Department of Pharmacy Practice
Michael R. Jacobs, Pharm.D.
Department Chair
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Ina Lee Calligaro,
Pharm.D. Dr. Calligaro is the Assistant Dean for Education. Her primary interests are in the areas of program assessment, curricular revision and implementing and evaluating teaching methods to enhance student learning. Dr. Calligaro specializes in pediatrics and neonatal therapeutics. |
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Marquette L. Cannon-Babb,
Pharm.D. Dr. Marquette L. Cannon-Babb is Assistant Dean for Admissions and Professor of Pharmacy Practice. She serves as Co-Investigator of the Health Careers Opportunity Program grant, a federally funded program to support 125 pre-professional and undergraduate students interested in pharmacy as a career. Dr. Cannon-Babb is a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist and a consultant for the Merck Manual of Geriatrics. She also offers a cultural diversity elective to pharmacy students. |
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Rachel Clark-Vetri,
Pharm.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice. As the clinical pharmacist at Fox-Chase Temple Cancer Center, Dr. Rachel Clark-Vetri runs a physician-referred pain clinic. The focus of the clinic is to improve pain management by the adequate use of analgesics, improvement of compliance, and reduction of narcotic-induced side effects. Education for the patient and family is an essential part of accomplishing the goals of symptom and pain management. |
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Deborah L. DeEugenio Dr. DeEugenio is a 2001 graduate of the University of the Sciences (Philadelphia). She completed a residency in Pharmacy Practice at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and joined Temple’s faculty in 2002 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Her clinical activity takes place at Jefferson Heart Institute as part of the Jefferson Antithrombotics Therapy Service. The ambulatory clinic serves 400 patients on chronic anticoagulation therapy and provides continuous monitoring and education to these patients. The clinic also provides drug information and pharmacy support to the physicians and other health care providers at the Institute. |
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Jason Gallagher, Pharm.D. Dr. Gallagher is a graduate of Rutgers University. After Rutgers, he completed residencies in pharmacy practice at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, VA, and in transplant infectious diseases at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. His clinical site is the infectious disease service at Temple University Hospital. Dr. Gallagher’s biggest area of interest is antifungal pharmacotherapy, an area in which he has written several articles. |
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Michael R. Jacobs,
Pharm.D. Dr. Jacobs is the Chairperson for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Director of the Clinical Clerkship Program. On the University level, he chairs the Institutional Review Board for Medical Interventions. Dr. Jacobs works closely with members of the Temple University Health System to assist our faculty in developing innovative clinical practices and with the Office of Clinical Trials in directing a post-doctoral Pharm.D. research fellowship program. |
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Susan Kent, Pharm.D. Dr. Kent worked for several years at Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, VA. She completed her PharmD training at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She is a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist and served as the Geriatric Clinical Specialist at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She has developed and maintains an ambulatory care clinical practice site at HealthLink Medical Center in Southampton. She contributes to the Ambulatory Care component of the curriculum. |
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Elaine Mackowiak, Ph.D. Dr. Mackowiak is the Director of Temple’s Nuclear Pharmacy Program, one of seven national programs offering an integrated series of courses for students that meets the first step of licensure by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as nuclear pharmacists. Her other teaching responsibilities include courses on nonprescription drugs and pharmaceutical care in ambulatory practice. Dr. Mackowiak serves on numerous committees for the School, Health Science Center, and Main Campus. She is the faculty advisor for Lamda Kappa Sigma and the vice president of the Faculty Union. |
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Michael Mancano,
Pharm.D. Associate Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and clinical consultant at Northeastern Hospital At Northeastern Dr. Mancano is a preceptor of inpatient clinical rotation pharmacy students and works with the Department of Pharmacy on matters of pharmacotherapy and adverse drug reaction detection and reporting. He coordinates and teaches courses in biostatistics and medical literature evaluation, drug information skills for pharmacy students and ethics. He also delivers lectures concerning HRT, ERT, osteoporosis, menopause, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders and the detection and prevention of drug-drug interactions |
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Patrick McDonnell,
Pharm.D. Adverse drug reaction prevention and medication safety are the issues at the heart of Dr. McDonnell’s teaching and clinical activities. He teaches an elective course, “Adverse Drug Reactions,” following an organ-specific approach. His students analyze actual adverse drug events with an emphasis on prevention. In addition, he works with students on clinical rotation at Jeanes Hospital. His emphasis during the rotation is on medication safety and the study of patients hospitalized because of drug-induced problems. Discharge counseling is also an important part of the program. |
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Nima Patel, Pharm.D. Dr. Patel is an ambulatory clinical pharmacist currently practicing at Temple Hospital Outpatient Internal Medicine Clinic. Patients are referred to Dr. Patel for anticoagulation monitoring, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes management, and instruction in the use of asthma/COPD devices as well as for non-compliance counseling. Fourth year pharmacy students rotate through her site. She is involved in Pharmacotherapy courses relating to her areas of expertise. Dr. Patel is a board certified pharmacotherapist (BCPS) and immunization provider. |
