VSP Health Outcomes and Research Media Publications

Media Publications

2026

Non-Academic Articles

1. (2026, Jan 16). Financial Assistance vs Co-pay Accumulators: Protecting Patients From Cost Shock. Financial Assistance vs Co-pay Accumulators: Protecting Patients From Cost Shock. Featured pharmacists: Autumn Zuckerman, Patrick Nichols, Megan Schneider

2. (2026, Feb 20). Embedded Pharmacists Among Keys to Better IBD Care. IBD Pharmacists Keys to Better Patient Care. Featured pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

3. (2026, Feb 23). Alternative Funding Plan Slammed as a Risky Model for Patient Care. Alternative Funding Plan Slammed as a Risky Model for Patient Care. Featured pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

2025

Podcasts  

1. Ultra-complex specialty medications: Meeting the challenges of significant medication requirements through an integrated specialty pharmacy model. (2025, Feb 18). Ultra-complex specialty medications: Meeting the challenges of significant medication requirements through an integrated specialty pharmacy model

2. 2024 ASHP Survey of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy: Key Takeaways from the Authors. 2024 ASHP Survey of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy: Key Takeaways from the Authors. Featured pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

3. Navigating Treatment of Dermatologic Inflammatory Conditions with Specialty Drug Therapies, with Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy, Vanderbilt Health | SASP Specialty Pharmacy Podcast. Navigating Treatment of Dermatologic Inflammatory Conditions with Specialty Drug Therapies, with Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy, Vanderbilt Health Featured Pharmacist: Matthew Bowles

4. Honoring the 2024 Distinguished Service Awardee for the Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners (Tara Kelley). Honoring the 2024 Distinguished Service Awardee for the Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners. Featured pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

Non-Academic Articles  

1. Dashboard Shortens Therapy Gaps and Speeds Medical Delivery. (2025, Jan 16). Dashboard Shortens Therapy Gaps and Speeds Medical Delivery

2. Optimizing Tardive Dyskinesia Care: Strategies to Advance Treatment Approaches. (2025, Jan 20). Optimizing Tardive Dyskinesia Care: Strategies to Advance Treatment Approaches

3. Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Have Edge Over Unaffiliated Competitors. (2025, Jan 24). Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Have Edge Over Unaffiliated Competitors

4. Can You Pick the Perfect PRO? (2025, Feb 20). Can You Pick the Perfect PRO?

5. Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Have Edge Over Unaffiliated Competitors, Pharmacy Practice News. Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Have Edge Over Unaffiliated Competitors. Featured Pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman (2025, Mar 17).

6. How Integrated Health System Pharmacies Enhance Treatment Adherence and Adverse Effect Management for CLL. How Integrated Health System Pharmacies Enhance Treatment Adherence and Adverse Effect Management for CLL. Featured Pharmacists: Houston Wyatt, Chelsea Renfro, Stephanie White (2025, Mar 21).

7. The Impact of an Integrated Outpatient Specialty Neurology Pharmacist in a Non-MS Clinical Setting, VUMEDI Presentation. The Impact of an Integrated Outpatient Specialty Neurology Pharmacist in a Non-MS Clinical Setting | VuMedi Featured Pharmacist: Kayla Johnson (2025, May 9).

8. (2025, Oct. 8). Adherence, Rx Outcomes on Wish List for SP Benchmarking Standards. Adherence, Rx Outcomes on Wish List for SP Benchmarking Standards. Featured Pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

9. (2025, Oct. 28). AMCP Nexus 2025: New Data Reveal Access Delays and Clinical Risks in Alternative Funding Programs. AMCP Nexus 2025: New Data Reveal Access Delays and Clinical Risks in Alternative Funding Programs. Featured Pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

10. (2025, Oct. 30). AFPs Affect Access to Specialty Medications. AFPs Affeect Access to Specialty Medications. Featured Pharmacist: Autumn Zuckerman

11.  (2025, Dec. 8). Specialty Pharmacist-Led IBD Research Points the Way to Smarter Monitoring and Care. Pharmacist-Led IBD Research Care. Featured Pharmacists: Autumn Zuckerman, Miranda Murray

2024

Podcasts  

1. Collaborative Practice Agreements in Specialty Pharmacy – Qualitative Data Provides Guidance for Implementation.(2024, Apr 9). CPA Series: Collaborative Practice Agreements in Specialty Pharmacy - Qualitative Data Provides Guidance for Implementation - ASHP

2. Best Poster Recording: Assessment of the Implementation of Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreements in an Integrated Health System Specialty Pharmacy. (2024, Jul 10). Best Poster Recording: Assessment of the Implementation of Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreements in an Integrated Health System Specialty Pharmacy | amcpfoundation.org

Non-Academic Articles  

1. Medicare Part D's New Prescription Payment Plan May Not Reduce Costs For All. (2024, Feb 8). Medicare Part D's New Prescription Payment Plan May Not Reduce Costs For All

2. HSSPs Avoid Unnecessary Costs Through Meaningful Interventions. (2024, Oct 25). HSSPs Avoid Unnecessary Costs Through Meaningful Interventions

