UIC Pharmacy Practice Annual Report 2019
Welcome to Pharmacy Practice 2019 Annual Report
The Department of Pharmacy Practice is an academic department within the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy (Chicago and Rockford Campuses). The Department is also a service unit that provides pharmacy services within the UI Health and affiliated sites. Among the most comprehenseive units of its type in the United States, the Department is comprised of the faculty and staff who are teachers, scholars and/or practitioners.
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About Us
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Research & Service
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Education
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Pharmacy Services
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Drug Information Group
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Prior Authorization, MRAD & DocASSIST
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Rockford
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Residents & Fellows
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PMPR In the News
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Giving
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Message from the
Head Our contributions to research, teaching, service, and entrepreneurship have earned us the reputation of being leaders in the profession and calendar year 2019 has left the Department in the position to continue on an upward trajectory. In this report, we highlight some of the activities, accomplishments, and recognition of the faculty within the Department. While not detailing all achievements of 2019, the report provides a glimpse into the productivity and success of our faculty and trainees. More importantly, we hope to share with you a sense of who we are and the kind of work that we are doing through section highlights and a selection of some of our representative stories.
Dear Colleagues and Friends of Pharmacy Practice, The Year of 2019 was one of transition for the Department. On November 16th, I was appointed Head to succeed Interim Head, Dr. Keith Rodvold. I am honored and excited for the opportunity to work with the best and brightest Faculty and to lead one of the largest and most comprehensive Pharmacy Practice Departments in the nation. Additional changes in departmental leadership include the appointment of Dr. Sheila Allen as Director of the Experiential Education Program and the appointment of Dr. Kirsten Ohler as Director of the College’s PGY1 Residency Program, who both started in their new roles in 2019.
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Our research programs continue to focus on optimizing drug therapy and improving health outcomes through the generation, integration, and translation of scientific information between the bench and the bedside. Some notable highlights include Dr. Ajna Hamidovic receiving funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to evaluate the relationship between reproductive hormone levels, stress and affective symptoms in premenstrual syndrome, Dr. Karen Sweiss and Dr. Jeremy Johnson testing a multiplex assay for CYP450 phenotyping in multiple myeloma patients as part of a grant funded by Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association, Dr. Eric Wenzler receiving funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Dr. Jarrett and Dr. DiDomenico working to bring medication education into older adults’ homes through using Amazon’s Alexa enabled smart speakers. The faculty contributed over 200 publications, secured external competitive funding via 94 grants, gave 155 invited presentations, served on 65 editorial boards and held 177 leadership positions in academic and professional organizations. We continued to excel in our contributions to the educational, service and entrepreneurship mission
“ I am honored and excited for the opportunity to work with the best and brightest Faculty and to lead one of the largest and most comprehensive Pharmacy Practice Departments in the nation. “
of the Department. You will read section highlights provided by Dr. Sheila Allen on the contributions of our Experiential Education Group, Dr. Andrew Donnelly on contributions of our Pharmacy and Clinical Services with special highlights of work provided by our UI Team Rx and Specialty Pharmacy Programs, Dr. Michael Gabay on the contributions of our Drug Information Group, Dr. Kevin Rynn on contributions from faculty based on our Rockford Campus, and Dr. Kirsten Ohler on our post-graduate Residency and Fellowship Programs. Faculty were recognized with several accolades and major national awards. A few highlights include Dr. Keith Rodvold receiving the Pharmacotherapy Paper of the Year award from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, Dr. Edith Nutescu selected by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy as the 2019 Russell Miller Award recipient, Dr. Allison Schriever receiving AACP’s Rufus A. Lyman Award, Dr. Jennie Jarrett elected Fellow of ACCP, Dr. Eljim Tesoro elected to the Board of Directors of the Neurocritical Care Society, and Dr. Margaret Byun winning the 2019 AMCP Distinguished Service Award.
These accomplishments would not be possible without the hard work of our faculty, staff, residents and fellows and a big note of Thank You goes out to All! I want to also take this opportunity to thank Dr. Rodvold for his leadership during his tenure as Interim Head in 2019. Finally, I would like to send a note of thanks to those that support the Department by serving as preceptors or with financial contributions. Your generosity is a key to the continued success of our program. For those that are alums, we know you realize the importance of this support and are grateful for your contributions that ensure we maintain the high standards of our Residency and Fellowship Programs. I am excited for what is to come and to work with our faculty and trainees to continue building upon our successes. Sincerely,
DR. EDITH NUTESCU HEAD OF PHARMACY PRACTICE
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About Us Mission To serve the public, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, and affiliated sites through the provision of advanced pharmacy services, integrated with innovative and evolving pharmacy education, research, and entrepreneurship.
Vision To be the global leader in the profession of pharmacy through excellence in research, entrepreneurship, service, and educational and training programs, preparing pharmacists to provide comprehensive medication management across all healthcare settings.
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t Members of the Department
Support Staff Tenure Faculty
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Clinical Instructors
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Residents & Fellows
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124 Clinical Faculty
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Research & Service
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BOOK PUBLICATIONS
LEADERSHIP
Textbooks and book chapter publications
Leadership positions in academic and professional organizations
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
PRESENTATIONS
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Presentations at local, national and international meetings
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Studies funded by outside organizations
Journal editors, consulting editors, and board members
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The Department research programs serve to optimize drug therapy and improve health outcomes through the generation, integration, and translation of scientific information between the bench and the bedside, the patient and the population.
Research Vision The Department of Pharmacy Practice research themes encompass three distinct areas and include: • Clinical and Translational Research focused on generation, integration, and translation of scientific information to optimize drug therapy outcomes. • Scholarship of teaching and pedagogy including developing, evaluating, and disseminating innovative educational methods for educating pharmacy leaders of the future. • Assessment of innovative pharmacy practice models and health services outcomes with the dissemination of research findings to ensure optimization of patients’ medicationrelated outcomes.
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The Office of Experiential Education which is comprised of Drs. Sheila Allen, Allison Schriever, Marlowe Djuric-Kachlic, Louise Parent-Stevens, Tara Driscoll, Jennifer Casamassimo and Rhonda Larkin had a very successful year. In 2019, we had many transitions and additions within our office. In May, Dr. Latha Radhakrishnan transitioned out of the Office of Experiential Education to a position as a Clinical Pharmacist in Inpatient Oncology. In August, Dr. Tara Driscoll joined our office as a Skills Laboratory Coordinator filling the position vacated by Dr. Latha Radhakrishnan. Also, in August, Dr. Kristen Goliak was promoted to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. As a result, Dr. Sheila Allen was promoted to Director of Experiential Education and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Director in Chicago, and Dr. Marlowe Djuric-Kachlic was promoted to Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) Director. We ended the year, in search of a Skills Laboratory Coordinator to replace the position vacated by Dr. Marlowe Djuric-Kachlic. We wish both Dr. Radhakrishnan and Dr. Goliak all the best in their new positions and look forward to working with them in their new roles. The Department of Pharmacy Practice continued major partnerships with Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, the University of Chicago Medical Center, and John H. Stroger Hospital for both IPPE and APPE students. We are extremely grateful for these relationships that we have built that help us to continue to maintain student placements. In May, there were 200 P4 students whom graduated from UIC College of Pharmacy after completing 1440 APPE hours. The students each completed four core APPEs in the areas of Ambulatory Care, Community Pharmacy, Hospital and Adult Medicine as well as two elective APPEs in the area of their choice. We are very proud of these students and the successes they achieved while in pharmacy school. We are also extremely thankful to all of the faculty and external preceptors who accepted these students on their APPEs rotations and the opportunities and education that they were provided. At the Class of 2019 graduate’s dinner, they proudly awarded the Golden Apple Award to Dr. Nick Popovich, the UIC Preceptor of the Year award to Dr. Marlowe Djuric-Kachlic, and the UIC External Preceptor of the Year award to Dr. Zane Elfessi. These distinguished pharmacists were honored for their dedication and commitment to the educational development of the graduates. Over the past year, our P1, P2, and P3 students collectively completed 376 Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) hours within our new curriculum rollout. The students completed these as part of Practice Week (40 hours: P1 Fall Semester), Community IPPE (96 hours: P1 Spring Semester or P2 Fall Semester), Hospital IPPE (48 hours: P1 Spring Semester or P2 Fall Semester), Institutional Direct Patient Care IPPE (96 hours: P3 Fall or Spring Semester), and Ambulatory Care Direct Patient Care IPPE (96 hours: P3 Fall or Spring Semester). We are excited about the re-vamped construct of our IPPE hours. We are very appreciative of the continued Department support provided to us in 2019 and grateful to all of our faculty and preceptors in and around the Chicago and Rockford areas who make our IPPE and APPE curriculum possible. We could not do what we do without their continued support.
