Pharmacy Program Preceptors

Learn about the many exemplary contributions made to the field of Pharmacy by our senior staff members.

Andrei Zidaru, PharmD, BCIDP

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Infectious Disease
Email: [email protected]

Andrei received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2018 from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. He completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and the two-year Infectious Diseases Fellowship with St. Luke’s Baylor Medical Center and University of Houston College of Pharmacy. After completing the ID fellowship, Andrei stayed within the St Luke's Texas Division at St. Luke’s The Woodlands Hospital. He then returned to St. Luke's Baylor Medical Center and currently serves as a Clinical Pharmacist II in infectious diseases. Andrei is a member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. His practice interests include antimicrobial stewardship and treatment of multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections.

Carolyn Schardt, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Heart Transplant, LVAD, and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Email: [email protected]

Carolyn received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Houston in Houston, TX. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. Luke's Baylor Medical Center and stayed on to complete a PGY2 in Solid Organ Transplant. Upon completion of her residencies, Carolyn started her career as a clinical pharmacy specialist in internal medicine at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital for two years. She then returned to BSLMC as a clinical pharmacist II in heart transplant, LVAD, and mechanical circulatory support. Carolyn is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.

Coty Tunwar, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Kidney Transplant
Email: [email protected]

Coty received her Bachelor of Science from Xavier University in New Orleans, LA and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Chicago State University in Chicago, IL. Thereafter, she completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS and completed a PGY2 in Solid Organ Transplant at Methodist-Le Bonheur University Hospital in Memphis, TN. Coty began her career at St. Luke’s Baylor Medical Center as a Clinical Pharmacist II in Kidney Transplant. She is a member of ASHP, ACCP, and American Society of Transplant.

Punit Hinsu, PharmD, MBA, MPH
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Research & Investigational Drug Services
Email: [email protected]

Punit completed his training and began his career as a pharmacist in the Greater Philadelphia area. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2009 from Temple University and his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Managerial Finance from La Salle University in 2011. He furthered his training in a Clinical Research and Drug Development Fellowship program with Fresenius Medical Care (Waltham, MA) and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Boston, MA). In 2013, he moved back to Philadelphia and received his Master of Public Health from Thomas Jefferson University in 2015. Later that year, he moved to Texas and joined the St. Luke’s Baylor Medical Center. He has since served as the Investigational Drugs pharmacist in charge of coordinating and overseeing clinical research protocol implementation and all Investigational Drugs activities. His practice interests include activities related to investigational drug services, including oncology research studies, gene therapy trials and specialty/personalized/precision medicine.

Raymond Yau, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Liver Transplant
Email: [email protected]

Raymond graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2008 prior to completing a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. Luke’s Baylor Medical Center. After his residency, he gained experience in critical care as the MICU clinical pharmacy specialist at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He returned to St. Luke's Baylor Medical Center as a Clinical Pharmacist II in liver transplant in 2010. His interests include immunosuppression and transplant-related infections.  He is a member of American Society of Transplant.

Rebecca Kessinger, PharmD, BCCCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Critical Care
Email: [email protected]

Rebecca received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Houston College of Pharmacy. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center after which she spent three years as a Critical Care/Antimicrobial Stewardship pharmacist at Houston Methodist Clear Lake. She rejoined Baylor St. Luke's to serve as a clinical pharmacy specialist in the medical ICU. Her practice interests include management of shock and decompensated liver cirrhosis. In her free time she enjoys traveling, eating, and spending time with her daughter and husband.

Russell Clark, PharmD, BCOP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Hematology and Oncology
Email: [email protected]

Russell received his Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College in 2015, and Doctor of Pharmacy from Texas A&M University HSC-IRLCOP in 2019. He completed PGY1 from Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (BSLMC), and went on to The University of Kansas Health Systems in Kansas City, KC for a PGY2 in Oncology. After residency, Russell began his practice at MD Anderson as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Lymphoma/Myeloma/CAR-T department, where he earned his BCOP. Russell joined BSLMC in 2023 as the inpatient Hematology/Oncology clinical specialist. His clinical interests include chemotherapy/chemoimmunotherapy toxicity monitoring, quality improvement measures for inpatient chemotherapy administration optimizations, and supportive care optimization.