In directing her comments to the award recipients, she continued, \u201cWhen we say \u2018we couldn\u2019t do it without you\u2019 we mean it. Without your efforts, we couldn\u2019t deliver the type of quality education we pride ourselves in providing. Our students are proof that all your hard work pays off, year after year. We thank you for your dedication. We thank you for providing our students with real world experience and wisdom. And we thank you for the time you spend helping students see their path in our wonderful, rewarding profession.\u201d<\/p>\n
UConn School of Pharmacy students in their professional years participate in educational programs designed to provide \u2018hands on\u2019 experiences in professional settings. First year professional students (P1) have a community pharmacy based introductory experience and second year- or P2 – students have a similar experience in an institutional setting. P3 students benefit from working in a service learning setting, such as shelters, migrant farm camps, and health fairs. Fourth year students participate in month long advanced experiences in a wide variety of pharmacy practice settings ranging from community to institutional to ambulatory care and industry where pharmacists and other \u00a0caregivers are engaged in the betterment of health care.<\/p>\n Del Debbio is a graduate of UConn\u2019s School of Pharmacy where he received his BS in 1991. He has worked at the Rite Aid pharmacy in Waterbury for many years and at Hancock\u2019s Pharmacy in Meriden, which is his current practice site. In nominating him as IPPE Community Preceptor of the Year, a student wrote, \u201cHe was of great help for my rotation. I had never had an experience in pharmacy before, but he taught me a lot and by the end of my rotation, I was way more confident. He answered every question very patiently and gave me independence for doing everyday functions.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santoro recently retired from St.Francis Hospital in Hartford where she had served as a staff pharmacist specializing in medical teaching, geriatrics, and rehab units and as a preceptor for many years. She graduated from UConn in 1982 with a BS in Pharmacy. Students nominating her for IPPE Institutional Preceptor of the Year said, \u201cI received constructive feedback and all of my objectives were clearly presented to me. I had nothing but positive interactions with pharmacy staff.\u201d Another student wrote, \u201cMs. Santoro was a great preceptor and my institutional rotation was a great learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n The third IPPE preceptor award was the Service Learning IPPE. \u00a0Although her practice site is at Pharmerica, Annie Sanchez Krawiac has spent countless hours volunteering at summer and fall Migrant Farm Worker\u2019s Clinics throughout the State. During this time, she has served as a mentor to many UConn pharmacy students who are uniformly grateful for her patience and willingness to share her expertise as they interact with a patient cohort with whom they may be largely unfamiliar.<\/p>\n Gannon is a pain management specialist in the Department of Pharmacy Services at Hartford Hospital and an adjunct assistant clinical professor of pharmacy practice in the School of Pharmacy. He earned his BS in pharmacy from UConn in 1976 and his Pharm.D. from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He has been seeing inpatients with pain management issues for over 30 years. In nominating him as APPE Adjunct Preceptor of the Year, one student wrote, “Dr. Gannon is the most inspiring pharmacist I have ever worked with. He is one of those people you feel lucky to get the chance to learn from. His enthusiasm to work with students makes coming to rotation exciting … he is the most admirable pharmacist I have worked with.”<\/p>\n Polomoff, the Faculty APPE Preceptor of the Year, received her Pharm.D. From UConn in 2014. In addition to her faculty responsibilities, she is Population Health Clinical Pharmacist at Integrated Care Partners\/Hartford Health Care in Wethersfield. Students said, \u201cDr. Polomoff was a phenomenal preceptor! I consider myself very lucky to have had her as my preceptor,\u201d and \u201cI learned so much from her rotation and would recommend this as a \u2018must have\u2019 rotation for every student.\u201d Another said, \u201c\u2026 she is the definition of professional.\u2019<\/p>\n The person for whom the Preceptor of the Year award is named, Dennis J. Chapron (pictured above with Ellen Santoro), was also honored at the ceremony. Chapron served as associate professor of Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy for 34 years prior to his retirement, and Fitzgerald said of him, \u201cAs a teacher, mentor, and friend to students and colleagues, Dennis left an immeasurable legacy. Known for his excellence in teaching, he twice received the School of Pharmacy\u2019s Teacher of the Year Award and was named Preceptor of the Year in 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n In concluding her remarks, Fitzgerald commented that although five people were named recipients of the 2018 Preceptor of the Year honors, the School of Pharmacy has over 400 student winners each year thanks to all the preceptors who devote countless hours helping to develop the next generation of pharmacists.\u00a0 \u201cThank you!\u201d she said in conclusion, \u201cWe look forward to working with all our invaluable preceptors in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students from the UConn School of Pharmacy receive valuable ‘hands on’ experience while learning from practicing pharmacists throughout their professional training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":146012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1935],"class_list":["post-145909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 09:55:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146010,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145909\/revisions\/146010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/146012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145909"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=145909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0487.jpg\")
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