Press Release

Kevin W. Garey Receives ASHP Foundation 2023 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions

The ASHP Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023 Literature Awards. The awards recognize pharmacists who have made significant contributions to biomedical literature in six categories, including the newest category for research conducted by residents.

Award for Sustained Contributions

The recipient of the Literature Award for Sustained Contributions is Kevin W. Garey, PharmD, MS, FASHP, FCCP, FIDSA, BCIDP, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy.

Garey is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health and a clinical specialist and researcher at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston, Texas. He received his BSPharm in Pharmacy from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a PharmD from SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, and a MS in biometry from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Postdoctoral training includes a pharmacy practice residency at Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, New York, and infectious disease specialty residency and fellowship training at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

He has published over 275 manuscripts centered on clinical and translational research in healthcare-associated infections, including healthcare-related infections, candidemia, and Clostridium difficile infection. In addition to receiving the ASHP Foundation’s Literature Award for Sustained Contributions, Garey’s research has been recognized with several national awards, including the ASHP Best Practice Award in Health-system Pharmacy Administration (2010), the ASHP Foundation Literature Award for Drug Therapy Research Award (2007), the SIDP Impact Paper in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Research Award (2007, 2012) and the ACCP Russell Miller Award (2022)

Awards for Innovation, Research Projects

The Literature Awards also recognize authors of significant and impactful articles published in 2022 that demonstrate the value of the pharmacy workforce to patient care and outcomes. The 2023 awardees are:

• Drug Therapy Research
  Ismaeel Yunusa, PharmD, PhD, MPH

  Co-authors: Joshua J. Gagne, PharmD, ScD, Kazuki Yoshida, MD, ScD, Katsiaryna Bykov, PharmD, ScD

  “Risk of Opioid Overdose Associated with Concomitant Use of Oxycodone and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors,” JAMA Netw Open

• Innovation in Pharmacy Practice
  Jennifer L. Cole, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP, FCCM

  Co-Author: Sarah E. Vire, PharmD

  "A Multifaceted Stewardship Intervention Helps Curb Steroid Overprescribing in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Exacerbations of COPD,” AJHP

• Pharmacy Practice Research
  Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, BCCCP, FCCM, FCCP

  “MRC-ICU Investigator Team. Impact of Pharmacists to Improve Patient Care in the Critically Ill: A Large Multicenter Analysis Using Meaningful Metrics with the Medication Regimen Complexity-ICU (MRC-ICU) Score,” Crit Care Med

• Resident Research
  Steven Kulesza, PharmD

  Co-authors: Lindsey Gignac, PharmD, BCCCP, C. Allis Colvin, PharmD, BCPS, Skyler Boll, PharmD, Christopher Giuliano, PharmD, MPH, Bradley Haan, PharmD, BCCCP, Bryan Allen, PharmD, BCCCP, BCIDP, Mary M. Perez, PharmD, BCPS, Monica Allen, PharmD, BCPS, Stephanie B. Edwin, PharmD, BCPS-AQ Cardiology

  “Hydrocortisone Versus Vasopressin for the Management of Adult Patients with Septic Shock Refractory to Norepinephrine: A Multicenter Retrospective Study,” Pharmacotherapy

• Student Research
  Niloufar Salehpour, PharmD

  Co-authors: Lacey D. Riley, PharmD, Marcos J. Gonzales, PharmD, Emir Kobic, PharmD, David E. Nix, PharmD

  “Performance of Bayesian Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve-Based Pharmacokinetic Dosing Based on a One-Compartment Model and Trough-Only Monitoring for Vancomycin,” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

You can read more about our Literature Award recipients and their research at ;ashpfoundation.org/litawards.