Kristin Waters, Pharm.D.  has joined the UConn School of Pharmacy as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. She is a specialist in psychiatric pharmacy and her practice site will be at Yale New Haven Hospital. There, she will train students about psychiatric drugs and general topics and provide care to individuals with mental illness, while maintaining a successful clinical practice. She will also support the department’s major health service initiative, PRISM, which fosters the appropriate, safe, effective use and affordability of medications by focusing on skill-based training for current pharmacists and Pharm.D. students, and integrating pharmacists with inter-professional health care teams. She will be a preceptor to students completing their Advanced Pharmacy Practices Experiences and will also be involved In public engagement.

Waters received her Pharm. D. from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 2015, followed by a  PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital in her hometown of Syracuse, NY. She completed a PGY-2 psychiatric pharmacy residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2017. Since then, she has worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist at Yale New Haven, treating inpatient psychiatric patients on the general adult, geriatric psychiatric, psychiatric emergency, and psychiatric observation units. She is board certified as a Psychiatry Pharmacy Specialist and as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist and has Naloxone Training  certification from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection: Drug Control Division.

Of her new position at UConn, Water’s commented, “As much as I have enjoyed the clinical aspects of my previous position, I have always been interested in teaching. I feel passionate about maintaining a high caliber of pharmacy students and future pharmacists, and I would especially like to advocate for the optimal treatment of people with psychiatric or substance abuse disorders.