Department News 2026
The new year has started just as diverse and exciting as the old one ended.
It all started with the publication of the national ASQS "Recommendations for Improving Medication Therapy Safety (MTS) in Acute Care Facilities and Inpatient Long-Term Care." We are very proud to have contributed to this and hope that these recommendations will be implemented in all Austrian hospitals. Following last year's legislative amendment, this is another important milestone in ensuring medication therapy safety across Austria.
The next piece of good news came from our outstanding PhD student, Ms. Danielle Hochhold, who has been invited to present her work at this year's "Health Service Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference" at Queen's University Belfast. Furthermore, her latest publication (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39775382/) has been selected as one of the top six papers of 2025. Danielle, you are amazing! We are so proud of you!
In Zams, we were able to contribute to the continuing education series of the interdisciplinary team at the hospital. Medical Director Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wöll and our former master's student Dr. Claudia Praxmarer invited us to present our delirium research project.
And we weren't idle in other ways either. We were able to contribute a seminar on barriers and facilitating factors in implementation research for the MSc in Drug Therapy Safety at Heidelberg University, gave a presentation on AI in everyday clinical practice for the continuing education series of the hospital pharmacy of the Tyrol Clinics, and published another paper on "A theoretically informed interview study of strategic stakeholders on their readiness to implement a pharmacist competency framework for hospital practice" (DOI to follow). We've been working diligently across the institute on the new BA/MA Pharmacy curriculum, and our AURORA research network met to discuss the next hot off-the-press news – watch this space.
Last but not least, there was plenty to celebrate, from birthdays to passing german exams (B2). We're already looking forward to February, when we'll be welcoming new colleagues, hosting PCNE and ESCP conferences, and hopefully share some more positive news with you.