The winner of the Best Paper Award from the 2010 ACCP Annual Meeting was announced on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 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. The winner of the Best Student Poster Award was announced on Monday, October 18, 2010, and the winner of the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Awards was announced on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. In all, 365 abstracts were presented at the Annual Meeting. Of these, 220 were reports of original research, 59 described innovative clinical pharmacy services, 20 described original research in progress, and 45 were student submissions. In addition, several papers were encore presentations of work that had been presented in abstract form at other scientific meetings.
Johanna Norman (left) accepts the Best Student Poster Award from ACCP President James Tisdale (right).
Johanna L. Norman from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Memphis, Tennessee, won the Best Student Poster Award for “The Incidence of Bleeding with Enoxaparin Bridging.” Ms. Norman’s coauthors on the poster were Maria Pham, Kelly C. Rogers, and Shannon W. Finks, also from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. The first runner-up in this category was Risa Hiroshima from Mercer University College of Pharmacy Health Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, for “In Vitro Activity of Cefazolin Alone and in Combination with Vancomycin Against Heteroresistance in Methicillin-Resistant and -Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an In Vitro Pharmacodynamic Model.” Ms. Hiroshima’s coauthors were Jessica F. Smith and Vanthida Huang, also from Mercer University College of Pharmacy Health Sciences. The second runner-up in this category was Sang Min Lee from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, for “Population Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenomic Analysis of Tacrolimus in Korean Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.” Ms. Min Lee had five coauthors from Seoul National University and one coauthor from Seoul National University Hospital. Ms. Min Lee’s coauthors from Seoul National University were Jin Yi Hong, Hwi Yeol Yoon, Yoo Jin Moon, Wan Gyoon Shin, and Jung Mi Oh, and Ms. Min Lee’s coauthor from Seoul National University Hospital was Hye Suk Lee. The other finalists in this category were Chinelo Enwonwu from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, Massachusetts; Robert DeClue from Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Na Young Han from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and Adam Sieg from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
Dhara Shah (left) accepts the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award
from ACCP President James Tisdale (right).
Dhara N. Shah from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, Texas, won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Utility of Fluconazole as De-escalation Therapy in Patients with Fluconazole-Susceptible Candidemia.” Dr. Shah had one coauthor from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy and five coauthors from St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas. Dr. Shah’s coauthor from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy was Kevin W. Garey, and her coauthors from St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital were Raymond W. Yau, Jay Weston, Todd Lasco, Miguel Salazar, and Hannah Palmer. The runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award category was Kelly A. Cochran from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, for “Bleeding Incidence and Risk Evaluation with Concomitant Use of Antidepressants and Warfarin.” Dr. Cochran’s coauthors, all from the University of Illinois at Chicago, were Jeffrey R. Bishop, Larisa H. Cavallari, and Nancy L. Shapiro. The other finalists in this category were Jessica E. Wilhoite from St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Maria Pham from the Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee; and Marissa C. Salvo from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, Connecticut.
Daniel Hartung (left) accepts the Best Paper Award from ACCP President James Tisdale (right).
Daniel Hartung from Oregon State University, Portland, Oregon, won the Best Paper Award with the presentation titled “Impact of Generic Substitution of Lamotrigine in State Medicaid Population: A Retrospective Crossover Cohort Study.” Dr. Hartung’s coauthors, all from Oregon State University, were Leann Svoboda, Luke Middleton, and Jessina McGregor. The first runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Mary H.H. Ensom from the University of British Columbia, Children’s & Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, with the presentation titled “Development and Validation of Limited Sampling Strategies for Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate in Steroid-Free Renal Transplant Regimens.” Dr. Ensom’s coauthors, all from the University of British Columbia, were Erica D. Greany, Nilufar Partovi, Jean Shapiro, and Mai Al-Khatib.
The second runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Michael S. North from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the presentation titled “Relationship of Microbiological and Virulence Characteristics to Staphyloxanthin (STX) Production in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).” Dr. North had four coauthors from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and one coauthor from the University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California. Dr. North’s coauthors from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center were Brian Werth, Jora Sliwinski, Paulina Deming, and Renee Mercier. His coauthor from the University of California–San Diego was George Sakoulas. The other finalists in this category were Joseph P. Vande Griend from the University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado; Mate M. Soric from the Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Toledo, Ohio; Juman A. Dujali from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia; Natalie Boyd from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Amit S. Kulkarni from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey.
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 Austin were Susan Bruce, Juliana Chan, Sheryl Chow, David Foster, Michael Gonyeau, B. Joseph Guglielmo, Parmodini Kale-Pradhan, David Min, Tien M.H. Ng, Karen Petros, Toni Ripley, Charles Seifert, Douglas Slain Robert Talbert, and Dennis Williams.
The next abstract award competition will be held at the College’s 2011 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 16–19, 2011. The deadline to submit abstracts for the Annual Meeting is June 15, 2011, for the Original Research and Clinical Pharmacy Forum, and July 8, 2011, for the Student Submissions and the Resident and Fellow Research-in-Progress categories. ACCP will begin accepting abstracts for the 2011 Annual Meeting in March 2011 at www.accp.com.