Pharmacy residents at UW Health SwedishAmerican Hospital develop project management skills by completing clinical research projects during their residency.

Residents initiate, design, and implement a project throughout the course of the year. Resident research projects lead to process improvements and aid in growth of the pharmacy department and hospital. Past resident projects are listed below. 

2023-2024 residents

• Silvia Elakatt (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Justification of a Pharmacist-Managed Intranasal Esketamine Clinic (pdf)
• Magdala Schmitz (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Implementation and Evaluation of Standardized Pharmacist Review of Prior to Admission Medication Lists (pdf)
• Radhika Patel (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Impact of Pharmacist Intervention on Prescribing Rates of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients with Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction (pdf)
• Emen Salam (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Impact of Pharmacist Integration into the Denosumab Infusion Services Workflow (pdf)
• Leandra Garcia (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of Time to Administration of Levetiracetam for Seizures after Transition to IV Push from Infusion in the Emergency Department (pdf)
• Zachary Weimer (PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of Phenobarbital Use for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in Intensive Care Patients (pdf)

2022-2023 residents

• Mohil Trivedi (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Gastrointestinal bleeds in patients receiving therapeutic anticoagulation with direct oral anticoagulants or warfarin – Evaluation of odds ratios (pdf)
• Brooke Williams (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of antimicrobial use in patients with ESBL-producing Enterobacterales cystitis (pdf)
• Jessica DePaul (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Justification of a Pharmacist-led Collaborative Hypertension Management Service in a Health-System Owned Primary Care Clinic (pdf)
• Tracy Lor (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Analysis of the rate of clinical pharmacist intervention in patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (pdf)
• Daniel Smith (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Relationship between Ceftriaxone and Hypoalbuminemia and Potential Impact on Clinical Dosing Strategies (pdf)
• Michaela Todd (PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of Midodrine Use in Critically Ill Patients Requiring Intravenous Vasopressors (pdf)

2021-2022 residents

• Sleman Alayobi (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Myeloid Growth Factors (MGFs) in Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Chemotherapy: Evaluation of MGFs Use in Hospitalized Patients
• Rita Piro (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of antimicrobial use in patients with penicillin allergies in a community hospital
• Durdana Iqbal (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): How Pharmacy Intervention Affects Number of Inactivated Zoster Vaccines Administered in an Outpatient Setting
• Fatima Khaleq (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of postsurgical opioids dispensed from a single community hospital outpatient pharmacy for acute pain management
• Cheyenne Beene (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Clinical Pharmacist Impact on Diltiazem Administration Route in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department in Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response
• Grace Hoffman (PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident): Clinical Impact of a Pharmacist-Led Cisatracurium Dosing Protocol in COVID-19

2020-2021 residents

• Grant Perschke (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of the management of immune related adverse events related to treatment with checkpoint inhibitors in a regional cancer center and community hospital
• Dayna Redini (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Implementation of a pharmacist-led protocol to assess transitions of care in uncontrolled or new insulin requiring diabetic patients
• Agnieszka Karpa (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Comparison of medication adherence at a single community hospital specialty pharmacy versus external specialty pharmacies
• Amy Lawando (PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident): Influence of academic detailing on GLP-1 receptor agonist prescribing habits in a primary care clinic
• Veronika Yurchenko (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Clinical pharmacist impact on antibiotic selection for skin and soft tissue infections in the emergency department
• Michael Pierce (PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident): Dexmedetomidine medication use evaluation for alcohol withdrawal syndrome

2019-2020 residents

• Jeremy Kosacz (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Pharmacist impact on transitions of care in hospitalized diabetic patients on new insulin therapy: evaluation of readmissions
• Michael Pierce (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy utilization in complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion
• Dylan Kist (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Implementation of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium Order Set for Intubated Patients in a Community Hospital Emergency Department

2018-2019 residents

• Dylan Kist (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of Gonorrheal and Chlamydial Infections Presenting in the Emergency Department of a Community Hospital
• Alexa Smalley (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Rapid susceptibility results and pharmacist impact on antibiotic stewardship for gram-negative bloodstream infections in a community hospital
• Elizabeth Canterbury (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Naloxone utilization by first responders, emergency medical services, and emergency department personnel in opioid overdose patients presenting to the emergency department

2017-2018 residents

• Jordan Johnson (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of the management of immune related adverse events associated with checkpoint inhibitors in a regional cancer center
• Jessica Jones (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Sepsis treatment of inpatients in a community hospital: Evaluation of antibiotic and fluid administration
• Angela Zivkovic (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Implementation of a ketamine order set for the treatment of pain in a community hospital emergency department

2016-2017 residents

• Kenneth Gogol (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Does pharmacist intervention affect prescription fill rates of antiplatelet medications following a percutaneous intervention (PCI) with stent placement? A comparison of current and historical standards of care
• Ashley Weber (PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation and Implementation of a Diabetic Ketoacidosis Protocol in the Emergency Department

2015-2016 residents

• Konstantyn Romadin (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): The effect of inhaler to nebulizer conversion on hospital readmission rates in patients with chronic obstruction pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Matthew Smith (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of the impact of pharmacist driven utilization of oritavancin in a community hospital emergency department

2014-2015 residents

• Giles Slocum (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Evaluation of a pharmacist managed basal/bolus insulin protocol in a community hospital
• Stephanie Wong (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Impact of pharmacist-driven discharge medication reconciliation on reducing medication discrepancies and decreasing readmissions in federally qualified health center (FQHC) patients

2013-2014 residents

• Joe Revak (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Effect of Joint Pharmacy and Respiratory Therapy Intervention on 30 Day Readmission Rates for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Bridget Sterling (PGY1 Pharmacy Resident): Pharmacist-led initiative to reduce hospitalizations and length of stay in the treatment of venous thromboembolism