DR. SHEILA ALLEN DIRECTOR OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION Pharmacy Practice
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a successful reaccreditation by ACHC. The number of patients seen by our Medication Assistance Program team increased this year with the dollar value of services provided rising by 33%. This group does an excellent job of providing medications to patients in need. This year also saw a significant jump in the number of patients enrolled in our UI TEAM RX program. Five of our seven ambulatory pharmacies currently participate in this pharmacy based coordinated care program. Our department received some positive press in December of this year. 340B Health, the largest advocacy organization for 340B Disproportionate Share Hospitals published a report describing how hospitals use 340B savings to support services and programs that improve patient health
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harmacy Services had a very busy and productive P 2019. In January, UI Health kicked off its 3i Project – the conversion from Cerner to Epic as the organization’s
electronic health record (EHR), with go-live scheduled for mid-2020. This project was the major focus for all departments in 2019. Our pharmacy IT team was extremely busy doing build and testing for the Epic system throughout the year. In addition, we enlisted the assistance of many of our clinical pharmacists, clinical staff pharmacists, technicians, and managers to assist with and provide feedback on the Epic build. This was in addition to all of these individuals still performing their daily activities. As a department, we are excited about converting to Epic and expect to realize clinical, operational, and financial benefits. In the midst of our Epic build and testing, The Joint Commission arrived for its unannounced survey in September. Many of the staff in our department spent time with the surveyors and all did an excellent job answering questions and providing requested information. Overall, it was a successful survey for the institution.
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outcomes. UI Health was one of nine hospitals that were featured. Ambulatory Care Pharmacy services highlighted in the report included our Medication Assistance Program, Medication Therapy Management Clinic and UI TEAM RX. In addition, the 340B patient outcomes report “340B Program Savings Improve Patient Outcomes: Case Examples from the Field” was featured in a news story in Becker’s Hospital Review, with UI Health pharmacy services prominently featured. Given the ongoing opioid epidemic, a new position was established in the department - coordinator for opioid stewardship/drug diversion. We expect to hire into this position in early 2020. Since many of the medications introduced onto the market carry a high cost, the department’s Pharmacy Value Analysis Committee continued to identify and implement strategies to reduce medicationrelated expense for the organization over the past year. or the fourth year in a row, we successfully FSystem recruited into our PGY2 residency in HealthPharmacy Administration and Leadership.
Our resident, Paloma Garcia, selected as her major research project an assessment of the impact of enhanced pharmacy services on adherence for patients with hypertension. In addition, she assisted with and took the lead on numerous projects within the department.
DR. ANDREW J. DONNELLY ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CLINICAL AFFAIRS
33% Growth in Medication Assistance Program patients.
1,597 Immunizations administered by ambulaory pharmacies.
311,139 Total prescriptions filled.
4 Million Value of Medication Assistance Program services provided.
36 Current medication-related protocols.
57 Current medicationrelated clinical care guidelines.
21% Growth in prescriptions dispensed.
1,600 Patients in UI TEAM RX coordinated care program.
3,600 Patients served by the Medication Assistance Program.
416 Patients enrolled in RxCARES.
745 Consults provided by the Mobile Pharmacy Education Program (MoPhE).
65% Growth in UI Team RX patients.
26,282 Specialty Pharmacy Prescriptions.
27 Average patient visits per day to the Anti-thrombosis clinic.
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71% MTM Clinic patients receive their medications in pillboxes.
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UI TEAM RX UI Health Ambulatory Care pharmacies have been engaged in practice transformation efforts through the UI TEAM RX pharmacy based coordinated care model since 2013. Many of our patients say they come to our pharmacies because we know their name and their story. We are working towards the day our patients will say, “My pharmacy team knows my name, my story, they help me stay healthy and they walk with me towards meeting my treatment goals”. The UI TEAM RX model seeks to operationalize and make enhanced pharmacy services, such as monthly medication reconciliation, medication synchronization, preventative care, disease state management and care coordination, available to our patients in our pharmacies. UI TEAM RX is an acronym highlighting the care components provided through the model.
UI TEAM RX
Pharmacies Taylor Street EEI Pharmacy
Outpatient Care Center OCC Pharmacy Wood Street PCC Pharmacy University Village UVP Pharmacy
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Mile Square MS Pharmacy
Goals 1. Identify and minimize medication safety issues 2. Increase medication adherence and improve health outcomes 3. Optimize medication related expenses and reduce overall healthcare costs
— The ACT (Academia-CSPEN Transformation) Pharmacy Collaborative UI TEAM RX and University of Illinois College of Pharmacy are part of Academia-CPESN Transformation (ACT) Pharmacy Collaborative. ACT is an operational learning and acting collaborative between schools of pharmacy and established clinically integrated networks of community-based pharmacies. The purpose of the ACT Collaborative is to establish successful partnerships between schools/colleges of pharmacy and community pharmacy-based clinically integrated networks. UIC COP ACT faculty coordinators – Anitha Nagelli, Nazia Babul, Sheila Allen, Marlowe Djuric Kachlic & Jewel Younge. We have launched an ACT student-led Blood Pressure service initiative. The team includes P2-P4 students, each individually implementing a collaboratively designed Blood Pressure service in the outpatient pharmacies, with the aim of establishing the outpatient and community pharmacy as a place where patients can receive longitudinal support for blood pressure management.
