ACCP is pleased to announce the Solid Organ Transplantation Self-Assessment Program (SOTSAP) series editors, Maya Campara, Pharm.D., FCCP, FAST, BCPS, and Jennifer McDermott, Pharm.D., FAST, BCPS, BCTXP. Drs. Campara and McDermott jointly bring more than 34 years of solid organ transplant patient care experience across all transplantable organs to the SOTSAP.

Maya Campara, Pharm.D., FCCP, FAST, BCPS

Maya Campara received her Pharm.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy in 2006. Subsequently, she completed a pharmacy practice residency in 2007 and a solid organ transplant residency in 2008 at the University of Illinois Chicago. Campara practices as a solid organ transplant clinical pharmacist for the abdominal transplant program at UI Health. She also serves as the coordinator of Transplant Clinical Pharmacy Services. Campara is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. She is a clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine. For her professional service, in 2018, Campara was recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. In 2019, this honor was also bestowed on her by the American Society of Transplantation.

Jennifer McDermott, Pharm.D., FAST, BCPS, BCTXP

Jennifer McDermott graduated with a Pharm.D. degree, Highest Distinction, in 2004 from Ferris State University in Michigan. In 2005, she completed a pharmacy practice residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, followed by a solid organ transplant pharmacy residency at University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 2006. She has been a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist since 2006 and a Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist since 2021 (taking the inaugural examination). Over her career, she has worked at transplant centers throughout the country in both abdominal and thoracic transplantation, most recently as a transplant clinical pharmacy specialist at Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 2014 to 2023, specializing in adult heart and lung transplantation. She also served as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University and adjunct faculty as a primary preceptor for Ferris State University College of Pharmacy from 2014 to 2023. For her commitment to the field of transplantation as well as her outstanding service, she was recognized as a fellow of the American Society of Transplantation in 2023.

Both Campara and McDermott are longstanding members of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy as well as the American Society of Transplantation. Over the years, both have served in elected leadership roles within the American Society of Transplantation, Transplant Pharmacy Community of Practice, including serving as members-at-large on the executive committee as well as chairing the Public Policy Workgroup. McDermott also previously served as co-chair of the joint AST Transplant Pharmacy COP/ACCP Immunology/Transplantation PRN Medication Access Workgroup, and Campara previously served as chair of the Programming Committee for the ACCP Immunology/Transplantation PRN.

Campara’s research focuses on immunosuppression and posttransplant complications and their management. Her teaching interests include immunology, clinical education, clinical pharmacy practice, and transitions of care. McDermott’s research focuses on medication access, immunosuppression, and posttransplant complications, including rejection and infection. Her teaching interests include transplant pharmacotherapy, transitions of care, and medication access. Together, they have written over 40 peer-reviewed publications, including two consensus guidelines and three book chapters. They also have served as invited speakers for over 50 national and 12 international presentations on the subject of solid organ transplantation.

Campara participated in developing the petition to establish the Board Certified Solid Organ Transplantation (BCTXP) credential. Solid organ transplantation became an approved Board of Pharmacy Specialties specialty in 2018. There are currently more than 280 BCTXP clinical pharmacists. The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) collaborated to provide the Solid Organ Transplantation Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course. Both Campara and McDermott have served as faculty for this course. ACCP partners with ASHP to release the SOTSAP annually, which provides BCTXP clinical pharmacists with the opportunity to earn 15–20 hours of BCTXP recertification credit. Each SOTSAP brings content from experts in solid organ transplantation to guide the management of immunosuppressive therapies, individual disease states, and practice issues.

We are excited to create a timely and pertinent continuing education option for solid organ transplant pharmacists that is delivered from a single, consistent source and is written by SOT pharmacists for SOT pharmacists.

–Drs. Campara and McDermott

The 2024 SOTSAP is under development and will be released November 15, 2024. Preorder instructions will be provided soon.