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Pharmacy Residency Faculty

Educational Programs

Clinical Activities

The Baystate Medical Center Pharmacy Department provides comprehensive inpatient clinical and outpatient services. Utilizing a state-of-the-art CPOE system and other advanced technologies, pharmacists provide safe, effective, evidence based and patient focused pharmaceutical care.  The Pharmacy Department is comprised of more than 80 full-time employees including managers,  clinical pharmacists, clinical specialists, technicians, students and support staff.  Our pharmacists are involved in clinical decision making at the bedside, in the pharmacy locations and in administrative capacities. Every team member is committed to making a difference in patient care.


Read more about Baystate Medical Center Pharmacy Department's facilities and services.

Research Activities

The Pharmacists at Baystate Medical Center serve as backup to the Investigational Drug Service (IDS). The IDS program typically has roughly 150 protocols with about 50 of those actively screening and enrolling patients. Active enrolling departments include:

  • Critical Care

  • Newborn Medicine

  • Cardiology

  • Genetics

  • Cardiac and General Surgery

  • Pedi and Adult Endocrine

  • Neurology

  • Pediatric Medicine

  • Hematology/Oncology

  • Nephrology

  • Anesthesia

  • Emergency Medicine

  • Pedi and Adult Infectious Disease

  • Adult and Pediatric Psychiatry

  • Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery

  • In Vitro Fertilization


General responsibilities of the IDS program  include but are not limited to the ordering, handling, inventorying, and dispensing of study/investigational medications, creating randomization schemes, randomizing patients, and adhering to all FDA requirements via hospital established quality assurance and sponsor and governmental audits. In addition the IDS at Baystate Medical Center also provides service to our two affiliated hospitals: Baysate Franklin Medical Center and Baystate Mary Lane Hospital. The Team also services several community based hospitals and physicians' practices.

FACULTY

Pharmacy Administration

Gary Kerr MBA, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy Services

Aaron Michelucci PharmD, Assistant Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services

Bryan Stadnicki MBA, RPh, Assistant Director, Pharmacy Department

Education

Aaron Michelucci PharmD, Director, Residency Program

Erin Taylor PharmD, Experiential Education Coordinator, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator

Residency Program Preceptors

Download complete list of preceptors and their professional experience (pdf)


Investigational Drug Services Pediatrics
Gerald J. Korona, RPh Kathleen Kopcza, PharmD, BCPS

Monica Fitzgerald, PharmD

Evan Horton, PharmD
   
Hematology/Oncology Emergency Medicine
Scott Gray, RPh Shawn Roggie, PharmD
   
Internal Medicine Critical Care
Jason Cross, PharmD Adam Pesaturo, PharmD
   
Medication Safety/Infectious Disease Pharmacy Informatics
Mark Heelon, PharmD

Tricia Barrett, PharmD

   
Medication Management Pharmacy Administration
Erin Taylor, PharmD Aaron Michelucci, PharmD