2025 Theme:"Innovation in ID:Pharmacists Leading the Way" |
Share your story HERE: Deadline April 25, 2025
We invite you to share your ideas and experiences aligning with this year’s ID Pharmacists Day theme: "Innovation in ID: Pharmacists Leading the Way". Your contributions help shape the SIDP community, inspire change, and strengthen the impact of ID pharmacists worldwide!
This year’s grand prize winner will receive a FREE one-year SIDP membership, and the runner up(s) will win some amazing SIDP merchandise! Deadline to submit your Share Your Story is FRIDAY, April 25th, 2025.
Submission Details:
Here are some ideas to guide your storytelling (not all-inclusive, but may inspire your submission):
Community Collaboration: Show how teamwork with healthcare professionals, community leaders, or organizations strengthens antibiotic stewardship efforts. Emphasize the importance of building bridges to foster a united front against infectious diseases.
Examples: Social media outreach (YouTube/TikTok/Instagram), podcasts, infographics, health department partnerships
Overcoming Challenges: Share obstacles you’ve faced or foresee in promoting stewardship and how you plan to or have tackled them. Even “unsuccessful” initiatives offer valuable lessons for future improvements! If you have previously led or collaborated within an innovative project that was “unsuccessful,” what changes would you make in the future to improve?
Examples: Addressing language barriers, improving access to ID-trained PharmDs and providers, access to care/equity, promoting health literacy, demonstrating relatability to patients (advocating for underserved or/and vulnerable populations)
Patient Impact: Highlight how your work or idea has or could directly improve patient outcomes and eliminate treatment barriers.
Examples: Demonstrating relatability to patients (underserved or/and vulnerable populations), identifying and eliminating treatment barriers, addressing systemic inequalities
Empowerment through Education: Showcase creative ways to educate communities on responsible antibiotic use.
Examples: Utilizing infographics, social media campaigns, podcasts, student and/or patient engagement at health fairs/flu clinics, public health collaborations (radio ads, billboards, outreach booths, etc.)
Join the chat on Bluesky & promote ID Pharmacists Day at your institution!
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#106: Stewie Struggles: EHR Edition!
ID pharmacists make a huge impact in engaging communities in antibiotic stewardship! #JoinTheAMSFight
Congratulations to the #IDPharmacistsDay “Share Your Story” Contest Grand Prize Winner, Lauren Biehle!
Lauren Biehle, PharmD: “The Colorado Antimicrobial Stewardship Endeavor (CASE) is a partnership initiated in 2021 between the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) & Children’s Hospital Colorado to provide mentorship & resources to support priorities for core element implementation in Colorado (CO) hospitals. Infectious diseases physicians and pharmacists provide workshops & consultations in antimicrobial stewardship (AS).
When reviewing hospital adherence to the core elements, we recognized the importance of additional support in critical access hospitals (CAH). I created an AS needs assessment for all hospitals in CO. Next, I developed a partnership with our State Office of Rural Health (ORH), which supports rural & CAH.
As the CDPHE Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacy Lead, I developed a curriculum aligned with the findings from the needs assessment in collaboration with CASE & the ORH that we titled the “CASE Collective”. This interactive series promotes peer-to-peer discussion for AS strategies in resource-limited communities. Our partner at the ORH strengthens our efforts through her relationships with the CAH. A challenge in designing this program was acknowledging the broad scope of work among stewards in CAH & the time for participation. However, the response from our CAH when proposing the series was a “resounding yes”!
Since 2023, 30 rural & CAH have joined in the quarterly sessions of the CASE Collective. In an evaluation of our outreach from a health equity lens, the majority of participating hospitals serve counties that have medium to high social vulnerability. We continue to expand our outreach each year through workshops, consultations, & support to empower our resource-limited settings."
The “runner up” stories were submitted by Megan Bernabe and Matt Davis.
Megan Bernabe, PharmD (@germerme): “I collaborated with our county health department and a multidisciplinary team at our institution to determine a process to increase HIV testing and appropriate follow-up in at risk patients seen in our emergency department.”
Matt Davis, PharmD (@MattDavis138): “Director of ID Pharmacy Services at @IDConnect1, @MattDavis138, turns his passion for antimicrobial stewardship into concrete results, educating communities and boosting rural hospitals' financial well-being while promoting stewardship within their communities.”