{"id":2530,"date":"2019-04-18T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:54:59","slug":"inter-professional-relationships-in-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2019\/04\/18\/inter-professional-relationships-in-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-Professional Relationships in HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><strong>We\u2019re excited to feature a recent publication borne from student-faculty collaboration that highlights the importance of interdisciplinary care!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jordan Broekhuis, the lead author, is one of our former <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/11\/27\/enhanced-medical-education-track-provides-unique-hiv-immersion-curriculum-and-research-opportunities-for-unmc-medical-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIV Enhanced Medical Education Track (EMET)<\/a> students who is now a surgery resident at Beth Israel Deaconess.\u00a0 He completed his EMET work here at UNMC under the mentorship of Drs. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/04\/05\/dr-bares-on-why-i-love-id\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara Bares<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/08\/03\/dr-sue-swindells-on-why-i-love-id\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Swindells<\/a>.\u00a0 Their paper, \u201cMidwest pharmacists&#8217; familiarity, experience, and willingness to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV,\u201d was published in <em>PLoS One<\/em> in November.\u00a0 We recently talked to the authors about their work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Could you give us a short summary of your work and what motivated you to conduct this study?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Pharmacists in Nebraska and Iowa were asked to complete a survey to gauge their familiarity, experience and willingness to provide HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).\u00a0 PrEP \u00a0is underutilized and pharmacists could potentially play a role in expanding access to PrEP providers, especially in states such as Nebraska and Iowa where regulations support the implementation of collaborative practice agreements which allow for the delegation of responsibilities from the collaborating prescriber to the pharmacist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What were some of your key findings?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>While respondents had limited familiarity and experience with PrEP, most indicated a willingness to provide PrEP if given the opportunity to do so via a collaborative practice agreement and after additional training.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What do you see as future directions for this research and pharmacist education around the use of PrEP?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This survey laid the groundwork for implementation of a pharmacist-led PrEP (P-PrEP) initiative here in Omaha.\u00a0 We shared preliminary results of our P-PrEP project at IDWeek 2018 and hope to disseminate the final results soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read their full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6235377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Interested in learning more about UNMC\u2019s EMET program? \u00a0See our features of current and former EMET students and read more about the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/com\/education\/md-enrichment\/emet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/subscribe2\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.172\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to feature a recent publication borne from student-faculty collaboration that highlights the importance of interdisciplinary care! 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