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— Flip the Pharmacy (FtP) practice transformation implementation program On October 1st 2019 UI TEAM RX in collaboration with Illinois Community Pharmacy Enhanced Network (I-CPEN) was selected to participate in the first cohort of the Flip the Pharmacy (FtP) practice transformation implementation program. UI TEAM RX pharmacies joined 500 other pharmacies in 27 states across the nation in practice transformation efforts. The Flip the Pharmacy initiative aims to “transform community-based pharmacies away from filling prescriptions at a moment in time to caring for patients over time.” Participating pharmacies will be coached on how to build the care planning process into the pharmacy workflow. Six transformation domains have been defined for FtP: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Leveraging the appointment-based model Improving patient follow up and monitoring Developing new roles for non-pharmacist support staff Optimizing the utilization of technology and electronic care plans Establishing working relationships with other care team members Developing the business model and expressing value
Each month will focus on a different domain so that each of the six domains are covered through four progressions for the total of 24 months, or the two-year cohort. Flip the Pharmacy will award qualified Practice Transformation Teams with funding and resources to support the transformation efforts. Funding for FtP is provided by CPESN and the Community Pharmacy Foundation. Through the FtP program the five UI TEAM RX pharmacies are coming together with ten micropolitan and rural pharmacies in Illinois to provide enhanced pharmacy services. We plan to leverage the UI TEAM RX care model through the FtP program across different pharmacies in Illinois. Flip the Pharmacy project leads are Anitha Nagelli and Jill Woodward (I-CPEN board member), with administrative support from Sandra Durley and Garth Reynolds (Illinois Pharmacist Association Executive Director and I-CPEN board member). The UI TEAM RX care model is led by Anitha Nagelli, UI TEAM RX Coordinator along with a group of entrepreneurial, innovative, and experienced leads and coaches representing each of the participating pharmacies. Task force members include: Daniel Anzalone, Jenna Boznos. Madan Manocha, Christina M. Carrizales Cortez, Maribelle Regala Vasavanont, and Jewel Younge.
UI TEAM RX patients engaged across all sites: 1,600
88% UI TEAM RX patients
92% UI TEAM RX transplant patients
86% UI TEAM RX Hemodialysis patients
— Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN) UI TEAM RX pharmacies are part of a national clinically integrated network called Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN). CPESN is comprised of multiple state level networks formed by 2,500 pharmacies nationwide. Similar to the UI TEAM RX model, CPESN pharmacies offer enhanced services.
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UI HEALTH SPECIALT PHARMACY SERVICES UI Health Specialty Pharmacy Services (SPS) started in 2007 with one patient, one prescription and one part-time pharmacist. We had an existing infrastructure of six retail pharmacies, one infusion pharmacy and outpatient clinic-based pharmacists. We had robust services in our retail and infusion pharmacies for managing transplant patients and oncology infusions. However, we were not capitalizing on the growing opportunities in gastroenterology, neurology, hepatology, and other therapeutic categories. Within the first six months of service, our part-time pharmacist captured 40 Humira prescriptions, and specialty pharmacy was on its way to being established at UI Health.
In 2012, UI Health SPS was designated as a business unit in the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Department, reporting to Sandra Durley. The original employees were JoAnn Stubbings, Nehrin Khamo, Rebekah Anguiano, and Elba Sertuche (all still employed by UI Health SPS). For the next few years, we established the specialty pharmacy practice model at UI Health, published on specialty pharmacy research, and gave national webinars and presentations. In 2015, UI Health SPS received URAC specialty pharmacy accreditation, and we were reaccredited in 2018. In 2016, we received ACHC specialty pharmacy accreditation, and we were reaccredited in 2019. UI Health SPS was one of the first health system specialty pharmacies to achieve dual accreditation. Our team is made up of thought leaders and innovators in health system-based specialty pharmacy. Our mission is to help people with complex or chronic diseases reach the best health by providing care in the safest and easiest way, at the lowest possible cost. We serve patients and employees of UI Health, and employees and students of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Our primary service area is Chicago and its suburbs in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
UI Health SPS Timeline
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UI Health SPS was Established
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ACHC Special Pharmacy Reaccrediation
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URAC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation
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ACHC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation
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URAC Specialty Pharmacy Reaccreditation
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UI Health SPS provides services to patients with rare, complex, or chronic disease who need specialty medications. Some of the more common therapeutic categories include cancer, cardiology, endocrinology, hepatitis C, immune disorders, multiple sclerosis and other neurologic conditions, psychiatry, pulmonary arterial hypertension, severe asthma, sickle cell disease, solid organ transplant, and women’s health. UI Health SPS consists of four functional teams: Patient Access Center (PAC)
SP-ONC Oral Oncology
SPS Call Center
Mail Order
— The PAC submits prior authorizations on behalf of the specialty clinics.
— SP-ONC provides call center, patient management, and fulfillment services for patients who are prescribed oral oncology specialty and adjunctive medications at UI Health. They have access to several limited distribution drug portfolios.
— The SPS Call Center receives referrals for specialty patients and implements the comprehensive Patient Management Program to optimize continued access to specialty medications and positive patient outcomes. Technicians work with our Medication Assistance Program to help patients overcome any financial barriers. Patients are contacted at least once a month to monitor treatment, ensure medication adherence, mitigate adverse events, and schedule home delivery of medications and supplies.
— The Mail Order service is the fulfillment arm of SPS, performing all operational duties including verification, packaging, and shipping. Mail Order has a robust transplant service, fertility service, and home delivery service for patients with chronic disease.
Notable Accomplishments A decade of accomplishments at UI Health SPS contributed to our national leadership in health-system specialty pharmacy. Our unique practice model is provider-based and patient-centric, integrated, customized, and local. Our goal is to optimize the patient journey for the best patient outcomes. Some of the innovations established here at UI Health SPS are described below. Seamless Providor Integration We pioneered the integration of specialty pharmacy and provider clinics with the presence of embedded clinical pharmacists. They participate in team-based care to provide comprehensive medication management for all clinic patients. Embedded pharmacists provide referrals and refill authorizations to UI Health SPS and serve as important liaisons to the SPS Patient Management program.
Publications, Posters, and Presentations UI Health SPS pharmacists, technicians, students, and residents have published or presented over 100 manuscripts and abstracts on specialty pharmacy. Our focus is to demonstrate and disseminate the value of health-system specialty pharmacy.
Virtual Clinical Pharmacy Consult Services This electronic health record-based service extends the reach of the clinical pharmacist by ensuring their participation prior to a physician’s order for a specialty medication. It is successfully implemented in Cardiology for the PCSK9 inhibitor agents and in Rheumatology for self-administered biologics and infusions. Based on a virtual consult, the clinical pharmacist verifies that the specialty medication is appropriate for the patient and that all clinical and non-clinical interventions are performed prior to referral to UI Health SPS.
Layered Learning As an academic institution, our goal is to train the next generation of specialty pharmacists and technicians. We have mentored hundreds of independent study research students, IPPE, APPE, residents, and technicians. We hope to leave a lasting impact on the field of health-system based specialty pharmacy.
E-Specialty Rx Case Management System
Webber Logistics Cold Chain Delivery Service
Specialty Pharmacy Drug Cards
UI Health SPS identified a need for a workflow management system that reflected our integrated model and allowed for transparency among staff and our many student learners. E-Specialty Rx was developed by one of our SPS students who went on to become an information technology pharmacist.
UI Health SPS identified a need for safe, reliable and culturally-sensitive home delivery of specialty medications, especially those requiring temperaturecontrolled distribution. We were the first client of a minority-owned startup company that provides this service to Chicago and the surrounding suburbs in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Webber Logistics provides a convenient texting service to patients, many of whom are home-bound with limited mobility. A text message is sent when the driver is on his way followed by another text when the driver arrives at the patient’s home.
UI Health SPS identified a need for relevant, comprehensive, and concise information on specialty medications for pharmacists and technicians. Our clinical pharmacists and pharmacy students developed 100 drug cards that provide medication indication, dosage form, route of administration, storage, access, dosing, drug interactions, drug food interactions, contraindications, warnings, common to rare adverse reactions, considerations prior to initiating treatment, monitoring parameters during treatment, and details for the UI Health SPS Care Plan. Drug Cards are updated annually or upon changes in labeling.
Specialty Pharmacy Residency We are in the fourth year of a PGY1 specialty pharmacy residency, an ASHP accredited community pharmacy residency with a focus in specialty pharmacy. UI Health SPS pharmacists, clinic-based pharmacists, and SPS administration serve as residency preceptors. The residency includes rotations in specialty clinics, specialty pharmacy call center, specialty pharmacy and mail order and operations, and administration.
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The Drug Information Group (DIG) had a successful 2019 in both our fee-for-service business and our teaching efforts. The group currently has about 25 active contracts providing a variety of drug information-related services including responding to individual drug information requests, formulary reviews, training programs, database development, and completion of medical writing projects. During 2019, the DIG continued to support existing clients along with welcoming a few new contracts. Noteworthy work completed in 2019 includes continued formulary support through updating class reviews for several clients, the creation and updating of several AMCP dossiers for multiple pharmaceutical industry partners, and continued work supporting an intravenous workflow management system for ConsortiEx. The DIG also reorganized and revamped a new PGY2 residency program in drug information targeted towards pharmacists looking to pursue a career outside traditional hospital-based drug information practice. Within the PharmD curriculum, a 1-credit hour online class on medical writing was offered for the first time in Fall 2019, which was well-received by students. The DIG continues to support other courses in the curriculum including Introduction to Drug Information, Evidenced Based Medicine, and Journal Club & Advanced Literature Analysis.
DR. MICHAEL GABAY
DIRECTOR
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New and updated AMCP-format ted drug dossiers and dozens of standard response let ters for pharmaceutical company client s.
Created or updated formular y class reviews or in-depth drug information request s.
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Prior Authorization 2006
The Prior Authorization (PA) Services Group began its’ contract with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IL-HFS) in 2006.
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Approximately 500 requests are processed daily for Illinois Medicaid Fee-For-Service programs by sixteen pharmacists and one pharmacy technician.
The Prior Authorization (PA) Services Group began its’ contract with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IL-HFS) in 2006 and is currently comprised of one pharmacy technician and sixteen pharmacists, twelve located in Chicago and four in Springfield. The group develops clinical based approval criteria for non-preferred medications and adjudicates PA requests in a consistent and timely manner for Illinois Medicaid Fee-For-Service programs. Approximately 500 requests are processed daily. In addition, the group provides customer service and education with regard to PA policies, determination appeals, and billing issues for pharmacies and healthcare providers through outreach via phone, fax, and our website .
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Doc MRAD ASSIST 2012
The Medication Review and Academic Detailing Unit began in 2012 as a partnership with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
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414 DocAssist Consultations were conducted.
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Completed Academic Detailing pilot project in Southern Illinois that provided 133 one on one educational sessions with prescribers targeting proper opioid prescribing and pain management.
DocAssist provided 33 educational programs that were attended by 736 prescribers.
The Medication Review and Academic Detailing Unit focuses on reviewing medications in higher risk patients in Medicaid. UIC Pharmacists review medications in those patients who are taking more than four prescriptions per month chronically. The patient’s prescriber is contacted and the pharmacist makes appropriate clinical recommendations to reduce unnecessary medications and prevent duplicate therapy. In addition to evaluating patients who may be taking too much medication, program pharmacists also identify patients who are non-adherent to chronic medications and reach out to prescribers to alert them to this potential problem.
The mission of this service is to help primary care clinicians screen, diagnose, and treat the mental health and substance use problems of children, adolescents, and perinatal women through consultation, training and referral assistance throughout the State of Illinois. Illinois DocAssist is the second oldest collaborative care initiative in the country and celebrated its tenth anniversary.
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Rock Pharmacy Practice Faculty
The Rockford Campus welcomes its newest members to Pharmacy Practice, UIC alumni Drs. Oksana Kucher and Mark Biagi. Oksana completed her PGY-1 and PGY-2 residency in critical care at Yale New Haven Hospital and is practicing at OSF Saint Anthony Hospital. Mark completed his PGY-1 residency at Franciscan Health Hammond & Dyer and his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at UIC; he is practicing at SwedishAmerican Hospital and setting up a research lab on Rockford campus. They join 11 other Pharmacy Practice faculty practicing at these institutions as well as Crusader Community Health Center, Boone County Council on Aging, KSB Hospital, MercyHealth, and UI Health L.P. Johnson Family Health Center. Faculty practices include emergency medicine, primary care, family medicine, anticoagulation, infectious diseases, geriatrics, palliative care, HIV, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry.
13 Blood Pressure Screenings
3,300 Pounds of unused medication disposed of in partnership with Keep Northern Illinois Beauitful
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Faculty participate in community service and outreach including the annual county fair blood pressure (BP) screening initiatives, since 2014 students and faculty have provided over 3,300 BP screenings. This year counseling and screenings were provided to 575 individuals at the fairs in Boone, Stephenson, and Winnebago County. A total of 116 faculty and 198 student hours were spent delivering this service. Other strong community outreach includes collaborations with Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful collecting and disposing of over 1,300 pounds of unused medication, an interprofessional mass influenza immunization sponsored by an AACP grant awarded to Dr. Allison Schriever, and Operation Opioid with outreach and education to over 600 adolescents. Thanks to the CPE office, 2019 also saw the Rockford campus host it’s second opioid summit with over 160 pharmacist and healthcare providers, the focus is to curb the opioid epidemic in Northern Illinois.
kford Faculty continue to teach the Summer Pharmacy Institute (SPI), a program designed for college students to explore the profession. Funded in part by the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois, 2019 saw the SPI double in size. Forty-nine undergraduate students attended two week-long SPI emersion programs exploring opportunities within the profession. Faculty from the Department including Drs. Erin Carson, Alice Hemenway, Laura Meyer-Junco, Heidi Olson, Marianne Pop, Kevin Rynn, Allison Schriever, and Chris Schriever worked with the Director of Student Affairs, Cindi Schaefer, to provide this in-depth pharmacy review. The program helps attract students to the profession and to UIC. Since its inception five years ago, 152 individuals have attended, 48% have applied, and 35% enrolled on both UIC campuses. The Rockford Campus continues to provide the Rural Pharmacy Education (RPHARM) Concentration. Dr. Olson, Director of the RPHARM program, aims to educate participants about practicing in a rural environments and improving pharmacy services available to individuals residing there. Students work interprofessionally with rural medicine and nursing students to complete this four year sequence of courses and projects, implementing a capstone community health improvement project presented at Rockford campus research day. A total of 60 students are currently in, or graduated from, the program. Over 50% of these individuals go on to practice in underserved rural communities; the Department is proud to see well-trained UIC graduates provide these much needed services.
