University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Pharmacotherapy (PT) Rounds Schedule (2020-2021)

Date Presenter Institution Topic
Tue, Sept. 15, 2020 Yoscar Ogando, PharmD University of Maryland  Call Me Maybe: The Current State of Telemedicine
Faisal Minhaj, PharmD University of Maryland Oximes for Organophosphate Poisoning: Are they worth your time? 
Tue, Sept. 22, 2020 Grace Hsu, PharmD University of Maryland  Just About: Challenges in Implementing Biosimilars in Oncology
Kerry Lambert, PharmD University of Maryland  Does an Orange a Day Keep the Doctor Away? Updates on High-Dose Vitamin C in Sepsis
Tue, Sept. 29, 2020 Cindy Nguyen, PharmD University of Maryland  Methadone: Catch a Ride on the Adjuvant Train
Abby Stevens, PharmD  University of Maryland  Do gabapentinoids and opioids play well together in the sandbox? A look into gabapentinoid-associated opioid deaths
Tue, Oct. 06, 2020 Dawn Pluckrose, PharmD University of Maryland  Is IPV the new VIP? Using Tacrolimus Intra-patient Variability To Predict Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Sara Farghaly, PharmD University of Maryland  The Use of CMV T-Cell Immunity Panel in Solid Organ Transplantation 
Tue, Oct. 13, 2020 Emily Spencer, PharmD University of Maryland  The Return of Droperidol
Leo Batongbakal, PharmD University of Maryland  Cat Got Your Tongue? Recognizing and Managing Catatonia
Tue, Oct. 20, 2020 Laila Najia, PharmD University of Maryland New cardiac medications – Will they fill a gap in care?
Andrew Willeford, PharmD University of Maryland Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
Tue, Oct. 27, 2020 Lauren Groft, PharmD University of Maryland The Tale of MDR Acinetobacter – Enzymes and Efflux and Porins, Oh My!
Tue, Nov. 03, 2020 Ebony Evans, PharmD University of Maryland Continuous Glucose Monitors: How Do They Measure Up?
Shelby Warring, PharmD University of Maryland Managing the Pediatric COVID-19 Patient: You Won’t Want to MIS-C This
Tue, Nov. 10, 2020 Sierra Simpkins, PharmD VAMHCS STOPP, Drop, and Deprescribe! A review of new deprescribing outcomes in older adults.
Dodi Zenilman, PharmD VAMHCS Is bedtime the best time? Evaluating the Timing of Antihypertensive Administration 
Tue, Nov. 17, 2020 Nicholas Husak, PharmD University of Maryland Bupropion Overdose: To Seize, or Not to Seize? 
Tue, Dec. 01, 2020 Bobbie Nguyen, PharmD BWMC / UM Staying on Beat: Updates to the Rate vs. Rhythm Debate in Atrial Fibrillation 
Tue, Dec. 15, 2020 Cherokie Dyer, PharmD Albertsons / UM Flu versus Corona: Risks, Presentations, and Vaccination
Tue, Dec. 22, 2020 Seferina Kim, PharmD, BCPS University of Maryland Special Considerations in Anticoagulation
Wed, Jan. 06, 2021 Ryan Ingle, PharmD University of Maryland Topping the Charts: New Releases for Sickle Cell Maintenance Therapy
Wed, Jan. 13, 2021 Cecilia Li, PharmD University of Maryland The Break-Up: Choice of Fibrinolytic Therapy in Ischemic Stroke 
Wed, Jan. 20, 2021 Merton Lee, PharmD University of Maryland Can Medication Therapy Management Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Healthcare Costs
Wed, Jan. 27, 2021 Marisa Rinehart, PharmD University of Maryland Let's play a game of cARDS. Are steroids in your deck?
Wed, Feb. 03, 2021 Precious Ohagwu, PharmD Suburban Hospital Bursting the Bubble: Anticoagulation in COVID
June Trinos, PharmD Suburban Hospital Tipping the scales toward success: Is there a role for liraglutide in pediatric obesity?
Wed, Feb. 10, 2021 Elodie Tendoh, PharmD BWMC / UM Buprenorphine: Could Partial be Enough for Pain Management? 
Wed, Feb. 17, 2021 Leann Kwak, PharmD Sinai Hospital Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine: Confronting Adherence with
FLAIR
Catherine Roberts, PharmD Sinai Hospital Cool Story (Pem)bro: Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of
Microsatellite Instability-High/Mismatch Repair Deficient
Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Wed, Mar. 03, 2021 Emily Von Bulow, PharmD University of Maryland “Put me in, Coach!”: Evaluating All the Players for Treating
Infections in Persons Who Inject Drugs
Wed, Mar. 10, 2021 Elena Buff, PharmD VAMHCS Should It Stay or Should It Go: Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis
Jaden Dickenson, PharmD VAMHCS Start Early, Stay Late: Early Initiation of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenic Patients Leads to
Improved Outcomes
Wed, Mar. 17, 2021 Ghania Naeem, PharmD University of Maryland To treat or not to treat? UTI management for community dwelling older adults in the era of antimicrobial stewardship
Wed, Mar. 24, 2021 Irene Ruiz, PharmD University of Maryland Ket Excited: Exploring the Use of Ketamine for Excited Delirium
Wed, Mar. 31, 2021 Caitlin Sas, PharmD Fredrick Memorial
Hospital 
The Storm is Coming! – Immunomodulator Therapies in Cytokine Storm for COVID-19
Sabrina Staas, PharmD Fredrick Memorial
Hospital 
Evidence of Utilizing Steroids in Coronavirus Disease 2019
Wed, Apr. 14, 2021 Jonathan Tran, PharmD Albertsons / UM The “Room” Where it Happens: Pharmacists-Provided Diabetes Management with Telehealth
Wed, Apr. 21, 2021 Mabele Madiba, PharmD Medstar Harbor Hospital IV Fluid Resuscitation with Lactated Ringers Compared with Normal Saline for Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Christa Giannaccini, PharmD  Carroll Hospital Center The use of 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate in
trauma induced coagulopathy for patients not on oral
anticoagulants
Wed, May 05, 2021 Kayla Bourgeois, PharmD University of Maryland Lookin' like a sNACk: the many desirable uses of Nacetylcysteine
Wed, May 12, 2021 Andrew Lee, PharmD Medstar Union Memorial Hospital Is There Anything to Gain From Liposomal Bupivacaine in Lessening Postop Pain? 
Annette Yoo, PharmD Medstar Union Memorial Hospital A Not-So-Sweet Trade: Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus