Howard-Thompson Selected for Patient Care Grant Program

Dr. Amanda Howard-Thompson, associate professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Family Medicine, was selected as one of 25 pharmacists statewide to be a part of the diabetes accreditation and pharmacist-provided patient care grant program lead by the Tennessee Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation (TPREF) for the 2014 – 2015 cycle. TPREF was awarded a $750,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) to explore the role of pharmacists as providers of care and expand integration of pharmacists into collaborative, team-based models of care as non-physician practitioners. This program has three primary goals over the next four years, which include: train and credential 100 pharmacists through the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Diabetes Accreditation Standards/Practical Applications (DASPA) programs to provide patient care services focused on prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension, deliver care to 100 patients in Tennessee through trained and credentialed pharmacists practicing at 100 pharmacy practice sites, and achieve accreditation through the AADE Diabetes Education Accreditation Program for their 100 pharmacy practice sites. Once these practice sites are accredited, pharmacists at the practice sites will be able to deliver and bill for diabetes self-management education provided to Medicare beneficiaries.