Current FPGP Students
Pierre Bourgault is a Quebec-licensed pharmacist with over 14 years of experience in direct patient care, medication management, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He earned his Bachelor of Pharmacy from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, and has practiced across diverse pharmacy settings, including owning and operating a community pharmacy affiliated with the Accès Pharma network (Walmart Canada).
Throughout his career, Pierre has developed strong expertise in comprehensive patient assessment, identification and resolution of drug therapy problems, and optimization of pharmacotherapy across acute and chronic conditions. Practicing within an expanded clinical scope in Quebec, he routinely performed medication reviews, initiated and adjusted therapies under protocol, interpreted laboratory values, and ensured continuity of care through prescription adaptation and therapeutic substitution.
As a pharmacy owner and practicing pharmacist, he managed complex patient cases while overseeing daily clinical and operational workflows, maintaining high standards of safety, efficiency, and patient-centered care in a retail environment comparable in scale and structure to major U.S. pharmacy chains.
He has also worked as a relief pharmacist across multiple locations, adapting quickly to different workflows, patient populations, and practice models while maintaining consistent clinical quality and decision-making.
Pierre is currently completing his U.S. pharmacist licensure equivalency through the FPGEC program and is working as a Foreign Pharmacist Graduate Intern at Houston Methodist Hospital, with the goal of transitioning into hospital-based clinical practice in the United States.
Ching Chih Huang, PharmD
Dr. Ching Chih Huang earned her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, where she also completed a two-year hospital pharmacy residency followed by two years of specialty training in oncology pharmacy. During this time, she was part of a multidisciplinary cancer care teams, supporting chemotherapy dosing, managing adverse effects, and optimizing treatment protocols across both inpatient wards and outpatient infusion clinics. She also gained hands-on experience in sterile compounding, including hazardous drug preparation and total parenteral nutrition (TPN), and provided sterile compounding skills training to pharmacy students and new interns in alignment with USP <797> standards.
To complement her clinical expertise with data-driven skills, Dr. Huang pursued a Master of Science in Biotechnology with a concentration in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University. Her thesis research focused on genomic data analysis and the development of a predictive model for cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity, using variant data from whole-genome sequencing databases. She applied statistical genomics techniques, biologically informed feature selection, and supervised machine learning models, using neural networks algorithm, to identify clinically significant genetic variants associated with renal toxicity risk in cisplatin-treated patients. This project integrated her interests in precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, artificial intelligence, and translational oncology.
Currently, Dr. Huang is a Foreign Pharmacist Graduate Intern at Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas Medical Center, where she is pursuing expanding her training in oncology patient care and supporting clinical decision-making within U.S. hospital workflows. She is also passionate about applying bioinformatics tools and pharmacogenomic knowledge to enhance clinical treatment decisions and conduct research that advances the field of personalized medicine.