Clinical Pharmacy Management Team

Andrew Santeusanio, PharmD, BCPS

Director, PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency
Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Manager – Kidney and Pancreas

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy – Pittsburgh, PA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Veterans Affairs Medical Center – Lebanon, PA
  • PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2014

Aniwaa Owusu Obeng, PharmD

Assistant Professor – Institute for Personalized Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine
Pharmacogenomics Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Albany, NY
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center – Bronx, NY
  • PGY-2 Pharmacogenomics Residency: University of Florida College of Pharmacy – Gainesville, FL

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2013

Daniel Park, PharmD

Inpatient Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Rutgers University School of Pharmacy – Piscataway, NJ
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Englewood Hospital – Englewood, NJ
  • PGY-2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2019

Ivy Cohen, BS

Investigational Drug Service Manager

Education and Training

  • Bachelors in Biology: University of Michigan Ann Arbor – Ann Arbor, MI
  • Bachelors in Pharmacy: St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Queens, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 1992

Jessica Frye, PharmD, BCPPS

Critical Care Manager – Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Rutgers University – Piscataway, NJ
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Atlantic Health System – Morristown, NJ
  • PGY-2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency: Rutgers University – Piscataway, NJ

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2019

Kendra Yum, PharmD, BCOP

Director, PGY-2 Oncology Residency
Oncology Clinical Manager – Bone Marrow Transplant

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Philadelphia, PA
  • PGY-2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2012

Lena Ngai, PharmD

Pediatric Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Brooklyn, NY
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Beth Israel Medical Center – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2016

Mohammad A Rattu, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, BCOP

Oncology Clinical Manager – Multiple Myeloma

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences  –  Queens, NY
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System – Brooklyn, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2013

Nicole Davis, PharmD, BCCCP

Director, PGY2 Critical Care Residency
Critical Care Manager– Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit

Education and Training

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: South Carolina College of Pharmacy – Columbia, SC
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY
  • PGY-2 Critical Care Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital/Touro College of Pharmacy – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2016

Brian Keaton, PharmD

Critical Care Manager – Medical Intensive Care Unit

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy – Pittsburgh, PA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY
  • PGY-2 Critical Care Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2020

Polina Lerner, PharmD, BCPS

Director, PGY2 Infectious Disease Residency
Infectious Disease Pharmacy Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Brooklyn, NY
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: The Brooklyn Hospital Center – Brooklyn, NY
  • PGY-2 Infectious Disease Residency: The Brooklyn Hospital center – Brooklyn, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2017

Nicole Ondrush, PharmD, AAHIVP

Infectious Disease Pharmacy Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Western New England University College of Pharmacy – Springfield, MA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: SUNY Upstate University Hospital – Syracuse, NY
  • PGY-2 Infectious Disease Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2023

Adina Petrosan, PharmD

Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Manager – Liver and Small Bowel

Education and Training: 

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: MCPHS University - Boston, MA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital - New Haven, CT
  • PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY 

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2021

Sarah Yun, PharmD, BCTXP

Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Manager - Lung

Education and training: 

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy - Chapel Hill, NC
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA
  • PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital - New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2022

Simone Muller, BS, PharmD, BCPS

Medication Safety Clinical Manager

Education and Training:

  • Bachelors in Pharmacy: St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences -  Queens, NY
  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Albany, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 1999

Timothy Nguyen, PharmD, BCPS, CCP, FASCP

Marie and Arnold Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Faculty Member – Nephrology

Education and Training:

  • Bachelors in Pharmacy: Rutgers University – Piscataway, NJ
  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: RWJUH/Middlesex General Hospital – New Brunswick, NJ

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2009

Manuela Haiduc, PharmD, BCCCP

Critical Care Manager – Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy – Pittsburgh, PA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency: Forbes and West Penn Hospitals – Pittsburgh, PA
  • PGY-2 Critical Care Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2021

Vala Behbahani, PharmD, BCPS, BCTXP

Heart Transplant/Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Education and Training: 

  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Notre Dame of Maryland University—Baltimore, MD
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: University of California, San Francisco Medical Center—San Francisco, CA
  • PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital—New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai: 2022

Hui Lin, PharmD

Education and Training:

  • University of Georgia College of Pharmacy - Augusta, GA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: AU Medical Center - Augusta, GA
  • PGY-2 Critical Care Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital - New Haven, CT

Year Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2023

Josh Clement, PharmD, BCIDP, AAHIVP

Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University - Boston, MA
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Hackensack University Medical Center - Hackensack, NJ
  • PGY2 Pharmacy Residency: University of California Davis Medical Center - Sacramento, CA

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2024

Carlton Menchaca, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Manager - Emergency Medicine

Education and Training:

  • Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Houston College of Pharmacy - Houston, TX
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Memorial Hermann Hospital Texas Medical Center - Houston, TX
  • PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency: The Mount Sinai Hospital - New York, NY

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2024

Dharati Desai, PharmD, BCCCP, BCEMP

Marie and Arnold Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Faculty Member - Emergency Medicine

Education and Training: 

  • Bachelors in Biology: University of Illinois at Chicago- Chicago, IL
  • Doctor of Pharmacy: Midwestern University- Downers Grove, IL
  • PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency: Allegheny General Hospital- Pittsburgh, PA
  • PGY-2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency: Allegheny General Hospital- Pittsburgh, PA

Joined Mount Sinai Hospital: 2024