{"id":2197,"date":"2025-09-12T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:36:54","slug":"building-foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/2025\/09\/12\/building-foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lydia Levis Bloch, as published in Capsule <\/em>magazine, Summer 2025<\/p>\n

For Sharon Wilson, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP<\/strong>, precepting goes beyond educating, affecting, and inspiring all those in her circle. A clinical pharmacist specialist II in surgery critical care at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), Wilson became a preceptor for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy\u2019s (UMSOP)<\/strong><\/a> Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)<\/strong><\/a> program in 1997, a year after joining UMMC.<\/p>\n

Today, Wilson is director of the University of Maryland\u2019s critical care pharmacy practice residency, a clinical pharmacy specialist at UMMC, as well as a UMSOP critical care rotation preceptor.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrecepting gives the pharmacist a chance to be a role model and mentor to students in ways that will impact the course of the profession for years to come,\u201d says Wilson, whose first name is pronounced Shah-ron. \u201cMore importantly, precepting is an opportunity to build on the foundation of future professionals who will be responsible for caring for patients and improving their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson enjoys seeing students learn new skills and has a passion for care of critically ill patients. Precepting allows her to share that passion with her students.<\/p>\n

According to Mojdeh Heavner, PharmD \u201908, BCCCP, FCCM, FCCP<\/strong><\/a>, professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research<\/strong><\/a> at UMSOP and assistant dean for experiential learning, \u201cPreceptors have a tremendous influence on our PharmD students and their career trajectories.\u201d Providing more than 30 percent of the curriculum, preceptors \u2014 pharmacists and other professionals who oversee the PharmD students on their rotations in a variety of settings \u2014 are vital to their training.<\/p>\n

\u201cA caring preceptor can positively impact students and open doors that they might not have known existed,\u201d says Heavner, herself a former student of Wilson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Jenny Ababio, PharmD \u201924<\/strong>, a recent student of Wilson\u2019s, agrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had two objectives, and the rotation allowed me to achieve them,\u201d Ababio<\/strong> says. \u201cFirst, I wanted to improve my communication skills, and second, better my teamwork skills, especially in the ICU setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ababio had envisioned a remote pharmacy career, but during her rotation with Wilson, she embraced the fast-paced environment of critical care and developed confidence in rapid decision making. Her interest in patient care and in high-pressure situations increased. She now works as a pharmacist at a CVS in Queens, N.Y.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Wilson created a supportive environment that helped me not only professionally but also personally,\u201d says Ababio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to precepting, Wilson provides services to a 24-bed surgical ICU at UMMC and is director of the University of Maryland Residency and Fellowship Program\u2019s postgraduate year 2 critical care pharmacy practice residency.<\/p>\n

Wilson\u2019s research interests include optimization of medication use in the ICU and pharmacokinetic\/pharmacodynamic challenges in ICU patients. Wilson, who earned her PharmD degree from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy in 1993, is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, where she is the first non-physician vice chair of the Surgery Section\u2019s Patient Safety Committee.<\/p>\n

Wilson\u2019s dedication to learning emanates beyond precepting, through her church\u2019s student empowerment ministry, where she works with other members to provide resources that support the educational goals of the church\u2019s students.<\/p>\n

Heavner<\/strong> reminisces about her own rotation with Wilson at UMMC. \u201cDr. Wilson has a wealth of knowledge, is a calming presence in the hectic ICU environment, and is highly respected by professional colleagues. She genuinely cares about her mentees.\u201d<\/p>\n

View the full issue of the Summer 2025 edition of Capsule<\/em> magazine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through decades of dedication as a preceptor and mentor Sharon Wilson, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, empowers future pharmacists by sharing her passion for critical care and shaping the next generation of patient-centered professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,34],"tags":[539,521,76,60,540],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-community","category-practice","tag-capsule","tag-mojdeh-heavner","tag-pharmd","tag-preceptors","tag-sharon-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}