The winner of the Best Poster Award from the 2016 ACCP Virtual Poster Symposium was selected Wednesday, May 18, 2016, during the 2016 symposium. The winner of the Best Student and Resident Poster Award was selected Thursday, May 19, 2016. Poster finalists for both categories were required to give a 6- to 8-minute Skype presentation as well as participate in a 3- to 5-minute question and answer session with the judges. In all, 144 abstracts were presented during the Virtual Poster Symposium. Of these, 69 were reports of original research, 15 described innovative clinical pharmacy services, and 60 were resident and student submissions of research-in-progress.
Semira Beshir from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, won the Best Poster Award for “Rate and Associated Factors of Novel Oral Anticoagulant-Induced Bleeding in Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation in a University-Affiliated Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.” Coauthors of the poster were Szyuin Sim, Kok-Han Chee, and Yoke-Lin Lo, also from the University of Malaya. Chu-Yun Huang from Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, was the first runner-up in this category. Huang’s coauthors were Ju-Huei Tseng, Yi-Wen Chen, Yun-Ju Chen, and Jui-Chia Chang, also from Shuang Ho Hospital. The second runner-up in this category was Geoffrey Mospan from the Wingate University School of Pharmacy, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Kurt Wargo, also from the Wingate University School of Pharmacy, was coauthor of this poster. The other finalist in this category was Ronald Floyd, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns, San Diego, California.
Benjamin Miao from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, won the Best Student and Resident Poster Award for “Cardiac Risk of Concomitant Levofloxacin with Amiodarone.” Miao’s coauthor was Luigi Brunetti, from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, Somerville, New Jersey. Daniel Przybylski was the first runner-up in this category. Przybylski’s coauthor was David Reeves, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. The second runner-up in this category was Clarice Carthon, University Health System, San Antonio, Texas. Carthon’s coauthors were Reed Hall, Pamela Maxwell, and Barrett Crowther, also from University Health System. The other finalists in this category were Andrew Aziz, Hunterdon Medical Center, Huntington, New Jersey; Alicia Lichvar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Michi Yang, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Winners of both the Best Poster and the Best Student and Resident Research-in-Progress Poster competitions have been invited to present their research during the 2016 ACCP Annual Meeting, to be held October 23–26, 2016, in Hollywood, Florida. Serving as finalist judges for the two competitions were Ed Bednarczyk, David Hoff, Jacky Olin, Keith Olsen, and Kim Tallian. Abstracts for all of the 2016 Virtual Poster Symposium presenters will be published in Pharmacotherapy.
The next abstract award competition will be held at ACCP’s 2016 Annual Meeting. The deadline to submit abstracts is June 15, 2016, for these categories: Original Research; Clinical Pharmacy Forum; Advances in International Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Education, or Training; Systematic Reviews/Meta-analyses; and Case Reports. The deadline to submit abstracts for the Student and Resident/Fellow Research-in-Progress submission categories is July 1, 2016. ACCP is now accepting these abstracts at www.accp.com/2016abstracts.