Residency & Fellowship Directors

Our program directors are leaders in pharmacy who are dedicated to improving the quality of education residents and fellows receive. With their support, programs are tailored to meet the needs and interests of trainees.

POST-GRADUATE YEAR ONE PROGRAMS

PGY-1 Community Pharmacy (Safeway Pharmacy)

Krista Hein, PharmD, AAHIVP
Dr. Hein is the residency program director of the Safeway/University of Maryland School of Pharmacy PGY-1 Community-based residency program. She is a graduate of Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Pharmacy and completed a community residency with Schnucks and Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. She is the patient care services manager for the Safeway Mid-Atlantic Division. She is an American Academy of HIV Medicine Practicing HIV Pharmacist and created and implemented the HIV care and prevention program at Safeway.

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA
Dr. Layson-Wolf serves as the university liaison to the Safeway/University of Maryland School of Pharmacy PGY-1 Community-based residency program. She formerly served as the residency program director for the University of Maryland community residency program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed a community residency with the Virginia Commonwealth University and Ukrop’s Pharmacy. Dr. Layson-Wolf is a professor at the School of Pharmacy.

PGY-1 Pharmacy (University of Maryland Medical Center)

Siu Yan Amy Yeung, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Dr. Yeung is the system-wide director for the Post-Graduate Year One Pharmacy Practice Residency Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice and PGY2 critical care residencies at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Yeung is a clinical pharmacy specialist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Michael Armahizer, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Armahizer is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year One Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. He is a graduate of the Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy and completed his pharmacy practice and critical care residencies at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. He is a clinical pharmacy specialist in the Neurocritical Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

PGY-1 Pharmacy (Baltimore Washington Medical Center)

Nicole D. Kiehle, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Kiehle is the director for the Post-Graduate Year One Pharmacy Residency Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC). She is a graduate of the Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Kiehle is the clinical pharmacy manager at UM BWMC.

Jillian Warnick, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Warnick is the site coordinator for the Post-Graduate Year One Pharmacy Practice Residency Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson University School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Dr. Warnick is a clinical pharmacist at Baltimore Washington Medical Center practicing in internal medicine.

POST-GRADUATE YEAR ONE/TWO PROGRAMS

Pharmacotherapy

Asha L. Tata, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Tata is the director of the Post-Graduate Year One and Year Two Pharmacotherapy Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and completed her residencies in pharmacy practice and adult internal medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center with practices in the inpatient internal medicine service and in the outpatient anticoagulation clinic.

Mojdeh S. Heavner, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Dr. Heavner is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year One and Year Two Pharmacotherapy Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She completed both her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY2 residency in critical care and solid organ transplant at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH). At YNHH, Dr. Heavner worked as a clinical specialist in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), was the director of the critical care PGY2 program, and worked several years as the supervisor of clinical pharmacy services. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Pharmacy and practices as a clinical specialist in the MICU at University of Maryland Medical Center.

POST-GRADUATE YEAR TWO PROGRAMS

Ambulatory Care

Kathleen Pincus, PharmD - Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Kathleen Pincus, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Pincus is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and an associate professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. An alumna of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (Class of 2009), Dr. Pincus completed her pharmacy practice residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and her pharmacotherapy specialty residency at the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Pincus practices as an ambulatory care specialist at the University of Maryland Family and Community Medicine practice, and as a clinical pharmacy consultant with the Governor’s Wellmobile Program.

Seferina Kim, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Kim is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program. She's a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and has worked in a variety of specialties including adult internal medicine, oncology, transitional care, and ambulatory care. She is currently clinical staff for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy with a primary site at the outpatient Medication Therapy Management Clinic at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Kim also serves on an Intimate Partner Violence Collaborative at UMB and is a member of a variety of committees locally and at state-level addressing issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Cardiology

Kristin Watson, PharmD - Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Kristin Watson, Pharm D, BCCP
Dr. Watson is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Cardiology Residency Program. She is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Sciences. She completed her pharmacy practice and cardiology specialty residencies at the University of Pittsburgh. She practices in a heart failure clinic at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore. She is a member of the ATRIUM Cardiology Collaborative.

Mallory Mouradjian, PharmD, BCCP
Dr. Mouradjian is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Cardiology Residency Program. She is a graduate of MCPHS University Doctor of Pharmacy program. She completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center followed by a PGY2 cardiology residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Mouradjian is a cardiology clinical specialist on the Advanced Heart Failure Service at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Critical Care

Sharon Wilson, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Wilson is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy. Dr. Wilson completed a residency in critical care pharmacy practice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and pharmacy practice residency at the James A. Haley VA Hospital. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the areas of surgery and critical care.

Emergency Medicine

Ashley N. Martinelli, PharmD, BCCCP
Dr. Martinelli is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy at University of Cincinnati and went on to complete her PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a PGY2 residency in critical care at Allegheny General Hospital. She is a clinical pharmacy specialist in emergency medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center and serves as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Wesley Oliver, PharmD, MS
Dr. Oliver is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program. He is a graduate of Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. He then completed his PGY1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY2 emergency medicine pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He is an emergency medicine clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Geriatric Pharmacy

Chanel F. Whittaker, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP
Dr. Whittaker is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Geriatric Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and completed two years of residency training. The first year was with Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Region and a second year specialty residency at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. She recently completed a one-year program in ethnogeriatrics with the Stanford Geriatric Education Center. Dr. Whittaker is a professor and the assistant dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the School of Pharmacy.

Monica Tong, PharmD
Dr. Tong is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Geriatric Pharmacy Practice Residency Program. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 2017. She completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Virginia, and her PGY2 in geriatric pharmacy at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Her professional interests include palliative care, geriatrics, transitions of care, quality improvement projects, and academia. In addition to serving as the coordinator, she serves as a pain and palliative care clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

Health System and Practice Administration

Carla Williams, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Williams is the program director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Health System and Practice Administration Residency Program. She graduated and competed her residency training at The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy). She serves as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and is the director of pharmacy clinical services at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy.

Infectious Diseases

Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, BCIDP, BCPS, AAHIVP
Dr. Heil is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Infectious Diseases Residency Program. She is a professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She also serves as the coordinator of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate and PharmD at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and subsequently completed her pharmacy practice and infectious diseases pharmacy residency training at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist with added qualifications in infectious diseases and an American Academy of HIV Medicine Practicing HIV Pharmacist.

Mandee Noval, PharmD, BCIDP
Dr. Noval is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Infectious Diseases Residency Program. She is a board-certified infectious diseases pharmacist and an assistant professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Noval is a graduate of Temple University School of Pharmacy and completed a PGY-1 pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center followed by a PGY-2 infectious diseases residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Noval practices as an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Oncology Pharmacy

Alison Duffy, PharmD - Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Alison Duffy, PharmD, BCOP
Dr. Duffy is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Oncology Residency Program. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy and completed her PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency and PGY-2 hematology/oncology pharmacy residency at University of Cincinnati (UC) Health in Cincinnati, Ohio. Alison Duffy is a hematology/oncology clinical pharmacy specialist and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a board certified oncology pharmacist with a practice site at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center within inpatient and outpatient oncology.

Ciera Bernhardi, PharmD, BCOP
Dr. Bernhardi is the program coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year 2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency Program. She completed her pharmacy education at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy, and continued on to her post-graduate residency training at the University of Maryland, where she completed her PGY-1 in pharmacy practice and PGY-2 in oncology pharmacy. She currently practices as an oncology clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. In addition to oncology, she has a large interest in medication safety, particularly as it relates to treating her oncology patients safely. She serves as an active member of MSHP’s medication safety committee as well as many UMMC-based medication safety workgroups.

