Pinto Leadership Essay Award – Made possible by a special grant from ST Health
2025 – Zoey Zagoria, PharmD
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Essay Topic: Describe how health-system pharmacy leaders can develop future pharmacy leaders through succession planning
2024 – Angel-Rose Weber, PharmD
Albany Medical Center
Essay Topic: Substance USe Disorder and its impact and how you will use this experience to improve pharmacy practice in the future
2023 – Viktoriya Avlasevich, PharmD
University of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital
Essay Topic: Considerations for incorporation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) into pharmacy leadership development
2022 – Austin Golia, PharmD
PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Resident
Essay Topic: Compare and Contrast Servant and Transformational Leadership Strategies and in Your Opinion which Strategy is Best Applied in Health-System Pharmacy
2019 – Chrissy Vu, PharmD
Mount Sinai Health System/Touro College of Pharmacy
PGY2 Infectious Diseases Resident, Instructor of Pharmacy Practice
Essay Topic: Define and Describe an Innovative Approach for Pharmacists in Improving Medication Adherence
2018 – Bejoy Maniara