Best Practice Award Winners


Past Winners of the Best Practice Award

  • 2019 Winner
    Adam Bursua, PharmD, BCPS, Assistant Director, Medication Safety and Quality, UI Health; Connie Larson, PharmD, Senior Associate Director, Safety and Quality, UI Health; Jane McCullough, PharmD, PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident, UIC-College of Pharmacy
    "Reduction of Harm from Opioid Therapy through Focused Improvements in the Opioid Medication Use Process"
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the November 2019 KeePosted: Best Practice Journal Article. 

  • 2018 Winner
    Zahra Khudeira, PharmD, MA, BCPS, CPPS
    Medication Safety Officer, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System
    Co-authors: Ashleigh Swearingen, MD; Carlos Sandoval, MD; Lelas Shamaileh, P4; Noha Mohamed, P4; Serene Abuzir, P4; Alexander Frank, MS
    "Use of Multimodal Analgesia in Women Post-Cesarean Section: From Innovation to Bedside" 
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the November 2018 KeePosted

  • 2017 Winner
    Sandra M. Salverson , PharmD, BCPS, Vice President, Pharmacy Operations
    OSF Healthcare System
    Jerry Storm, RPh, Senior Vice President, Pharmacy Services
    OSF Healthcare System
    "Implementation of Integrated Telepharmacy Services Achieve a Health-System Standard of Pharmacy Care"
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the September/October 2017 KeePosted

  • 2016 Winner
    Maya Beganovic, PharmD and Sarah M. Wieczorkiewicz, PharmD, BCPS
    Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
    "MALDI-TOF alone versus MALDI-TOF combined with real-time antimicrobial stewardship interventions on time to optimal therapy in patients with positive blood cultures"
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the September/October 2016 issue of KeePosted.

  • 2015 Winner 
    Kuntal Patel, Pharm.D., Pavel Prusakov, and Heather Vaule
    Mount Sinai Health System
    "Osteopenia of Prematurity (aka Better Bones for Babies)"
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the September/October 2015 issue of KeePosted.

  • 2014 Winner
    Arti Phatak, Pharm.D.; Brooke Ward, Pharm.D., BCPS; Rachael Prusi, Pharm.D.; Elizabeth Vetter, Pharm.D.; Michael Postelnick, BS Pharm, BCPS (AQ Infectious Diseases); and Noelle Chapman, Pharm.D., BCPS
    Northwestern Memorial Hospital
    "Impact of Pharmacist Involvement in the Transitional Care of High-Risk Patients through Medication Reconciliation, Medication Education, and Post-Discharge Callbacks"
    If you would like to read this manuscript for informational purposes, you can find it in the November 2014 issue of KeePosted.

  • 2013 Winner
    Nicole Rabs, Pharm.D., Sarah M. Wieczorkiewicz, Pharm.D., BCPS, Michael Costello, PhD, and Ina Zamfirova, BA - Department of Pharmacy, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
    "Development of a Urinary-Specific Antibiogram for Gram Negative Isolates: Impact of Patient Risk Factors on Susceptibility"
  • 2012 Winner
    Kathryn Schiavo, PharmD; George Carro RPh, MS, BCO ; Abigail Harper, PharmD, BCO P; Betty Fang, PharmD; Palak Nanavati, PharmD - NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
    "Outpatient Oncology Treatment Center Approach to Enhancing Continuity of Care Related to Dispensing Oral Chemotherapeutic Agents"

  • 2011 Winner
    Fatima Ali, PharmD; Sarah Wieczorkiewicz, PharmD, BCPS; Jill Cwik, PharmD; Robert Citronberg, MD, FACP, FIDSA
    "Procalcitonin-Guided Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy for the Treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections"

  • 2010 Winner
    Nina Huang, PharmD; Huzefa Master, PharmD, BCPS
    "Impact of Pharmacist Conducted Discharge Medication Counseling"

  • 2009 Winner
    Sandra Salverson, PharmD, BCPS; Karin Terry, PharmD
    “Leading Medication Safety through the Use of Microsystem and Macrosystem Medication Safety Officers”

  • 2008 Winner
    Jered Bauer, PharmD
    “A Pharmacist-Led Program to Address Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in a Community Hospital”