Pain and Palliative Care

Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS
Dr. McPherson is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pain and Palliative Care Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dr. McPherson is a professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. McPherson serves on the Board of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Kathryn Walker, PharmD - Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Kathryn A. Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE
Dr. Walker is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pain and Palliative Care Residency Program. She is charged with developing clinical outcomes, research, and education, along with clinical services at the ten hospitals and in the outpatient community of MedStar Health. She also serves as an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, where she contributes to both didactic and experiential pharmacy education. She has served as principle investigator on several grants and co-investigator on an NIH/NINR R01 grant to validate a pain assessment tool for non-communicative patients. Dr. Walker has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally at professional conferences and disseminated her work through posters, paper sessions, and peer-reviewed journal articles. She has served as a research mentor for more than ten years to medical students from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Georgetown University. After completing her Doctor of Pharmacy at Duquesne University, Dr. Walker completed the only specialty residency at the time in palliative care at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is also a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and certified pain educator. Dr. Walker’s passion for safe and appropriate medication use includes a major focus on relief of suffering and drives her efforts in clinical practice, research, and education.

Pediatric Pharmacy

Kristine A. Parbuoni, PharmD, BCPPS
Dr. Parbuoni is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pediatric Pharmacy Residency. She obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed her PGY-1 pharmacy residency and PGY-2 pediatric residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Parbuoni is an associate professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research and the director of OSCE programs at the School of Pharmacy. She maintains a clinical practice site in the pediatric ICU at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.

Shawnée Daniel, PharmD, BCPPS
Dr. Daniel is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Pediatric Pharmacy Residency. She is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. She then completed her PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at New-York Presbyterian Hospital and PGY-2 pediatric pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a board-certified pediatric clinical pharmacy specialist who practices in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is involved in many of the neonatal patient care collaboratives and MSHP’s medication safety committee.

Psychiatric Pharmacy

Bethany DiPaula, PharmD - Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Bethany DiPaula, PharmD, BCPP
Dr. DiPaula is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Psychiatric Residency Program. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed her residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is the director of pharmacy at Springfield Hospital Center and a clinical pharmacist at the Howard County Health Department. She is also a professor with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Solid Organ Transplant

Sari Freedman, PharmD
Dr. Freedman is the director of the Post-Graduate Year Two Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program. She is a graduate of University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the University of Colorado Hospital followed by a PGY2 solid organ transplant residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Freedman is a solid organ transplant clinical specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

Ian Booth, PharmD
Dr. Booth is the coordinator of the Post-Graduate Year Two Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program. He is a graduate of Temple University School of Pharmacy. He completed a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency and a PGY-2 solid organ transplant residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Booth is a solid organ transplant clinical specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

Clinical Toxicology Fellowship

Jimmy Leonard, PharmD, DABAT
Dr. Leonard is the assistant director of the Maryland Poison Center and an associate professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research. Dr. Leonard received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the Washington State College of Pharmacy. He completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency at Providence St. Peter’s Hospital in Olympia, Wash., followed by a two-year fellowship in clinical toxicology at the Maryland Poison Center. He then stayed on as staff at the Maryland Poison Center before joining the faculty at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and the Maryland Poison Center in 2022.

Ellen H. Yankellow Health Outcomes Fellowship

Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP
Dr. Rodriguez de Bittner is the director of the Maryland P³ Program and executive director of the School's Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions (CIPS). She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) at the University of Maryland and completed a clinical residency at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Baltimore. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS) and served as a consultant at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Baltimore for more than 20 years. She is currently the Felix Gyi Endowed Memorial Professor in Pharmapreneurship and associate dean for clinical services and practice transformation at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She served as the chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science for nine years prior to her appointment as associate dean.

DIRECTOR OF POST-GRADUATE TRAINING AND ACADEMIC COORDINATORS

Kristine Parbuoni, PharmD, BCPPS
Dr. Parbuoni is the director of post-graduate training. Dr. Parbuoni has always been passionate about residency training, serving as the PGY2 pediatric residency coordinator for the University of Maryland from 2007-2013 and the PGY1 residency coordinator for the University of Maryland Medical Center from 2010-2013. Dr. Parbuoni moved to California in 2013 and joined the faculty at Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. There she served as the residency program director of the PGY2 pediatric residency at Loma Linda University from 2014-2018 and the residency academic coordinator for all Loma Linda University residency programs during that same time. Dr. Parbuoni came back to Maryland in 2018 as an associate professor for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and has served as the PGY2 pediatric residency program director since 2019.

Daniel Costa
Mr. Costa is the academic services specialist for the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md.