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HOO’S NEWS Department of Pharmacy Services Residency Program

Issue 1 2018-2019 Residency Year Volume 15

The purpose of Hoo’s News is to communicate information among past, current, and future residents. If you have news that you would like to share, please contact Michelle McCarthy.

We’re growing again!

The UVA pharmacy residency program has expanded again for the 2019-2020 residency year! The total number of residents has increased to 21. UVA is excited to add an additional PGY2 program in Emergency Medicine. The PGY1/PGY2-Health System Pharmacy Administration will also add an additional PGY1 slot for a total of 2 PGY1-HSPA residents this year.

Residency Program Information

The University of Virginia Health System (UVA) has 12 programs: PGY1 Pharmacy (established 1991), PGY2-Critical Care (established 2002), PGY1/PGY2-Health System Pharmacy Administration (established 2010), PGY2-Oncology (established 2011), PGY2-Pharmacy Informatics (established 2011), PGY2-Solid Organ Transplantation (established 2013), PGY2-Infectious Diseases (established 2015), PGY2-Pediatrics (established

2015), PGY2-Cardiology (established 2017), PGY1-Community (established 2017), PGY2-Ambulatory Care (established 2018), and PGY2-Emergency Medicine (established 2019).

PGY2 Class of 2018-2019: Where to Next?

Andrew Brown PGY2-Solid Organ Transplantation Dr. Brown graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2017. He completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UVA in 2018. He has accepted a position as a clinical specialist in solid organ transplant at VCU Health in Richmond, VA.

Mary Cordon

PGY2-Ambulatory Care

Dr. Cordon graduated from Rutgers University in 2017. She completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. She has accepted a position as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Bon Secours Mercy Health in Suffolk, VA.

Robert D’Eramo

PGY2-Health System Pharmacy Administration

Dr. D’Eramo is a graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, where he received his PharmD degree in 2017. He completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UVA Health System in 2018.

Julianne Fallon PGY2-Cardiology Dr. Fallon graduated from VCU in 2017. After completing her PGY1 Pharmacy and PGY2 Cardiology residencies at UVA, she’ll be moving to

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Cleveland for a Clinical Pharmacist position in the Heart and Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.

Kristi Higgins

PGY2-Pediatric Pharmacy

Dr. Higgins graduated from VCU and completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency at UAV. After completing her PGY2 pediatric residency, she will be a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist—General Pediatrics at her alma mater, VCU, in Richmond, VA.

Meredith Mort

PGY2-Oncology

Dr. Mort graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 and completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UVA in 2018. She will be working as an Oncology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Augusta Health in Fishersville, VA.

Michelle Plum

PGY2-Critical Care

Dr. Plum graduated from MCPHS University in 2017. She completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UVA in 2018. She has accepted a position as a Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist CCU at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA. John Schoonover

PGY2-Pharmacy Informatics

Dr. Schoonover graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2017. He completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Greenville Health System in Greenville, SC. He has accepted a position as an IT Application Analyst Senior, Pharmacy at UVA.

Allison Stilwell

PGY2-Infectious Diseases

Dr. Stilwell graduated form UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2017. After completing both her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency and PGY2 ID residency at UVA, she will be an Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator at New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.

PGY1 Class of 2018-2019: Hoo is going where?

The UVA PGY1 residency program has a strong tradition of retaining residents for a second year to further their clinical training. This year we are excited to keep six PGY1 residents on to complete a PGY2 residency at UVA in 2019-2020. We are also sad but excited for four PGY1 residents to move away to explore other close by cities. Below you will find the respective PGY2 specialty each resident will complete as well as their biography.

Christa Barber Brooker

PGY1-Community → PGY2-Ambulatory Care

Dr. Barber early committed to the UVA PGY2 Ambulatory Care pharmacy residency program. Christa graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in 2018.

Taylor Goins

PGY1-Pharmacy → PGY2-Critical Care

Dr. Goins is a graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, where she earned her PharmD degree in 2018.

Tyler Goins

PGY1-Pharmacy/PGY2-Health System Pharmacy Administration

Dr. Goins is a graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy, where he received his PharmD degree in 2018.

Mary Lewis Griffin

PGY1-Pharmacy → PGY2-Emergency Medicine

Dr. Griffin is a graduate of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, MUSC, where she earned her PharmD degree in 2018.

Alina Kukin

PGY1-Pharmacy

Dr. Kukin graduated from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 2018. Alina has matched with her al mater for a PGY2-Cardiology Pharmacy Residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in Baltimore, MD. Good luck Alina! We will miss you.

Kristen Nymberg

PGY1-Pharmacy

Dr. Nymberg graduated from The Ohio State

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University College of Pharmacy in 2018. Kristen will return to The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH where she matched for a PGY2-Oncology Pharmacy Residency. Good luck Kristen! We will miss you.

Ashni Patel

PGY1-Pharmacy → PGY2–Infectious Diseases

Dr. Ashni Patel will be staying at UVA for her PGY2 ID residency. Ashni graduated from the University of Georgia in in 2018.

Cory Perry

PGY1-Pharmacy → PGY2–Oncology

Dr. Cory Perry early committed to UVA’s PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy residency program. Cory graduated from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in 2018.

Josephine Tan

PGY1-Pharmacy

Dr. Tan graduated from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in 2018. Josephine has accepted a position as an overnight pharmacist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Good luck Josephine! We will miss you.

Yvonne Zhang

PGY1-Pharmacy

Dr. Zhang graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in 2018. Yvonne will been working in the UVA medication use policy service following completion of her PGY1.

UNC Research in Education and Practice Symposium

On May 20-21, all ten PGY1 residents and 1 PGY2 resident traveled to UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill, NC for the Sixth Annual Research in Education and Practice Symposium. The residents presented their research projects in a 12-minute platform presentation style format. It was an engaging opportunity for the residents as they were able to receive high-level feedback on their research as well as network with fellow pharmacy practitioners across the region. This was the fifth

consecutive year that UVA has had PGY1 pharmacy residents participate in this event.

Networking Among Residency Programs

There is always so much to be learned from collaborating with others! We hosted visits from three different pharmacy residency programs this year. The University of Florida and Duke University Hospital both visited Charlottesville in the fall, and Wake Forest PGY1 pharmacy residents in May. Hoo’s New? The Residency Class of 2019-2020

We are excited to announce that we had another successful Match Day on 3/15/2019! We are also very happy to announce the addition of a PGY2-Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Derek Burden will serve as the Director for the new program. We will also have two incoming HSPA residents for the first time! Below you will find information on the new additions to our residency family:

The PGY1 Residents: Ankit Gandhi: Maryland Caroline Jones: VCU Mackenzie Dolan: UNC Mark Albright: Ohio State Melissa West: Auburn Mildred “Millie” Thomas: MUSC

Michelle with the 2018-2019 PGY1 pharmacy residents

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Nicole “Nikki” Griffith: U South Carolina Shelby Warring: Maryland The PGY1-Community Resident: Kayla Ryan: Appalachia The PGY1/PGY2-Health System Pharmacy Administration Resident: Clarissa Cho: VCU John “Cameron” Crowe: U Tennessee The PGY2-Pharmacy Cardiology Resident: Melissa Chinn: Lipscomb (PGY1 Baptist

Memorial—Memphis) The PGY2-Pharmacy Informatics Resident: Bao Nguyen: Presbyterian College (PGY1

Catawba Valley Medical Center The PGY2-Pharmacy Pediatrics Resident: Rachael Schortemeyer (PGY1 Children’s Hospital

of Wisconsin) The PGY2-Pharmacy Solid Organ Transplant Resident: Jesica Yau: VCU (PGY1 University of Wisconsin

Health) Medical Mission Trip with Faith in Practice: A New Tradition?

Two PGY2 residents, Ally (PP 18, ID 19) and Michelle (PP 18, CC 19), traveled for the second year in a row with Bethany Delk (PP 06, CC 07) on a medical mission trip to Guatemala with Faith in Practice. This year was Bethany’s 14th year volunteering with Faith in Practice—a tradition she started when she was still a resident at UVA! She was able to bring current residents with her for the first time last year for the 2018 trip, when Kristi Higgins (PP 18, Peds 19) and Tabitha Bice (PP 18) also joined her with Michelle and Ally. During the 2019 trip, they traveled to two different villages in El Progreso, Sanarate and San Cristobal Acasaguastian , to set up medical clinics. During the 4 days of clinic, they helped provide medical care and medications to over 2,000 patients, many of whom would not otherwise have access to care. They witnessed

patient struggles that are not normally faced in the US and grew appreciation for common commodities that impact safe medication use, such as electricity, clean water, and safe living conditions. The residents learned to provide care with limited resources, lack of future monitoring and follow-up, and a language barrier. They are very grateful that UVA allowed them to attend this trip as an “approved residency learning experience” and would like to thank Bethany and Michelle McCarthy for their hard work in making this trip possible. They are eager to return for future medical mission trips with Faith in Practice to continue to serve the Guatemalan people! PGY1 and PGY2 residents are interested in joining the Delk Village Team in Guatemala for the 2020 mission trip. Board Certification

Kara (Parsons) Thornton (DI 15) earned certification as a Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP)

Kelly Rogers (PP 95) has earned her Cardiology Board certification (BCCP).

James Coons (PP 02) has earned his Cardiology Board certification (BCCP).

Matt Morrisette (CC 16) has earned his Critical Care Pharmacy Board Certification (BCCCP).

Sean McCullough (PP 17, ID 18) has earned his Infectious Diseases Board Certification (BCIDP).

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Then comes... baby!

Whitney Maxwell (PP 09) and her husband, Ryan, welcomed Easton Luke Maxwell into their family on December 10, 2018. He was 7 pounds and 19 inches long.

Amber Powell (PP 08, CC 09) and Nathan Powell (PP 09, CC 10) welcomed their son Harrison Glenn Powell into the world on May 8th. Big sister Hazel (3 yo) loves her baby brother!

Tom DiPiro (PP 14, HSPA 15) and his wife, Nicole, welcomed Nicholas Joseph on June 18. He was 9 lbs, 3 oz, and 21.4 inches. His big sisters, Margo and Rose, are so excited!

Abigail Reeder (HSPA 12) welcomed twin girls with husband, Joshua Kleczynski on August 6, 2019. Lucille Melissa was born at 2:43 PM weighing 4 lb, 12 oz and 18 3/4 inches. Eleanor Sue was born at 2:50 PM and was 5 lb, 11 oz, 19 1/4 inches.

Jessica Traeger (PP 13) and her husband, Robbie, welcomed Alice Jordana on July 5, 2019. She weighed 6 lbs, 6 oz and was 19.5inches.

Amber, Nathan, Hazel, and Harrison Glenn Powell

Margo, Rose, and Nicholas DiPiro Whitney, Ryan, Grant and Easton Maxwell

Alice Jordana

Blumstein

The Kleczynski twins

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Engagements

Michelle Plum (PP 18, CC 19) and her fiancé Derek Matthies were engaged on January 18, 2019 in Quincy, MA. They are planning their wedding for May 2020. Sean McCullough (PP 17, ID 18) became engaged to Jessica Goldsby on August 4. The couple lives in Denver, CO and is planning their wedding for 2021.

Weddings

Clarissa Cho (PP 20, HSPA 21) married Daniel Kwak on May 3, 2019 in Leesburg, VA.

Appointments Scott Anderson (Informatics 12) has been elected for the position of incoming Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists (VSHP) President. Preceptor News Marcia Buck (PGY2 Peds RPD) has joined the Ameri-can College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) as their Direc-tor of Clinical Practice Advancement in September 2019. She will be working from the ACCP Washington, DC office. In her 30 years at UVA, she made an in-credible impact to UVA and our training programs. We miss you Marcia! Mike Palkimas (PGY1 Community RPD) joined Denver Health as their Assistant Director for Ambulatory Re-tail Pharmacy Services in July 2019. Mike’s contribu-tions to UVA and the PGY1-community residency pro-gram will be greatly missed. Winston Ally (PGY2 transplant RPD) and his wife Jen-na, announce the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Campbell Aly on January 3, 2019. Ellie weighed 9 lbs, 9 oz. Surabhi and Mike Palkimas announce the birth of their third son, Aaron Michael on August 9, 2019. Aa-ron weighed 7 lb 3 oz.

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Positions

Brooke Bernhardt (CC 05) has created a new PGY2 in Global Health pharmacy residency pro-gram at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Denise Lowe (DI 01) has transitioned to Manager of Specialty Pharmacy Services at VCU Health Sys-tem in Richmond, VA.

Kristi Hofer (PP 99, DI 02) was promoted to Sen-ior Director, Scientific Projects, Certification Re-sources at ASHP in Bethesda, MD.

Phillip Mohorn (PP 12, CC 13) started a new posi-tion as an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist back in his home state at Northeast Georgia Health System in Gainesville, GA.

Stacey Pattie (PP 00) started a new position as a clinical pharmacist at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.

Matt Allsbrook (PP 15, HSPA 16) accepted a po-sition as Director of Specialty Pharmacy at North-western University in Chicago, IL.

Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles Adamson PC, Veal GJ, Womer RB, Meany HJ, Bern-hardt MB, Frazier AL, Balis FM. Fundamental Prob-lems with Pediatric Adaptive Dosing of Carboplatin Using Nuclear Medicine Based Estimates of Renal Function. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2019;66(6):e27672. doi: 10.1002/pbc.27672.

Barrett C, Park SJ, Gaertner K, Mao S. The financial impact of physician practice patterns: An analysis of as-needed filgrastim versus prophylactic pegfilgrastim in patients with prostate cancer receiving docetaxel. J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 6506).

Coons JC, Patel R, Coley KC, Empey PE. Design and testing of MEDIvate, a mobile app to achieve medica-tion list portability using HL-7 FHIR. J Am Pharm Assoc 2019; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2019.01.001.

Coons JC, Kobulinsky L, Farkas D, Lutz J, Seybert AL. Virtual electronic health record technology with simu-lation-based learning in an acute care pharmacother-apy course. Pharmacy 2018;6(4):123; pharmacy6040123.

Foster JH, Thompson PA, Bernhardt MB, Margolin JF, Hilsenbeck SG, Jo E, Marquez-Do DA, Scheurer ME,

Schafer ES. A prospective study of a simple algorithm to individually dose high-dose methotrexate for chil-dren with leukemia at risk for methotrexate toxicities. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2019;83(2):349-360. doi: 10.1007/s00280-018-3733-2.

Iasella CJ, Kreider MS, Huang L, Coons JC, Stevenson JM. Effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on cardiovascular outcomes after percutaneous coro-nary intervention: a retrospective cohort study. Clin Drug Investig 2019; In Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40261-019-00776-7

Kessler SG, Gillion AR, Pattanaik D, Rogers KC. Nitrate desensitization protocol for severe urticaria in refrac-tory angina. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018 Oct 16. pii: S2213-2198(18)30663-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2018.10.006. [Epub ahead of print]

Lee YR, Bainum TB. Sepsis Management. In: Boucher B, Haas CE, eds. Critical Care Self-Assessment Pro-gram, 2019 Book 1. Infection Critical Care. Lenexa KS: American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2019:7-34.

Lee YR, Burton CE, Bevel KR. Delafloxacin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections. J Pharm Technol. 2019 March 11. Doi. 10.1177/8755122519834615.

Lee YR, Seth MS, Soney D, Dai H. Benefits of beta-blockade in sepsis and septic shock: A systematic re-view. Clin Drug Investig. 2019 March 8th. Doi. 10.1007/s40261-019-00762-z.

Reed BN, DiDomenico RJ, Allender JE, Coons JC, Oli-phant CS, Cox JF, Johnson D, Jennings DL. Survey of anticoagulation practices with the Impella percutane-ous ventricular assist device at high-volume centers. J Interv Cardiol 2019; In Press. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3791307

Rogala BG, Charpentier MM, Nguyen MK, Landolf KM, Hamad L, Gaertner KM. Oral Anticancer Therapy: Management of Drug Interactions. J Oncol Pract. 2019;15(2):81-90.

Rogers KC, Neu DW, Jaeger MC, Shah R, Finks SW. An underappreciated and prolonged drug interaction leads to ineffective anticoagulation. So Med J 2019 Feb;112(2):125-129.

Smith ZR, Rangarajan K, Barrow J, Carter D, Coons JC, et al. Development of best practice recommendations for the safe use of pulmonary hypertension pharma-

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Recruiting future residents at the ASHP Midyear Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA

cotherapies in adults using a modified Delphi method. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 2019;76(3):153-65.

Unguru Y, Bernhardt MB, Berg SL, Marie-Johnson L, Pyke-Grimm K, Woodman C, Fernandez CV. Chemo-therapy and Supportive Care Agents as Essential Med-icines for Children With Cancer. JAMA Pediatr 2019 Mar 4. [Epub ahead of print]

Book Chapters Coons JC, Miller T. Acute coronary syndrome/acute myocardial infarction. In: Murphy JE, Lee MW, edi-tors. Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) 2019 Book 1 (Cardiology). Lanexa (KS): Ameri-can College of Clinical Pharmacy; 2019.

Rogers KC, Finks SW, Spinler S. Acute Coronary Syn-dromes. In: Chisholm-Burns MA, Schwinghammer TL Malone PM, et al, eds. Pharmacotherapy: Principles and Practice. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Compa-nies; 2019:117-144.

Presentations Childress MB, Rogers KC, Finks SW. Ranolazine in re-fractory angina in a patient with end stage renal dis-ease. Program and Abstracts of the 53rd American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Mid-Year Clini-cal Meeting. December 2, 2018 – Anaheim, CA. Ab-stract # 3-387.

Gaertner KM. Adjuvant Colon Cancer: Deciphering the Data on 3 vs. 6 Months of Oxaliplatin- Based Ther-apy. Continuing Education presented at the Hematol-ogy/Oncology Pharmacy Association 15th Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX.

McDonnell CC, Rogers KC, Regen SM, Finks SW. PRe-scribing Alpha blockers Including praZosin in the El-derly: the PRAIZE safety study. Program and Abstracts of the 53rd American Society of Health-System Phar-macists Mid-Year Clinical Meeting. December 2, 2018 – Anaheim, CA. Abstract # 1-349.

Traeger J, Makii J, Ostergard T, Barcelona R, Schmaier A. Use of coagulation factor Xa (recombinant), inactivated-zhzo (rFXai) in clinical practice. Crit Care Med. 2019; 47 (1):225.— SCCM Annual Congress. San Diego, CA.

Awards and Honors

Michelle McCarthy was a recipient of the 2019 Ameri-can Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Mas-ter Preceptor Recognition. This honor is awarded an-nually to preceptors for “their dedication and com-mitment to excellence in experiential education and professional practice.” Michelle is one of three recipi-ents recognized by AACP in 2019.

Andrew Brown (PP 18, SOT 19) received poster dis-tinction during the 2019 American Transplant Con-gress annual meeting.

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Kathleen Bledsoe (PP 03, CC 04), Surabhi Palkimas (benign

hematology preceptor), and Chrissie Shirley Coe (PP 06, CC 09)

attend Mary Lewis Griffin’s (PP 19, EM 20) barre class

The Faith in Practice team on their last day of clinic in San Cristobal with the Guatemalan volunteers

Outgoing PGY1’s welcome the incoming PGY1’s to C’Ville at the

Carter’s Mountain Sunset Series.

The 2017-2018 residents celebrate Audrey Pham Nguyen’s

(PP 18) wedding in Keswick, VA.

Celebrating Michelle McCarthy’s birthday at Burn Bootcamp

Residents and Michelle enjoy a night out at the paint bar

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University of Virginia Health System Department of Pharmacy Services P.O. Box 800674 Charlottesville, VA 22908-0674 http://www.medicalcenter.virginia.edu/pharmacy/residency_info Hoo’s News Editors Michelle W. McCarthy, PharmD, FASHP Michelle Plum, PharmD (Resident Editor) Please send news and/or address changes to: Michelle McCarthy, PharmD, FASHP mm4tm@virginia.edu Director, PGY1-Pharmacy Residency Coordinator, Pharmacy Education, Training, and Development Services

Director, PGY1&2-Health System Pharmacy Administration/MS Degree Residency Administrator, Department of Pharmacy Services Matt Jenkins, PharmD, MS, Director, PGY1-Community Residency Justin Vesser, PharmD, MBA Directors, PGY2-Critical Care Residency David Volles, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Rebecca Hockman, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP (Assistant Director) Director, PGY2-Infectious Diseases Residency Heather Cox Hall, PharmD, BCPS (AQ-ID), BCIDP Director, PGY2-Oncology Residency Kathlene DeGregory, PharmD, BCOP Director, PGY2-Pediatrics Residency Marcia Buck, PharmD, FCCP, FPPAG, BCPPS Director, PGY2-Pharmacy Informatics Residency Mark Chabot, RPh, MBA, MHA Director, PGY2-Solid Organ Transplant Residency Winston Ally, PharmD, BCPS Director, PGY2-Cardiology Residency Steve Dunn, PharmD, FAHA, BCPS (AQ-CV), BCCP Director, PGY2-Ambulatory Care Residency Donna White, RPh, CDE, BCACP Director, PGY2-Emergency Medicine Residency Derek Burden, PharmD, BCPS

UNC Research in Education and Practice Symposium 2019