Colleen Culley

Colleen M. Culley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Culley earned both a BS Pharmacy with a minor in French and a Doctor of Pharmacy from Butler University. She completed an American Society of Health-System Pharmacy (ASHP)-accredited Specialty Residency in Drug Information at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Hoechst Marion Roussel (now known as sanofi). She is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.

For 19 years, Dr Culley provided clinical services in drug information and formulary management at UPMC in the drug information center and Drug Use Disease State Management Program at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, and the UPMC Pharmacy Service Center in UPMC Corporate Services. These teams provided the infrastructure for active promotion of safe, effective and science-based use of medication throughout the UPMC. Dr. Culley has been recognized for quality improvement work, as part of several multidisciplinary teams, by the UPMC Presbyterian Quality and Innovation Fair with President's Performance Award for Patient Safety in 2003 and 2008, and the Quality Cup (overall winner) in 2008.