DR. KEVIN RYNN VICE DEAN ROCKFORD CAMPUS Pharmacy Practice
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Residents & Fellows
The PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program closed out the 2018 – 2019 year with the retirement of Dr. Frank Paloucek as the residency program director (RPD) position after 20 years. We also had a successful reaccreditation visit from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The 2019 – 2020 class is off to a good start having matched all of our 12 positions in Dr. Kirsten Ohler’s first residency class. In September, our program was well represented at the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists (ICHP) by a resident and preceptors who won the “Best Practice Award” for their work on reducing harm related to inpatient opioid use. In October, another resident was a finalist for the “Best Resident and Fellow Poster Award” at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Annual Meeting. The program has also developed a social media presence to highlight the achievements and unique aspects of our program (Facebook | go.uic.edu/RxResidency ; Instagram | @uicrxresidency). We look forward to another successful Match Day in March 2020 as all of our PGY1s pursue fellowship or PGY2 specialty training and we aim to fill all of our PGY1 positions yet again.
DR. KIRSTEN OHLER PGY1 DIRECTOR RESIDENTS & FELLOWS January 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019 PGY1 - Pharmacy Practice Residents
Enela Aliaj, PharmD Anastasia Rujevcan, PharmD Patricia Amundaray Miller, PharmD Shae Peter Ryan, PharmD Lauren Cunningham, PharmD Kaitlin Siela, PharmD Erin Pozzolano, PharmD Jamie Kalangara Thomas, PharmD Anesia Reticker, PharmD Benito Valdepenas, PharmD Karina Rudenberg, PharmD Hannah Whittemore, PharmD Lan-Hsi Lin, PharmD - International
PGY2 - Specialty Residents Marisa Brizzi, PharmD – HIV Devon Burhoe, PharmD – Emergency Kristina Falk, PharmD – Ambulatory Care Amanda Gerberich, PharmD – Drug Information Michelle Lee, PharmD – Pediatric Po-Hung Lin, PharmD – Oncology Jamie Micheletto, PharmD – Critical Care Brian Phan, PharmD – Critical Care Isha Rana, PharmD – Administration Robert Stafford, PharmD – Ambulatory Care Khushbu Tejani, PharmD – Organ Transplant Page - 24
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PGY1 - Community Pharmacy Residents Thao Hoang, PharmD – Jewel-Osco Ashley McClure-Wolfson, PharmD – Walgreens Samantha Otto-Meyer, PharmD – UIC Veranika Sasnovskaya, PharmD – Community Specialty, UIC
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Mark Biagi, PharmD – Infectious Diseases David Butler, PharmD – Infectious Diseases Brianna McQuade, PharmD – Academic/Family Medicine Samah Qasmieh, PharmD – Infectious Diseases Xing Tan, PharmD – Infectious Diseases
July 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019 PGY1 - Pharmacy Practice Residents
Kaitlyn Dalton, PharmD Melissa Durst, PharmD Mark Jao, PharmD Hannah Kim, PharmD Kaily Kurzweil, PharmD Jasmine Mangrum, PharmD
Jane McCullough, PharmD Dana Pierce, PharmD Nicole Saccone, PharmD Melody Saunders PharmD Corinne Songer, PharmD Tiffany Wu, PharmD Yiwei Yin, PharmD
PGY2 - Specialty Residents
Joette Amundaray Miller, PharmD – Pediatric Lauren Andrews, PharmD – Critical Care Ana Cruz, PharmD – Emergency Medicine Lauren Cunningham, PharmD – Ambulatory Care Paloma Garcia, PharmD – Administration Kaitlin Elizabeth Miles, PharmD – Drug Information Erin Pozzolano, PharmD – Cardiology Anesia Reticker, PharmD – Organ Transplant Alexander Rock, PharmD – HIV Jamie Thomas, PharmD – Oncology Benito Valdepenas, PharmD – Organ Transplant Hannah Whittemore, PharmD - Ambulatory Care
PGY1 - Community Pharmacy Residents Tanya Abraham, PharmD – Walgreens Fiona Costello PharmD – Community Specialty, UIC Gina Manzi, PharmD – Jewel-Osco Michelle Smith, PharmD – UIC
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Kimberly Baugh, PharmD – Infectious Diseases Jeremy Delor, PharmD – Academic/Family Medicine Brianna McQuade, PharmD – Academic/Family Medicine Samah Qasmieh, PharmD – Infectious Diseases Xing Tan, PharmD – Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Practice
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PMPR in the News New Head of Department of Pharmacy Practice Named Edith Nutescu, PharmD, MS CTS, FCCP, was named Head of the UIC College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Nutescu was a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Stystems, Outcomes and Policy and Director of the Center of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research. She has previously served the College as a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, practiced as a clinical pharmacist in the Antithrombosis Center, and in a variety of clinical managerial positions. Dr. Nutescu is a very successful and well-funded researcher with a focus on health services and outcomes. She has authored over 180 scientific articles and served on numerous editorial boards. She has also held important leadership positions in national associations and is the recipient of many national awards. Dean Schumock noted that, “Dr. Nutescu has a track record of excellence in all aspects of the Department’s mission, and is clearly wellqualified for this position. I believe she will be an extrodinary leader for the Department of Pharmacy Practice.
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Allison Schriever and UIC Pharmacy Faculty win Rufus A. Lyman Award Pharmacy Practice Faculty member Dr. Allison E. Schriever along with Drs. Nicholas G. Popovich, Clara Okorie-Awe, Stephanie Y. Crawford, Fabricio E. Balcazar, Rosalyn P. Vellurattil, Terry W. Moore also from the UIC College of Pharmacy received the A. Lyman Award at the AACP Meeting the summer of 2019. The Rufus A. Lyman Award is presented annually to the author(s) of the best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
Marianne Pop elected as the ICHP Chair of the New Practitioners Network
Lori Wilken honored as the 2019 UIC Jesse Steward Service Award Recipient
In 2019, Dr. Marianne Pop was elected as the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ICHP) Chair of the New Practitioners Network. The New Practitioner’s Network (NPN) of ICHP is composed of practitioners who have graduated with their first professional degree in the last 10 years and are looking to become more involved in pharmacy organizations.
Dr. Lori Wilken was selected as the 2019 UIC College of Pharmacy Jesse Steward Service Award. The Jesse Stewart Service Award is named in honor of a former faculty member and recognizes a person who has been generous in his or her service to the profession, the community and/or the college.
In addition to being a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Dr. Pop is Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency Medicine at OSF St. Anthony Hospital.
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Smart Speakers: Bring the Pharmacist Home to Older Adults
by Dan Smith Every day, a group of Chicago older adults return to their independent-living apartments and says hello to a friendly, helpful and infinitely knowledgeable voice: Alexa, Amazon’s AI-powered digital assistant. And now, a pair of UIC Pharmacy researchers hopes to turn that technology into a medication resource for older adults. Thanks to a project at the Admiral at the Lake Continuing Care Retirement Community, Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Echo Dot smart speakers now reside in 100 of the facility’s independent-living apartments. Drs. Jennie Jarrett, UIC assistant professor of pharmacy, and Robert DiDomenico (UIC 1996), UIC associate professor of pharmacy practice, lead the university’s portion of the project. They will work to bring medication education into older adults’ homes through a podcast on the Dots, a companion live-presentation series, and potentially other applications, like medication reminders. Through this partnership, DiDomenico said, the school hopes to show that technology can give older adults a sense of independence. We want to “empower the residents to … have some measure of control over their health and their medications, which I think can sometimes be fleeting to them,” he said, “particularly when you start adding up not only the health conditions that they may have, but the medications that they have.” Connecting with Amazon The perhaps-surprising pairing of artificially intelligent gadgets with older adults first arose for reasons entirely unrelated to medicine: The Admiral saw an opportunity to help its residents decide what to eat — among other things. Specifically, the facility wanted to give its residents better access to information about programs at the Admiral, such as activities and restaurant menus, “largely for their own quality of life,” DiDomenico said. However, a colleague of Jarrett and DiDomenico’s — Jewel Younge, clinical assistant professor at UIC — has links to the Admiral and saw a research opportunity. So, she got ahold of the two professors. “We got to talking,” DiDomenico said, “and we tried to put a little bit of a healthcare spin on it.”
