Infectious Diseases - About the Preceptors

 

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.

 

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

Director, Infectious Diseases Residency Program

Clinical Professor

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases,Temple University Hospital

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, secretary/treasurer)
• Infectious Diseases Specialty Council, Board of Pharmacy Specialties

 

Research Interests

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

 

Dr. Gallagher offers rotations with the Infectious Diseases Consult Service, Transplant Infectious Diseases Service, and precepts the teaching rotation as well. 

 

Kazumi Morita, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Temple University Hospital

Co-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Temple University Hospital

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD
• Pharmacy Practice and Infectious Diseases residencies, University of Kentucky Medical Center

 

Dr. Morita is the preceptor for the rotation in antimicrobial stewardship and the secretary of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee at Temple University Hospital. She directs the resident’s participation on that and other hospital committees.

 

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

 

Brittany Cael, PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Fox Chase-Temple University Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Jeanes Hospital Campus 

 

Education & Residency

• PharmD
• Pharmacy Practice Residency, Temple University Hospital

 

Dr. Cael precepts residents in the bone marrow transplant unit. She is highly involved in clinical trials, including Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy.