IPA Foundation

Going once going twice Going virtual 2020 Annual Meeting Silent Auction !

With this year’s Annual Meeting going virtual, we are excited to offer the IPA Foundation Silent Auction utilizing the SmartPay Anywhere app! With the same great items available, donors can bid directly from their mobile phones, tablets or computers. Items will be available for bidding via SmartPay Anywhere starting September 1. The silent auction will be open for one month, ending on Friday, September 18.

If you or your pharmacy would like to donate to the silent auction, please visit www.iarx.org/ipaannualmtg

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donate. While items will be accepted up through the week of Annual Meeting, in order to have your item listed in the silent auction catalog, please notify IPA prior to September 11.

The IPA Foundation Silent Auction is held each year at the IPA Annual Meeting. Thanks to generous donations of creative auction items and equally generous and competitive bidders, the IPA Foundation raises funds for details on how to register the item(s) you plan to

for initiatives to support student pharmacists and practice advancement across the state.

IPA Foundation Directors

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Due to COVID-19 and the postponement of IPA’s 2020 Annual Meeting to September, the IPA Foundation Board of Directors is serving an extended term. 2020-2021 board members will be installed virtually during Annual Meeting, September 14-18, 2020, and outgoing board members will be recognized.

The IPA Board of Trustees will serve the same extended term with transitions taking place at Annual Meeting.

Leaders hip Phar macy Conference

The 2020 Leadership Pharmacy conference, presented by the Iowa Pharmacy Association and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, will be postponed until 2021. The ten Iowa pharmacists selected for 2020 will be transferred to the 2021 conference. Congratulations to:

Thomas Fisher – Clinical Staff Pharmacist at Iowa City VA Medical Center Dawn Grittmann – Clinical Pharmacist at Iowa Total Care Charlie Hartig – Chief Executive Officer at Hartig Drug Benjamin Jagow – Clinical Pharmacist ER/ICU at Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines Robert Nichols – Clinical Pharmacist at Greenwood Pharmacy Emily O’Brien – Clinical Pharmacist at Northeast Iowa Medical Education Foundation Jamie Pitlick – Associate Professor at Drake University Andrew Stessman – Retail Pharmacy Manager at Broadlawns Medical Center Sarah Tierney – Pharmacy Clinical Manager at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Katherine Waack – SRx Pharmacist at SinfoniaRx

No additional applicants will be accepted for 2021. Visit www.iarx.org/leadershippharmacy for more information.

Bill Burke Student Phar macist Leaders hip Conference

This year’s Bill Burke Student Pharmacist Leadership Conference, originally scheduled for October 2-4, 2020, is postponed until April 9-11, 2021. Applications are still being accepted through October 31, 2020. Apply today at www.iarx.org/billburke.

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Make a donation or join the IPA Foundation Institute with your sustained gift. Your donation to the IPA Foundation supports initiatives to build strong leaders, invest in innovative practice initiatives and secure high-quality education for tomorrow’s practitioners.

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STEP, CYCLE, SWING for

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With no IPA Fun-Run, no RAGBRAI, and no EgglestonGranberg Golf Classic in 2020, IPA created a new fundraiser to support student pharmacists at Drake University and the University of Iowa. During the month of August, IPA members ran, biked, golfed, or got active however they enjoy to raise funds for student scholarships. As part of the STEP, CYCLE, SWING fundraiser, participants posted on social media using the hashtag #IPAforStudentScholarships for the chance to win a prize.

Over 90 members, both pharmacists and students, registered for this new event, raising over $5,000 for the IPA Foundation and student scholarships. That’s not all! 29 participating IPA pharmacist members

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also pledged to donate $0.01 for each step taken by a student pharmacist during Step Up for Students, an additional one-day fundraising event on Saturday, August 29. In total, over $9,500 was raised to support student pharmacists in the state.

Congratulations to Courtney Krall and Lisa Ploehn for winning the Step Up for Students competition. In 24-hours, Courtney biked 70 miles, acquiring approximately 140,000 steps! Ashley Dohrn was also randomly selected as the hashtag competition winner.

Thank you to all who participated. Learn more at www.iarx.org/step_cycle_swing.

Summary 2019 Outco Phar macy Reports of the mes Innovative Grant Awardees

In 2019, the IPA Foundation awarded a total of $20,450 in grants to two projects through the Outcomes Innovative Pharmacy Grant program. As required by the grant, each recipient must provide a summary of their project and present a poster at IPA’s Annual Meeting.

About the Outcomes Innovative Pharmacy Grant The grant program stems from the Outcomes Innovative Pharmacy Endowment that was established by the original investors of OutcomesMTM, a medication therapy management, or MTM, service provider based in Iowa. In 1999, the Iowa Pharmacy Association provided seed money to support this innovative startup, which became a national leader in MTM services. Following the purchase of OutcomesMTM by Cardinal Health in 2015, the endowment was created as a way for those original investors to give back to the pharmacy profession and keep the innovative spirit and legacy of the company and Iowa pharmacy alive.

Applicants must be an Iowa-licensed pharmacist or an Iowa-based researcher working with Iowa pharmacists in an innovative pharmacy practice. Applicants must also be active members of the Iowa Pharmacy Association.

The application deadline for the next grant cycle is December 1, 2020.

Information can be found at www.iarx.org/ outcomesgrant. Community Pharmacist Use of Mobile ECG to Inform Drug Therapy Decision Making for Patients Receiving QT Prolonging Medications Grantee: Jim Hoehns

For patients using QTc prolonging medications, the health care system is challenged to mitigate risk of drug induced long-QT syndrome (DiLQTS) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Community pharmacists (CPs) receive QTc alerts when dispensing, but intervene infrequently. Personal ECG monitors are a new, inexpensive technology that could provide additional patient risk information to identify individuals with prolonged QTc interval in real time. The objective of this project was to determine if CPs can measure QTc interval in patients receiving QTc interval prolonging medications to identify those at highest risk of DiLQTS.

CPs were trained to measure QTc interval using the KardiaMobile ECG monitor. English speaking patients aged over 18 years were recruited to have a 30 second ECG tracing if the CP received a computer QTc-related alert or had concern about QTc effect/ interaction. CPs used professional judgment regarding prescriber contact, but were required to contact the prescriber if QTc interval was prolonged. In conclusion of the study, CPs were able to measure QTc interval, identify patients at risk for DiLQTS, and make accepted medication therapy recommendations related to QTc prolongation. Going forward, CP assessment of QTc interval may be a useful approach to improve risk stratification of individuals at risk of DiLQTS and SCD.

Initiation of Pharmacy Services in a Rural Health Clinic Grantee: Naomi Graves

This project has received an extension. Watch for this summary in the next Journal of the Iowa Pharmacy Association publication!