In 1976 The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital partnered to create a pediatric pharmacy residency program making it one of the oldest pediatric residency programs in the country. Since that time over 120 individuals have completed their post-doctoral training in this program. The Pharmacy Department at LBCH utilizes an integrated model to provide patient and family centered pharmaceutical care. Clinical pharmacists provide medication order verification, adverse drug reaction monitoring, therapeutic drug monitoring, anticoagulation monitoring, patient and family education, student and resident precepting and numerous other clinical activities as a respected member of the