Congratulations to the student team from Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy, which claimed the title of Champion of the 2012 ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge.
ACCP’s unique pharmacy student team competition, now in its third year, offers teams of three students representing their institution the opportunity to answer questions in a “quiz bowl” format. Each round of the competition challenges teams to answer questions in three distinct segments: Trivia/Lightning, Clinical Case, and Jeopardy-style. Beginning with an initial field of 90 teams from across the Unites States, 8 advanced through four preliminary online rounds to represent their institutions in the quarterfinal round of competition held at last month’s Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Florida. Each member of the quarterfinal teams below received a certificate of recognition, a complimentary Annual Meeting registration, and a $125 ACCP gift certificate.
2012 ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge Quarterfinal Teams:
Belmont University College of Pharmacy
- Kimberly Bentley, Team Leader
- Courtney Curtis
- Kristopher Lozanovski
- Jesse Howell, Alternate
- Dana Spencer, Alternate
Drake University College of Pharmacy
- Caitlin Schaapveld, Team Leader
- Nathan Verlinden
- Jessica Poehls
- Michael Lahart, Alternate
Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy
- Matthew Lord, Team Leader
- Adam MacLasco
- Libbi Rice
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
- Carmine Colavecchia, Team Leader
- Kristen Graf
- Breanne Sorgen
Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy
- Catherine Needham, Team Leader
- Mark Rosenburg
- Amy McCaffrey
- Amy Green, Alternate
Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson School of Pharmacy
- Lauren Isaacs, Team Leader
- Jennifer Greene Naples
- Quoc-Cuong Pham
- Laura Williams, Alternate
- Dante Gravino, Alternate
University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
- William Madden, Team Leader
- Sophie Bordson
- Jennifer Lee
- Samantha Chang, Alternate
- Natasha Gorely, Alternate
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- John Schoen, Team Leader
- Sieu Lam
- John Shin
- Danielle Smidt, Alternate
- Kimberly Shipp, Alternate
At the conclusion of the quarterfinal rounds on Saturday, October 20, teams from Purdue, Northeastern, University of California-San Diego, and Samford advanced to the semifinal round of competition. Purdue and Northeastern emerged victorious from those semifinal-round matches and faced off for the title of 2012 ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge Champion.
During the final round, the Northeastern and Purdue teams answered questions that focused on pharmacology, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics/pharmacogenomics, biostatistics, and health outcomes in the Trivia/Lightning segment. The Clinical Case segment challenged the students to answer five multiple-choice items based on a critical care case vignette. During the concluding Jeopardy-style segment, the teams had a chance to answer questions of varying point values in five predetermined categories.
ACCP Immediate Past President, Bill Kehoe, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, served as moderator for the final round of the competition. A large, enthusiastic crowd of supporters watched the finals, applauding both teams’ efforts throughout the round. Northeastern ultimately prevailed with a commanding performance in the Jeopardy segment.
Members of the Northeastern team each received a $500 cash prize and a commemorative plaque. The team also has the honor of bringing the championship trophy home to their school. Members of the Purdue University team each received a $250 cash prize, and the team was awarded a commemorative plaque for the school of pharmacy.
William Kehoe, ACCP Past President (far left) with the Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy championship team (left to right) Matt Lord, Libbi Rice, and Adam MacLasco.
Please join ACCP in congratulating Northeastern University, Purdue University, and the other six teams that advanced to the Annual Meeting competition and in recognizing the student teams from all 90 institutions that competed in this year’s challenge. For more information on the competition, please visit http://www.accp.com/stunet/index.aspx. The ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge will return in 2013. Please check the Web site for updated competition information in January.