Preview this BCCCP and BCPS recertification offering from the Midyear Clinical Meeting. This episode will review the current paradigm shift from trough concentration-guided vancomycin dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) to area under the concentration-time curve (AUC)-guided vancomycin dosing and TDM and will prepare pharmacists for this paradigm shift and provide real-world examples of AUC monitoring implementation by multiple methods. Like what you hear and want to hear the rest and apply what you learn for recertification credit? Purchase the recertification product here.
HOST
Vicki Basalyga, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS, is the Director for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists. In this role Vicki serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members regarding science and scientific developments affecting pharmacy practice in health systems. She serves as secretary to the Section executive committee and coordinates activities to accomplish the objectives established by the Section. Additionally, Vicki has assumed the position of Council Secretary for the ASHP's Council on Therapeutics.
Vicki received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University and completed an ASHP accredited PGY1 at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Vicki is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and a Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
Prior to her current position at ASHP, Vicki practiced as critical care pharmacist in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Other activities Vicki performed included drafting policies and procedures, co-chairing the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, creating and drafting order sets for CPOE conversion and precepting residents and students.