Academic Title(s)

• Professor, Pharmacy Practice

Educational Background

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, cum laude, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1982.
• Board Certification in Geriatrics (BCGP), American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. 1999-Present.
• Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS), American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2000-Present.
• Dementia Friend Champion Training, Ohio Council for Cognitive Health. 2020.

Courses

Course Developer and Director:

• Advanced Geriatrics: An Interprofessional Approach, elective, P3, 2011-2013.

Course Developer and Director:

• Interprofessional Management of Geriatric Patients, elective, P2, 2008-2010, 2013-Present.
• Lecturer: Pharmacotherapy-Neurology-Psychology Module, P3, Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, Delirium, Geriatrics, 2010-Present and Pain, 2010;
  Capstone, P4, 2017-2019;
• Drugs of Review, elective, P3, Geriatrics and Psychiatry Medications, 2014-2016;
  Interprofessional Management of Palliative Care Patients, elective, P2 and P3, Geriatric Considerations in the Palliative Care Patient, 2009-2016.

Academic & Professional Activities

• Ohio College of Clinical Pharmacists (OCCP). 2018-2020: Legal Affairs Committee, Advocacy Committee, Steering Committee 2016-2018 Chair of Steering Committee.
• Memberships: American society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists (OSHP).
• Memberships: Akron Area Society of Health System Pharmacists (AASHP) American College of Clinical Pharmacists (ACCP) Ohio College of Clinical Pharmacists (OCCP) American Geriatrics Society (AGS) American Delerium Society (ADS).
• Chair, College of Pharmacy Committee on Academic and Professional Progress, NEOMED. 2018-Present.
• Chair, College of Pharmacy Geriatrics Curriculum Committee, 2011-Present.

Awards

• Interprofessional Collaboration Award, NEOMED. 2019.
• Ohio Patient Safety Institute Best Practice Award for “Summa Transitions Excellence Program”, Ohio Hospital Association. 2017.
• Excellence in Education Honoree, Ohio Magazine. 2014.
• SASHP Medication Safety Award Finalist for “Preventing Delirium”, The American Society of Health-System Pharmacy. 2012.
• OSHP Pharmacist of the Year Award, The Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 2002.

Distinctions

• Grant: “Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program”, Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2019-June 2024, $ 3,700,000.00, Co-Investigator,
• Grant: “Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship on Antibiotic Use for Suspected Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in a Community Dwelling Homebound Population”, Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases (MAD-ID) Research Grant. June 2018-Dec 2019. $29,931, Co-Investigator.
• Grant: “Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program”, Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2018-June 2019, $680,000.00, Co-Investigator.
• “Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program”, Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2015-June 2018, $ 2,043,910.00, Co-Investigator.
• “Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention-Interprofessional Collaborative Practice”, Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2015- June 2018, $1,464,166.00, Co-Investigator.

Presentations

• Fosnight S. Geriatric workforce student event. Akron University, Akron, Ohio, February 18,2019, Sept.13.2019. Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, November 8, 2019, February 14, 2020.
• Fosnight S. Older patients and medication safety. Akron University, Akron, Ohio, February 5,2020.
• Fosnight, S. Dementia panel: pharmacist representative. The Person Comes First: A Dementia Research and Caregiver Symposium. Warrensville, Heights, Ohio, September 27,2019.
• Fosnight, S. Dementia panel: pharmacist representative. The Person Comes First: A Dementia Research and Caregiver Symposium. Warrensville, Heights, Ohio, September 27,2019.
• Fosnight S. Medications and dental care in the older patients. Invited podium presentation, Case Western Reserve University, School of Dental Medicine, April 2016-2019.

Publications

• Neiderriter JE, Hovland C, Drost J, Whitford Hazelett S, Whitford M, Drost J, Brown D, M, Morgan A, Kropp D, Sanders M, Gareri M, Fosnight S, Radwany S, McQuown C, Ahmed R. Using the constructivist/active learning theoretical framework to develop and test a simulation based interprofessional geriatric training curriculum. J Interprof Educ and Pract 2020. Accepted for publication.
• Fosnight S, King P, Ewald J, Feucht J, Lamtman A, Kropp D, Dittmer A, Sampson J, Shah M. Effects of transition of care pharmacy interventions on patient outcomes. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2019. Accepted for publication.
• King PK, Fosnight SM, Bishop JR. Consensus clinical decision-making factors driving anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation. Am J Cardiol 2019;124: 1038-1043.
• Soric MM, Paxos C, Dugan SE, Fosnight SM, Turosky JZ, Emshoff JB, Sadana P, Everly L, Snyder BM, Mistry BK, Bhat S, Unruh AE, Safi IM. Prevalence and predictors of benzodiazepine monotherapy in patients with depression: a national cross-sectional study. J Clin Psychiatry 2019;80. pii: 18m12588. doi: 10.4088/JCP.18m12588.
• Brown DK, Fosnight S, Whitford M, Hazelett S, Mcquown C, Drost JC, Kropp DJ, Hovland CA, Niederriter JE, Patton R, Morgan A, Fleming E, Steiner RP, Scott ED, Ortiz-Figueroa F. Interprofessional education model for geriatric falls risk assessment and prevention. BMJ Open Qual. 2018; 10;7:e000417.