Student Organizations

The School of Pharmacy Student Association represents the student body and sponsors social functions. It is comprised of the class officers and officers of the other student organizations.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Charly Schmitz
President-Elect: Denna Isom
Treasurers: Zacaria Ka
Treasurer-Elect: Jessica Dudzinski and Isabelle Cataldo
Secretary: Adam Milby
Interprofessional Chair:Jabra Altarazi, Dimah Alani, Ryan Ni, and Samuel Lazarus 
Advisors: Niki Pizzutelli, Serena Washburn and Jennifer Rosenberg

The AMCP student chapter at UB was formed in 2011 to facilitate the education, development, and promotion of the principles and practices of managed care pharmacy. There are over 18,000 pharmacists working for health plans and pharmacy benefit management companies. It’s their responsibility to make sure that the plan they design provides individual patients with appropriate drugs and drug therapies, conveniently and cost-effectively. It’s a complex job, involving the expert skills of clinically trained pharmacists at every step in the patient-care process. As with pharmacists who practice in other settings, pharmacists in managed care environments are committed to ensuring that medications are used appropriately to improve patient’s health. When you join, AMCP will help you navigate the world of managed care pharmacy, build a professional network, and explore career paths!

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Nadine Bustos
Vice President: Ny Ako Ndrianjasoazanany
Treasurer: Jabra Altarazi 
Secretary: Nhan Nguyen
Historian: Syrena Than 
Diplomat: Dan Kurowski
Diplomat: Joshua Johnson
P&T Competition Coordinator: Chelsea Obelle
P-2 Liason:Julia Spadaro
P-3 Liason: Latoya Mwakona
Faculty Advisor: Scott Monte

The APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) is a division of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Its purpose is to foster the professional development of students. This organization sponsors a number of programs including the Poison Prevention Program aimed at pre-school and early grade school children, the Drug Abuse Awareness Program for grade school and high school students, a hypertension screening program, "brown bag counseling", Big Brother/Big Sister program, and more!

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Hillery Downey
President-Elect: Jonathan Colantuono
Membership VP: Ralph Januale
Policy VP: Sean Kawa
Finance VP: Yuzhe Zhang
Communication VP: Nina Zheng
Professionalism VP: Derek Rossetti
Interprofessionalism VP: Priya Duraisamy
Secretary: Jian Dong
Faculty Advisors: Erin Slazak and Christopher Daly

AAPS serves its membership, the pharmaceutical sciences, the biomedical and biotechnological community, the health professions and the interest of public health. This is accomplished by providing open forums for the exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge by fostering the education and career growth of members and recognizing individual achievement; by influencing the formation of public policy relevant to health and related issues of public concern and, by promoting the pharmaceutical sciences as they relate to health issues of public concern.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Se Jin Kim 
Treasurer:  Kathy Ma
Secretary:  Muhan Jiang
Social Media Manager: Mfonabasi Ette
Faculty Advisor: Dhaval Shah

ASCP is an organization that seeks to promote the role of the consultant pharmacist as a health-care specialist. The student branch of the New York State chapter of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists was formed in the spring of 1997. The branch functions as a student arm of the state organization and offers opportunities for students interested in consultant pharmacy.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Joan Wang
President-Elect: Tino Deemer 
Vice President/Treasurer: Sam Lazarus 
Secretary: Mallory Bradley
Membership Chair: Ralph Januale
Wellness Clinic Chair: Isabella Cataldo
Alzheimers Awareness/Social Engagement Chair: Corrina Quach
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wahler

The CPFI Student chapter at UB was formed in December of 2009 to provide fellowship among like-minded professionals in the health-care and medicinal sciences. We hope to challenge and promote spiritual growth centered on Jesus Christ by integrating faith into the professional and personal lives of pharmacists and students.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Karina Babina
President-Elect: Noah Wuethrich
Secretary: Natalia Kyriakopoulos
Treasurer: Jabra Altarazi 
Social Media Curator: Noah Wuethrich
Faculty Advisor: Edward Bednarczyk

The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacist Collegiate Chapter (AAPP UB Collegiate Chapter) is an organization made up of professionals with the common goal of improving health outcomes for people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. Members of AAPP aim to apply specialized clinical knowledge to train healthcare professionals and provide improved patient care. The AAPP chapter started in 2017.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Robert Peterson
President-Elect: Tyler Leote
Treasurer: Kaitlyn Vu
Secretary: Kyra Gawera 
Historian: Angelene Roberts
Faculty Advisors: Tammie Lee-Demler and Samara White

Dean’s Student Ambassadors are a voluntary public relations organization of students who assist in the promotion of the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to prospective students, their families, alumni, preceptors, and the university and external communities.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Abbey Swackhamer
Vice President: Madison Blesy
Events Coordinator: Anna Gambacorta
Pharmaceutical Sciences Liaison: Caroline Bosmajian
Advisors: Jennifer Rosenberg, Christine Stumm, Tyler Bingham and Niki Pizzutelli

Refer to Dean's Student Ambassadors webpage for application, information and instructions.

