PGY1 Pharmacy Residency
The NEOMED/AxessPointe Community Health Centers Residency Program
Apply everything you’ve learned to patients, situations and settings through a residency.

The NEOMED/AxessPointe Community Health Centers Residency Program
The College of Pharmacy at NEOMED offers a postgraduate year one (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency Program with an ambulatory care and teaching focus designed to cultivate practitioners who wish to develop clinical expertise, educate future pharmacists, enhance their leadership and project management skills, and engage in research. Graduates of the residency program are prepared to provide pharmaceutical care services in a community or ambulatory care setting and to become a clinical faculty member at a school of pharmacy.
Did you know?
Our 2023 PGY-1 match rate was 94.4%, the highest in Ohio and eighth highest in nation (national average 82%)
Pharmacy residents participating in the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program develop and enhance skills in five distinct learning experiences:
Develop clinical expertise
Provide educational opportunities
Enhance leadership & project management skills
Engage in research
Directly impact patient care

AxessPointe Community Health Centers, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), is a not-for-profit corporation that delivers primary medical, dental, mental and preventative health services in medically underserved areas.
Patient care responsibilities vary and are under the guidance of the assigned site preceptor.

Residents gain experience as a clinical faculty member through teaching large and small groups, participating in committee work, and attending college and department meetings.
Clinical faculty experience is developed at NEOMED under the guidance of the residency program director.
Pharmacy residents report to the residency program director. Residents also work closely with their residency preceptor.

Program Director
Phone: 330.325.6315
Email: kfurdich@380cebbe0d.nxcli.io

Director of Pharmacy
Associate Professor of Pharmacy
Phone: 330.325.6225
Email: mawad@380cebbe0d.nxcli.io
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Patti Pfeifer
Program Coordinator
Phone: 330.325.6390
Email: ppfeifer@380cebbe0d.nxcli.io
Kenneth Furdich, Pharm.D., BCACP
Phone: 330.325.6315
Email: kfurdich@380cebbe0d.nxcli.io
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