2025-2026 Program Director
Grace Benanti, PharmD, BCCCP
PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Director
Clinical Pharmacist, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Education: PGY2 Critical Care Residency, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Banner University Medical Center – Phoenix; PharmD, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
2026-2027 Program Director
Shannon Kuhrau, PharmD, BCCCP
PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Coordinator
Residency Research Co-coordinator
Clinical Pharmacist, Burn Intensive Care Unit
Education: PGY2 Critical Care Residency, Loyola University Medical Center; PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Loyola University Medical Center; PharmD, Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove Campus
Program Coordinator
Kaley Deichstetter, PharmD, BCCCP
PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Coordinator
Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care
Education: PGY2 Critical Care Residency, Rush University Medical Center; PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Rush University Medical Center; PharmD, University of Cincinnati James L Winkle College of Pharmacy
Required Experiences
- Burn Intensive Care Unit
- Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
- Continuing Education Seminar *
- Critical Care Conference *
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency Response *
- Medical Intensive Care Unit
- Medication Use Evaluation *
- Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit
- Orientation
- Pharmacy Improvement *
- Pharmacy Operations *
- Research Project *
- Surgical-Trauma Intensive Care Unit
Elective Experiences
- Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Infectious Diseases (if not completed as a PGY1)
- Intensive Care Unit Float
- Lung Transplant
- MacNeal Intensive Care Unit (offsite if available)
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Nutrition
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Poison Center/Toxicology (offsite if available)
- Repeat any required rotation
*No travel funding provided for offsite rotations
Longitudinal Experiences
- Research Project (12 months) - includes 4 weeks of dedicated research time
- Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) (12 months)
- Continuing Education Seminar (Longitudinal) (6 months)
- Pharmacy Operations (12 months)
- Teaching and Learning Certificate (TLC) (6 months) (if not completed as a PGY1)
- Pharmacy Improvement – Longitudinal (12 months)
- ED on call (12 months)
- Emergency Response (12 months)
- Cardiac Arrest Response
- Code Stroke Response
**Required if not completed as a PGY1
