellow – First Year
October 30th, 2020
High-dose Parental Thiamine Treatment of Wernicke's
3pm - O’Neill Niyomugabo
Central Texas VA PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
How Low Can You Go? The Use of Low-dose Naltrexone (LDN) as a Novel Anti-inflammatory Treatment for Chronic Pain
4pm - Princess Ananti
Central Texas VA PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
November 3rd, 2020
Vitamin D: A Role in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
12pm - Katherine Bennett
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
November 6th, 2020
Does Tipping the Scale Make You Fail?: DOAC Use in Morbidly Obese Patients with New Onset Venous Thromboembolisms
3pm - Richard Crowell
St David’s South PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Metformin vs. Glyburide in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
4pm - Lauren Le
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
November 10th, 2020
Kidney Transplantation From HCV-Positive Donors to HCV-Negative Recipients
12pm - Allison Shofran
St David’s North PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
November 13th, 2020
An Orange a Day Keeps Sepsis Away
3pm - Marielisa Huerta
Valley Baptist PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Paralyzing Agents: Do They Make a Difference in ARDS?
4pm - Daisy Madrigal
Valley Baptist PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
November 17th, 2020
Community Pharmacist-initiated HIV Prophylaxis: PrEParing for the Future?
12pm - Shelbie Ogan
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
November 20th, 2020
The Overuse of PPIs Causing More Adverse Effects in Times of COVID-19?
3pm - Caroline Pham
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
Weeding the Evidence Behind Cannabis Substitution for Opioids
4pm - Lisa Trinh
H-E-B PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Resident
San Antonio
Pharmacotherapy Rounds is a weekly program that is directed by the Pharmacotherapy Division of The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy and the Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Center (PERC) of The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine in partnership with the South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC). We gratefully acknowledge the support and collaboration of the South Central AHEC in providing this educational resource to pharmacists and other health care providers in South-Central Texas.
Pharmacotherapy Rounds is presented every Friday at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, McDermott Building, Room 2.108, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. These presentations are also broadcast to The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy and Scott & White in Temple.
Mission: To provide pharmacists and other health care providers in South-Central Texas with evidence-based and patient-centered instruction they can use to prevent disease and improve the care they deliver to their individual patients, families and communities.
Target Audience: We welcome faculty from the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and the Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Center, pharmacy residents, physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South-Central Texas, and pharmacy students.
Expected Outcomes: Attendees of Pharmacotherapy Rounds will be provided with an up-to-date review and critical evaluation of the medical literature covering a variety of health-related topics. We expect this information to increase the participants’ knowledge base of evidence-based medicine with the ultimate goal of improving the care that we provide to our patients.
Friday, August 21, 2020
Let it Pee: Pentoxifylline for Proteinuria
3pm - Jacquelyn Brondo PharmD
PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Resident, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
Friday, August 21, 2020
Silent yet Smoldering: The Role for Treatment in Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
3pm - Lindsey Lu, PharmD
PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Resident, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
Friday, September 11, 2020
Carbapenem-sparing strategies in bloodstream infections due to AmpC-producing organisms: Can piperacillin-tazobactam get us out
3pm - Brenda Astorga, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, September 18, 2020
HITTing the Buzzer on DOACs: Evaluating the Role of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosi
3pm - James Hsu, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veteran's Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, September 25, 2020
COVID-19 Remix: What’s UP with DVT prophylaxis?
3pm - Patrick (Mac) Whaley, PharmD, PGY1 General Pharmacy Resident
University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, October 2, 2020
Cytokine Release Syndrome in COVID-19: Did tocilizumab weather the storm?
3pm - Hannah Mucha, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, October 9, 2020
Don’t Stop Me Now: Restarting Statins After Intracranial Hemorrhage
3pm - Trager Hintze, PharmD, PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident
University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, October 23, 2020
Statins – To Infinity and Beyond? Primary Prevention in 75 Years of Age and Older
3pm - Christine Goertz, PharmD, PGY2 Geriatrics Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veteran’s Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, October 30, 2020
Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit: Should We Dissociate from Ketamine?
