Kathleen Adams, ’15 (Pharm.D) has joined the UConn School of Pharmacy as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, with a focus on general medicine. Her duties will include teaching at the School of Pharmacy and precepting students on their Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences at her practice site at Yale New Haven Hospital.   She will train students about appropriate drug use and treatment protocols within her specialty area and will also participate in the department’s major health care initiative, PRISM. This program focuses on the appropriate, safe, effective use and affordability of medications by providing skill-based training for current pharmacists and Pharm. D. students, and integrating pharmacists with inter-professional health care teams.

Adams is a native of Fairfax County, Virginia. She completed her Pharm.D. at UConn in 2015 and subsequently completed PGY1 and PGY2 residencies in internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. After completing her post-graduate training, she started her career as the clinical pharmacist specialist in internal medicine at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.  There, she established a decentralized triad pharmacy model within the internal medicine service and implemented multiple pharmacist-driven protocols. She was awarded the Brown University Department Internal Medicine Teaching Award in 2019. She is Board certified as Pharmacotherapy Specialist.

Adams commented, “One of the best pieces of advice that I received as a student at UConn is to always challenge yourself and expose yourself to new ways of practice. I look forward to bringing the clinical concepts and experience that I gained in Rhode Island back to UConn as well as Yale New Haven Hospital. Seeing clinical practice in a different setting has allowed me to think more critically about my practice and I am excited to bring that mindset to my internal medicine pharmacy rotations and lectures.