The Southeastern Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists is currently requesting nominations for our “Exemplary Resident CE Presentation” award.  Each residency program in Southeastern Michigan is encouraged to nominate the resident who has presented the best continuing education lecture to the pharmacy department. 

The topic of the CE presentation should be relevant to our organization and health-system pharmacy practice.  Nominations should be submitted by May 31st, 2018.  The presentations will be reviewed by the SMSHP board.  The winner will receive a $500 honorarium for speaking; no travel expenses will be provided.  The winning resident should be available to present the CE program at our September SMSHP meeting (9/12/2018). 

Submission requirements

• Learning objectives
• Microsoft PowerPoint file containing 60 minute CE presentation
• 5 learning assessment questions – directed toward pharmacists
• 5 learning assessment questions – directed toward pharmacy technicians
• Statement from residency program director attesting to the resident’s public speaking skills

Please submit applications for the award to Renee.Paxton@ascension.org

SMSHP is very pleased to announce our 2017 Awards winners.  The winners were announced and presented at SMSHP’s annual Awards Banquet on Wednesday, November 8^th. 

• Exemplary Student (UofM) – Stella Tang
• Exemplary Student (WSU) – Chandni Patel
• Student Research Award – Nada Rida (UofM)
• Pharmacist of the Year – Nancy MacDonald, PharmD (Henry Ford Hospital)
• Technician of the Year – Dana DeJohn, CPhT (Michigan Medicine)
• Preceptor of the Year – Megan Cadiz, PharmD (Beaumont Royal Oak)
• Resident / Fellow of the Year – Kirsten Wallskog, PharmD (Beaumont Royal Oak)
• Innovative Practice Award – Michigan Medicine Diversion Prevention Team (Carol Purcell, Andrew Bradley, Karrie Trapp, Steve Harvey, Sarah Moore-Ar-Rasheed, Denise Beson)
• Community Service Award – Michael Lucey, PharmD (Ascension St John Hospital)
• Committee Service Award – Dmitriy Martirosov, PharmD (Beaumont Dearborn)

Congratulations to all of our winners.  It is both inspiring and an honor to recognize the incredible work our pharmacists and trainees are doing!  We would also like to extend a very big THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to nominate a colleague or trainee.  Please continue to keep great people in mind for next years’ awards!

Each year we are given a meaningful opportunity to recognize pharmacy practitioners in Southeast Michigan for their contribution to our profession. Please take the time to nominate one of your colleagues or yourself for the following awards:

UM Exemplary Student Award
WSU Exemplary Student Award
Student Research Award
Technician of the Year
Resident/Fellow of the Year
Preceptor of the Year
Pharmacist of the Year
Community Service
Committee Service
Innovative Practice Award

Award applications can be obtained by clicking on the related links above. Completed nominations should be submitted to Jeff Hurren at hurrenjeff@gmail.com by Wednesday, October 4^th. Awards will be presented at our annual awards banquet on Wednesday, November 8^th.

Greetings SMSHP members!

Starting in March, we ask that if you are coming to our monthly event that you register before noon on Friday the week before the event.  This change is to help us get more accurate numbers to the venue.

The LecturePanda registration page will be closing at this time each month to help us with this new policy