Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD, assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics, has been awarded a fellowship by the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Robert Weber, MS, associate professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, received the 2007 Latiolais Award for his exemplary career accomplishments in hospital pharmacy.
Sandra Kane-Gill, PharmD is a co-principal investigator for a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Electronic Health Record Clinical Informatics, Quality and Safety (CLIQS) grant in the amount of $30,000. The grant, "Using a Clinical Event Monitor to Detect Adverse Drug Events," uses a clinical event monitor system as a mechanism to improve the detection of adverse drug events in the medical intensive care unit.
Kim Coley, PharmD, associate professor of pharmacy and therapeutics, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). Fellowship in ACCP recognizes and rewards the highest levels of excellence in the practice and science of clinical pharmacy.
Janice Pringle, PhD was an invited clinical expert in a studio-taped roundtable debate for the program, The Physician's Role in Guiding Patients to Improved Medication Adherence. The topics discussed were medication therapy management; epidemiology of medication adherence; therapeutic alliance; and Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).
Kim Coley, PharmD, received a grant award of $200,000 from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Foundation for "Development of a Continuity of Care Record: Bridging the Medication Use Gap from Hospital to Home." The purpose of this study is to develop a consensus-based Medication Continuity of Care Record to communicate medication-related clinical information from the point of hospital discharge to the point of community-based pharmaceutical care.
