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SIDP members please consider nominating either a colleague or yourself for an SIDP Recognition Award, to be given at the Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 1, 2019. Each year, the Society recognizes the excellence of its members with the Young Investigator of the Year, Pharmacotherapy Paper of the Year, Clinician of the Year, and Gita Patel Best Practice Award. In addition, a Distinguished Service Award may be awarded by the Society to recognize truly outstanding and lasting service (this award is not necessarily given annually).

Nominations need to be received by Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Supporting materials for each nominee will be due Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Winners will be notified no later than Friday, July 19, 2019. All nominations and supporting materials can be sent to Molly Steed, Chair of the Recognition Awards Committee at msteed@ku.edu.

Each award description, criteria and required supporting materials are detailed on the website via the following link: SIDP Recognition Awards.

Please consider your deserving colleagues or yourself for these awards!

Sincerely,
The SIDP Recognition Awards Committee

On January 30, 2019, SIDP president Kerry LaPlante spoke to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PAC CARB) urging the council to prioritize promoting the development of new antibiotics and protect existing ones. She also advocated for the inclusion of an infectious diseases pharmacist on the Advisory Council.

Click here for a full script of her public comments.

On January 7, 2019, the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) submitted recommendations to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) to address antibiotic resistance.

Click here to see the full list of recommendations.

Click here to learn more about PACCARB.

The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) is seeking board-certified pharmacists to serve on its Infectious Diseases, Cardiology, and Geriatric Pharmacy Specialty Councils for the 2019-2021 term.  Information on the purpose, eligibility, nomination materials, and desired characteristics may be found on the BPS website by accessing the following link.

https://www.bpsweb.org/2018/11/28/bps-seeks-board-certified-pharmacists-to-serve-on-its-cardiology-pharmacy-geriatric-pharmacy-and-infectious-diseases-pharmacy-specialty-councils

BPS must receive nominations materials before Monday, December 17th.

We invite you to participate in a live CE webinar, Vancomycin Dosing: From Trough to AUC.  

Thursday, October 18 at 12pm CT
(10am PT, 11am MT, 1pm ET)

Co-produced by ProCE and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Education Center (SIDPEC)

There are no fees for participating in this 1.0 contact hour CE activity.

SIDP has signed on to support "Antibiotics Off the Menu", asking the six largest fast food companies to further the fight against antibiotic resistance and become antibiotic stewardship leaders by expanding their commitment to sourcing responsibly raised meats and implementing these commitments. Learn more here: https://www.antibioticsoffthemenu.org 

Dear Colleagues,   

It is with great sadness that I share the news that Dr. Alan Forrest has passed away this weekend.  Alan was a mentor, colleague and friend to many in SIDP.  Brian Tsuji and others prepared the following summary of Alan’s career which I share with permission: 

Alan was a wonderful friend, mentor, colleague and a true inspiration to our community and beyond.  He was a giant in the field of antimicrobial pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicodynamics (PK/PD/TD) as a researcher and educator for over 37 years. Alan started his career at the University of Southern California in Dr. Roger Jelliffe’s Laboratory and held a number of prestigious faculty positions at USC, the University of Maryland and the University at Buffalo. He served most recently as a Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Pharmacometrics at the University of North Carolina. He also worked as the Senior Director of Pharmacometrics at the Institute for Clinical Pharmacodynamics and was an expert adviser to the Food and Drug Administration and the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Alan made immeasurable contributions to the field of antimicrobial pharmacometrics. He was the leading scientist in the world on adaptive feedback control and individualizing therapy using PK/PD/TD systems analysis. He brought these advanced dosing algorithms all the way to clinical application for many of the antibiotics we use today. His pivotal paper on ciprofloxacin pharmacodynamics revolutionized antimicrobial drug development and has been cited >1,000 times. As a result of his work, exposure response analyses for antimicrobials have become standard practice in translational drug development.

 Alan had a tireless work ethic and was extremely driven. Although his days typically started at 7am and he mostly worked 7 days a week, he was always so generous with his time for others. He was a selfless and extremely dedicated mentor and friend to over 100 trainees all over the world. Alan was also a brilliant presenter and explained complex mathematical models with elegance. In 2016, he was honored with the Lewis B. Sheiner Lecture Award at the American Conference on Pharmacometrics. Throughout his esteemed career Alan always maintained his focus in translating his research into clinical practice to improve the care of patients.

He will be dearly missed by all of us.  

Those wishing may make donations to the Eshelman School of Pharmacy https://pharmacy.unc.edu/give or to the National Kidney Foundation at www.kidney.org/support.  A family guestbook is available at www.amherstmemorialchapel.com

Libby Dodds Ashley

President, SIDP

The Young Investigator Research Award (YIRA) proposal deadline has been extended to September 7th. Both the YIRA and The Ocean Spray Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections Research Award proposals must be submitted by email no later than 5 PM E.S.T. on September 7, 2018.  Proposals should be converted to a single PDF file and electronically submitted to both Elizabeth Schumacher, Executive Director (elizabeth@affinity-strategies.com) and the Chair of the Research Committee, Warren Rose (warren.rose@wisc.edu). Please see previous communications and the RFPs for further instructions. Applications submitted after the application deadline will not be considered.

SIDP board member Dr. Susan Davis talks with Dr. Paul Sax on the critical role of the Infectious Diseases Pharmacist in improving patient outcomes.

Check out this podcast published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. Click here to either download the podcast discussion or read the transcript of the conversation.

The Board of Directors of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) is pleased to announce the funding of research proposal for The Ocean Spray Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections Research Award.

Proposal should follow the guidelines described in the RFP (download here).

Submission of RFP:

Proposals should be converted to a single PDF file adhering to the format described above. The PDF file should be electronically submitted to both Elizabeth Schumacher, Executive Director (elizabeth@affinity-strategies.com) and the Chair of the Research Committee, Warren Rose (warren.rose@wisc.edu). Proposals must be submitted by online by email no later than 5 PM E.S.T. on September 7, 2018. Applications submitted after the application deadline, will not be considered.