Brittany Ciriello, Pharmd Email & Phone Number

Apothecary & Wellness Center

• Manage a team of 21 pharmacists, technicians and interns from scheduling and operational needs to professional development.• Serve as the primary preceptor to PGY1 residents and APPE students.• Continually review and revise workflow operations and reconfigure outdated pharmacy space to increase efficiency.• Support ongoing retail pharmacy expansion efforts and design plans.• Lead various strategic planning projects across YNHH, with a primary focus on increasing prescription capture and enhancing the patient experience and transition of care, ultimately aimed at reducing readmission rates.• Serve as Pharmacist Advisor of Pharmacy Technician Career Ladder Committee, 2021-present.• Deliver system-wide Leadership Education Series presentations.• Manage prescription volume growth across multiple service lines throughout burnout in healthcare and staffing challenges.• Operationalized and manage retail pharmacy involvement in YNHH Home Hospital Program.• Uphold wholesale license to support ongoing health system needs and partnerships.• Led retail pharmacy MyChart integration and continue to increase utilization.• Partner with various interdepartmental teams to overcome drug availability and access barriers.• Created over 20 policies and procedures to serve as a framework for current and future retail pharmacy operations.• Presented multiple abstracts at 2022 Joseph A. Zaccagnino Safety, Quality and Experience Conference.• Developed multidisciplinary workflow and safely dispensed of over 5,000 oral COVID treatments statewide.• Participated in the YNHH Lean In Program, 2020.

Apothecary & Wellness Center

• Served as a member of the YNHH Pharmacist Career Ladder Committee, 2018-2022.• Served as a “meds-to-beds” concierge pharmacist for patients being discharged from inpatient floors and short-term surgeries, counseling patients on their prescriptions in an effort to improve adherence and decrease hospital readmissions.• Built rapport with nurses and providers throughout YNHH to better transitions of care from the inpatient to outpatient setting by attending weekly team meetings on the units and keeping an open line of communication between the teams.• Improved workflow within the pharmacy to elevate our abilities to produce and dispense prescriptions for patients in the community, as well as YNHH employees.• Collaborated with other healthcare providers to optimize patients' medication profiles and improve health outcomes.• Delivered our Outpatient and Retail Pharmacy Services presentation at the biweekly Pharmacy Core Orientation.• Assisted in interviewing potential new hires and train and develop new pharmacists in all job functions of the Apothecary.• Prepared medications for patients at the Grimes Center, YNHH’s long-term care facility, with a focus on antimicrobial stewardship and overall medication therapy appropriateness.

• Managed the district's Patient Care successes and opportunities, helping store teams improve patients’ medicationadherence and pushing our district into a top performing team across the region.• Attended monthly regional leadership meetings and hosted weekly district-wide conference calls to update team leaders on the successes and opportunities of our district as a whole, as well as any region or company-wide initiatives.• Trained all new pharmacist hires throughout the district in successful workflow and team management behaviors.• Mentored pharmacists in the Foundations for Leading program, helping them understand and accomplish their Individual Development Plans.

Waterbury, Ct

• Managed a team of over 20 healthcare professionals, including five staff pharmacists, two lead technicians and oneinventory specialist, in a retail pharmacy filling over 6,000 prescriptions per week.• Coached and developed pharmacy interns throughout their careers as students into high-performing, hirable pharmacists.• Collaborated with other healthcare providers to optimize patients' medication profiles and improve health outcomes.• Identified patients who will benefit from vaccinations and easily administered routine immunizations.• Provided quality patient counseling and education to help patients on their paths to better health.• Transcribed, produced and dispensed prescriptions for patients in the community with a focus on drug safety and appropriateness.• Served as the 2016 District Regulatory Expert, ensuring state and federal record-keeping compliance across all 14 CT stores of District 3, Region 18.• Served as the 2015-2016 District Immunization Specialist—tracked stores' successes and opportunities surrounding immunization goals and best practices.

Doctor Of Pharmacy (Pharmd), Pharmacy

Activities and Societies: American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists, Connecticut Pharmacists AssociationFounding.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Allied Health Sciences

Activities and Societies: Delta Zeta, UConn Phonathon