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Stephen H. Paul,
Ph.D. Dr. Paul is Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Health Care Delivery. His teaching assignments include the disciplines of health care and pharmacy management. He recently authored book chapters on Medicare and Medicaid, and on financial analysis for pharmacists. Dr. Paul is currently involved with developing a new paradigm for the delivery of pharmaceutical care in the 21st century. He is interested in issues concerning pharmaceutical benefit management. |
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Mirza Perez, Pharm.D. Dr. Perez is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. She completed a Faculty Mentoring program at the University of Puerto Rico, School of Pharmacy and a Pharmacy Practice residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. She joined Temple University in 2005. Dr. Perez has a practice site at Temple University Hospital with the Internal Medicine team. Her academic responsibilities include precepting students on clerkship rotations and teaching various topics in the pathophysiology/therapeutics course. |
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Talitha Pulvino, Pharm.D., BCPS Dr. Pulvino completed a pharmacy practice residency at Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers in Hammond, Indiana and then accepted the position of Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist at the hospital's south campus. The focus of her teaching activity is anticoagulation. Her practice is at Temple University Hospital with the internal medicine department. She is a preceptor for PY4 students in APPE and for other students in IPPE. She is involved in clinical recitation classes. |
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Melissa Ranieri , Pharm.D. Dr. Ranieri specialized in cardiovascular medicine at Jeanes Hospital, a TUHS facility and served as the Clinical Coordinator at Holy Redeemer Hospital, particcipating in ICU rounds and serving on the Medication Safety and Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees. Her clinical practice is at Jeanes Hospital, a TUHS facility. She incorporates her cardiovascular experience into a clinical internal medicine rotation for PY-4 pharmacy students. She also works with students in recitations and teaches Pathophysiology and Therapeutics. |
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Christina Rose, Pharm.D., BCPS After obtaining her pharmacy degree, Dr. Rose completed a post graduate residency at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond and then went on to complete a residency in critical care pharmacotherapy from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. She joined Temple University Hospital as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and practiced in the Surgical/Trauma and Burn Intensive Care Units where she also served as preceptor for students from the School of Pharmacy and PGY-1 residents. Dr. Rose provides service in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at TUH. |
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Charles Ruchalski, Pharm.D. Dr. Ruchalski's primary teaching is the Clinical Therapeutics of Asthma, Diabetes Mellitus, Epilepsy, and Urologic Disorders. Other teaching responsibilities include Medicare Part-D, Medication Therapy Management Services, Smoking Cessation Programs and Pharmacy-Based Immunization Services. He instructs a practical laboratory course in which students evaluate and dispense Community Pharmacy as well as Institutional Pharmacy Prescription orders. Much of his time is devoted to serving as a preceptor to Fourth-Professional Year students on a Clinical Inpatient rotation. Dr. Ruchalski shares a practice in a Pharmacy-Based Smoking Cessation Clinic. |
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Joel Shuster,
Pharm.D., BCPP Dr. Shuster’s academic responsibilities in the School include: teaching in the “Pathophysiology/Therapeutics” to the PY3 class; co-ordinating and serving as primary lecturer for the “Communications Skills” course for the PY2 class; co-teaching the “Seminar in Pharmaceutical Ethics”; co-ordinating and teaching in the course, “Current Issues in Medication Errors.” He has recently started a clinical affiliation w/Episcopal Hospital of the Temple Health System. |
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Nicole Sifontis,
Pharm.D. Dr. Sifontis is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. She completed a 2-year Solid-Organ Transplant Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Sifontis practices at Temple University Hospital in the Abdominal Organ Transplant Department where she is involved in providing medication management to renal transplant recipients. She is also the Principal Investigator on various clinical research studies in this specialty area. Her academic responsibilities include teaching in the pharmacotherapeutics courses, specific topics relating to immunology and renal disorders. |
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Jamila L. Stanton, Pharm.D. Dr. Stanton is a 2004 graduate of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, MA. She completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Tampa General Hospital and Specialty Residency in Adult Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. Dr. Stanton recently joined the School of Pharmacy in the fall of 2006. She will be developing a clinical practice site at Temple University Hospital in the inpatient care of adult internal medicine patients and precepting students on clerkship rotations. Other faculty responsibilities include working with PY2 students in recitation and teaching in pathophysiology/therapeutics. |
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*Albert I. Wertheimer, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacy Administration, and Editor of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, an international authority in pharmacoeconomics and outcomes studies, with professional activities that span the globe. Professor Wertheimer is the recipient of the FIP 2008 Andre Bedat Medal for outstanding contributions to international pharmacy. |
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Anna Wodlinger Jackson, Pharm.D., BCPS Dr. Wodlinger, a 2000 graduate of the University of the |
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* indicates Graduate Faculty
