Justine Gortney

Faculty Profile

Associate Professor - Clinical
ai2775@wayne.edu

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PharmD, BCPS

Office Location

EACPHS, Room 2124

Phone

(313) 993-8196

Department

Pharmacy Practice

Degrees and Certifications

Degrees
  • 1999 - Pharm.D., Purdue University
  • 1998 - B.S., Pharmacy, Purdue University

Certification

  • Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. Achieved 11/03 (renewed 2017).
  • American Pharmacists Association. Pharmacy-Based Immunization Certification. (original 2008; renewed 2018)
  • Certified in Basic Life Support and First Aid. 1994-present (renewed 2023)

Positions and Employment

  • 2016-present - Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University 
  • 2014-present, Director of Assessment, Wayne State University
  • 2009-2016, Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
  • 2009-2014, Faculty (shared appointment), Wayne State University and Detroit Receiving Hospital
  • 2005-2009, Assistant Professor, Mercer University
  • 2002-2005, Clinical Pharmacist, Baylor University Medical Center
  • 2000-2002, Faculty (shared appointment), Wayne State University and Harper University Hospital
  • 1999-2000, Pharmacy Practice Resident, University of Pittsburgh

Awards and Honors

  • 2020-2021 - Academic Leadership Academy Fellow at Wayne State University
  • 2020 - PRISM Prize 2020 Receipt for Innovation for Teaching
  • 2020 - Wayne State- National Excellence in Assessment Designee
  • 2019 - Collaborative for Excellence in Interprofessional Education
  • 2018 - Honored speaker at University Assessment Luncheon
  • 2018 - Honorable Mention from United States Public Health Service and Interprofessional Education
  • 2014, 2011 - Exam Item Writer for National Association Boards of Pharmacy

Professional Memberships

  • 2021-present - Michigan Pharmacists Association
  • 2019-present - Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International
  • 2005-present - American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
  • 1998-present - American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists

Recent Publications

Refereed Journals

  • Mohammad I, Lobkovich A, Martirosov A, Lipari M, Garwood C, Salinitri F, Gortney JS, Berlie HD. The struggle is real: facilitating pharmacy student success on rotations when challenges arise. J AphA 64(2024): 102086.
  • Gortney JS. Agnihotri SK, Stepho M, Yousef A. Tong S. Helping fourth year student pharmacists develop their professional brand. Curr Pharm Teach Learn 2023, 15(10):903-910.
  • Augustine J, Gortney J, Rudolph M, Thompson S. Making Progress: a national study on the development and use of progression assessments in U.S. pharmacy curricula. Curr Pharm Teaching Learn, Accepted for publication February 2, 2023.
  • Castleberry A, Daugherty, Zeeman J, Gortney JS, Lee KC, Dey S, Drayton S. “Put me in coach!” Engaging faculty to form a winning assessment team. Am J Pharm Ed 2023, In press, accepted for publication.
  • Gortney JS, Fava JP, Berti AD, Stewart B. Comparison of student pharmacists’ performance on in-person versus virtual OSCEs in a pre-APPE capstone course. Curr Pharm Teaching Learn 2022; 14(9):1116-21.
  • Park SK, Daugherty KK, Kolluru S, Guanseelan S, Janetski BK, Lebovitz L, Vellurattil RP, Gortney JS. Rethinking Pharmacy Workforce Crisis by Exploring Unconventional and Emerging Career Pathways. Am J Pharm Ed 2022; 86(3): Article 8773.
  • Lahiri M, Lucarotti R, Gortney JS. Engaging Faculty Advisors to Promote Students’ Personal and Professional Development. Curr Pharm Teaching Learn 2021; 13(10):1346-50.
  • Gortney JS, Lahiri M, Giuliano C, Saleem H, Khan M, Salinitri F, Lucarotti R. Evaluation of an Instrument to Assess Students’ Personal and Professional Development during Faculty Advising Process. Am J Pharm Ed 2021; 85(3): Article 8201.
  • Park S, Daugherty KK, Kolluru S, Lebovitz L, Gunaseelan S, Janetski B, Velluralti, Gortney JS. Pharmacy workforce crisis: Leveraging pharmacist’s skills and exploring innovative pharmacy careers. Am J Pharm Educ. 2021; 85(7): Article 8737: 609.
  • August BA, Gortney JS, Mendez J.Evaluating interprofessional socialization: Matched student self-assessments surrounding underserved clinic participation.Curr Pharm Teaching Learn.Accepted for publication. April 2020.
  • Rudolph MJ, Gortney JS, Brownfield A, Caldwell D, Castleberry A, Le UM, Medina MS, Sease JM, Trujillo J, Welch AC, Daughtery KM. Student perceptions of the utility of the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment.Curr Pharm Teaching Learn 2020; 12(3): 255-264.
  • Rudolph MJ, Gortney JS, Maerten-Rivera JL, Bray BS, Shah S, Hein BE, Coyle EA, Buring SM. A study of the relationship between the PCOA and the NAPLEX using a multi-institutional sample. Am J Pharm Ed 2019; 80(2):Article 6867.

Research website

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3984-226X

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Justine Gortney provides direction in program and student assessment for the Pharm.D. and graduate programs. She has expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning and internal medicine. She also is interested in serving the community and is a faculty leader in WSU's Community Homeless Interprofessional Program (CHIP).

Research Description

Dr. Justine (Schuller) Gortney is at Wayne State University as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and has a shared appointment with Detroit Receiving Hospital where she practices as a clinical pharmacy specialist in internal medicine. She chairs Summative Evaluations for the College of Pharmacy is the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Pharmacy Teaching Certificate Program. She has precepted at least 75 students or residents including IPPE, APPE, and PGY-1 on inpatient rotations, research, and academic instruction and has encountered a variety of learners and performance. Through curricular leadership roles, she has contributed to evaluation of and policy development on preventing and managing challenging trainees at the college. In addition, she had served as a PGY-1 co-coordinator (2000-2002). Prior to her current appointment at WSU and DRH, she was an assistant professor at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia (2005-2009), a clinical pharmacist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas (2002-2005), and a joint faculty with Wayne State and Harper Hospital (2000-2002). She is interested in the areas of internal medicine and educational research. She belongs to ASHP, ACCP, and AACP, and is on national committees for both ASHP and AACP. Dr. Gortney earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Purdue University in 1999, completed PGY-1 at the University of Pittsburgh in 2000, and received her BCPS in 2003.

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