Program Overview

Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency

Program Overview

The University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) is a 678-bed tertiary academic medical center on the Anschutz Medical Campus. The Transplant Center at UCHealth has been a leader in solid organ transplant since performing the first liver transplant in 1963. The care team provides multi-disciplinary care for kidney, pancreas, liver, lung, and heart transplant recipients. Additionally, the Transplant Center participates in several prospective, clinical trials on an annual basis.

PGY2 pharmacy residency programs build on Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) education and PGY1 pharmacy residency programs to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacists in specialized areas of practice. PGY2 residencies provide residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete an accredited PGY2 pharmacy residency are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available.

Application

Interested applicants should submit a letter of intent, curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, and three letters of recommendation through the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS).

Residency Program Update

The program has officially early committed and will not be entering the national match.

Current Resident

• Caroline Simko, PharmD, is the current resident. She completed her undergraduate studies at Grand Valley State University and earned her PharmD from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Following pharmacy school, she completed her PGY-1 pharmacy residency at UW Medicine in Seattle, WA, where she discovered her passion for caring for transplant patients.

Past Residents

• Kennedy Concannon, PharmD, BCTXP, Abdominal Transplant Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC
• Madhumita Rao, PharmD, BCTXP, Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist Clinical Specialist, NYU Langone, New York, NY
• S. Elise Lawrence, PharmD, MBA, BCTXP, Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist Clinical Specialist, UCHealth, Aurora, CO
• Hannah Roppo, PharmD, BCTXP, Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Specialist, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
• Emily Sartain, PharmD, BCPS, BCTXP, FAST, Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist Clinical Specialist, UCHealth, Aurora, CO

Program Director

• Barrett Crowther, Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Located at CU Anschutz, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 12850 East Montview Boulevard, Aurora, CO 80045

Residencies

• PGY1 Community-Based Residency
• PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency
• PGY2 Critical Care Residency
• PGY2 Emergency Medicine Residency
• PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency
• PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency
• PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency
• Pharmacy Residency Teaching Certificate
• UCHealth PGY1/2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Residency