AAPP Announces Research Award Recipients Presented at 2024 AAPP Annual Meeting

Abstracts and Awards Council Chair Kristin Waters, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, is pleased to recognize the 2024 AAPP Research and Practice Award winners and finalists. Announced April 7, during AAPP’s 27th 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 Winers

Therapeutic Case Report Award

• Dozie Dike, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
  High-Dose Vilazodone for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder: A Case Report

Innovative Practices Award

• Leigh Anne Nelson, PharmD, BCPP, Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, Kansas City, MO
  A Novel Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE): Scientific Writing with a Focus in Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy

Original Research Award

• Kevin Kavanagh, PharmD, BCPP, Pharmacist, San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital, San Diego, CA
  Do Discharge Medications Prevent Rehospitalization Following Short-Term Crisis Stabilization at a County Psychiatric Hospital?

Research Trainee Award

• Kristin Manley, PharmD, MHSA – PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Resident, McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, MA
  Psychotropic Stewardship: Review of Antipsychotic Polypharmacy at Discharge from a Free-standing Psychiatric Hospital

AAPP Foundation Strategic Goals Award

• Joseph Cusimano, PharmD, BCPP, Safety Evaluator, Division of Pharmacovigilance-I, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
  Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Patient Experience of Pharmacist-led Patient Medication Education Groups

Additional Award Finalists

Therapeutic Case Report Award Finalist

• Jessica Jones, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Psychiatric Pharmacist, San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital, San Diego, CA
  From Mute to Multilingual: Successful Treatment of Benzodiazepine-Refractory Chronic Catatonia with Memantine

Innovative Practice Award Finalist

• Audrey Abelleira, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, VISN 1 Clinical Resource Hub, Orange, CT
  Integration of a Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner into a Virtual Long-Term Opioid Therapy Reassessment Clinic

Original Research Award Finalist

• Aaron Salwan, PharmD, MPH, BCPP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Behavioral Health, Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Nyack, NY
  'Tranq': Perceptions of Xylazine and Harm Reduction Practices Among People Receiving Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

Research Trainee Award Finalist

• Michelle Yang, PharmD, PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Resident, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Pharmacy, Charleston, SC
  Characterization of Flumazenil Utilization in Electroconvulsive Therapy

AAPP Foundation Strategic Goals Award Finalist

• Allison Tiemann, PharmD, PGY2 Pharmacy Resident, Tulsa, OK
  Comparison of Pharmacist-Led Outpatient Depression Management to Current Prescriber-Led Depression Management