{"id":4155,"date":"2016-05-20T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2016-05-20T08:19:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:19:27","slug":"pharmacy-professor-and-students-lead-antibiotic-stewardship-program-at-williamson-medical-center-recognized-in-national-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/05\/20\/pharmacy-professor-and-students-lead-antibiotic-stewardship-program-at-williamson-medical-center-recognized-in-national-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy professor leads antibiotic stewardship program at Williamson Medical Center recognized in national report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WilliamsMedium\"<\/a>Dr. Montgomery Williams, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, is providing leadership to an effort at Williamson Medical Center (WMC) in Franklin, Tennessee to curb unnecessary antibiotic use, an initiative recently recognized in a report published by The Pew Charitable Trusts.\u00a0 Dr. Williams was quoted earlier this week by The Tennessean in a story about the success of the antibiotic program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Williams serves at Williamson Medical Center as part of her teaching responsibilities at Belmont University College of Pharmacy, educating PharmD students in their advanced practice experiences at the medical center during their final year of study.\u00a0 \u00a0As an internal medicine and antibiotic stewardship pharmacist at WMC, she provides extensive training in general medicine to students throughout the year as they complete month-long rotations at the medical center.\u00a0 Like all Pharmacy Practice faculty in the College of Pharmacy, Dr. Williams divides her time between the classroom at Belmont and her community site where she mentors student pharmacists who are near completion of their doctoral degree.\u00a0 Those students participate in the antibiotic program during their rotation with Dr. Williams.<\/p>\n

At Williamson Medical Center, where Dr. Williams has practiced for the past six years, she is the co-chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program along with Dr. Shaefer Spires, an antibiotic stewardship physician and hospital epidemiologist.\u00a0 Other health professionals involved in the program at WMC include Dr. Courtney (Curtis) Sutton, pediatric pharmacist (2013 PharmD graduate from Belmont); Dr. Michael Wright, critical care pharmacist; and Dr. Tracey Bastian, clinical pharmacy manager.\u00a0 In her role as chair, Dr. Williams coordinates ongoing efforts to evaluate how the hospital prescribes antibiotics and work with physicians in developing appropriate treatment plans for patients. \u00a0\u00a0“Presenting recommendations to physicians can be challenging\u00a0\u2014 you really have to work together as a team,” \u00a0Williams said in the Tennessean. “We always want what’s best for the patient.”<\/p>\n

Also quoted in the Tennessean was Dr. David Hyun, senior officer of Pew Charitable Trusts’ antibiotic resistance project, which published the report. \u201cWilliamson Medical Center is a great example of how a program can be tailored to the needs of a community hospital,\u201d said Hyun,\u00a0who developed and co-chaired a stewardship program at Children\u2019s National Medical Center\u00a0in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 \u201cEfforts to use antibiotics appropriately are not only about reducing resistance but ensuring patients get the right care.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full report can be found at http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/reports\/2016\/04\/a-path-to-better-antibiotic-stewardship-in-inpatient-settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Montgomery Williams, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, is providing leadership to an effort at Williamson Medical Center (WMC) in Franklin, Tennessee to curb unnecessary antibiotic use, an initiative recently recognized in a report published by The Pew Charitable Trusts.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}