VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center

ASHP Accredited

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO

Last updated: 09/29/2025

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Matt Karow, PharmD, BCPP
RPD since 2023
Mailing address

1700 N Wheeling St
Aurora, CO 80045
United States


Primary Practice: Outpatient SUD Clinic
2 PGY2 Psychiatry positions

Maximum Number of Positions

  • PGY1: 0
  • PGY2 Psychiatry: 2
  • PGY2 Neurology: 0

Program Details

  • Institution type: VA
  • Primary Practice Site: VAMC
  • ASHP Accreditation Status: accredited (code: 82013)
  • NMS Participant: Yes (code: 671266)
  • Program Inception: 2012
  • PGY2 Required Practice Settings: 50% Inpatient / 50% Outpatient
  • Preceptors: 13 BCPPs; 5 Other pharmacists; 1 Non-pharmacists

Application Details

  • Application Deadline: 1/7/26
  • Starting Date: 7/1/26
  • Estimated Stipend: 57,785
  • Financial Support for AAPP Annual Meeting: Yes, full support
  • Interviews Required: Yes
  • Offers pre-commitment: Yes — VA National Early Commit

PGY2 Rotations Offered

  • Adult inpatient psychiatry
  • Adult outpatient psychiatry
  • Geriatric psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Pain management
  • Specialty clinic
  • Substance abuse

PGY2 Features

  • Staffing Component: No
  • Teaching Component: Yes, optional
  • Teaching Certificate Program: No
  • PGY2 Other Features: Required attendance at University of Colorado Psychiatry Residency Didactics, over 70 hours of lectures

Program Philosophy

Pharmacists completing this residency will be competent, confident, and compassionate providers of pharmaceutical care, as individuals and as members of the health care team. They will be prepared to accept positions as psychiatric pharmacists in an inpatient or outpatient clinical role, or as entry level faculty members at a college of pharmacy.