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<\/a>Dang is an associate clinical professor of primary care in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. She is also a core faculty member of the Urban Service Track<\/a>, an inter-professional curriculum among UConn\u2019s Schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work, and Quinnipiac University\u2019s Physician Assistant Program. Her practice site is at the Burgdorf Primary Care Center in Hartford.<\/p>\n Following graduation from UConn in 2015, Perriello completed a PGY1 residency at Hartford Hospital and then a PGY2 in emergency medicine at Duke University Hospital. She worked as a pharmacist in the emergency department of North Carolina Medical Center prior to returning to Connecticut to assume her current position as Emergency Department pharmacist at Hartford Hospital.<\/p>\n In announcing their selection as faculty APPE Preceptors of the Year, Jill Fitzgerald, Pharm D., Director of Experiential Learning and Continuing Professional Development said, \u201cThese two preceptors were chosen among many nominations from this class in recognition of outstanding contributions to the educational development of future pharmacists [and] by demonstrating high standards of professionalism, ethics, and clinical practice. These awards are our way of recognizing and thanking those preceptors who go \u2018above and beyond\u2019 for our students every day.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the comments in letters of recommendation from the P4 students were \u2013 about Dang \u2013 \u201cShe has been the most wonderful mentor and teacher in the last three years \u2026 I can say first hand that she goes above and beyond for her students \u2026 Dr.Dang is such an amazing pharmacist, and I aspire to be as great a teacher to my colleagues, students, and patients as she is to hers.\u201d \u00a0– student<\/p>\n And, about Perriello, \u201cShe provided opportunities to help foster my independence and help me work up to a resident\u2019s speed \u2026 She is a phenomenal preceptor who taught me so much in one short month, I was eager to go into the rotation with her each day \u2026 She was extremely approachable and calm in stressful situations.\u201d – student<\/p>\n The Preceptor of the Year awards are named in honor of Dennis J. Chapron who served as associate professor of Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy for 34 years. 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.<\/p>\n A program honoring all 2019 Preceptors of the Year will be held in the fall, where recipients will be formally recognized for their many contributions to the education of UConn\u2019s Pharm.D students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2019 Pharm.D. graduates tap two professors to receive awards for their commitment to student training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":144560,"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-151319","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":"2026-05-10 09:22:21","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\/151319","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=151319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/144560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151319"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=151319"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=151319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>