A team of pharmacy residents and clinical pharmacist preceptors from Montefiore Einstein showcased their research and performance improvement project work with poster presentations at the 57th American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in Las Vegas—the largest annual gathering of pharmacists. Overall, more than 25,000 pharmacy professionals from around the world attended this event.
Presenters at the Midyear Clinical Meeting included:
Toshiba R.D. Morgan-Joseph, PharmD, BS, BCPPS, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, and Director, Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency Program, Pharmacotherapy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Yi Guo, PharmD, BCIDP, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Infectious Diseases, Co-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Pharmacy, Montefiore Einstein, and Assistant Professor, Medicine, Director, Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases (PGY2 ID) Pharmacy Residency Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, led the team from Montefiore Einstein’s residency training program. Postgraduate Year 1 pharmacy residents highlighted the high quality of the residency training programs with posters on the following topics during the ASHP conference:
- Angelly Miane, PharmD: Reducing the Delay in Initial Administrations of Tacrolimus Oral Suspensions in a Pediatric Population
- Patrick Kohn, PharmD: Optimization of Maintenance Inhalation Therapy at Hospital Discharge in Patients with COPD
- Marina Juan, PharmD: Optimization of Identification and Correction of Antiretroviral Therapy Medication Errors at a Large Academic Medical Institution
- Ben Colwell, PharmD: Improving Weight-Based Dosing Consistency of Vasoactive Agents in an ICU Setting
Presentations also were made by Montefiore Einstein pharmacists and residents at two other conferences in October.
At the ASHP National Pharmacy Preceptors Conference in Chicago, presentations included:
- Angela Cheng-Lai, PharmD, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Cardiology, Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Microaggressions: What Can You Do?
At the Infectious Diseases Society of America: IDWeek in Washington, DC, presentations included:
- Yi Guo, PharmD, BCIDP, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Infectious Diseases, Co-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Pharmacy, Montefiore Einstein, and Assistant Professor, Medicine, Director, Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE): Newer Treatment Options and How to Use Them
- Mei Chang, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP, BCCCP, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Infectious Diseases, Jack D. Weiler Hospital: The Devil Is in the (Dosing) Details: Practical Considerations for ID Clinical Care and Beyond
- Yi Guo, PharmD, BCIDP, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Infectious Diseases, Co-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Pharmacy, Montefiore Einstein, and Assistant Professor, Medicine, Director, Postgraduate Year 2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Mei Chang, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP, BCCCP, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Infectious Diseases, Jack D. Weiler Hospital, and the antimicrobial stewardship team: Factors Predicting Bacterial Coinfection in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
- Austin Golia, PharmD, PGY2 ID pharmacy resident 2021–2022, and the antimicrobial stewardship team: Real-World Experience with Ceftazidime-Avibactam Compared with Ceftolozane-Tazobactam on Clinical Outcomes in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections; and Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections Requiring Treatment in a COVID-19 Ambulatory Treatment Program
The conferences also are forums to recruit pharmacists and graduate students. For example, approximately 50 candidates from various pharmacy schools and PGY1 programs visited the Montefiore booth at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and expressed interest in applying to Montefiore Einstein training programs.
In October and November, the PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residency teams attended other showcases at pharmacy schools, including Long Island University, St. John’s University and Touro University.
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