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Publications/Presentations

Publications

Hollfelder E, Rappaport S, Cheng J, Patel J, et al. Retrospective Evaluation of Chemical Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Traumatic Brain Injury. Surgery in Practice and Science. 2023; 13:100168 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sipas.2023.100168

Jones R, Quartuccio KS, Stern JL, et al. Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions Improve Choice of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Total Joint Arthroplasty in Patients with Reported Penicillin Allergies. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2021; 00: 1-11.

Polito NB, Kanouse E, Jones C, et al. Effect of vitamin K administration on rate of warfarin reversal. Transfusion. 2019; 59: 1202-1208 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/trf.15146

Persky AM, Mierzwa H. Factors Affecting Student Time to Examination Completion. Am J Pharm Educ. 2018; 82 (7): 6321.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6181161/

Polito NB, Avery LM. Mitigating Infection Risk from Inpatient Probiotic Use. AJHP. 2018; 75 (10): 595-6. https://academic.oup.com/ajhp/article/75/10/595/5101931

Rhinehart HE, Phillips MA, Wade N, Baran A. Evaluation of the clinical impact of concomitant acid suppression therapy in colorectal cancer patients treated with capecitabine monotherapy. J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2018;:1078155218818237. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3fCfn5KMN4QrKhYkfeMW/full

Polito NB and Fellows SE. Pharmacologic Interventions for Intractable and Persistent Hiccups: A Systematic Review. J Emerg Med. 2017; 53: 540-49. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736467917304791?via%3Dihu

Presentations

Taskovski, A, Sauers C, Wojakowski E, Henry D, Heckman J. Safety and Efficacy of Various Patiromer Doses in the Treatment of Acute Hyperkalemia. Presented as a platform presentation at the Eastern States Residency Conference in Hershey, PA. (2024).

Pero-Cleveland E, Rabey J, Hutchinson D, Mosher A, Geraci E, Abarintos HM, DePaul S. Benefit of a Multi-Disciplinary Pediatric Sedation Team on Procedural Sedation Appointment Duration. Presented as a platform presentation at the Eastern States Residency Conference in Hershey, PA. (2024).

Pero-Cleveland E, Taskovski, A, Berg D, Huntress J, Seligman N, Stern J, Quartuccio K. Sustainability of an Allergy Referral Process for Pregnant Patients with Penicillin Allergy. Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, CA. (2023).

DePasquale W, Donnelly D, Pillinger KE, Debnath A, Munsiff S, Louie T, Jones C, Shulder S. Cost-effectiveness of Dalbavancin compared to standard of care antibiotics in hospitalized persons who inject drugs with severe Gram-positive infections. Presented as a platform presentation at the Eastern States Residency Conference in Hershey, PA (2023).

Hophkins A, Uttaro E, Kokanovich K, Maynard K, Vella M, Jones C, Miglani A, Acquisto N. Feasibility of trauma video review (TVR) for the collection of medication-related information. Presented as a platform presentation at the Easter States Residency Conference in Hershey, PA (2023).

DePasquale W, Hopkins A, Opipari M, Huntress J, Quartuccio K. Impact of institutional guideline updates on the management of Clostridioides Defficile Infeciton in adult patients. Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-Pharmcists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas (2022).

Goho RA, Melaragno J, Ruscio C, Manou K. Retrospective analysis of compliance with guideline-directed lipid lowering therapy after acute coronary syndrome: a focus on non-statin therapies. Presented as a platform presentation at Eastern States Virtual Residency Conference (2022).

Goho RA, Gallo M, Hollfelder E, Polito N. Characterization of systemic alteplase for submassive and massive pulmonary embolism at a university health system. Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-Pharmacists Virtual Midyear Clinical Meeting (2021).

Gallo M, Delibert K, Gowen S, Treptow C. Real world use of venetoclax in combination with a hypomethylating agent or low-dose cytarabine for myeloid leukemias at an academic medical center. Presented as a platform presentation at Eastern States Virtual Residency Conference (2022).