3. The Specialty Pharmacist's Role in Rheumatoid Arthritis. (2024, Dec 16). The Specialty Pharmacist's Role in Rheumatoid Arthritis

4. Quantifying the Costs of SP 'Outside' Prescriptions. (2024, Dec 15). Quantifying the Costs of SP 'Outside' Prescriptions

2023

Podcasts  

1. Optimizing Patient Care through Clinical Pharmacy Collaborations. (2023, Aug 31). Optimizing Patient Care through Clinical Pharmacy Collaborations

   Navigating Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Changes. (2023, March 23). Navigating Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Changes - ASHP

   2022 ASHP Survey of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Practice: Clinical Services. (2023, July 3). 2022 ASHP Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Practice: Clinical Services

   Resident Research Spotlight: The Impact of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Services and Interventions. (September 19, 2023). Resident Research Spotlight: The Impact of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Services and Interventions

Non-Academic Articles  

1. Making the Case for IDNs as Specialty Rx Innovators. (2023, Apr 13). Making the Case for IDNs As Specialty Rx Innovators - Specialty Pharmacy Continuum

2. Casting Specialty Pharmacy Pearls at ASHP Summer Meetings 2023. (2023, Dec 1). Casting Specialty Pharmacy Pearls at ASHP Summer Meetings 2023

3. Breaking Silos: How Health Systems and Manufacturers Can Drive Progress Together. (2023, Oct 25). Breaking Silos: How Health Systems and Manufacturers Can Drive Progress Together

4. Making the Case for IDNs as Specialty Rx Innovators. (2023, Apr 13). Making the Case for IDNs as Specialty Rx Innovators

5. Patient-Reported Outcomes Inform Treatment Effectiveness, Adherence for MS, Rheumatology Treatments. (2023, March 24). Patient-Reported Outcomes Inform Treatment Effectiveness, Adherence for MS, Rheumatology Treatments

2022 

Podcasts 

1. Specialty, Pharmacy: ASHP Survey of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Practice: Clinical Services – 2022. (2022, Dec 20). Specialty Pharmacy: ASHP Survey of Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Practice: Clinical Services – 2022 - ASHP 

2. Pharmacy Focus: Public Health Matters- Celebrating American Pharmacist Month Part 2 with Autumn Zuckerman. (2022, Oct 13). Pharmacy Focus: Public Health Matters- Celebrating American Pharmacist Month Part 2 with Autumn Zuckerman 

3. Using a Patient-Tailored Pharmacist Interventions to Improve Specialty Medication Adherence: a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. (2022, June 6). Using a Patient-Tailored Pharmacist Interventions to Improve Specialty Medication Adherence: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial - ASHP 

4. Specialty Pharmacy Value and Outcomes Best Practices Series. (2022, May).

5. Digging into Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation: Value, Credibility and Challenges. (2022, May 6). Digging Into Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation: Value, Credibility and Challenges 

6. Digging Into Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation: Initiation, Ongoing Compliance & Maintenance. (2022, April 12). Digging into Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation: Initiation, Ongoing Compliance & Maintenance 

7. The Value of Embedded Specialty Pharmacists. (2022, Feb 16). The Value of Embedded Specialty Pharmacists

Non-Academic Articles  

1. Preventing Oral Oncolytic Waste through Specialty Pharmacist Prescription Renewal Review. (2022, Oct 13).  Preventing Oral Oncolytic Waste through Specialty Pharmacist Prescription Renewal Review

2. Specialty Pharmacist Efforts Reduce Oral Oncolytic Waste, Unnecessary Costs. (2022, Oct 7). Specialty Pharmacist Efforts Reduce Oral Oncolytic Waste, Unnecessary Costs

3. Multiple Sclerosis, DMTs, and the Role of Specialty Pharmacists. (2022, Aug 23). Multiple Sclerosis, DMTs, and the Role of Specialty Pharmacists

4. The Growing Case For Health System Specialty Pharmacies. Specialty Pharmacy Continuum. (2022, July 8). The Growing Case For Health System Specialty Pharmacies - Specialty Pharmacy Continuum

5. Pharmacy Times. Expert Discusses What Pharmacists Need to Know About Encorafeni, Binimetinib. (2022, June 14). Expert Discusses What Pharmacists Need to Know About Encorafeni, Binimetinib (pharmacytimes.com)

6. Multisite Health-Systems Specialty Pharmacy Study Evaluates Adherence to Self-Administered Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs. (2022, May 5). Multisite Health-Systems Specialty Pharmacy Study Evaluates Adherence to Self-Administered Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (pharmacytimes.com)

2021

Podcasts 

1. Technician Roles in Specialty Pharmacy. (2021 September 28). Technician Roles in Specialty Pharmacy  

2. How to Determine What You Truly Want With Your Career and How to Make the Change. (2021, April 15). How to Determine What You Truly Want With Your Career and How to Make the Change.

Non-Academic Articles 

1. Vanderbilt Health Professionals Reach Out to Black Communities Ahead of Vaccine Rollout. Nashville Science. (2021, January 12). Vanderbilt Health Professionals Reach Out to Black Communities Ahead of Vaccine Rollout | City Limits | nashvillescene.com