Amy L. Seybert, PharmD

Amy L. Seybert is dean and Dr. Gordon J. Vanscoy Professor of Pharmacy of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Prior to her selection as dean, she served as chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics for 12 years and as associate director of pharmacy programs at the Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research. Furthermore, she held the position of pharmacy residency administrator at UPMC and Pitt, the largest pharmacy residency program in the country.

Dr. Seybert is an accomplished faculty member who has been honored as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American Society of Health System Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Academy of the National Academies of Practice. In 2009, she received the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation Pharmacy Residency Excellence Preceptor Award. She was named the 2021 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and, in 2024, she was recipient of the ACCP Education Award, which recognizes a member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the professional or postgraduate level. She has earned distinction at Pitt as well, having been recognized with the prestigious Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. Furthermore, Dr. Seybert is a past president of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Board of Directors, which is responsible for accrediting all PharmD programs in the United States.

Dr. Seybert has developed a record of outstanding patient care and creating programs that enhance patient-centered care in cardiovascular disease. She is recognized as an international leader in simulation education in pharmacy and, in 2013, became a certified health care simulation educator through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Additionally, she established the cardiovascular specialty residency program at the School of Pharmacy, which incorporates high-fidelity human patient simulation to advance pharmacotherapy knowledge, clinical decision making and medication safety skills in health care professionals. To date, she has trained more than 100 pharmacy residents.

An accomplished researcher, Dr. Seybert has published more than 85 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has served as principal investigator on 14 grants, in addition to being coinvestigator on another 20 grants. She received her BS in pharmacy and her PharmD from Pitt’s School of Pharmacy and returned after completing her pharmacy residency in cardiovascular critical care at Tampa General Hospital.