Johnson City Medical Center

The Department of Pharmacy Services conducts a Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency and a Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC). Residents will develop skills to successfully interact with interprofessional teams to optimize drug therapy, lead medication safety initiatives, and provide education. A variety of clinical experiences is offered with an emphasis on cardiology, critical care, infectious diseases, pediatrics, trauma, pharmacokinetics, oncology, and research.

Program details

Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC) is a 445-bed tertiary referral hospital located in Northeastern Tennessee. JCMC is a Level 1 Trauma Center, an Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and has a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located on campus at Niswonger Children’s Hospital.

Department of Pharmacy

The department of pharmacy has a progressive practice model with centralized inpatient clinical pharmacists, decentralized clinical pharmacists and clinical pharmacy specialists. Pharmacy practice is supported by computerized prescriber order entry, an integrated electronic health record, automated dispensing cabinets, barcode medication administration, and smart infusion pumps. Additionally, the department of pharmacy provides services to an outpatient infusion center, Niswonger Children’s Hospital, and Ballad Health Cancer Care at JCMC.

Pharmacy services provided at JCMC include:

• 24/7 pharmacist code response
• Interprofessional rounding
• Decentralized pharmacy services
• Anticoagulation consults
• Adult parenteral nutrition consults
• Pharmacist-managed renal dosage adjustments
• Pharmacist-managed pharmacokinetic dosing (aminoglycosides and vancomycin)
• Patient medication counseling
• Drug information responses

JCMC serves as an introductory and advanced practice site for Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy at East Tennessee State University. 

For more details visit the Johnson City Medical Center Pharmacy Residency Details page.

Educational leadership

Corinne Allen, PharmD, MBA
Corinne Allen is the Multi-Facility Director of Pharmacy Services for the Southern Market, Ballad Health.

Cathy Lawson, PharmD, BCCCP
Cathy Lawson is the PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director and Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator at JCMC.

Jen Tharp, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Jen Tharp is the PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program Director and Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at JCMC.

Other Preceptors

John Bossaer, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP 
Kelly Covert, PharmD, BCPS 
Abby Jones, PharmD. BCPS 
Cameron Lanier, PharmD, BCPS 
Molly Lassiter, PharmD, BCPS-AQ Cardiology, BCCCP, BCCP 
Paul Lewis, PharmD-AQ ID, BCPS 
Tim Lundberg, PharmD 
Robin Mottern, PharmD, BCPPS 
Ashley Sant, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP 
David Stewart, PharmD, BCPS 
Jen Tharp, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP 
Rob Vincent, PharmD, BCPS 
Vera Wilson, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Learn more

For more information, please contact Cathy Lawson: 
E-mail: cathy.lawson2@balladhealth.org
Office: 423-431-2795