Stephen Hall, PharmD, and Grayson Rountree, PharmD, members of the UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy PGY-1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program, were awarded an American Pharmacists Association Foundation Incentive Grant, the 6th consecutive year a member of the program has received the grant. The grant provides seed money to pharmacists, students, and community pharmacy residents.
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Dr. Hall was awarded the APhA grant for his project “Investigating the Pharmacist Impact on Diabetes Distress and HbA1c: A Study on a Novel Pharmacist Consultation Model Intervening on Diabetes Distress.”
“Collaboration of providers, pharmacists, and the healthcare team will always be a win for patient care. The future is full of exciting opportunities for pharmacists to bring focused medication expertise to the clinic setting,” says Dr. Hall. “The in-clinic pharmacist diabetes consultation model is a novel design which allows the pharmacist and patient to establish a relationship outside of a large, classroom setting enabling the pharmacist to intervene on the individual patient’s highest source of diabetes distress.”
Dr. Rountree received the APhA grant for his project “Exploring the influence of behaviors and personality characteristics of pharmacy leaders on retention and resilience in a community pharmacy setting.”
“I am excited and honored to be awarded the Incentive Grant. This funding will allow me to further explore and enhance the role of community pharmacists, with the goal of helping patients live healthier lives,” says Dr. Rountree. “Several articles use personality types in regard to the professional growth of students and other healthcare personnel. However, none of these articles involve community pharmacy or how leadership behaviors affect retention. I hope this project can serve as a framework to help pharmacy leaders grow their relationships with their associates.”
Congrats to both!