3pm - Ravina Rana, PharmD, PGY1 General Pharmacy Resident
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, November 6, 2020
Battle of the Novel β-lactams: Ceftazidime-avibactam vs. Meropenem-vaborbactam for Treatment of Infections due to Carbapenem-Res
3pm
Gaby Andonie, PharmD, PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Emmy Gibbons, PharmD, PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veteran's Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, November 20, 2020
Don’t Quit Cold Turkey: Mirtazapine to Treat Methamphetamine Use Disorder
3pm - Katie Tuck, PharmD, PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, December 11, 2020
New Girls on the Block: Novel Agents for Desensitization in High-Risk Renal Transplant Candidates
3pm - Leah A Selznick, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, December 18, 2020
You Don’t Have to be a Grinch at Christmas! Gabapentin in Management of Mild-Moderate Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms in Patients wi
3pm - Lindsay Heimann, PharmD, PGY2 Ambulatory Care/Behavioral Health Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, January 8, 2021
Don’t Let the Pain Flip You INSIDE OUT!: Evaluating the Use of Intravenous Ketamine for Pain in Pediatric Patients
3pm - Hope Abarintos, PharmD, MAA, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio- CHRISTUS Health, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, January 15, 2021
Is EPO the New Boss or the Next Loss - Efficacy and Safety of Erythropoietin in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy?
3pm - Lauren Williams, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio-CHRISTUS Health, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, January 22, 2021
Should We Put Melatonin Agonists to Sleep for Delirium Prevention in the ICU?
3pm - Ann Shangraw, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, January 29, 2021
Check yo self before you wreck yo self—immune check point inhibitors and antibiotics
3pm - Cassandra Walker, PharmD, PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, February 5, 2021
Seize the Day with Special K: Ketamine for Resistant Status Epilepticus
3pm - Christina Tran, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital – Westover Hills, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, February 12, 2021
(1➝3)-𝛽-D-glucan for Invasive Candidiasis in the ICU. What Does this Assay Fungi-tell® Us?
3pm - Jonathan Diaz, PharmD, PGY1 General Pharmacy Resident
University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, February 19, 2021
To Use or Not to Use, That Is the Question: Anticoagulation in Patients With Brain Metastases
3pm - Terra Furney, PharmD, MHA, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, February 26, 2021
FOR THE REVOLUTION OF SUICIDE PREVENTION! Can Non-Benzodiazepine Receptor Agonists Reduce Suicidality?
3pm - Mackenzie Pierce, PharmD, PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, March 5, 2021
Dash the NASH: Emerging Therapies for the Treatment of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
3pm - Jason Arevalo, PharmD, PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, March 12, 2021
DPP-4 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Agonists: The Perfect Pairing, or Better Off Alone?
3pm - Erica Torres, PharmD, PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Resident
University Health, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, March 26, 2021
The One with the Debate: Tenecteplase vs. Alteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke?
3pm - Alyssa Pagliaro, PharmD, and Nguyen (Anh) Vu, PharmD, PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residents
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, April 2, 2021
Toxic Couple or Just Misunderstood? Obesity as a Predictor for Nephrotoxicity in Vancomycin and Piperacillin/Tazobactam Therapy
3pm - Melchor Jose L. Espinosa, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Resident
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital – Westover Hills, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, April 16, 2021
Belatacept, Donor Specific Antibodies, & Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: a Nulojix®?
3pm - Nohely Castro, PharmD, PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Resident
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, April 23, 2021
Novel Agents for Cytomegalovirus Prevention in Solid Organ Transplant
3pm - Melanie Mahoney, PharmD, MPH, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
University Health System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, May 21, 2021
Say Hello to My Little Friend: Ketamine for the Treatment of Cocaine Use Disorder
3pm - Alexandra Podosek, PharmD, PGY2 Pain Management/Palliative Care Pharmacy Resident
South Texas Veteran’s Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, May 28, 2021
Is the Cure for Heartache Worth It? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Entresto
3pm - MAJ Triet Nguyen, PharmD, MS, US Army, PGY1 Managed Care Pharmacy Resident
Defense Health Agency - Pharmacy Operations Division, San Antonio, Texas
Friday, June 4, 2021
The Clot Thickens: Tenecteplase Use in Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Massive Pulmonary Embolism
3pm - Emily Deremiah, PharmD, PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident
University Health, San Antonio, TX