Pharmacy Residency Preceptors
PGY1 & PGY2 Programs
Tera R. Falcetti, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Title/Position: Director of Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Education: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Population Management, Professional Development, Transitions of Care, Leadership
- Preceptor for PGY1: Practice Management
Mary Mohammed, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacy Manager; PGY1 Residency Program Director
- Pharmacy Education: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA
- Practice Interests: Pharmacy leadership, professional development
- Preceptor for PGY1: Drug Information and Policy, Practice Management
Christopher Batista, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator; PGY1 Residency Program Coordinator
- Pharmacy Education: Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY
- PGY1 Residency: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
- Practice Interests: Emergency medicine, internal medicine, precepting
- Preceptor for PGY1: Teaching and Education
- Preceptor for PGY2: Teaching and Education
Lisa DeGennaro, PharmD
Title/Position: Ambulatory Care Pharmacist, PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Program Director
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- PGY1: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
- Practice Interests: Diabetes Care and Advancing Ambulatory Care Practice
- Preceptor for PGY1: Adult Primary Care Medicine
- Preceptor for PGY2 Amb Care: Adult Primary Care Medicine, Practice Management, Teaching and Education
Michelle Byram, BS Pharm, CACP
Title/Position: Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist, PGY2 Thrombosis and Hemostasis Management Residency Program Director
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury, CT
- Practice Interests: Anticoagulation, Ambulatory care, Medication Management, Transitions of Care
- Preceptor for: Anticoagulation Service (PGY1 & PGY2)
- Preceptor for PGY2 Ambulatory Care: anticoagulation
Micaela Powner, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Medication Safety Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- PGY1 Residency: Broward General Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- PGY2 Residency: Internal Medicine, West Virginia University (WVU) Healthcare, Morgantown, WV
- Practice Interests: Anticoagulation, pain management, precepting
- Preceptor for PGY2: Teaching and Education
Nicole Costello, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (BS), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (PharmD)
- Practice Interests: Cardiology
- Preceptor for: Cardiac Intensive Care (PGY1)
Matthew Dionne, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Preceptor for: Pharmacy Service (PGY1)
Jamey Dodge, RPh, BCPS, BCCCP
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Practice Interests: Sedation, analgesia, delirium, antimicrobial stewardship
- Preceptor for: Medical Intensive Care, Surgical Intensive Care (PGY1)
Jeannine Fischetti, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (formerly Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science), Philadelphia, PA
- Preceptor for: Neonatal Intensive Care (PGY1)
Karen Gleason, PharmD, BCACP, CACP
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut (BS), Storrs, CT, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR (PharmD)
- Practice Interests: Ambulatory Care, Anticoagulation
- Preceptor for: Anticoagulation Service (PGY1)
Jane Mueller, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Cardiology, critical care, neurology
- Preceptor for: Congestive Heart Failure (PGY1), Cardiac Intensive Care (PGY1)
David Palazzolo, RPh
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Practice Interests: Behavioral Health
- Preceptor for: Behavioral Health (PGY1)
Megan Pereira, PharmD, BCOP
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist for Smilow Cancer Center at Saint Francis
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Practice Interests: Oncology
- Preceptor for: Outpatient Oncology (PGY1)
Ashley Sowers, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Emergency Medicine
- Preceptor for: Emergency Medicine I & II (PGY1)
Alexis Swist, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine
- Preceptor for: Orientation (PGY1), Internal Medicine (PGY1)
Domenic Vita, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Internal Medicine, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Infectious Diseases, Critical Care
- Preceptor for: Orientation (PGY1)
Edyta Kusmirek, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (BS Pharm); Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove, IL (PharmD)
- Practice Interests: General medicine, neonatology
- Preceptor for PGY1: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Nicole Thurnherr, PharmD
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
Title/Position: Clinical Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Education: D’Youville University School of Pharmacy, Buffalo, NY
- PGY1 Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Cardiology
- Preceptor for PGY1: Congestive Heart Failure
Dora Wiskirchen, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP
Title/Position: Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Coordinator
- Pharmacy Education: Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH
- PGY1 Residency: Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, SC
- Fellowship: Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy, Hartford Hospital Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford, CT
- Practice Interests: Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Antibiotic Resistance
- Preceptor for: Antimicrobial Stewardship (PGY1), Research Project (PGY1 & PGY2)
Youssef Bessada, PharmD, BCPS
Title/Position: Assistant Clinical Professor (UConn School of Pharmacy) / CV Surgery Step Down Unit Clinical Faculty (Saint Francis Hospital)
- Pharmacy Education: Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Albany, NY
- PGY1: UConn John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health, Farmington, CT
- PGY2: PGY2 Cardiology Pharmacy – Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Practice Interests: Anticoagulation, Preventative Cardiology, Transition of Care Optimization
- Preceptor for PGY1: Clinical Precepting
- Preceptor for PGY2: PGY2 Ambulatory Care – Transitions of Care