UHCOP Welcomes Kimberly Nguyen

Nguyen Appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Institutional Based Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences

UH College of Pharmacy recently welcomed Kimberly A. Nguyen, Pharm.D., as Director of Institutional Based Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences and Clinical Assistant Professor.

Nguyen joined the college from Houston Methodist Hospital, where she had served in a Clinical Specialist positions in Cardiology and Internal Medicine beginning in 2004. Nguyen also developed and coordinated the Methodist Observership Program, which offered P1 and P2 pharmacy students early exposure to clinical/health-system pharmacy practice and environment. (Nguyen served as lead author of a paper on the program published in a 2012 issue of the American Journal of Health System Pharmacists).

Nguyen also received several citations during her career at Methodist, including Recognition of Excellence in Clinical Intervention Documentation; Recognition of Integrity and Versatility; ICARE Hospital Award nomination; and Certificate of Excellence-Speaker in the Grand Nursing Rounds.

A 2002 graduate of UHCOP’s Pharm.D. program, Nguyen completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center with Texas Tech and a PGY2 Infectious Diseases residency at the University of Texas-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Nguyen’s teaching experience includes faculty appointments at Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (adjunct) and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy (clinical assistant instructor) as well as a student/resident preceptor and mentor preceptorship/mentorship of Pharm.D. students and residents since 2003.