Gallo M, Goho RA, Hollfelder E, Polito N. Characterization of systemic alteplase for submassive and massive pulmonary embolism at a university health system. Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-Pharmacists Virtual Midyear Clinical Meeting (2021).

Golden K, Quartuccio K, Tesini B, Stern B, Heintz E, Seligman N. "Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention on antibiotic prescribing in patients with obstetric infection and penicillin allergy." Presented as a platform presentation at Eastern States Virtual Residency Conference (2021)

Sherry S, Fitzgerald B, Melaragno J, Baran A. "Impact of spironolactone use in patients with metastatic prostate cancer receiving androgen deprivation therapy." Presented as a platform presentaiton at Eastern States Residency Conference, Virtual (2021).

Sherry S, Golden K, Huntress J: "Evaluation of the use of a 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4-PCC) in adult patients at a large academic medical center: a quality improvement project." Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-Pharmacists Virtual Midyear Clinical Meeting (2020).

Pry, M, Pillinger KE, Dobrzynski D, Crowley A, Shulder S. "Impact of a Multi-Faceted Stewardship Intervention on Oral Fosfomycin Prescribing for Treatment of Resistant Organisms in Cystitis." Presented as a poster at IDWeek virtual conference. (2020)

Pry, M, Pillinger K, Dobrzynski D, Crowley A, Shulder S. "Impact of Fosfomycin Susceptibility Reporting and Provider Education on Antimicrobial Utilization in the Treatment of Cystitis."
Presented at the University of Rochester Virtual Resident Research Day and the Highland Hospital, Moses Taylor and Guthrie Virtual Resident Research Day. (2020)

Roberts RC, Quartuccio K, Stern J, Heintz E, Pillinger KE, Myers T. "Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions Significantly Improve Preferred Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Total Joint Arthroplasty."
Presented as a platform presentation at 30th Annual Open Scientific Meeting of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society (virtual) and IDWeek 2020 Online. (2020)

Pry M, Roberts R, Mancuso A, Quartuccio K, Opipari M. "Evaluation of vancomycin use for respiratory infections after the implementation of a pharmacist driven methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal screening protocol." Presented as a poster at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. (2019)

Polito NB, Schranz EK, Quartuccio K, Choma A. “Evaluation of the Use of Ceftriaxone for Urinary Tract Infection and Community Acquired Pneumonia at a Community Hospital”
Presented at the resident poster session at the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists Annual Midyear Meeting in Anaheim, CA. (2019)

Polito NB, Kanouse EJ, Jones MC, McCann M, Refaai M, Acquisto NM. “INR response to vitamin K for warfarin reversal”
Presented at the University of Rochester Emergency Medicine Resident Research Day and as a poster at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. (2017)

Polito, NB, Cohen MA, Gashlin LZ, Batallier A, Mathes A, Morien AE. “Drug utilization of sodium polystyrene sulfonate administered at the University of Rochester”
Presented at the resident poster session at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Annual Midyear Clinical Meeting in New Orleans, LA. (2015)

Choma AB, Rightmier E, Huntress J, Ashley-Dodds E, Brown J. "Vancomycin dosing comparison and utilization evaluation at an academic medical center." Presented as a platform presentation at Eastern States Residency Conference in Hershey, PA. (2013)

Choma AB, Rightmier E, Huntress J, Ashley-Dodds E, Brown J. "Comparative Vancomycin exposure targeting trough concentrations versus area under the curve over minimum inhibitory concentration (AUC24/MIC)." Presented as a poster at Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Denver, CO. (2013)

Choma AB, Huntress J. "Evaluation of a Sedation Guideline in a mixed surgical/medical intensive care unit." Presented as a poster at UHC Pharmacy Council Resident Poster Session and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Mid-year Clinical Meeting & Exhibition in Las Vegas, NV. (2012)