Korey Kennelty, assistant adjunct professor in the Sonderegger Research Center and Advanced Geriatric Fellow, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital has received two grants to further her research in the area of medication safety.

The first grant, UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) 2014 pilot grant: Clinical and Community Outcomes Research, is focused on ensuring patients receive the planned medications from community pharmacies after an hospital discharge. Researchers will solicit input from community pharmacists throughout Wisconsin to better understand the medication reconciliation processes. This work has the potential to be transformational by identifying processes community pharmacists use for medication reconciliation along with strategies to improve them. Community collaborators on the grant include Mallatt’s Pharmacy, Madison, Wis. and Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wis.

The second grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation will support research to enhance the collaboration and communication between older adult patients, their informal caregivers, and community pharmacists during the MTM process so that appropriate medication use is obtained by the caregiving dyad. Information gathered from interviews of community pharmacists and their older adult patients who have informal caregivers will allow researchers to build a communication model that will guide future best practices.

Meg Wise, Sonderegger Research Center, is a Co-Investigator on both grants.