HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY TEAM (HOT) INTERNSHIP

FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center | N.C. Cancer Hospital

Chapel Hill, NC

Application Deadline: February 5, 2018 Link to Application Website: https://learn.pharmacy.unc.edu/internship

Internship Director:

John Valgus, PharmD,

MHA, BCOP

Assistant Director of Phar-

macy, Hematology/

Oncology and Pediatric

Clinical/Distribution Phar-

macy Services

Contact:

john.valgus@unchealth.unc.edu

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW AND STRUCTURE

Overview:

The HOT internship is a two-year paid internship for pharmacy students that begins the summer after the first year of pharmacy school. Interns will gain expo-sure to the fields of hematology and oncology phar-macy through operational, clinical, and research ex-periences.

Structure:

Summer after PY1 Year: 4-5 weeks of technician training in the Cancer Hos-

pital Infusion Pharmacy (CHIP) 4-5 weeks of clinical/administrative rotations with

oncology pharmacists PY2 School Year: Technician staffing in CHIP every third weekend Begin longitudinal research project Summer after PY2 Year: 8-9 weeks of clinical/administrative rotations with

oncology pharmacists Continue longitudinal research project PY3 School Year: Technician staffing in CHIP every third weekend Complete longitudinal research project

Operational training and

longitudinal staffing

Summer intensive

program: clinical

shadowing and rotations

Longitudinal projects

CORE

EXPERIENCES

OPERATIONAL TRAINING AND LONGITUDINAL STAFFING

As HOT interns, students will gain experience in

pharmacy operations by working in the Cancer Hos-

pital Infusion Pharmacy (CHIP). Operational compo-

nents of the internship include:

Technician training to develop competencies in

preparing chemotherapy, utilizing the BD CatoTM

medication workflow system, and delivering

chemotherapy

Staffing in the CHIP every third weekend in rota-

tion with fellow interns throughout PY2 and PY3

years, with equal time spent preparing and deliv-

ering chemotherapy

Staffing one major (4th of July, Thanksgiving,

Christmas) and one minor (MLK, Memorial Day,

Labor Day) holiday over the two-year internship

CORE

EXPERIENCES

Operational training and

longitudinal staffing

Summer intensive pro-

gram: clinical shadowing

and rotations

Longitudinal projects

SUMMER INTENSIVE PROGRAM: CLINICAL

SHADOWING AND ROTATIONS

During both summer sessions, HOT interns

will have the opportunity to rotate with clini-

cal pharmacy specialists in hematology and

oncology. The first summer consists of short-

er shadowing experiences of 2-3 days. During

the second summer, HOT interns can further

explore specific areas of interest through clin-

ical rotations of 3-5 days. Potential rotation

opportunities include:

Ambulatory Breast/GI Malignancies – Aimee Faso, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory BMT – Tatjana Grgic PharmD, BCOP, CPP; Maurice Alexander, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory GU/CNS Malignancies – Katherine Morgan, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory Infusion Clinic – Michelle Gardner, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory Leukemia – Benyam Muluneh, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory Pediatric Oncology – Cassidy Fair-cloth, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, CPP

Ambulatory Supportive Care – Meredith Keisler, PharmD, CPP

Ambulatory Thoracic Oncology – Amber Proctor, PharmD, BCOP, CPP

Benign Hematology – Sheh-Li Chen, PharmD, BCOP

Inpatient BMT – Ryan Shaw, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP; Jonathan Ptachcinski, PharmD, MA, BCPS, BCOP, CPP

Inpatient Malignant Hematology – Stephen Clark, PharmD, BCOP; Jessica Auten, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP

Inpatient Pediatric Oncology – Jenna Kaplan, PharmD

Oncology Precision Medicine – Jill Bates, PharmD, MS, BCOP, CPP

Oncology Administration – Lindsey Amerine, PharmD, MS, BCPS

Operational training and

longitudinal staffing

Summer intensive

program: clinical

shadowing and rotations

CORE

EXPERIENCES LONGITUNIDAL PROJECTS

Overview:

After the first summer experience, HOT interns will have the opportunity to collaborate with a hematolo-gy/oncology pharmacy specialist on a longitudinal research project. Types of projects include clinical re-search and quality improvement studies and will last for approximately two academic years. Examples of Current Projects:

Standardization of Preventative Medication Regi-

mens for Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and

Vomiting in a Pediatric Outpatient Infusion Clinic

(Carolyn Rath, PharmD Candidate c/o 2020)

A Nationwide Study of the Oncology Pharmacist’s

Role in Oral Oncolytic Outcomes (Raena Rhone,

PharmD Candidate c/o 2020)

Past Projects and Publications:

A Comparison of Clofarabine-based (GCLAC) and

Cladribine-based (CLAG) Salvage Chemotherapy

for Relapsed/Refractory AML; Clinical Lympho-

ma, Myeloma & Leukemia, 2017 (Katie

Buhlinger, PharmD c/o 2017)

Retrospective comparison of outcomes in patients

with recurrent or refractory ovarian cancer treat-

ed with PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin at an

academic medical center [Accepted for publica-

tion] (Eric Shen, PharmD c/o 2017)

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Pharmacy Career Opportunities and Outcomes of

Former HOT Interns

Current HOT Interns

and Contact Information

Katie Buhlinger, PharmD c/o 2017: PGY1

Resident at UNC, committed to a PGY2

Oncology Resident position at UNC

Eric Shen, PharmD c/o 2017: working

with the Medical Affairs group at United

Therapeutics

Taylor White, PharmD c/o 2015: Com-

pleted PGY1 Pharmacy residency at Rex

Healthcare, currently practicing in New

Brunswick, Canada

Justin Arnall, PharmD c/o 2014: Adult

Hematology/Oncology and Blood & Mar-

row Transplant at Carolinas HealthCare

System

Joe Moore, PharmD c/o 2014: Former

Eshelman Institute Fellow

Steve Deptola and Justin Reid, PharmD

Candidates c/o 2018: Completing Ad-

vanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences

(APPEs)

Taylor Dennison, c/o 2019

(tedenni@email.unc.edu)

Ryan Ragan, c/o 2019

(rragan@email.unc.edu)

Carolyn Rath, c/o 2020

(cgr8@email.unc.edu)

Raena Rhone, c/o 2020

(raena_rhone@unc.edu)