Associate Director of Pharmacy

Maria M. Claudio, BS, PharmD, BCPS is currently the Associate Director of Pharmacy and the PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program Director at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center.She graduated from Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy, Brooklyn, NY where she completed a BS and a Doctor in Pharmacy degrees. She completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and is Board certified in Pharmacotherapy.

Dr. Claudio serves in various committees including the Pharmacy and Therapeutic, Anticoagulation Safety, Hospital Quality, Organization-wide Performance improvement committees. She is the co-chair of the Medication Use Committee which oversees medication safety initiatives. Her practice interests include system-level reduction strategies , medication errors investigation and performance improvement initiatives. She has published several articles in peer- review journals and is the editor for the Brookdale Pharmacy Link newsletter.