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The Admiral first put dots in100 residents’ apartments in December, with a second rollout of 50-100 occurring this spring. In all cases, the residents volunteered to take part. Thanks to their contacts at Admiral, Jarrett and DiDomenico learned that residents have already found a medication application for their Dots as medication reminders even before the UIC has launched its activities. UIC’s healthcare content and functions for the speakers, including the planned podcasts, will come after upcoming focus sessions. But that medication-reminder angle will likely be a goal, DiDomenico said. Ideal partners Amazon’s smart speakers made a logical choice as the technological aides to provide that information, Jarrett said. Many older adults have vision impairments, making screen-based devices like smartphones and tablets difficult to use. Those devices also “require tactile dexterity, and many [older adults] may not have as good of use of their hands as they once did,” she said. “But if they can just talk to a device, it will be able to help them in a way that’s supportive of their stage in life,” Jarrett said. In addition to that technology fit, the Admiral makes an ideal partner for UIC. Because the facility offers services ranging from independent living to 24-hour care, the college can study across that spectrum, DiDomenico said. For its part, UIC’s medication expertise makes it an ideal partner, too. “We like to think of ourselves as one of the best [pharmacy] schools in the country,” DiDomenico said. “We are the experts when it comes to medications, and we think we should be the ones pushing the envelope and trying to improve medication use.” Read more at go.uic.edu/SmartSpeakers
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Dr. Wenzler receives grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Eric Wenzler received a grant that will work to providing evidence to support the use of a novel combination of aztreonam plus ceftazidime-avibactam for acute pulmonary exacerbations caused by a clinically relevant pathogen.
Ajna Hamidovic receives R21 Grant from National Institute of Mental Health Dr. Hamidovic is the Principal Investigator of the PHASE (Premenstrual Hormonal and Affective State Evaluation) Study. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health R21 mechanism, PHASE is a prospective cohort study evaluating menstrual cycle rhythmicity. Specifically, the study’s goal is to characterize the relationship between reproductive hormone levels, stress and affective symptoms in Premenstrual Syndrome.
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Jan Engle Comments on the Changing Pharmacy Industry in Drug Store News
ACPE Names Dr. Janet Engle as Executive Director
Dr. Jan Engle, former Associate Dean for Professional an International Affairs at the UIC College of Pharmacy, is one of 11 experts who provided an op-ed for Drug Store News about the changing pharmacy industry. Her article focuses on education on the the value of pharmacy. Read more at: go.uic.edu/EngleDrugStore
The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education’s (ACPE) Board of Directors annouced that Janet Engle is its new Executive Director. This position serves as the chief administrative offices of the organization and reports to the Board of Directors. Read more at: go.uic.edu/EngleACPE
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Driven by an Infectious Focus By Dan Smith
Since 1996, Drs. Larry Danziger and Keith Rodvold have directed a section focused on infectious disease research, training and clinical service. A large U.S. map graces the wall of Larry Danziger’s first-floor office inside the UIC College of Pharmacy building. Dozens of small plastic flags protrude from the framed, earth-toned map, lining both coasts and peppering the U.S. heartland. Each flag, Danziger explains, marks the current location of a former fellow from the College’s Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Section – one of the largest and longest-standing such fellowship programs in the U.S. As Danziger stands alongside his College of Pharmacy colleague Dr. Keith Rodvold, with whom he founded the Section in 1996 and continues serving as its co-director, he beams about the contributions of the Section’s past fellows. Danziger tells of individuals working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, major pharmaceutical industry players and various universities, including some of who have constructed academic programs modeled after the heralded UIC-based Section. “For Keith and I, [the fellows] are like our children and we’re both so proud of all they’ve accomplished,” says Danziger, a professor of pharmacy practice. Over the last 23 years, the Infectious Diseases Section – propelled by the enterprising spirit of those fellows as well as Danziger, Rodvold and a swelling group of faculty colleagues – has emerged a prominent player in the healthcare landscape by delivering education, clinical support and research to the University and an array of external partners. The Section has bolstered patient care, created a robust training program and highlighted the value pharmacists can bring to interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
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Seizing Momentum In the mid-1990s, a time in which various other College faculty members were forming their own specific sections, Dr. Richard Hutchinson, then-head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, encouraged Danziger and Rodvold to formally merge their respective expertise in infectious diseases. Establishing a section, Hutchinson advised, would spark more collaborative, organized research around infectious diseases and inject fresh energy into the specialty field. Though Danziger and Rodvold regularly worked together on training and research throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, they nevertheless remained independent, each maintaining his own group of postdocs and individual research directions. Creating a more formalized operating unit, however, streamlined their work and supercharged their efforts. “Everything changed from that moment forward,” says Rodvold, who, like Danziger, is also a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. In fact, there was a near-immediate surge in fellows, faculty collaboration and external partnerships. Danziger and Rodvold went from each having “one or two fellows” to six between them. The added capacity increased the scope of research and positioned the Section for exponential growth. “Everything synergized,” Danziger says. “We had this tremendous spurt in research and training activity because we were representing a larger group.” Navigating Success Early on, the Section established a strong relationship with Abbott Laboratories, with whom it helped develop multiple drugs. “That got people paying attention to us,” Danziger says of the Abbott collaboration. “And, frankly, that’s when we realized ourselves that people needed our expertise.” Other partnerships soon followed – first of the local variety, including collaborations with Loyola University Medical Center, the Cook County Health and Hospitals System and other industry players before moving regionally, then nationally and, eventually, internationally. There was, for example, the creation of a national program for PharmD infectious disease fellows established in partnership with the University of Minnesota and Wayne State University as well as an eight-year drug development initiative with WHO. These collaborations escalated the credibility of the Section and also provided the Section’s fellows a diverse array of compelling research opportunities. That, in turn, led to heightened competition for the Section’s fellowships. “One day, we turned around and had trained 75 people,” Danziger jokes. At the same time, additional faculty members from the College joined Danziger and Rodvold in the clinical realm. That spurred deep relationships with entities such as the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, John H. Stroger Cook County Hospital, the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center and the Division of Infectious Diseases at UI Health. As chair of Cook County Hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Robert Weinstein relished the opportunity to leverage the Section’s personnel, acumen and spirited focus. “[The Section] had a great working knowledge of clinical and research pharmacology, while Larry and Keith, in particular, were great collaborators with excellent trainees interested in learning and working,” says Weinstein, who maintained a relationship with the Section as he moved onto leading Cook County Health’s Department of Medicine and serving as CORE Center’s chief operating officer. For Danziger and Rodvold, the creation of a formalized section at the College energized their respective careers and enlivened the research, clinical and training elements of infectious disease pharmacy at UIC. “Our department head was smarter than us,” Danziger says of Hutchinson. “He saw the value we could add.” Read more at go.uic.edu/InfectiousFocus Pharmacy Practice
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Frank’s Last Class by Dan Smith For 30 Years, Frank Paloucek Has Helped Produce Confident, Self-Reliant Residents. Frank Paloucek Has Mentored Independent-Minded Residents for 3 Decades. UIC’s Renowned Residency Program Has Thrived Under Frank Paloucek The residency program at UIC pharmacy trains a particular type of pharmacist particularly well, says the program’s director. And for nearly three decades, it has benefited from the work of a man particularly suited to the goal — that same director, Frank Paloucek. Paloucek started his work with the residency program in 1989, as an advisory committee member. He took over as director of the PGY1 (year-one) residency program in 1999, serving in that role ever since. In that time, he learned that the job of mentoring and leading residents fit him like a medical glove. The school originally approached Paloucek to run the residency program for only three to five years. But the director and the program were too good a match to quit that soon, he said. “I stuck it out,” he said. And he found that he enjoyed helping residents find their own way in the profession. “I discovered I was really good at it.” Paloucek also started and ran a second-year emergency-medicine residency program while with the committee. Additionally, he currently acts as preceptor for the PGY2 (second-year) ER and critical care residents; teaches at UIC; and works with the Illinois Poison Center. Saying that he “talks a lot” and speaks his mind bluntly, Paloucek said he’s been good at pushing residents to be independent and self-reliant — something at which UIC’s program excels, he said. “I just give them the freedom to do things they like doing. Then, they’re happy, and they do more of it” he said. “It’s what I’m good at.” And though he’s had chances to take on other jobs, Paloucek said he never wanted to change. Read more at go.uic.edu/LastClass
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Dr. Sandra Cuellar Puri featured in The Oncology Pharmacist.
