Chung, Nelson, and Spyhalsky Receive Best Poster Honors

October 18, 2022

The winners of the Best Poster Awards from the 2022 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California, were announced on Monday, October 17, 2022, after they delivered platform presentations of their research. In all, almost 500 posters were presented at the Global Conference. Papers described original research, innovative clinical pharmacy services and programs, case reports, systematic reviews/meta-analyses, and student, resident, and fellow research-in-progress.

Erin Chung, winner of the ACCP Best Poster Award

Erin Chung from The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada won the Best Poster Award for her paper titled ‘Improving precision of vancomycin dosing in neonates based on clinical outcomes and population pharmacokinetics”. Chung’s coauthors were Brianna Pelle and Winnie Seto, also from The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The other finalists in the Best Poster competition were Yen Dang from University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, in Princess Anne, Maryland; Keri Hurley-Kim from the University of California, Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Irvine, California, and Vasyl Zbyrak from the Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University in Fairfax, Virginia.  Dang’s presentation was titled “Implementation of an Interprofessional COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Program for High School Students.” Dang was the only author on her poster. Hurley-Kim presented, “Effect of Metformin Use on Vitamin B12 Deficiency Over Time: A Real-World Evidence Database Study”. Hurley-Kim’s co-authors were Aryana Sepassi, Chuong Hoang Vu, Nhat Minh Dao, Lam Chau Tran, and Sarah McBane from the University of California, Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Irvine, California.  Zbyrak presentation was titled “Factors affecting job satisfaction among board certified pharmacists in Virginia”. His coauthors were Teresa Salgado, Dave Dixon, Rotana Radwan, Evan Sisson, and Lauren Pamulapati from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in Richmond, Virginia.

Nicholas Nelson, winner of the ACCP Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award

Nicholas Nelson, a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident at the University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Analysis of Renal Function in Patients Hospitalized with COVID19.” Nelson’s coauthors were Denise Rhoney from UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Nicholas Farina from the University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  

The other finalists in the Best Resident or Fellow Poster competition were Teresa Gennaro, a PGY-2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Resident at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and Gustavo Alvira-Arill, a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Fellow at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. Gennaro presented “Impact of proton pump inhibitor utilization on infectious adverse events after kidney transplantation”. Gennaro’s co-authors were Heather Snyder, Erika Meredith, and Fizza Abbas from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

Autumn Spyhalsky, winner of the ACCP Best Student Poster Award

Autumn Spyhalsky from the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Buffalo, New York won the Best Student Poster Award for “Dynamics of Urinary Biomarkers to Detect Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children Receiving Vancomycin.” Spyhalsky’s coauthors on the poster were Jin Kim, Calvin Meaney, Nicholas Smith,  Dhavalkumar Shah, and Nicholas Fusco, also from the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The other student finalists in this category were Emem Udott from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California, and Edith Ford from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy in Augusta, Georgia. Udott presented “Medication Regimen Complexity as a Predictor of Diabetes Outcomes in Underserved Non-Hispanic Black Adults Living with Diabetes”. His co-authors were Sheila Melone, Magda Shaheen, and Edward Adinkrah from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Linda Opara from CVS Health in Camarillo, California and Cheryl Wisseh from the University of California Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Irvine, California. Ford presented “Impact of Triciribine in retinal neurovascular injury in a mouse model of ischemic retinopathy”. Her co-authors were Fang Liu, Shengshuai Shan, Somanath Shenoy, and Priya Narayanan from the University of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. 

Each winner received a plaque. Serving as judges for the Best Student Poster competition were, Jennifer Clements, Chris Droege, Robert MacLaren, Kazu Kido, and Keith Olson.  Serving as judges for the Best Resident and Fellow Poster competition were Karen Kier, Tanvi Patil, Harminder Sikand, and Dustin Spencer. Serving as judges for the Best Poster competition were Curtis Haas, Brian Hemstreet, Jason Lancaster, and Kathleen Stringer.