Our program directors are leaders in pharmacy who are dedicated to improving the quality of education residents and fellows receive. With their support, programs are tailored to meet the needs and interests of trainees.
POST-GRADUATE YEAR ONE PROGRAMS
PGY-1 Pharmacy (University of Maryland Medical Center)
Siu Yan Amy Yeung, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP |
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Michael Armahizer, PharmD, BCPS |
PGY-1 Pharmacy (Baltimore Washington Medical Center)
Nicole D. Kiehle, PharmD, BCPS |
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Jillian Warnick, PharmD, BCPS |
PGY-1 Community Pharmacy (Safeway Pharmacy)
Vicki Bulkin, PharmD |
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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA Dr. Layson-Wolf serves as the university liaison to the Safeway/University of Maryland School of Pharmacy PGY-1 Community-based residency program. She formerly served as the residency program director for the University of Maryland community residency program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed a community residency with the Virginia Commonwealth University and Ukrop’s Pharmacy. Dr. Layson-Wolf is a professor at the School of Pharmacy. |
POST-GRADUATE YEAR ONE/TWO PROGRAMS
Pharmacotherapy
Asha L. Tata, PharmD, BCPS Dr. Tata is the director of the Post-Graduate Year One and Year Two Pharmacotherapy Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and completed her residencies in pharmacy practice and adult internal medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center with practices in the inpatient internal medicine service and in the outpatient anticoagulation clinic. |
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Mojdeh S. Heavner, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Dr. Heavner is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year One and Year Two Pharmacotherapy Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She completed both her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY2 residency in critical care and solid organ transplant at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH). At YNHH, Dr. Heavner worked as a clinical specialist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), was the director of the critical care PGY2 program, and worked several years as the supervisor of clinical pharmacy services. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Pharmacy and practices as a clinical specialist in the MICU at University of Maryland Medical Center. |
POST-GRADUATE YEAR TWO PROGRAMS
Ambulatory Care
Kathleen Pincus, PharmD, BCPS |
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Seferina Kim, PharmD, BCPS |
Cardiology
Richard J. Rovelli, PharmD, BCCP Dr. Rovelli is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Cardiology Residency Program. He is a graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He completed his PGY1 pharmacy residency at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center and his PGY2 cardiology pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Rovelli is a cardiology clinical specialist on the primary cardiology service and outpatient cardiac transplantation clinic at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In addition, he is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
Critical Care
Sharon Wilson, PharmD, BCPS Dr. Wilson is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy. Dr. Wilson completed a residency in critical care pharmacy practice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and pharmacy practice residency at the James A. Haley VA Hospital. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the areas of surgery and critical care. |
Emergency Medicine
Ashley N. Martinelli, PharmD, BCEMP Dr. Martinelli is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at University of Cincinnati and went on to complete her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a PGY2 residency in critical care at Allegheny General Hospital. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist in emergency medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center and serves as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
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Wesley Oliver, PharmD, MS, BCEMP Dr. Oliver is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program. He is a graduate of Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. He then completed his PGY1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY2 emergency medicine pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He is an emergency medicine clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
Geriatric Pharmacy
Monica Tong, PharmD Dr. Tong is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Geriatric Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 2017. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Virginia, and her PGY2 in geriatric pharmacy at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Her professional interests include palliative care, geriatrics, transitions of care, quality improvement projects, and academia. In addition to serving as the coordinator, she serves as a pain and palliative care clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. |
Health System and Practice Administration
Carla Williams, PharmD, BCPS Dr. Williams is the program director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Health System and Practice Administration Residency Program. She graduated and competed her residency training at The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy). She serves as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and is the director of pharmacy clinical services at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy. |
Infectious Diseases
Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, BCIDP, BCPS, AAHIVP Dr. Heil is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Infectious Diseases Residency Program. She is a professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She also serves as the coordinator of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate and PharmD at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and subsequently completed her pharmacy practice and infectious diseases pharmacy residency training at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist with added qualifications in infectious diseases and an American Academy of HIV Medicine Practicing HIV Pharmacist. |
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Mandee Noval, PharmD, BCIDP Dr. Noval is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Infectious Diseases Residency Program. She is a board-certified infectious diseases pharmacist and an assistant professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Noval is a graduate of Temple University School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY-1 pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center followed by a PGY-2 infectious diseases residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Noval practices as an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. |
Oncology Pharmacy
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Alison Duffy, PharmD, BCOP Dr. Duffy is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Oncology Residency Program. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy and completed her PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY-2 hematology/oncology pharmacy residency at University of Cincinnati (UC) Health in Cincinnati, Ohio. Alison Duffy is a hematology/oncology clinical pharmacy specialist and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a board certified oncology pharmacist with a practice site at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center within inpatient and outpatient oncology. |
