AAPP Announces Research Award Recipients Presented at 2023 AAPP Annual Meeting

AAPP Research Awards

Abstracts and Awards Council Chair Kristin Waters, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, is pleased to recognize the 2023 AAPP Research and Practice Award winners and finalists. Announced April 16, during AAPP’s 26^th Annual Meeting, these awards recognize excellence in investigators presenting abstracts at the AAPP Annual Meeting. Award Finalists presented platform presentations and displayed their posters during the meeting.

Award Winners

Therapeutic Case Report Award Winner

• Jonathan Leung, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  Inflammation with Intolerance after Early Clozapine Exposure: A Rationale for Early CRP Monitoring Beyond Myocarditis

Innovative Practices Award Winner

• Heng Chang, PharmD, BCPS, Advance Practice Pharmacist, Whiteriver Indian Hospital, Whiteriver, AZ
  Outreach Visits by Pharmacist Improves Adherence to Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in a Rural Setting

Original Research Award Winner

• Jessica Jones, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Psychiatric Pharmacist, San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital, San Diego, CA
  Is a Partial Initiation of Paliperidone Palmitate Effective at Reducing Emergency Psychiatric Encounters?

Research Trainee Award Winner

• Delaney Brainerd, PharmD, PGY-2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Resident, Iowa City VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, IA
  Clozapine and Risk of Hematologic Malignancies in Veterans with Schizophrenia

AAPP Foundation Strategic Goals Award Winner

• Margaret Agosta, PharmD, Pharmacist, UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
  Preliminary Evaluation of Psychiatric Pharmacist Services in the Outpatient Setting

Additional Award Finalists

Therapeutic Case Report Award Finalist

• Austin De La Cruz, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX
  A Search and Seizure for Relief- The Effective Pharmacological Treatment of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) with Escitalopram

Innovative Practices Award Finalist

• Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  Training Pharmacy Students to Administer Long-Acting Injectable Medications

Original Research Award Finalist

• Monica Zolezzi, MS, PhD, RPh, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha
  Words Matter: Analysis of the Language Used When Documenting in the Medical Records of Mental Health Patients

Research Trainee Award Finalist

• Kelly Wylie, MS, Student, University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati, OH
  A Retrospective Review of Readmission Rates in Patients Initiated on Long-acting Injectable Antipsychotics During Psychiatric Hospitalization

AAPP Foundation Strategic Goals Award Finalist

• Audrey Long, Student, NDSU, Fargo, ND
  Evaluating the Impact of Photovoice on Self-Stigma Levels Among Individuals with Substance Use Concerns