Associate Clinical Professor
Auburn University
Sean Smithgall, Pharm.D., BCACP is an assistant clinical faculty member at Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy (AUHCOP). Smithgall joined AUHCOP on August, 2016 on the school’s Mobile campus. Smithgall earned his Doctor of Pharmacy from East Tennessee State in 2014. He went on to complete a PGY-1 residency in pharmacotherapy at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. He followed that up with a PGY-2 residency in ambulatory care at the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy at East Tennessee State. He currently holds the additional titles of Adjunct Faculty for the University of South Alabama (USA), Family Medicine Center and Residency Program Director for the USA Health Physicians Group PGY-2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency.
Smithgall is a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), and the Alabama Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ALSHP)/ He specializes in chronic disease management and transitions of care. His areas of interest, in both clinical and faculty roles, are interprofessional education and identifying the optimal role of pharmacists in transitions of care.
As a clinician, he is an ambulatory care pharmacist who works in a family medicine outpatient clinic associated with the University of South Alabama. He is Board Certified as an Ambulatory Care Pharmacist. He focuses on transitional care needs of patients with a primary focus on effectively transitioning hospitalized patients back to the outpatient setting. He also works collaboratively with other physicians to better patient’s chronic disease state management.