The winner of the Best Paper Award from the 2013 ACCP Annual Meeting was announced on Tuesday, October 15, 2013, during the Scientific Poster Presentation II. Best Paper finalists were required to give an 8- to 10-minute platform presentation and attend a question-and-answer session with the judging panel. Winners of the Best Student Poster Award and Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award were announced on Monday, October 14, 2013. In all, 394 abstracts were presented at the Annual Meeting. Of these, 214 were reports of original research, 66 described innovative clinical pharmacy services, 24 described original research-in-progress, and 90 were student submissions. In addition, several papers were encore presentations of work that had been presented in abstract form at other scientific meetings.
Don Vu (left) accepts the Best Paper Award from ACCP President Curtis Haas (right).
Don Vu from the National Institute of Transplantation and the Western University of Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California, won the Best Paper award with the presentation titled “Genetic Variations in a Sestrin2/Sestrin3/mTOR Axis and Development of New-Onset Diabetes After Transplantation in Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients.” Dr. Vu’s coauthors were Robert Naraghi from the National Institute of Transplantation and the St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Ian V. Hutchinson from the USC School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California; and David I. Min from the Western University of Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California. The first of the two runners-up in the Best Paper competition was Jo E. Rodgers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for “Predictors of Medication Adherence: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.” Dr. Rodgers’ coauthors were Carla A. Sueta, Anna Kucharska-Newton, Sally Stearns, Patricia Chang, Hadi Beyhaghi, Lei Zhou, and Elizabeth A. Blair, also from the University of North Carolina, and Hanyu Ni from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The second of the two runners-up in the Best Paper competition was Heather Snyder from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center/Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, with the presentation titled “Assessment of Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin Dosing and Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation.” Dr. Snyder’s coauthors were Amy Krauss from Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; Vinaya Rao and Benjamin Duhart, from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center/Methodist University Hospital; and Dagney Ulrich from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
The other finalists in this category were Jonathan D. Edwards from Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Alabama; Megan Fleischman from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Abir O. Kanaan from MCPHS University, Worcester, Massachusetts; Tina Khadem from the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Joseph Vande Griend from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Andrew Bear (center right) accepts the Best Student Poster Award from ACCP President Curtis Haas (center left).
Michael Bear from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, won the Best Student Poster Award for “Novel Double and Triple Antibiotic Combinations at Clinically Relevant Concentrations Against Polymyxin B–Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.” Mr. Bear’s coauthors on the poster were Amy Suen, Justin Lenhard, Zackery Bulman, Neang S. Ly, Gauri Rao, Patricia N. Holden, and Brian T. Tsuji, also from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The first runner-up in this category was Timothy Howze from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, for “Bile Acid–Induced Apoptosis and Inflammation Are Attenuated by Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in a Macrophage Model.” Mr. Howze’s coauthors were Peihong Guan, Richard A. Helms, and Emma M. Tillman, also from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The second runner-up in this category was Jolie Gallagher from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, Colorado, for “Assessment of Adverse Events and Predictors of Neurologic Recovery of an Institution-Specific Therapeutic Hypothermia Protocol.” Ms. Gallagher’s coauthors were Robert MacLaren, Sara Varnado, Lam Nguyen, and John Shin, also from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The other finalists in this category were Jennifer Miao from the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; Anh Vu and Kimberly Won, both from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Lindsay Burgess (right) accepts the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award from ACCP President Curtis Haas (left).
Lindsey Burgess, from Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Incidence of Vancomycin-Induced Nephrotoxicity in Hospitalized Patients With and Without Concomitant Piperacillin-Tazobactam.” Dr. Burgess’s coauthor was Richard Drew, also from Duke University Hospital. The runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster category was Lacey Shumate from Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, for “The Effects of Melatonin and Trazodone on Delirium in Hospitalized Patients.” Dr. Shumate’s coauthors were Susan Fosnight from Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, and David DiNuoscio and Rex Wilford, from Summa Health System. The other finalists in this category were Carmen Smith from West Virginia University Healthcare, Morgantown, West Virginia; Sophia Vainrub from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and Laura Whited from Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Each winner received a plaque and $250 to help offset travel expenses associated with attending the meeting. Serving as finalist judges for the Best Student Poster competition were Roland Dickerson, Lee Evans, Mary Lee, David Min, and Julie Murphy. Serving as finalist judges for the Best Resident and Fellow Poster competition were Sheryl Chow, Rachel Couchenour, Douglas Jennings, Jean Nappi, and Michael Peeters. Finally, serving as finalist judges for the Best Paper competition were Joseph DiPiro, Rex Force, Michael Gonyeau, Mary Beth O’Connell, Robert Parker, and Cynthia Sanoski.
The next abstract award competition will be held at ACCP’s 2014 Virtual Poster Symposium in May 2014. Abstracts can be submitted at http://accp.confex.com/accp/2014vp/cfp.cgi.The deadline to submit abstracts for the Virtual Symposium is January 17, 2014.