Fundamental Skills For Patient Care In Pharmacy Practice

Colleen Doherty Lauster, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, has previously served at the Assistant Professor level at both Chicago State University College of Pharmacy and the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Additionally, Dr. Lauster was an Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and, prior to this position, she served as a clinical Specialist in the area of Adult Internal Medicine for several years at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Lauster received both her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. After receiving her degrees, she completed a pharmacy practice residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an ambulatory care specialty residency at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Currently, Dr. Lauster is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Ambulatory Care Department at Beaumont Hospital. Sneha Baxi Srivastava, PharmD, BCACP, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Chicago State University College of Pharmacy. Dr. Srivastava received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2004 from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. She also completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency and then an Ambulatory Care Specialty Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy in Storrs, CT from 2006-2008. Dr. Srivastava’s clinical and research interests include diabetes, hypertension, patient education and outreach, medication adherence, health psychology, and the scholarship of teaching.