Dr. Pasternak earned her PharmD from the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy in 2014. After graduation, she completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, OH. She then pursued specialty training in clinical pharmacogenetics as the PGY-2 Clinical Pharmacogenetics Residency at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and as a Clinical Pharmacy Translational Fellow at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. Dr. Pasternak joined the U-M faculty as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2018. Her clinical practice is focused in the implementation of pharmacogenetics at Michigan Medicine and her research focuses on the discovery, validation, and translation of pharmacogenetic associations. Her current work is focused on pharmacogenetic associations of tacrolimus in multiple transplant populations and among routes of administration.