The winner of the Best Paper Award from the 2011 ACCP Annual Meeting was announced on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 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 17, 2011, and the winner of the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award was announced on Tuesday, October 18, 2011. In all, 490 abstracts were presented at the Annual Meeting. Of these, 276 were reports of original research, 78 described innovative clinical pharmacy services, 36 described original research in progress, and 85 were student submissions. In addition, several papers were encore presentations of work that had been presented in abstract form at other scientific meetings.
Lydia Cronic (left) accepts the Best Student Poster Award from ACCP President Bill Kehoe (right).
Lydia Cronic from University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Augusta, Georgia, won the Best Student Poster Award for “Angiogenic and Vasculoprotective Potential of Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists in the Brain.” Ms. Cronic’s coauthors on the poster were Azza El-Remessy from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Susan C. Fagan from the Program in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. The first runner-up in this category was Kalynn A. Rohde from University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, Madison, Wisconsin, for “Effectiveness and Safety of Influenza Vaccine in First 6 Months Post-lung Transplant.” Ms. Rohde’s coauthors were John J.M. Moran and Mary S. Hayney, also from University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. The other finalists in this category were Heena V. Patel from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, and Diana N. Pinchevsky from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Stephanie Flowers (left) accepts the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award from ACCP President Bill Kehoe (right).
Stephanie A. Flowers from the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Sterol Uptake in Candida albicans: A Novel Mechanism of Fluconazole Resistance.” Dr. Flowers had three coauthors: Katherine S. Barker from the University of Tennessee, Sarah G. Whaley from University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, and P. David Rogers from University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The first runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster category was Ahmed Alhusban from the Program in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, for “Vascular Protection with Candesartan: Beyond Blood Pressure Reduction.” Dr. Alhusban’s coauthors, also from the Program in Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, were Anna Kozak and Susan C. Fagan. The second runner-up in the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award category was Colleen S. Kann from NEIMEF/University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Waterloo, Iowa, for “Evaluation of Pharmacist Decision-making and Opinions Involving Prescriptions with a High Probability of Causing Patient Harm.” Dr. Kann’s coauthors, all from the NEIMEF/University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, were James D. Hoehns, John E. Sutherland, and James J. Poock. The other finalists in this category were S. Travis King from Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, and Liana Mark from The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
Thomas Dowling (left) accepts the Best Paper Award from ACCP President Bill Kehoe (right).
Thomas C. Dowling from University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland, won the Best Paper Award with the presentation titled “GFR Equations Overestimate Creatinine Clearance in Elderly Individuals Enrolled in the NIA-Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging (BLSA).” Dr. Dowling’s coauthors were John D. Sorkin from University of Maryland School of Medicine and Luigi Ferrucci from Biomedical Research Center, National Institute on Aging. The first runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Steven Gabardi from Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, with the presentation titled “Efficacy and Safety of Six Months of Low- vs. High-Dose Valganciclovir for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease in High-Risk Renal Transplant Recipients.” Dr. Gabardi’s coauthors were Lisa M. McDevitt from Tufts Medical Center, Christin Rogers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Eric Tichy from Yale-New Haven Hospital, Renee Weng from University of California Irvine, and Ruth-Ann M. Lee from Massachusetts General Hospital.
The second runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Kimi Ueda Stevenson from California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, with the presentation titled “Corticosteroid Withdrawal in Renal Transplant Recipients: An Analysis of the Mycophenolic Acid Observational Renal Transplant Registry.” Dr. Stevenson’s coauthors were Anne Wiland from Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey, and Ram Peddi from California Pacific Medical Center. The other finalists in this category were Lama H. Nazer from King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan; Michael B. Kays from Purdue University College of Pharmacy, Indianapolis, Indiana; Savanna Steele from Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Jahnavi Kharidia from Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Adele R. Shields from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Each winner received a plaque and $250 to help offset the travel expenses associated with attending the meeting. Serving as finalist judges for the three competitions in Pittsburgh were Michael Bottorff, Gilbert Burckart, Marcia Buck, Sheryl Chow, M. Lynn Crismon, Joseph DiPiro, Dawn Havrda, Mary Hayney, Sunny Linnebur, David Lourwood, Gary Matzke, Julie O. Maurey, Larry Segars, Sarah Spinler, and Robert Talbert.
The next abstract award competition will be held at ACCP’s 2012 Virtual Poster Symposium in May 2012. The deadline to submit abstracts for the Virtual Symposium is January 13, 2012. ACCP will begin accepting abstracts for the 2012 Virtual Poster Symposium in late November 2011 at www.accp.com.