PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency Columbia - Resident Highlights

2023-24

Abbie Blunier is named Chief Resident for the Pharmacy Residency Class at Prisma Health Richland - USC (July 2023)

Abbie Blunier presented "Bring the FUNda: Overview of Upcoming Antifungal Agents" at South Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Meeting (Charleston, SC; March 2023)

Jake Crocker presented "Here it Grows Again: Management of Persistent MSSA Bacteremi" at South Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Meeting (Charleston, SC; March 2023)

2022-23

Michael Shaw presented "Pushing Pee: Nuances in the Management of Urinary Tract Infections" at South Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists Annual Meeting (Charleston, SC; March 2023)

Michael Shaw abstract "Evaluating Dalbavancin Suppression Therapy in Patients at High Risk for Recurrent Infections" accepted for IDWeek 2023 (To be presented: October 13, 2023 Boston, MA)

2020-21

Morgan Pizzuti

• Selected to present at the 2021 ID Week - Virtual Conferenceon results from her PGY1 project
  • "Validation of Local Pseudomonas aeruginosa Risk Factors in Patients with Community-Onset Bacterial Pneumonia"

Vivian Tsai

• Abstracts accepted at IDWeek:
  • "Temporal trends in antibiotic use of new B-lactams for gram-negative bacteria with difficult-to-treat resistance in the southeastern United States"
    (selected for a trainee abstract award)
  • "Benchmarking the use of new B-lactams utilizing a novel metric of microbiological burden"
• Selected to present at the 2021 ACCP Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on results from her PGY1 project
  • "Long-term Safety of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections Treatment at a Community Teaching Hospital in the Southeastern United States"
• Selected to present at the 2021 ID Week - Virtual Conference on results from her PGY1 project
  • "Epidemiology and Treatment Outcomes of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections at a Community Teaching Hospital in the Southeastern United States"