The winners of the 2012 ACCP Annual Meeting’s Best Paper Award, Best Student Poster Award, and Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award were announced in Hollywood, Florida, on October 22 or 23. In all, 456 abstracts were presented at the Annual Meeting. Of these, 245 were reports of original research, 77 described innovative clinical pharmacy services, 21 described original research in progress, and 97 were student submissions. In addition, several papers were encore presentations of work that had been presented in abstract form at other scientific meetings.
Terreia Jones (left) accepts the Best Paper Award from ACCP President Larry Cohen (right).
Terreia Jones from University of Tennessee in Memphis won the Best Paper Award with the presentation titled “Investigating the In Vivo Effects of Dexamethasone Using a Human Disease Relevant Mouse Model of Glioblastoma.” Dr. Jones’ coauthors were Amira Hosni-Ahmed from University of Tennessee and Ken Pitter and Eric Holland from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. The first runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Judith A. Smith from University of Texas (UT) M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, for “Evaluation of the Maternal-Fetal Transfer of Granisetron in an Ex Vivo Placenta Perfusion Model.” Dr. Smith’s coauthors were Justin Julius and Andrew Tindall, also from UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Jerrie Refuerzo, Pamela D. Berens, and Kenneth Moise from University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston Medical School in Houston, Texas. The second runner-up in the Best Paper competition was Steven Gabardi from Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, with the presentation titled “Efficacy and Safety of 3 vs. 6 Months of Low-Dose Valganciclovir for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease in Moderate-Risk (D+/R+ and D-/R+) Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Antilymphocyte Antibody Induction Therapy.” Dr. Gabardi’s coauthors were Rosemary Cross from Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Kelly DePiero from Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts; Travis B. Dick from Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah; Angela Q. Maldonado from Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington; Pamela R. Maxwell from University Transplant Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; Joelle Nelson from University Health System, San Antonio, Texas; Kathleen Nguyen from University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California; Jeong M. Park from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Eric M. Tichy from Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut; Kimi Ueda from California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Renee Weng from UC-Irvine, Orange, California; and Erin N. Newkirk from Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The other finalists in this category were Michelle Baker from University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Melissa Chesson from Mercer University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia; Kim Coley from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Gregory Smallwood from PCOM School of Pharmacy, Suwanee, Georgia; and Don Vu from the National Institute of Transplantation and Western University of Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California.
Laura Williams (right) accepts the Best Student Poster Award from ACCP President Larry Cohen (left).
Laura Williams from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, won the Best Student Poster Award for “The Medication REACH Program.” Ms. Williams’ coauthors on the poster were Deborah Hauser and Angelo De Luca from Einstein Medical Center, also in Philadelphia. The runner-up in this category was Christine Puschak from Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for “QT-Prolonging Effects of Intravenous Haloperidol: Does Every Patient Need Electrocardiogram Monitoring.” Ms. Puschak’s coauthors were Jill A. Rebuck and Kathy M. Makkar, also from Lancaster General Health. The other finalists in this category were Quinn Bott from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; Eunah Cho from Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California; and Desiree E. Kosmisky from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Adriane Irwin (right) accepts the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award from ACCP President Larry Cohen (left).
Adriane Irwin from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, won the Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award for “Assessment of Warfarin Requirements in Post-bariatric Surgery Patients.” Dr. Irwin’s coauthors were Kathleen H. McCool, Thomas Delate, and Daniel M. Witt, also from Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, Colorado. The first runner-up in this category was Adam Bress from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, for “The Effect of NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase, Quinone 1 Genotype on Warfarin Dose Requirements in Hispanic and African Americans.” Dr. Bress’ coauthors were Shitalben R. Patel, Richard T. Campbell, Rick Kittles, and Larisa H. Cavallari, also from UIC, and Minoli Perera from University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. The other finalists in this category were Ahmed Alhusban from University of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia; Brian Simmons from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Rachael E. Waterson from Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.
Each winner received a plaque and $250 to help offset travel expenses associated with attending the meeting. The following individuals served as finalist judges for the three competitions in Hollywood: Kathy Bungay, Vicki Ellingrod, Douglas Jennings, Pramodini B. Kale-Pradhan, S. Casey Laizure, Robert MacLaren, Eric MacLaughlin, Kwaku Marfo, Jean Nappi, Christine O’Neill, Bradley Phillips, Harminder Sikand, Toni Ripley, Michael Ujhelyi, and Timothy Welty.
The next abstract award competition will be held at ACCP’s 2013 Virtual Poster Symposium in May 2013. Abstracts can be submitted at http://accp.confex.com/accp/2013vp/cfp.cgi. The deadline to submit abstracts for the Virtual Symposium is January 18, 2012.