Pain and Palliative Care
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Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS Dr. McPherson is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pain and Palliative Care Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dr. McPherson is a professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. McPherson serves on the Board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. |
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Kathryn A. Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE Dr. Walker is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pain and Palliative Care Residency Program. She is charged with developing clinical outcomes, research, and education, along with clinical services at the ten hospitals and in the outpatient community of MedStar Health. She also serves as an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, where she contributes to both didactic and experiential pharmacy education. She has served as principle investigator on several grants and co-investigator on an NIH/NINR R01 grant to validate a pain assessment tool for non-communicative patients. Dr. Walker has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally at professional conferences and disseminated her work through posters, paper sessions, and peer-reviewed journal articles. She has served as a research mentor for more than ten years to medical students from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Georgetown University. After completing her Doctor of Pharmacy at Duquesne University, Dr. Walker completed the only specialty residency at the time in palliative care at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is also a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and certified pain educator. Dr. Walker’s passion for safe and appropriate medication use includes a major focus on relief of suffering and drives her efforts in clinical practice, research, and education. |
Pediatric Pharmacy
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Kristine A. Parbuoni, PharmD, BCPPS Dr. Parbuoni is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pediatric Pharmacy Residency. She obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed her PGY-1 pharmacy residency and PGY-2 pediatric residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Parbuoni is an associate professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research and the director of OSCE programs at the School of Pharmacy. She maintains a clinical practice site in the pediatric ICU at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. |
Shawnée Daniel, PharmD, BCPPS Dr. Daniel is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pediatric Pharmacy Residency. She is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. She then completed her PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at New-York Presbyterian Hospital and PGY-2 pediatric pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a board-certified pediatric clinical pharmacy specialist who practices in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is involved in many of the neonatal patient care collaboratives and MSHP’s medication safety committee. |
Psychiatric Pharmacy
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Bethany DiPaula, PharmD, BCPP Dr. DiPaula is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Psychiatric Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed her residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is the director of pharmacy at Springfield Hospital Center and a clinical pharmacist at the Howard County Health Department. She is also a professor with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
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Sheryl Thedford, PhD, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP |
Solid Organ Transplant
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Ian Booth, PharmD Dr. Booth is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program. He is a graduate of Temple University School of Pharmacy. He completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency and a PGY-2 solid organ transplant residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Booth is a solid organ transplant clinical specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
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Bethany Lane, PharmD, BCTXP Dr. Lane is the coordinator for the Post-Graduate Year Two Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program. She is a graduate of the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher University. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the Cleveland Clinic, Main Campus followed by a PGY2 solid organ transplant at Ochsner Medical Center. Dr. Lane is a solid organ transplant clinical specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. |
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
Clinical Toxicology Fellowship
Jimmy Leonard, PharmD, DABAT Dr. Leonard is the assistant director of the Maryland Poison Center and an associate professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research. Dr. Leonard received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the Washington State College of Pharmacy. He completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at Providence St. Peter’s Hospital in Olympia, Wash., followed by a two-year fellowship in clinical toxicology at the Maryland Poison Center. He then stayed on as staff at the Maryland Poison Center before joining the faculty at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and the Maryland Poison Center in 2022. |
Ellen H. Yankellow Health Outcomes Fellowship
Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP Dr. Rodriguez de Bittner is the director of the Maryland P3 Program and executive director of the School's Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions (CIPS). She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) at the University of Maryland and completed a clinical residency at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS) and served as a consultant at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Baltimore for more than 20 years. She is currently the Felix Gyi Endowed Memorial Professor in Pharmapreneurship and associate dean for clinical services and practice transformation at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She served as the chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science for nine years prior to her appointment as associate dean. |
DIRECTOR OF POST-GRADUATE TRAINING AND ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
Kristine Parbuoni, PharmD, BCPPS Dr. Parbuoni is the director of post-graduate training. Dr. Parbuoni has always been passionate about residency training, serving as the PGY2 pediatric residency coordinator for the University of Maryland from 2007-2013 and the PGY1 residency coordinator for the University of Maryland Medical Center from 2010-2013. Dr. Parbuoni moved to California in 2013 and joined the faculty at Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. There she served as the residency program director of the PGY2 pediatric residency at Loma Linda University from 2014-2018 and the residency academic coordinator for all Loma Linda University residency programs during that same time. Dr. Parbuoni came back to Maryland in 2018 as an associate professor for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and has served as the PGY2 pediatric residency program director since 2019. |
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Daniel Costa Mr. Costa is the academic services specialist for the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md. |