Winners of the Best Poster Award and the Best Student, Resident, or Fellow Poster Award from the 2017 Virtual Poster Symposium were selected Wednesday, May 17, 2017, during the symposium. Poster finalists for both categories were required to give a 5- to 8-minute Skype presentation as well as participate in a 7- to 10-minute question-and-answer session with the judges. In all, 230 abstracts were presented during the Virtual Poster Symposium.
Katie Tellor from St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Missouri, won the Best Poster Award for “Evaluation of Warfarin Requirements in Hospitalized, Obese Patients Admitted with a Therapeutic INR.” Poster coauthors were Anastasia Armbruster, Steffany Bguygen, Amanda Bultas, Nicholas Greenwald, and Abigail Yancey, also from St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Wan Xuan Selina Lim from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore was the first runner-up in this category. Lim’s coauthors were Xue Na Goh and Mei Yi Loke, also from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The second runner-up in this category was Marketa Marvanova from North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy, Fargo, North Dakota. Ayesha Khan from Chicago State University College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, was Marvanova’s coauthor.
Alexandra Cervantes from University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, won the Best Student, Resident, or Fellow Poster Award for “Utilization of a CYP2C19 Genotype-Guided Antiplatelet Treatment Algorithm over Time in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.” Cervantes’s coauthors were Kasey Hamrick, Craig Lee, Vindhya B. Sriramoju, George A. Stouffer, and Nicholas Varunok, also from University of North Carolina. Tatiana Wright from Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy at Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, was the first runner-up in this category. Wright’s coauthor was Robert Kidd, also from Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy. The second runner-up in this category was Barkha Jain from Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey. Jain’s coauthor was Luigi Brunetti from the Department of Pharmacy of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, Somerville, New Jersey.
Winners from both the Best Poster and the Best Student, Resident, or Fellow Poster com-petitions have been invited to present their research at the 2017 Annual Meeting, to be held October 7–10, 2017, in Phoenix. Serving as finalist judges for the two competitions were Nicole Acquisto, Russell Attridge, Ed Bednarczyk, James Fleming, Jason Lancaster, Suzanne Nesbit, and Zach Smith. Abstracts for all the 2017 Virtual Poster Symposium posters will be published in Pharmacotherapy.