Coe and Carroll do it again
Melissa Carroll and Toni Coe are on a roll.
The VCU School of Pharmacy team (both P4) aced the first Virginia Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Jennifer E. Stallings College Bowl. If you’ll recall, Coe and Carroll also recently won the local American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition and will compete in the national competition at the Midyear Clinical Meeting in December.
Each of the Virginia pharmacy-school teams that won in the local ASHP competition were invited to compete in the Stallings College Bowl Oct. 18 at VSHP’s Fall Seminar in Wintergreen.
The College Bowl case, according to Gayle Slifka, centered on realistic drug-therapy issues that could be encountered in clinical practice.
“Each team evaluated the case patient’s current therapy, identified and prioritized therapeutic problems and treatment goals, and created a care plan and presented it for review before a three-judge panel,” said Slifka, who is a medical outcomes specialist for Pfizer Global Research and Development in Richmond (and who also is a VCU School of Pharmacy alum, having earned her Pharm.D. degree in 1999).
“All of the Pharm.D. candidates did a great job and presented well,” she said, “but … the winning team of Toni Coe and Melissa Carroll represented VCU School of Pharmacy with honor, pride and talent.”
Each won $500 and reference books donated by ASHP and Lexi-Comp.
It’s somehow fitting that the VCU team won; this new competition was named after Jennifer Stallings, a 1997 Pharm.D. graduate who died in March. The 36-year-old Stallings, who was born at Medical College of Virginia, was a pharmacist with Sentara Health Systems. She lived in Norfolk’s Ghent neighborhood and, as an active member of VSHP (most recently, its treasurer), had envisioned such a competition.
Stallings’ concept was called the VSHP College Bowl. In tribute and in her memory, the competition was renamed.
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