PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program

Purpose:

This University Medical Center Clinics of El Paso Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program is designed to expand upon Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals, and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership, and education, and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy (i.e., BCACP, BCGP, CDES), and pursue advanced education and training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies.

Description:

Our program aims to develop each resident into an innovative community-based pharmacist practitioner with diverse skills, patient care, clinical, leadership, and professional skills through outpatient pharmacy and clinic services.  Our various clinics provides a wide range of primary care practice areas necessary to become leaders in pharmacy.

As an UMC PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident you will

  • Offer direct patient care in a primary care setting
  • Provide clinical pharmacy services in a patient-centered primary care home
  • Collaborate in team-based healthcare
  • Participate in 340B pharmacy practices and provide care to underserved populations
  • Facilitate with educating patients and healthcare providers
  • Precept pharmacy students in various settings
  • Gain the skills and experience needed to operate and manage a community pharmacy
  • Deliver high-quality, culturally appropriate care and to improve patient transitions between care settings

Learning Experiences: 

Required

  • Orientation
  • Disease State Management
  • Antibiotic Stewardship and Infectious Disease
  • Patient Centered Dispensing
  • Pharmacy Administration
  • Transitions of Care and Internal Medicine
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching Certificate Program

Electives

  • Advanced Administration
  • Toxicology

Expectations:

The resident will be required to perform at the highest ethical, moral, and legal standards and expected to be a role model and leader within the pharmacy community. Compassion, dignity, and respect for the patients' cultural, religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds make up the cornerstone of this residency.

Current Residents

Royce Li, Pharm.D.

Education/Training: Roseman University of Health Sciences (Henderson, NV)

Practice Interests: Ambulatory Care, HIV, Academia

Why Residency? I am happy to continue my journey in the border city of El Paso where I can further understand the unique needs of my community and to collaboratively develop solutions that are tailored to those needs. The residency team at UMC of El Paso are incredibly knowledgeable and supportive of my professional goals, and I am delighted to learn and collaborate at this institution.

Preceptors:

Valerie Alvarado, Pharm.D., BCACP, CACP

Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist 

Learning Experience(s): Anticoagulation Clinic, Disease-State Management

Education: University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (PharmD), UTEP-UT Austin Cooperative Program; Centro San Vicente Clinic/University of Texas at El Paso - (PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Resident)

 

Karem Elizondo-Lambeth, Pharm.D., BCACP

Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist 

Learning Experience(s): Antibiotic Stewardship Program and Infectious Disease, Anticoagulation Clinic, Disease State Management, Pharmacy Administration

Education: University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (PharmD), UTEP-UT Austin Cooperative Program; El Rio Health Center, Tucson, AZ - (PGY-1 Ambulatory Focus)

 

Jacquelyn P. Navarrete, Pharm.D., BCACP

Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist 

Learning Experience(s): Disease-State Management, Professional Development

Education: University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (PharmD), UTEP-UT Austin Cooperative Program; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Walgreens, Boston, MA - (PGY-1 Ambulatory Focus)

 

Liliana Lunares, Pharm.D., BCACP

Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist 

Learning Experience(s): Antibiotic Stewardship Program and Infectious Disease, Disease-State Management, Transitions of Care, Pharmacy Administration

Education: Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy, Henderson, Nevada Campus (PharmD); Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center and Pacific University School of Pharmacy, Hillsboro, OR - (PGY-1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency)

 

Gabriel Ortiz, Pharm.D., BCPS

Emergency Department Pharmacy Supervisor, University Medical Center of El Paso

Learning Experience(s): Emergency Medicine

Education: The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (PharmD)

 

Michael Saenz, PharmD

UMC West Outpatient Pharmacy, Supervisor

Learning Experience(s): Patient-Centered Dispensing

Education: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy at Boston

 

Alaa Albelhakiem, Pharm.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy

Learning Experience(s): Teaching Certificate

Education: University of Missouri-Kansas City (PharmD); Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy - (PGY1 DHR Health); University of Houston College of Pharmacy - (Post-Doctoral Academic Fellowship)

Salvador Baeza, Pharm.D., DABAT

Director, West Texas Regional Poison Center

Learning Experience(s): Toxicology – (Elective)

Education: University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (PharmD), UTEP-UT Austin Cooperative Program/Providence Memorial Hospital (Pediatric Pharmacy Residency)

 

Non-pharmacist Preceptors:

Taylor Infante, MD, MPH

Internist

Learning Experience(s): Transitions of Care and Internal Medicine

Education: (Doctor of Medicine) – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center- Paul L Foster School of Medicine; (Internal Medicine Residency) - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; (Masters of Public Health) – The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health

Rhonda Fleming, MD

Infectious Disease Specialist

Learning Experience(s): Antibiotic Stewardship Program and Infectious Disease

Education: (Doctor of Medicine) – Central University of Venezuela / Escuela Luis Razetti School of Medicine; (Infectious Disease Fellowship) - Boston University Medical Center; (Internal Medicine Residency) – Hospital of San Rafael – Yale New Haven Medical School

Residency Application Process: 

To learn more about applying, click here.

Contact Information

For additional information about the PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program, please contact:

Liliana Lunares, Pharm.D., BCACP

Director, PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program

4815 Alameda Ave. El Paso, TX 79905
Email: liliana.lunares@umcelpaso.org

For More Information

Liliana Lunares, Director
Email: liliana.lunares@umcelpaso.org