Adam Bursua provides testimony to the State Legislature about the Opioid Crisis
Dr. Sandra Cuellar Puri was interviewed in an article: Advances in Personalized Therapy for EarlyStage and Metastic Breast Cancer in The Oncology Pharmacist.
Dr. Adam Bursua represented UI Health in the State Capital as part of the Illinois Hospital Association to present the hospital’s efforts in reducing the Opioid Crises.
At the 2019 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Annual Conference, Dr. Cuellar discussed new and practice-changing therapies, noting that trends continue toward tailoring treatments based on tumor biology and characteristics. “To give you an idea of the magnitude of research in this disease state, between the years 2017 and 2018, over 20,000 articles were published in breast cancer,” Dr Cuellar said. “My presentation will only scratch the surface of updates.” Read more at: go.uic.edu/PuriOncology
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Dr. Rodvold and co-authors win Pharmacotherapy Paper of the Year
Keith Rodvold Lectures at the Colombian Congress of Infectious Diseases
Keith Rodvold was a co-author of the Pharmacotherapy Paper of the Year awarded by the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP). The manuscript, “Renal Dosing of Antibiotics: Are We Jumping the Gun?” was published in the Journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Rodvold was an invited speaker and provided two lectures at the XIV Colombian Congress of Infectious Diseases organized by the Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases ACIN in Cartagena, Colombia, South America.
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Ohler in Charge by Dan Smith With Dr. Kirsten Ohler at the helm, the College’s flagship PGY1 residency program enters a new era and looks to build on nearly 50 years of success. For Dr. Kirsten Ohler, July 1, 2019 carries added emotion. That’s the day Ohler, the new director of the UIC College of Pharmacy’s PGY1 (year-one) residency program, will stand before the College’s latest crop of 12 residents for the first time and welcome them into the fold during the heralded program’s annual orientation. “It’s the beginning of a new journey for all of us,” says Ohler, a clinical associate professor in the Department Pharmacy Practice now in her 13th year at UIC. “For me, it’s an opportunity to lead a program that does so much to help individuals grow into independent, autonomous practitioners who do good things for patient care. For the trainees, it’s an opportunity to mature in the profession and set their career on a positive trajectory.” Coveted spots For students, the PGY1 residency matching process is competitive and tension filled. At UIC, some 200 candidates annually compete for a dozen spots and, nationally, only two out of every three talented candidates seeking a residency position at universities, medical centers and other healthcare institutions secure a spot. Landing a residency, meanwhile, can spur a cross-country move, push individuals well outside their comfort zone and steer the early trajectory of one’s professional career. Appointed to replace Dr. Frank Paloucek, who had led the College’s PGY1 residency program for the last 20 years, Ohler began recruiting UIC’s current collection of incoming residents – her first such batch – last December. She traveled to the recruiting forum at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, California, reviewed applications, conducted on-site interviews and ranked her top candidates. Read more at go.uic.edu/OhlerInCharge Pharmacy Practice
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UIC at ACCP Annual Meeting
Dr. Nutescu Honored by ACCP Dr. Edith Nutescu was selected by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) as the 2019 Russell Miller Award receipient. Named for ACCP member and founding editor of Pharmacotherapy, Russell R. Miller, the award recognizes an individual for significant contribution to the clinical pharmacy literature. The award is the most prestigious scholarly award bestowed upon an ACCP member. The award was presented to Dr. Nutescu at the ACCP Annual Meeting held in New York City. Read more at go.uic.edu/russellmiller
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Leadership and Committee Service Jerry Bauman, Editor-in-Chief Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc Board of Directors Editor-in-Chief, JACCP
Jin Han, Member Research Fellowship Program Review Committee
Melissa Badowski, Chairperson Educational Affairs Committee
Ajna Hamidovic, Member Annual Meeting Program Committee
Maya Campara, Vice Chair Annual Meeting Program Committee
Jennie Jarrett, Member Research Fellowship Program Review Committee
Janna Afanasjeva, Member Member Relations Committee
James Lee, Member Annual Meetin gProgram Committee
Juliana Chan, Member Credentials: Fellowship (FCCP) Committee
Sarah Michienzi, Member Clinical Practice Affairs Committee
Michael Gabay, Member Credentials: Fellowship (FCCP) Committee
Nancy Shapiro, Member Task Force on Medication Access
Dr. Jennie Jarrett elected a Fellow of the ACCP Jennie Jarrett has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Fellowships in ACCP Recognize the highest levels of excellence in the practice and science of clinical pharmacy. She was inducted at the 2019 ACCP Annual Meeting in New York. Pharmacy Practice
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Dr. Paloucek interviewed by ABC about the Effects of CBD Oil on Drug Tests Frank Paloucek told the ABC I-Team depending on what CBD oil product you are taking and how much you are taking THC can build up in the body. Read more at: go.uic.edu/PaloucekCBDOil
Margaret Byun wins the 2019 AMCP Distinguished Service Award Margaret Byun, PharmD, MS received the 2019 AMCP Distinguished Service Award at the AMCP Managed Care and Speciality Pharmacy Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. Read more at: go.uic.edu/ByunAward
Dr. Tesoro Elected to the Board of Directors of the Neurocritical Care Society. Eljim Tesoro was elected to the Board of Directors of the Neurocritical Care Society in 2019 to a 4-year term. The Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) represents multi-disciplinary teams of neurocritical care providers around the world whose mission is to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening neurological illnesses. The NCS has one goal — to bring their collective knowledge to drive the best possible outcomes for life-threatening brain and spinal cord emergencies and injuries.
