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About Our Program
AdventHealth Celebration is a non-for-profit, 357 bed state-of-the-art community hospital that serves the residents of Osceola, Orange, Polk and Lake counties as well as patients from all over the world. Established in 1997, AdventHealth Celebration is a prototype for health promotion in a model community designed by Walt Disney. Services are offered to treat and heal but another focus of this facility is to prevent illness and promote good health.
The PGY-1 Pharmacy residency program at AdventHealth Celebration builds on pharmacy education and patient outcomes in order to contribute to the development of clinical pharmacist’s responsibilities of medication-related care of patients. Our campus treats a wide range of patients from all over the world with various disease states which helps to provide our Pharmacy Residents and Pharmacists with experience with treatment of a multitude of disease states as well as the knowledge to help prepare for specialized PGY-2 pharmacy residency training and board certifications.
The acute care PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program was established at AdventHealth Celebration in 2018 however, our clinical pharmacists have been serving as preceptors and mentors to the ambulatory care focus PGY-1 pharmacy residents since 2002. Our campus is also a clinical teaching site for a number of colleges of pharmacy and medicine as well as nursing schools. AdventHealth Celebration provides resident pharmacists opportunity for direct patient care, as well as the ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams in a wide variety of specialties. Our pharmacy team works very closely with providers in a variety of decentralized patient care settings (i.e. emergency department, critical care units, internal medicine floors, oncology unit, etc.). Resident pharmacists will also have the opportunity to staff in the Central Pharmacy and will receive training on how to safely process compounded intravenous and patient specific medications. Upon completion of the acute care PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program at AdventHealth Celebration, our graduate residents will have developed essential skills to become well-rounded pharmacists ready to work in a variety of inpatient settings.
Thank you for your interest in our program and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at any time.
Residency Program Director:
Sandrine Nelson, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist
Sandrine.Nelson@adventhealth.com
Residency Site Coordinator:
Justin Collins, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist
Justin.Collins@adventhealth.com
A Place for Professional and Personal Development
- Program Description
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General Information
- Two, full time 12-month position available
- Face-to-face interview required
- Application deadline: January 3
- Expected start date: Early July
- Weekend and evening service commitment required
- Estimated annual stipend: $53,580 + meeting travel support
- 12 months immediate health insurance
- 20 days paid vacation, sick, and professional days
Required Qualifications
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree
- Eligibility for Florida licensure
- Participation in the National Matching Services
Other Program Benefits
- ACLS and PALS certification and training provided
- Teaching certificate opportunity
- Leadership and management training opportunities
- Travel reimbursement for conferences
- AdventHealth uniform and business cards
- Employee discounts
- Dedicated laptop and workspace
- Gym membership discount
- Learning Experiences
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Following the initial 5-week orientation and training, learning experiences (rotations) are 5 weeks, except December and February Rotations (6 weeks).
Core (Required) Learning Experiences- Pharmacy Enterprise Orientation (2 weeks)
- General Medicine (3 weeks)
- Critical Care Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Elective Learning Experiences (choose four electives)
- Advanced courses
- Ambulatory Care
- Critical Care Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Ambulatory Care
- Cardiovascular Critical Care
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Infectious Disease/Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Neuromedicine
- Neurocritical Care
- Oncology
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Hematology/Oncology
*May take 2 elective learning experiences offsite based on preceptor availability
Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences
- Leadership Learning Experiences (10 weeks each)
- Chief Resident/Team Building
- Education/Student Liaison
- Quality/Medication Safety
- Recruitment/Marketing
- 1 Medication use evaluation (MUE)
- 1 Continuing education (CE) presentations
- 1 Practice-related advancement or quality improvement project including:
- Institutional review board and Office of Research Administration approval
- External presentation of the project or submission for presentation at a local, state, or national meeting
Journal worthy peer review manuscript of the project
- 4 Formal case presentations
- 4 Formal journal club presentations
- Regular review of medication safety events
- Code response
- Department staffing
- Application Information
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Our program participates in the National Match Service Code: 261013
The following application materials must be submitted in PhORCAS by January 3- Completed PhORCAS application
- Curriculum vitae
- Letter of intent
- Three recommendations utilizing the PhORCAS template
- Transcripts from all colleges of pharmacy attended
For questions regarding the application process, please contact Sandrine Nelson at Sandrine.Nelson@adventhealth.com
Meet Our Preceptors

John Handshaw, PharmD, BCACP

Kanako Miyairi, PharmD
Meet Our Residents
Meet Our Past Residents

Ronald Mahan, PharmD
2023-2024

Lizbeth Ramos, PharmD
2023-2024