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Improving Patient Outcomes: Highlights from the ASHP-APhA Medication Management in Care Transitions Project
PRESENTER(S):
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Kristine K. Gullickson is the Director of Pharmacy at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, part of Allina Health. She is responsible for leadership of a progressive pharmacy department supporting a 626 staffed bed teaching and specialty care hospital, multiple hospital-based clinics and two ambulatory surgery centers. The pharmacy department was a recent recipient of the ASHP Best Practices Award in 2011. Dr. Gullickson received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from North Dakota State University and completed an ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. She has provided leadership to advance pharmacy practice through expansion of pharmacist roles in the Emergency Department, transitions of care models, advanced heart failure, heart transplant and ventricular assist device (VAD) service, anticoagulation therapy management, and antibiotic stewardship. Dr. Gullickson has championed the expansion of PGY-1 residency positions and initiation of new PGY-2 specialty programs in infectious disease and cardiology. She is currently serving as Past President of the Minnesota Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP). Dr. Gullickson currently serves as Vice-Chair on the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Practice and member on the Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers Advisory Group on Quality and Compliance.
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Deborah Hauser,
RPh, MHA, Network Pharmacy Director,
Einstein Healthcare Network
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Deborah Hauser, RPh, MHA, is the Network Pharmacy Director of the Einstein Healthcare Network, a 1,200 bed integrated health system serving the communities of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Deborah graduated summa cum laude from Temple University School of Pharmacy in 1990 and received her Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration in 2008 from St. Josephs University. Deborah has been a health system pharmacist and a pharmacy leader for over twenty years with a strong commitment and passion towards patient safety. Under her leadership, the Einstein Healthcare Network Department of
Pharmacy has been recognized as a leader in patient and medication safety in the Philadelphia and surrounding region by the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011. Deborah oversees a proactive clinical pharmacy department which includes a well established ASHP accredited PGY1 residency and active student clerkship program that precepts over one hundred twenty students annually from the University of the Sciences and Jefferson University Schools of Pharmacy. Deborah is a member of ASHP, APHA, and the Safety Net Hospitals for Pharmaceutical Access.
The Medication REACH Program was a 2011 finalist of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council Patient Safety Award and recipient of the 2012 Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania Achievement Award in the patient care category. The Medication REACH intervention consists of best practices to reduce medication related readmissions which further exemplifies the impactful role that hospital and health system pharmacists can play in improving care at transition.
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Ms. Cynthia Reilly, BS Pharm, Director, Practice Development Division, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Mariel Sjeime,
PharmD, Transition of Care Pharmacist,
Einstein Healthcare Network Philadelphia
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Mariel Sjeime, PharmD is originally from Staten Island, New York. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from St. John’s University in 2011 and subsequently completed her PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Einstein Healthcare Network Philadelphia. During residency she developed an interest and strengthened her skills in ambulatory care through work on the Outpatient Anticoagulation Program, Immunodeficiency Clinic, and Medication REACH team. The Medication REACH Program has won awards from Delaware Valley Hospital Council, Healthcare Improvement Foundation, and Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania. Her research project titled Concomitant Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors and Mycophenolate Mofetil Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients was presented at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2012 Annual Meeting. She is currently the Transition of Care Pharmacist at Einstein Healthcare Network Philadelphia where she focuses on reducing readmission rates in high risk Medicare patients.
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Anne Szulczewski is a clinical pharmacy manager at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Anne received her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin and completed a PGY1 residency followed by a PGY2 residency in Health-system Pharmacy Administration at Froedtert Hospital. In her current role, she has been involved in the implementation and optimization of pharmacy services at discharge.
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