2024 NHIF Outstanding Abstract Achievement Award

Katherine (Katie) Yang earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from California Northstate University in 2021. Following graduation, she completed a Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency at Erie County Medical in Buffalo, NY. After completing her PGY1 residency, Katie began her professional career at Kaiser Permanente, where she currently works as a clinical pharmacist at Kaiser Permanente Regional Home Infusion Pharmacy in Berkeley, California. In this role, she collaborates on an interdisciplinary team within the Hospital at Home Program, to optimize patient care outcomes and enhance medication management strategies.

Home Parenteral Nutrition Workshop Take Off: A Pilot Program for Patient Support 

Christina Ritchey, MS, RD, LD, CNSC, FASPEN is a Clinical Program Manager at Optum Infusion Pharmacy. She is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician, working in the home infusion industry since 2009. She has authored numerous abstracts and publications related to nutrition support, outcomes, health equity and literacy. Christina is the recipient of the 2021 NHIF Outstanding Abstract Award and 2022 ASPEN Home Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Trailblazer award. Christina serves on the NHIA Clinical Practice Committee and ASPEN Publications and Membership Committees. She is also the President of the Texas Alamo Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

Hello, my name is Yoselin Flores, and I am the current PGY-1 Pharmacy Resident at Option Care Health in Itasca, IL. I completed my Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  At the conclusion of my residency, I hope to continue my role as a clinical pharmacist in the home infusion field.  

Ruth Taylor is a registered dietitian with 13 years of experience. For the last 9 years she has been working as a nutrition support dietitian with Optum Infusion Pharmacy focusing on enteral nutrition patients. She currently serves on the enteral nutrition committee for A.S.P.E.N. She lives in Fairhope, Alabama with her husband and daughter. 

Amanda Scippa, RD, LDN, CNSC is the Infusion Support Dietitian Director at KabaFusion. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and went on to complete her dietetic internship at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston. After working in the Burn and Trauma Unit at BWH for several years, she decided to transition to the home infusion setting with the goal of helping patients that require long term nutrition support and striving for more holistic care of home infusion patients.