The winner of the Best Paper Award during the 2009 ACCP/ESCP International Congress
in Orlando, Florida, was announced on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at the beginning
of the final Congress plenary session. New this year, each Best Paper finalist gave
a 10-minute platform presentation and attended a special post-presentation question-and-answer
session with the Congress’s Best Paper Judging Panel.
The winners of the Best Poster Awards were announced on Sunday, April 26, 2009,
during the final Congress poster session. In all, 396 abstracts were presented at
the Congress. Of these, 148 were reports of original research, 65 described innovative
clinical pharmacy services, 47 described original research in progress, and 64 were
student submissions. In addition, several papers were encore presentations of work
that had been given in abstract form at other scientific meetings.
Joong Kim (left) accepts the Best Student Poster Award from ACCP John Murphy (right).
Joong D. Kim, from the University of Washington in Seattle, won the Best Student
Poster Award for “Atenolol pharmacokinetics and excretion in breast milk during
the first 6–8 months postpartum.” Ms. Kim’s coauthors on the poster were Gail D.
Anderson, Megan L. Buchanan, Jinny K. Eun, Debra A. Brateng, Darcy B. Carr, David
K. Blough, David E. Woodrum, Thomas R. Easterling, and Mary F. Hebert, all from
the University of Washington in Seattle. The runner-up in this category was Philippe
Colucci from the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for “Bioequivalence
potential of a new extended-release formulation determined by clinical trial simulations.”
Mr. Colucci had two coauthors, Jacques Turgeon from the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université
de Montréal (Research Center) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Murray P. Ducharme
from Cetero Research in Cary, North Carolina. The other finalists were Claire Chapuis
from the University Hospital in Grenoble, France; Benjamin Dropkin from Hamilton
College in Clinton, New York; and Tobias Dreischulte from the University of Strathclyde
in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Megan Kleinow (right) accepts the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award from ACCP President John Murphy (left).
Megan E. Kleinow, from Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan, won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Renal dysfunction is associated with reduced warfarin maintenance dose and increased INR instability.” Dr. Kleinow had three coauthors. The first coauthor from Detroit Medical Center on the poster was Jennifer L. Clemente; the second coauthor was Candice L. Garwood from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan; and the third coauthor was Peter Whittaker, from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The first runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award category was Natacha Beaulieu from Pharmacie Jean-François Guévin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for “Impact of access to clinical information on community pharmacists’ interventions with polymedicated patients: a randomized controlled trial.” Dr. Beaulieu had seven coauthors. Her coauthor from the Pharmacie Marc Champagne, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was Catherine Cellini. Dr. Beaulieu’s coauthors from CSSS de Laval – Cité de la Santé, Laval, Quebec, Canada, were Amélie Garneau, Olivier Turpin-Lavallée, Hélène Lachance-Demers, and Alain Turcotte. Dr. Beaulieu’s coauthors from CSSS de Laval – Cité de la Santé et Faculté de pharmacie, Université de Montréal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, were Lyne Lalonde and Marie-Claude Vanier. The second runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award category was Kathryn A. Connor from The Regional Medical Center at Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, with the poster titled, “Differences in cell migration and protease secretion between normal and type-1 diabetic fibroblasts.” Dr. Connor’s coauthors, from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, were William J. Lindblad, Mamata Vallury, and Anjan Kowluru. The other finalists were Jaewook Yang from the Western University of Health Sciences in Los Angeles, California, and Chen F. Fangting from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital – Kaohsiung, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Larissa Cavallari (center) accepts the Best Paper Award from ACCP/ESCP International Congress Abstract Co-chairs Bradley Phillips (left) and Foppe van Mil (right).
Larisa H. Cavallari, from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, won the Best Paper Award with the presentation titled “Genetic and clinical determinants of warfarin dose requirements in African Americans.” Dr. Cavallari’s coauthors from the University of Illinois were Kathryn M. Momary, Shital R. Patel, Nancy L. Shapiro, Edith A. Nutescu, and Marlos A.G. Viana. The first runners-up in the Best Paper competition were Ulrika Gillespie and Anna Alassaad from the University of Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden, with the presentation titled “A comprehensive pharmacist intervention to reduce morbidity in patients aged 80 years or older: a randomized, controlled trial.”
The second runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Sandra S. Garner from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, with the presentation titled “Effect of computerized prescriber order entry with decision support on antibiotic errors in neonatal late onset sepsis.” Dr. Garner’s coauthors, also from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, were Toby H. Cox, Michael G. Irving, Elizabeth G. Hill, Robin Bissinger, and David J. Annibale. The other finalists in this category were Nicholas B. Norgard from the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Buffalo, New York; Sule Apikoglu-Rabus from the Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey; Hui-Ping Liu from the Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital in Jhonghe City, Taiwan; Philip M. Clark from the Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey; and Jason S. Haney from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Each winner received a plaque and $250 to help offset travel expenses associated with attending the meeting. Serving as finalist judges for the three competitions in Orlando were Gretchen Brophy, Marie Chisholm-Burns, Rex Force, Brian Hemstreet, Hannelore Kreckel, Sunny Linnebur, Eric MacLaughlin, Gary Matzke, Varsha Metha, Mary Beth O’Connell, Beth Resman-Targoff, Cynthia Sanoski, Daniel Touchette, Barbara Wiggins, and Gary Yee.
The next abstract award competition will be held at the College’s 2009 Annual Meeting, October 18–21, in Anaheim, California. The deadline to submit abstracts for the Annual Meeting is June 15. Abstracts should be submitted online at http://accp.confex.com/accp/2009am/cfp.cgi.