PittPharmacy_MelissaSommaMcGivney_0006Assistant Dean for Community Partnerships Melissa A. Somma McGivney, PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA was awarded the 2015 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation held on February 28, 2015.

The Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes teaching excellence by members of the University of Pittsburgh’s faculty.  In his letter to McGivney, Gallagher took note of her Community Residency Preceptor and Preceptor of the Year awards given by the American Pharmacists Association. “You are a recognized leader in the development of patient-centered pharmacy practice in the community,” Gallagher wrote, commending McGivney for her role in developing a community pharmacy post-PharmD residency program, a community pharmacy research fellowship program, a shared research course for community pharmacy residency in Pennsylvania, a research training course for faculty of other pharmacy schools, and modifications to Pitt’s PharmD curriculum.

Somma McGivney  is the assistant dean for community partnerships and associate professor in the pharmacy and therapeutics department at the School of Pharmacy.

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