Research Awards

Research and Practice Awards are sponsored by the AAPP Foundation and awarded at each AAPP Annual Meeting held generally in April. Information on submission deadlines and the abstract center will be hosted on the Annual Meeting webpages. Submission dates are generally by mid-January of each year. Available Research and Practice Award categories include original research, therapeutic case report, research trainee, innovative practices, and health equity.

Research Trainee Award

Qualified abstracts include Work in Progress and Original Research. Interim data analysis is required and the first author must be a student, resident, fellow, or within 12 months of completion of training.

Original Research

Abstracts should describe original research in therapeutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoeconomics, outcomes, drug utilization, kinetics, genetics and academic pursuits. Abstracts must not have been published in abstract form nor presented as a poster elsewhere before the AAPP 2024 Meeting.

Innovative Practices Award

Abstracts describing the development, justification, documentation, and/or delivery of innovative services or activities applicable to psychiatric and neurologic pharmacy. The descriptive abstract should not duplicate any other poster category and should describe the development of innovative services/activities and should provide background/rationale, a description of the innovative service, the impact on patient care/institution and a conclusion.

Therapeutic Case Report Award

Abstracts describing the various aspects of pharmaceutical care relating to individual psychiatric and/or neurological pharmacy cases. Abstracts should provide a complete patient history including age, gender, time from first diagnosis, social background, and details of, and response to, previous and current treatment(s). Cases should include background, complete patient history, review of literature, and conclusion.

Health Equity Award

Abstracts addressing the impact of social determinants of health on patients with psychiatric disorders or the role of psychiatric pharmacists in helping this patient population attain health equity

Awardee Benefits

  • $500 honorarium
  • Recognition/announcement at the AAPP Annual Meeting
  • Post-meeting press release announcements
  • Historical recognition on the AAPP website
  • Recognition as an award finalist in the Mental Health Clinician