Five USC Mann community pharmacy residents received 2025-26 APhA Foundation practitioner innovation incentive grants in support of their pharmacy-based projects:
- Angelica Aleksanyan, “Assessing the Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Guided Vaping Cessation Intervention” (Quynh Borkenhagen, advisor)
- Julie Le, “Boosting RSV Vaccine Uptake: How Pharmacist Education Wins Patients Over During the 2025-2026 Flu Season” (Andy Thai, advisor)
- Ngozi Okoroma, “The Impact of a Pharmacy-Collaborated Street Medicine Program in the Achievement of Sustained Virologic Response-12 in Unhoused Patients with Hepatitis C” (Havan Truong, advisor)
- Monica Padilla, “Pharmacist-Driven Hypertension Management in Geriatric Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Project” (Tatyana Gurvich, advisor)
- Fatima Saleh, “Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Accuracy vs. Pharmacist Decisions in an International Travel Health Clinic” (Richard Dang, advisor)
The Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care, the APhA Foundation’s longest-running program, help to facilitate the development of pharmacy-based projects, improving the health outcomes of thousands of patients across the country.
Focus areas for this year’s Incentive Grant recipients include medication safety, maternal health, diabetes management, innovative payment models, cardiovascular care, and more.