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Zachery Halford

Professor of Pharmacy Practice

About

Zachery Halford, Pharm.D., BCOP, BCPPS, received his Pharm.D. degree from the University of Utah in 2008, and completed an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. Following post-doctoral residency, he returned to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT, as a clinical pharmacist in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and then as the Team Leader and Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in the Immunocompromised Care Unit. Dr. Halford also served as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Roseman University of Health Sciences. Dr. Halford joined Union University College of Pharmacy in 2016 as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice. He maintains a practice site at the Kirkland Cancer Center as a clinical pharmacist specializing in oncologic and hematologic diseases. Dr. Halford is a member of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and the Pediatric Pharmacy Association (PPA). He also serves as the faculty advisor for Union’s student PPA organization. His interests include hematology, oncology, and pediatric pharmacotherapy.

Education

  • Pharm.D., University of Utah

Scholarship

Books

Articles

Presentations

  • The Valuation and Impact of Residency Training on the Pharmacy Career Continuum (2016)

    American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Convention

  • Development of a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model of tacrolimus in adult organ transplant patients. (2016)

    American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annual Meeting

  • Prevalence of Adverse Effects Among Children Receiving Peg-Asparaginase or Erwinia Asparaginase Based on Intravenous versus Intramuscular Routes of Administration (2016)

    Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group’s (PPAG) Annual Convention

  • Are precepting pharmacists happy pharmacists? (2015)

    American Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Meeting

  • Pharmacist Job Satisfaction: Do Pharmacists Really Live Happily Ever After? (2015)

    Utah Health-System Pharmacists Annual Meeting

  • Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Response in Children with Severe Immune Thrombocytopenia Undergoing Treatment with Intravenous Immune Globulin (2015)

    Online in Blood Journal and presented at the American Health-System Pharmacist Midyear meeting

  • Retrospective analysis of intravenous versus oral antivirals for cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients (2013)

    American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacist, Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group, and Western States

  • Adherence to Asthma Therapy among U.S. Military Personnel: Evaluating Adherence with Respect to Military Rank (2009)

    Western States Conference for Residents, Fellows, Preceptors and Sponsors

  • Asthma Management: The Importance of Proper Medication Adherence (2009)

    Hawaii Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting