Pharmacy Residency Programs
First rate pharmacy residency experiences in a global health care environment
The Pharmacy Department provides comprehensive services to achieve optimal drug therapy outcomes for all patients, families and providers served by the organization. To meet this goal, University Hospital pharmacists provide decentralized clinical pharmacy services in all critical care and general medicine areas, including:
- Oncology
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Burn
- Surgery
- Medicine
- Cardiovascular
- Neurotrauma
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Stroke/Neurology
- Emergency Department
The program options available at UofL Health Care are:
- PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program
- PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics Residency
- PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency Program
The Pharmacy Department takes an active role in the organization and administration of clinical drug research conducted throughout the UofL Health Care system.
Pharmacists are involved in several ambulatory clinics, including an anticoagulation clinic and HIV/AIDS clinic.
As the recipient of the 2002 and 2004 Institutional Pharmacy Practice Award from Kentucky Society of Health System Pharmacists, the Pharmacy Department is committed to progressive pharmaceutical care and pharmacy.
Why train at UofL Health Care?
The UofL Health Care Pharmacy Residency Program features board certified pharmacotherapy specialists, oncology pharmacists and anticoagulant care providers. Learn more about our preceptors and current pharmacy residents.
Members of the pharmacy staff hold leadership positions in local, state and national professional pharmacy organizations.
The leading-edge pharmacy information systems at UofL Health Care feature pharmacy informatics capabilities, computer provider order entry (CPOE) and robotics.
The Pharmacy Department is committed to patient and community education, providing medication reconciliation and medication management education opportunities.
Advanced pharmacy practice student rotations include:
- Ambulatory Care
- Critical Care – Medical ICU
- Critical Care – Neurosurgical ICU
- Oncology/BMTU
- Infectious Diseases
- Integrated Pharmacy Practice
- Medication Safety
- Internal Medicine
- Critical Care – Surgical ICU
- Neonatal ICU
- Oncology Outpatient
- Pharmacy Informatics
- Emergency Department
- Pharmacy Administration
If you have any questions about UofL Health Care’s Pharmacy Residency Program, contact:
Melissa Robertson, PharmD, BCPS
Director, PGY1
Pharmacy Residency Program
(502) 562-3440
melissro@ulh.org