PittPharmacy_OlufunmilolaOdukoya_Michelle Myers_0012Michelle Myers, class of 2016, and her mentor Olufunmilola K. Odukoya, BPharm, PhD have been awarded a  grant by the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association for their project entitled “Pharmacist-led Improvements to Care Coordination for Patients on Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics Transitioning from Hospital to Home”. Other faculty collaborators on the project include PittPharmacy faculty member Tanya J. Fabian, PharmD, PhD and Bryan Norman from Industrial Engineering.

The purpose of this project is to employ a systems approach to examine the current process for providing care to patients who are initiated on Long-acting injectable (LAI) agents during hospitalization and are subsequently transitioned from hospital to home. This will enable the research team to devise informed recommendations for pharmacist-led interventions to improve care coordination for patients on LAI therapy at all stages of treatment. Pharmacists are well positioned to assess the appropriateness of LAI therapy, address gaps in the care coordination process, provide medication education for both patients and providers, participate in routine monitoring and facilitate continuity of care for patients with chronic mental illness.

Odukoya is an assistant professor in the pharmacy and therapeutics department at the School of Pharmacy.

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