The Industry Pharmacists Organization (IPhO) believes that pharmacists' scientific training, medication expertise, clinical acumen, patient focus and experience as healthcare providers make us ideally suited for a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacists play a key role in professional organizations by making valuable contributions to drug development and optimal medication utilization. IPhO works with its members to advocate for advancing industry-based pharmacists to leadership positions by increasing awareness and recognition among employers, senior management, colleagues, thought leaders, educators and students of what pharmacists have to offer.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Klaudi Lekaj 
President-Elect: Nina Zheng
Treasurer: Kaitlyn Vu
Director of National Engagement: Isabelle Cataldo
Director of Social Media and Marketing: Abbey Swackhammer
Director of Professional Programming: Thomas Awad
Director of Communications: Ny Ako Ndrianjasoazanany
VIP Case Competition Co-Chair: Nidhi Soman
VIP Case Competition Co-Chair: Sean Kawa
Faculty Advisor: Dhaval Shah

The UB International Pharmaceutical Students Federation is an organization focused on outreach initiatives to underserved populations on the local, national, and international level. The organization is responsible for organizing annual international medical mission trips, annual medical mission trips to areas within the United States, and local outreach in the Western New York area throughout the year. Students also have the opportunity to attend the annual Global Missions Health Conference in November.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Angelene Roberts
International VP: Ryan Ni
Secretary: Syrena Than
Treasurer: Nhan Nguyen
Outreach Coordinator: Katelyn Hilko
Health Campaign Coordinator: Latoya Mwakona
Faculty Advisor: Gina Prescott

Lambda Kappa Sigma is an international professional pharmacy fraternity whose mission is to promote the profession of pharmacy among women and advance women within the profession by developing its members as individuals and leaders through the support of fellow members, while encouraging a high standard of professional ethics and scholarship.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Clark Chen
Vice President: Corrina Quach
Treasurer: Shenyang Ma
Membership Coordinator/Historian: Lucas Couto
Social Chair: Edison Lin
Professionalism Chair: Jingxiu Jin
Faculty Advisor: Irene Reilly

The National Community Pharmacists Association represents the interests of pharmacists who practice in independently owned pharmacies. The student chapter promotes the educational and practice interests of students interested in community pharmacy practice in the independent pharmacy setting.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Edison Lin
Vice President: Yanrong Xu
Treasurer: Dennis Davidov
Secretary: Megan Callahan
Legislative Chair: Adam Milby
Membership VP: Olivia Giammarco
Social Media Chair: Gary Sha
P2 Liaison: Amanda Yang
P3 Liaison: Sumin Kim
Advisor: Anthony Pattin

The mission of Non-Pharmacy Options (NPO) is to promote the three pillars essential to a successful community; unity, inclusion, and engagement. This club will function as a social support system separate from those tied to a parent organization or academic mission and is open to all pharmacy students. 

2024 - 2025 Officers:

President: Austin Grzechowiak
Internal Engagement Chair: Kaylee Atehortua
External Engagement Chair: Bryan Flores
Treasurer: Mitchell Koralewski
Historian: Christopher Mayer
P3 Liaison: Andrew VanEps
P2 Liaison: Dylan Books
Advisor: Niki Pizzutelli

The mission of PPA is to promote safe and effective medication use in children through collaboration, advocacy, research and education.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Nicole Kayrala 
President-Elect: Samantha McRae
Vice President: Loulou Khoury
Treasurer: Yana Prokopecho
Secretary: Kaylee Hutchins
Fundraising Chair: Nusrat Samiya Mithila
Volunteer Chair: Juila Beutel
Social Chair: Kaylee Aterhoura
P2 Liaison: Sanjana Chacko 
P3 Liaison:  Desiree Herman 
Faculty Advisor: Mary Riedy

The Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Student Association (PGSA) provides a voice for pharmaceutical sciences graduate students. The Pharmaceutical Sciences GSA organizes student activities and provides information concerning departmental and university-wide happenings to make your experience at UB more enjoyable. One of the important activities we sponsor is the “Alumni Symposium” where a PharmSci alumnus is invited to provide current graduate students with insights into the pharmaceutical industry, FDA, or Academia. PGSA also sponsors annual events such as ice skating, pumpkin carving, and bowling.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Wensi Wu
Vice President: Joseph Farag
Treasurer: Arthur Germakovski
Secretary: Nitheesh Yanamandala
Board Members: Raja Ram Karthikeyan and Mengqi Zhao 

The purpose of the society is the encouragement, recognition and promotion of leadership in pharmacy. Members are selected by peer recognition. Eligibility for membership includes high moral and ethical character, a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher, and successful completion of first professional year.

2024 - 2025 Officers:

President: Desiree Herman
Vice President: Priya Karintholil
Treasurer: Loulou Khoury
Secretary: Christopher Yau
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wahler

The Pre-Pharmacy Club at UB welcomes all students who are interested in pursuing a career in the pharmacy profession.

Advisor: Sara Robinson, Director of Undergraduate Advisement and Recruitment

The Rho Chi Society is a national pharmacy honor society. On the basis of their academic standing (top 20% of their class), students may be invited to membership in their P-2 year in the School. A major purpose of Rho Chi is to promote high scholarship in pharmacy.

2024 - 2025 Officers:
President: Jian Dong
Vice President: Lexy Delanoy
Treasurer: Katelyn Hilko
Secretary: Hillery Downey
Historian: Klaudi Lekaj
Faculty Advisor: Collin Clark

The Student Association of Specialty Pharmacy is the student division of the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy, which was created to invest in the future of specialty pharmacy practice by promoting student engagement in specialty pharmacy through education, professional development, and networking with members and affiliated partners of the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy.  SASP strives to educate students about career paths within the field of specialty pharmacy, and increase student awareness of current issues and topics of interest in the specialty pharmacy field through guest speakers and student engagement projects.

2024-2025 Officers:
President: Brandon Fajardo
President-Elect: Kaitlyn Vu
Vice President: Bryan Flores
Secretary: Andres Garcia
Treasurer: Chelsea Obelle
P3 Class Liaison: Christopher Louie
P2 Class Liaison: Jennifer Malile
P1 Class Liaison: TBD
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Steele

The purpose of SCCP is to increase student awareness in the area of clinical pharmacy by providing information about opportunities and careers within the field. The organization promotes the development of leadership and other skills necessary to perform duties required by a clinical pharmacist as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, encouraging excellence in patient care, research and education.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Tim Le
President-Elect: Vicki Zhang
Treasurer: Shenyang Ma
Secretary: Andres Garcia
P2 Liaison: Raymond Lin
P2 Liaison: Emily Yuan
P3 Liaison: Christopher Yau
P3 Liaison: Michelle Jabour
Project Coordinator: Brandon Fajardo
IT Chair: Lucas Couto
Faculty Advisor: Calvin Meaney

The graduating class publishes SIGNA, the school’s yearbook. SIGNA is an exciting record of student experiences here at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

2024-2025 Officers:

President:Amy Huang
Treasurer: Christopher Louie
President-Elect: Urjana Sha
Secretary: Yan Pan
Staff Advisor: Niki Pizzutelli

The Formulary is a publication written for and by pharmacy students. It is a stepwise approach to pharmacy school and student life at the University of Buffalo. It includes pharmacy-related news, editorials, and humor. The Formulary provides a way for organizations to showcase what they do and for pharmacy students to have a voice that could be instrumental to improving the program.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Natalia KyriaKopoulos
President-Elect/VP: Jessica Dudzinski
Lead Calendar Chair: Chloe Richards
Lead Content Chair: Xiaoqi Lu
Lead Communication Chair: Jennie Qin
Co-Calendar Chairs: Nadine Bustos, Vicki Zhang, Billy Besold
Co-Content Chairs: Yewen Chen,Anusha Gupta, Rutu Patel, Victoria Bartella 
Co-Communication Chairs: Chris Mayer, Hillery Downey, Xiaoqi Lu
Faculty Advisor: Kathy Boje
Staff Advisor: Niki Pizzutelli

The Student National Pharmaceutical Association is an educational and service association of students who are concerned about pharmacy issues, professional development, and the lack of minority representation in pharmacy and other health-related professions.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Corrina Quach
President-Elect: Dimah Allani
Vice President: Ehson Raoufi Zadeh
Secretary: Sanjana Chacko
Treasurer: Jabra Altarazi
Historian: Stephie Ikama
Fundraising Chair: Nicole Kayrala
Service Chair:Amarachi Kanu
Faculty Advisor: Kalpesh Desai

SPAWNY is an organization of students of pharmacy dedicated to the advancement of the profession of pharmacy. Increased membership and leadership resources, proactive political action, comprehensive community outreach, enhancement of student skills and education and networking with community practitioners will provide a solid foundation that promotes the contemporary concepts of pharmaceutical care. SPAWNY will encourage the development of student abilities to enter the profession of pharmacy upon graduation. Members are represented at the annual Pharmacy Day in Albany to advocate progressive legislation and regulation that supports public health.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Mohamad Ghazi
Vice President: Katherine Beikirch
Treasurer: Dimah Alani
Secretary: Christopher Yau

SPSSNY is the student chapter of PSSNY – Pharmacists Society of the State of New York. The aim of this society is to unite the pharmacists of the state for mutual assistance, encouragement, and improvement in order to maintain the standard of pharmacy practice at a high professional and ethical level.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Michael Motto 
President Elect: Nadia Malik
Vice President: Syeda Rahman
Secretary: Katherine Beikirich 
Engagement Chair: Jacob Furmanik
Faculty Advisor: Chris Daly

SSHP is the student chapter of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The organization promotes active student membership in local, state and national health-system organizations, stimulates student interest in health-system pharmacy/academia careers, encourages students to pursue post-graduate residency training, and facilitates career development and professionalism among students.

2024-2025 Officers:

President: Derek Rossetti
President-Elect: Adia Vazquez
Secretary: Christopher Louie
Policy Chair: Jennifer Malile
Director of Communications: Kaylee Hutchins
Treasurer: Bryan Flores
Faculty Advisor: Nicole Cieri-Hutcherson