Frontiers Fund: Celebrating Success
FIT Graduates Secure More than $3 Million in New Grant Monies
ACCP PBRN Completes Inaugural Project
In 2009, the Frontiers Fund launched a new campaign, asking members to donate to the new mission of the Research Institute (RI) and the Focused Investigator Training (FIT) Program and to create a nationwide clinical pharmacy practice-based research network (PBRN). Through these programs, the RI will receive national recognition as the place for clinical pharmacists to sharpen their research skill and prepare to compete for significant research funds. We appreciate the faith and confidence of our Frontiers Fund donors in supporting our new efforts in the past few years. We want to thank our donors and assure you that your donations have resulted in a great return on investment.
The annual FIT Program was offered for the fourth time earlier this summer. So far, 55 investigators have graduated from this highly rated grantsmanship program. The FIT Program graduates of the 2008 and 2009 classes have generated more than $3 million in new grant monies—simply astounding!
Our second fundraising goal was to establish the first national clinical pharmacy PBRN. Our thanks go out to the more than 700 ACCP PBRN members who have joined this network. We built it and you came.
Special thanks go to our members who participated in the inaugural MEDAP (Medication Error Detection, Amelioration, and Prevention) Study, which documented more than 700 medication error–related clinical pharmacist interventions. The manuscript will be published later this year, and an abstract will be presented in Pittsburgh at the ACCP Annual Meeting. The potential for the ACCP PBRN to contribute robust and meaningful outcomes data to the clinical pharmacy community cannot be overestimated.
As the RI celebrates the success of the FIT Program graduates and the completion of the inaugural ACCP practice-based research project, we recognize these programs were made possible by the contributions of several hundred ACCP members and organizations, as well as by the several PRNs who donated in 2010 and 2011. However, we cannot achieve continued growth and success without your financial support. Your tax-deductible donation will:
- Develop researchers
- Build the ACCP PBRN
- Generate evidence
...to further document the value of clinical pharmacy services and advance pharmacy research.
More information about the Frontiers Fund, including a complete list of donors since 1998, is available at http://www.accpri.com/. Please consider donating to help the Frontiers Fund in 2011 and join the others who have contributed to its success.
2011 Frontiers Fund Committee: Ron Evens, Susan Fagan (Chair), Stuart Haines, Jimmi Hatton (Chair, Board of Trustees), and Ralph Raasch.