Category 1 Award:
Individual Award for Career Achievement
Kari Trapskin, PharmD
Kari Trapskin, PharmD, serves as the senior vice president of practice transformation at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. For more than two decades, she has been the architect and operational driver of pharmacy practice transformation in Wisconsin and, increasingly, across the nation. Her career is built on a singular premise: that pharmacists, when properly supported, trained, and reimbursed, are among the most powerful and accessible forces for improving medication optimization and chronic disease outcomes—particularly for the patients most in need.
Trapskin’s most enduring national contribution is her leadership in creating and sustaining the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative (WPQC), which was launched in 2008 as a pilot of 53 pharmacies and two payers and developed under her direction into a nationally recognized model of quality-based pharmacist care. Today, WPQC includes more than 200 accredited pharmacies, and pharmacists participating in the program have delivered nearly 23,000 cumulative services to Wisconsin Medicaid recipients since 2012—a number that has grown steadily each year as a direct result of Trapskin’s ongoing engagement.
Category 2 Award:
Team Award for Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact
Advancing Kidney Health through Optimal Medication Management (AKHOMM)
AKHOMM is a national interprofessional initiative dedicated to delivering comprehensive medication management to individuals living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM). Embodying the spirit of the Pinnacle Team Award, AKHOMM helps health care teams overcome implementation barriers and optimize guideline-directed medication therapies through two innovative avenues: Interprofessional CE Curriculum and the Learning and Action Collaborative. Most importantly, AKHOMM places individuals with CKD and CKM at the center of its mission by incorporating patient voices into their CE modules, integrating patient advocates and care partners directly into research teams, and appointing patients to our curriculum advisory and review boards. AKHOMM leaders hope that this Pinnacle Award will inspire others to use AKHOMM (www.KidneyMedicationManagement.org) as a resource for implementing practice transformation to improve medication management in persons with kidney diseases.
Category 2 Award:
Team Award for Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact
Phoenix Indian Medical Center Immunization Clinic
The Phoenix Indian Medical Center Immunization Clinic is a pharmacist-led program dedicated to improving medication safety, immunization delivery, and preventive health for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Guided by the E3 initiative—Every Patient, Every Encounter, Every Recommended Vaccine—the clinic integrates comprehensive immunization assessments, proactive patient outreach, and evidence-based vaccination practices into routine patient care.
During fiscal year 2025, the clinic completed more than 5,800 patient visits, administering over 8,800 vaccines. The clinic also implemented Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) in the outpatient setting, creating a technology-enabled, closed-loop medication administration process that improved vaccine safety, documentation accuracy, and accountability. Following its successful implementation, the BCMA model was expanded in collaboration with Public Health Nursing to support safe medication administration in an additional outpatient clinic.
The Immunization Clinic further advanced population health through comprehensive immunization gap analyses, targeted outreach to high-risk patient populations, integration of state immunization registry into the electronic health record, and community vaccination events. This innovative, scalable model demonstrates how pharmacist-led interdisciplinary collaboration can improve medication optimization, reduce vaccine-related medication errors, expand access to preventive services, and improve health outcomes in underserved populations.
