Our Team
Residency Program Director
Cindy W. Coffey, Pharm.D.
Cindy completed her pre-pharmacy education at Christopher Newport University and earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001. After completing a PGY-1 Community-based Pharmacy Practice Residency at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy, she served as a Clinical Assistant Professor for three years while practicing in independent and chain pharmacies, focusing on compounding, disease state management, immunizations, and HIV/AIDS ambulatory care pharmacy.
Cindy has contributed to the Handbook of Non-prescription Drugs and has been published in the Journal of Pharmacy Teaching and America’s Pharmacists. Currently, she is the Director of Retail & Specialty Pharmacy Services and the PGY-1 Community-based Residency Program Director at Riverside Health in Newport News, VA.
Active in state pharmacy associations, Cindy has served on the VPhA Board of Directors and as Secretary, and she is involved with the Government Affairs Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees for the VPhA Foundation. She contributes to the White Bagging Committee for VSHP and represented VSHP on two Virginia Board of Pharmacy workgroups, as well as serving on the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy’s Government Affairs Committee and State Level Workgroup.
Cindy lives in Yorktown, Virginia, with her husband and two sons, balancing her professional and family life.
Residency Program Coordinator
Zakia Woods, Pharm.D., CDCES
Dr. Zakia Woods is an Ambulatory Care Pharmacist at Riverside Health in Newport News, VA. She works within 2 different practice sites helping patients living with diabetes, including the Congestive Heart Failure Specialty clinic as well as a within a Family Medicine clinic where she serves as the Sub Investigator for a national multi-site clinical trial for non-insulin treated Type 2 diabetes patients on continuous glucose monitors. She also serves as the pharmacy team lead to a health-system wide initiative to improve Population Health quality measures for patients living with diabetes and is the Residency Program Coordinator for the Riverside PGY-1 Community-Based Residency. After graduating from Hampton University (HUSOP), she embarked on a 12-year career that exposed her to multiple areas of pharmacy practice, including working as a Critical Care Pharmacist at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus in Cleveland, Ohio to becoming a corporate trainee for several retail pharmacies. In 2019, she decided to refocus her career as a clinical pharmacist and returned to complete a PGY-1 Community-Based residency with inClinic Rx based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dr. Woods has a vast experience overseeing multiple patient care programs including Chronic Care Management, Transition Care Management, Remote Patient Monitoring, Individual Diabetes Education classes with emphasis on diabetes technology. She is also a consultant and National Certified Pump Trainer for Insulet, the makers of the OmniPod system, and serves as a speaker for Dexcom.
Dr. Woods has been afforded the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for multiple programs, including lecturing medical residents and conducting continuing education courses at various local, state, and national conferences. She was selected as a keynote speaker for the HUSOP Pharmacy Annual Preceptor Conference in 2021 and 2022 and has been awarded Preceptor of the Year.
Residency Care Team
Waimin Khuu, PharmD
Waimin received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017. Shortly after completing pharmacy school, she joined the team at Pavilion Pharmacy in Newport News, Virginia. With experience in retail pharmacy and medication therapy management, Waimin has successfully transitioned into specialty pharmacy, where she currently works with an exceptional team dedicated to removing barriers to medication access for specialty patients.
In addition to her role as a specialty pharmacist, Waimin is passionate about helping others grow in their pharmacy careers. She has served as a preceptor for students at various stages, from high school trainees to newly minted technicians all the way to pharmacy school interns, and is eager to extend that enthusiasm to pharmacy residents.
Waimin’s commitment to education and professional development reflects her belief in fostering the next generation of pharmacists.
Residency Care Team
Coreen Tan, Pharm.D., BCPS
Coreen completed her undergraduate and Doctor of Pharmacy degree though an accelerated program at the University of the Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy in Stockton, California in 2020. She went on to complete her PGY1 Residency at Veteran Affairs Palo Alto in Palo Alto, California in 2021. After her residency, Coreen moved to Virginia and began working with Riverside Health in 2023.
She is currently working with the oral oncology specialty team as a Clinical Oncology Specialty Pharmacist in Chesapeake, Virginia. She enjoys counseling patients on how to take new oral oncology medications, while also monitoring for any side effects from ongoing therapy. During the Summer of 2024, she was invited back as a guest lecturer to the University of the Pacific to teach Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, and Ovarian Cancer Therapeutics to the second-year pharmacy students. She currently resides in Virginia Beach with her husband and is expecting a new addition to her family in 2025.