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Dr. Groo was elected as the ACC CV Team State Liaison for Illinois Vicki Groo was elected as the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Team State Liaison for Illinois. The ACC has prioritized team-based care, and part of our mission as leaders is to demonstrate the many ways in which the College supports the professional needs of the entire CV Care Team. Read more at: go.uic.edu/GrooCardiology
Drs. Bursa, Larson and McCullough receive best Practice Award from ICHP Drs. Adam Bursa, Connie Larson, and Jane McCullough received the Best Practice Award from the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacsits (ICHP) for their work to reduce harm from opioid medications.
Faculty receive a grant from 340 Community Voices Congratulations to Isha Rana, Andrew Donnelly, Sandra Durley, Sima Shah, Lisa Sharp, and Joanna Stubbings. The group received a grant from 340 Community Voices for the Project to compare Medication action Services at 340B and non-340B Hospitals.
Hutchinson returns to Pharmacy Practice Former Department Head Richard Hutchinson returned to the Department to speak at the residency certificate ceremony along with Jenny Colombo.
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Dr. Jennie Jarrett receives a ACCP Ambulatory Care PRN Innovation Grant. Burnout is a syndrome characterized by a high degree of emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization and a low sense of personal accomplishment from work. Burnout among healthcare professionals can result in negative impacts on the individual, the institution, and the patient. Pharmacist burnout has been reported at a rate of above 50%, but little research has been completed to fully understand the scope and impact of burnout among pharmacists. Drs. Jennie Jarrett and Robert DiDomenico along with Dr. Brianna McQuade are working on the project “Stratification of Burnout in Health-system Pharmacists: A Focus on the Ambulatory Care Pharmacist”. Funded by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Ambulatory Care Practice and Research Network (PRN) Innovations Grant, this work will address the gap in the literature of comparative research regarding burnout and pharmacists. This research will evaluate the frequency and severity of burnout in ambulatory care pharmacists (ACPs), compare ACP burnout to other health-system pharmacists (HSPs) working in other specialty areas, and describe the current landscape of mitigation strategies to combat these symptoms. Utilizing two validated burnout scales, the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), this research will fully assess ACP burnout and determine if there are similarities to burnout among HSPs working in non-ambulatory settings. A survey will be developed through Qualtrics® and emailed to HSPs working in the Illinois Medical District (UI Health, Rush University Medical Center, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital, and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center). Outcomes of this research include the rate of burnout in ACPs, the correlation between the OLBI and MBI scoring on the level of burnout, the rate of burnout among all HSPs, comparison of the level of burnout of ACPs versus HSPs practicing in other settings, perceived causes of burnout symptoms, burnout mitigation strategies utilized among HSPs, and perceived benefit of reported mitigation strategies.
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Patrick Fleming Selected as P3 Teacher of the Semester Dr. Patrick Fleming was selected by the P3 class of 2020 as the Teacher of the Semester for the Spring 2019 Term.
Congratulations Dr. Djuric-Kachlic! Congratulations to Dr. Marlowe Djuric-Kachlic as she is the UIC Preceptor of the Year. The Preceptor of the Year is selected by the UIC Pharmacy Students and the award signifies an outstanding commitment to experiential education.
Scott Benken selected as PharmD of the Year by Medicine Residents Dr. Scott Benken was awarded PharmD of the Year as voted by the garduating class of UIC Internal Medicine Residents. The award is given to a Clinical Pharmacist who excels in the clinical care of their patients and education of the residents in the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
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Physician Primer Published Dr. Jessica Zacher and current Drug Information PGY2 resident, Dr. Katie Miles, recently had a physician primer published in Practical Pain Management on drugs with orphan designations for the treatment of pain conditions. Read it at: go.uic.edu/ZacherPrimer
Karen Sweiss Received Grant from HOPA Dr. Karen Sweiss (PI) along with Co-Is Drs. Jeremy Johnson, Greg Calip, Pritesh Patel and Shawn Quigley received funding from the Hemotology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) for the project titled “Pilot Study to Develop and Test a Multiplex Assay for CYP450 Phenotyping in Multiple Myeloma Patients Receiving Bortezomib.”
Pharmacy Practice Rockford Faculty AACP Grant Pharmacy Practice Rockford faculty Allison Schriever (PI), Joseph Ross, Chris Schriever, Annette Hays, Kevin Rynn, Megan Magnuson, on being awarded a grant from the AACP entitled “Reactions, attitudes, and perceptions of multidisciplinary teams during IPE outreach.”
Dr. Johnson Shares Research on Mangosteen Jeremy Johnson visited the Madonna Medical Center in Kidapawan Philipines to share his research with mangosteen. He will be helping design and evaluate two clinical trials evaluating mangosteen for Dengue Fever and Diabetes.
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2019 Van Doren Awards The Van Doren Awards go to receipients chosen by the department who demonstrate commitment or achievement within the department. This year’s awardees were Katherine Breese and Kevin Meyer, picutred above with Dr. Melissa Badowski, the department faculty liaison. Katherine has excelled academically, both in didactic and experiential curriculum; in addition she’s worked in the Drug Information Group for several years. Keven has worked in the section’s lab for over three years and for some faculty, is considered easily one of the best pharmacy students they’ve worked with.
2019 Robin Ford Nash Awards The Robin Ford Nash Awards go to P3 students who, at the end of the fall semester, have demonstrated a strong interest in pursuing a clinical practice career. Recipients are nominated and selected by the department. This year’s awardees were Emily Beskar, Magdalena Mastalerz, and Tiffany Wu, picutred above with Dr. Melissa Badowski, the department faculty liason. Emily has always expressed an interest in clinical pharmacy, and more specifically wants to pursue clinical training and practice within the VA system or IHS. Magdalena is very interested in clinical track residencies and in 2019 was participating in multiple research and special projects focused on clinical work at UI Health and Cook County Hospital. Tiffanywas very involved iwth research, specifically infectious diseases, and is motivated and extremely involved with may organizations while she strived to strengthen her clinical skills.
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Alan Gross wins Top Oral Abstract Award
Dr. Gross Interviewed by MedPage Today
Drs. Alan Gross, Katie Suda and colleagues received the SHEA top oral abstract award at IDWeek 2019 for their research that found the use of unnecessary dental prophylaxis was associated with serious antibiotic adverse effects including C. difficile infection & allergic reactions.
Drs. Alan Gross and Katie Suda were featured on MedPage Today in an exclusive interview video done during the 2019 IDWeek Conference. The title of the article is “Big Problems From Small Antibiotics Doses in Dental Patients -Unnecessary antibiotics linked with cases of C.diff, anaphylaxis.”
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The video can be viewed here: go.uic.edu/MedPageToday
GIVING The Department pf Pharmacy Practice extends heartfelt thanks to the donors listed below. All of them targeted their donations to the Department of Pharmacy Practice or the Residency Program, and for that the department is very grateful. The Department of Pharmacy Practice is proud that the number of gifts directed to the department and its programs has increased over the last few years. Thank you for your growing support and rememer that every gift of any size truly does make a positive difference for the residency program, students, and department faculty. If you would like to donate to the department and help further strengthen programs, you can do so online at: go.uic.edu/pharmgive
Thanks To Dr. Adam Bursua and Dr. Vika O. Gylys Dr. Robert H. Hoy and Mrs. Sharon Hoy Mr. Andrij Petrykiw and Dr. Christina Petrykiw
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