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SEMP Monthly Highlight Awards
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Monthly Highlight Awards

Celebrate excellence in Emergency Medicine Pharmacy. Explore award categories below, review eligibility criteria, then submit your nomination showcasing impact and innovation. Nominations welcome from pharmacists, residents, students, and interprofessional colleagues.

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Why Nominate?

Monthly Highlight Awards recognize outstanding contributions that advance emergency medicine pharmacy practice. Your nomination helps:

  • Celebrate clinical excellence and innovative practice in real-time
  • Inspire colleagues and elevate the EM pharmacy profession
  • Build a community culture of recognition and appreciation
  • Showcase the diverse impact of EM pharmacists across all settings
  • Create visibility for exceptional work that might otherwise go unrecognized

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Select one or more nominee types to narrow the list. Use search to find specific keywords or themes.

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Award Categories

Future EM Pharmacist Student
Education Research Rotation
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Recognizing outstanding pharmacy students who demonstrate exceptional clinical judgment, innovative thinking, and meaningful contributions during their EM rotations through great catches, quality improvement projects, education initiatives, or research presentations.
Eligibility: Pharmacy student on EM rotation or actively working with EM content through research, education, or clinical projects.
PGY-1 Out of the Gate PGY-1
Clinical Excellence Early Career
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Celebrating PGY-1 residents making exceptional clinical interventions, demonstrating advanced problem-solving, or contributing innovative approaches early in their residency training.
Eligibility: Current PGY-1 pharmacy resident with documented clinical achievement or contribution to EM pharmacy practice.
PGY-2 Rising Star PGY-2
Leadership Research Advanced Practice
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Honoring PGY-2 EM residents demonstrating exceptional leadership, advancing clinical practice through research, implementing quality initiatives, or serving as role models for the next generation of EM pharmacists.
Eligibility: Current PGY-2 emergency medicine pharmacy resident with documented achievements in clinical practice, research, education, or leadership.
EM Great Catch Pharmacist
Patient Safety Clinical Intervention
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Recognizing life-saving clinical interventions, critical medication error prevention, or significant patient safety improvements that demonstrate expert clinical judgment and proactive pharmacist engagement.
Eligibility: SEMP member with documented clinical intervention that prevented harm or significantly improved patient outcomes.
EM Goat Pharmacist
Community Impact Process Improvement
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Celebrating pharmacists who extend their impact beyond the ED through community safety initiatives, public health campaigns, or process improvements that benefit the broader community.
Eligibility: SEMP member with documented great catch with community impact or community-focused safety initiative.
EM Game Changer Pharmacist
Order Sets Formulary Workflow Innovation
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Honoring transformative practice changes including order set implementation, formulary optimization, novel workflow development, or protocol innovations that fundamentally improve EM pharmacy operations or patient care delivery.
Eligibility: SEMP member who has successfully implemented a significant project or practice change with measurable impact.
Pioneer EM Pharmacist
Innovation Case Report Novel Practice
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Recognizing groundbreaking contributions to the literature, unique case reports that expand clinical knowledge, innovative off-label medication uses, or novel approaches to EM pharmacy challenges ("out-of-pocket" cases).
Eligibility: SEMP member with documented novel case, published case report, or pioneering clinical approach.
EM Pillar Technician
Pharmacy Technicians Medication Safety
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Celebrating exceptional pharmacy technicians who are the backbone of EM pharmacy operations—including medication history technicians, IV room specialists, ED pharmacy technicians, and medication safety officers who ensure seamless pharmaceutical care.
Eligibility: Pharmacy technician nominated by SEMP member (nominee does not need to be a SEMP member).
EM Sidekick Allied Health
Teamwork Collaboration Support
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Recognizing outstanding interprofessional team members—nurses, physicians, PAs, EMS personnel, respiratory therapists, lab staff, phlebotomists, unit coordinators, or administrative support—whose partnership and collaboration elevate EM pharmacy practice.
Eligibility: Allied healthcare professional nominated by SEMP member (nominee does not need to be a SEMP member).
EM Unsung Hero Community
Public Education Community Outreach
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Honoring those who amplify EM pharmacy's voice through community education initiatives—trauma awareness, stroke prevention, media appearances, podcasts, public health campaigns—bringing pharmacy expertise to the public sphere.
Eligibility: SEMP member with documented community engagement or public education initiative.
WWFD? (What Would Frank Do?) Toxicology
Toxicology Clinical Intervention
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Recognizing exceptional toxicology interventions and expertise in managing complex poisoning cases, overdoses, or toxic exposures—honoring those who channel the wisdom and clinical acumen exemplified by leaders in emergency toxicology.
Eligibility: SEMP member with documented toxicology intervention or case management.
Cowboy EM Special
Unique Contribution Off-Book
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The "wildcard" award for exceptional contributions that don't fit traditional categories—innovative approaches, unique situations, or outstanding work that deserves recognition but defies standard classification.
Eligibility: SEMP member with noteworthy contribution not fitting other award categories.

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