Meet our faculty and clinicians who lead and serve as the primary preceptors of the residency program. They are supported by the team of other clinical pharmacists and faculty on the Temple Health Sciences Center Campus.

 

Christina Rose, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP 

Program Director, PGY2 in Pharmacy Critical Care

Clinical Professor 

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Critical Care at Temple University Hospital 

Preceptor, Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD
• Pharmacy Practice Residency, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (Richmond, VA) 
• Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Residency, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

 

Courses/Teaching Areas 

• Medical-Respiratory Intensive Care 
• Burn Intensive Care 

 

Organizations

• Mid-Atlantic College of Clinical Pharmacy (past treasurer) 
• Philadelphia-Area Critical Care Pharmacists 
• American College of Clinical Pharmacy, incl. Critical Care Practice and Research Network 
• Society of Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section

 

Research Interests

• Clinical pharmacokinetics in critically ill patients
• Sedation
• Pain and delirium in ICU patients 
• Extracorporeal devices affecting pharmacotherapy

 

Craig Whitman, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Clinical Associate Professor 

Preceptor, Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit 

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, Rutgers University 
• PGY1 Residency, VA Western NY Healthcare System 
• PGY2 Critical Care Residency, University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy

 

Previous Experience

• Clinical Pharmacist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital 
• Faculty Member, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

 

Organizations

• Mid-Atlantic College of Clinical Pharmacy (past president)
• American College of Clinical Pharmacy
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 

 

Research Interests

• Management of pain, agitation, and delirium, sepsis, and pharmacotherapy in critically ill lung transplant recipients

 

Christina Ruggia-Check, PharmD, BCPS, BCPS-AQ Cardiology

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant

Preceptor, PGY1,  PGY2 Residency in Critical Care and Transplant 

Preceptor, Cardiothoracic Surgery ICU Rotation

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

 

Research Interests

• Acute decompensated heart failure
• Heart transplant
• Mechanical circulatory support
• Pulmonary hypertension

 

Neela Bhajandas, PharmD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Preceptor, Emergency Medicine

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist- Emergency Medicine/Critical Care, Temple University Hospital 

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 
• BS, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia 
• PGY1 Residency, Conemaugh, Memorial Medical Center (Johnstown, PA)

 

Research Interests

• Emergency Medicine
• Critical Care
• Transitions of Care

 

 

Jason C. Gallagher, PharmD, FCCP, FIDP, FIDSA, BCPS

Clinical Professor 

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Temple University Hospital

Director, PGY2 Residency Program in Infectious Diseases

Editor-in-Chief, Contagion

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD
• Pharmacy Practice Residency, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals 
• Infectious Diseases of the Immunocompromised Host Residency, Duke University Medical Center

 

Organizations

• Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (past-president)
• Mid-Atlantic College of Clinical Pharmacy (past-president)
• ACCP Infectious Diseases Practice and Research Network (past chair, past secretary/treasurer)
• Infectious Diseases Specialty Council of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties

 

Research Interests

• Pharmacotherapy of resistant infections
• Clinical pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
• Antibiotic stewardship

 

Temple Health Preceptors

 

 

Sheriff Gbadamosi, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
• PGY1 Residency, Suburban Hospital, John Hopkins Medicine (Bethesda, MD)
• PGY2 Critical Care Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Areas of Interest

• Trauma/coagulopathy
• Septic shock
• Anticoagulation
• Thromboelastography
• Sedation
• Analgesia

 

Jaime Robenolt Gray, PharmD, BCCCP, FCCM

System Director of Medication Safety & Policy

Site Coordinator - Main Campus, PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Medical College of Virginia 
• PGY1 Residency, University of Maryland Medical Center
• PGY2 Critical Care Residency, Detroit Receiving Hospital 

 

Areas of Interest

• Sepsis
• Pain/agitation/delirium
• Alcohol withdrawal
• Pharmacokinetics
• Transitions of care
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Quality improvement & medication safety

 

Elizabeth Tencza, PharmD, BCCCP

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Emergency Medicine

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD, University of Connecticut 
• PGY1 Residency, University of New Mexico 
• PGY2 Emergency Medicine Residency, Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami, FL)

 

Areas of Interest

• Emergency Medicine
• Toxicology