2025 Student Pharmacist Leadership Challenge Competition

Submission Form

2025 COMPETITION CASE

See below for competition details, case, scoring rubric, and checklist.

As pharmacists, we are leaders in all professional settings, and the Leadership Challenge Competition is designed to help students further explore their roles as leaders in the healthcare field. This competition is a great opportunity to collaborate with classmates and present your ideas to potential employers.

Challenge Summary:

• What: After the written prompt goes out on 2/1/2025 (via email to TSHP members and on this page: https://tshp.org/page/leadership_competition), teams will submit a 5-10 page written response to the competition case.** Plans will be scored by a panel of judges composed of pharmacists with leadership and management experience (which may include residency directors!)

• Who: Teams of 2 - 4 students (P1-P4). Students will all be evaluated on the same level regardless of their academic year.

• Submission Window: Application will close March 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT.

• When/Where: The top three (3) finalist teams will be announced on or before March 29 and will be asked to present their case at the 2025 TSHP Annual Seminar, April 3-5, 2025 to a live judging panel (exact appointments TBD; all judging to occur on Thursday, April 3, 2025).

• All finalist team members presenting must register for the Annual Seminar.* Registration costs for students is between $80 - $230 depending on when you register and your TSHP membership status. Visit https://tshp.org/mpage/AS-Reg for details.

• Winning Team: One (1) winning team will be selected from the onsite finalist presenters. The First-Place Team will receive $250 Cash Prize and each team member will receive Complimentary Registration to 2025 Annual Seminar at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas.

The competition is open to all P1-P4 students.

2023 Scoring Rubric    Submission Checklist

PLEASE READ: The competition committee will allow student groups to make assumptions about the case, as long as they document the assumptions and the rationale behind the assumptions.

**Submission Length: References should be included in the 10-page limit.
*In regard to TSHP Annual Seminar attendance, the committee would ideally like all members of the group to be present.

To allow your team to take advantage of the Early Bird registration discount, you may follow this scale for in-person participation: Groups of 2: All members must be present:

Groups of 3: Minimum of 2/3 members must be present.
Groups of 4: Minimum of 3/4 members must be present.

Submission Form

Congratulations to the Leadership Challenge Competition winning teams!

• 2024: University of Houston College of Pharmacy - Adam Siddique, Julia White, Gia Tran, Emmanuel Iruru
• 2023: University of Houston College of Pharmacy - Adam Siddique, Dana Elder, Michael Torano, Emmanuel Iruru
• 2022: University of Houston College of Pharmacy - Michael Torano, Dana Elder, Jeanette Lahoud, Adam Siddique
• 2020: University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy - Avital Gurman, Alexis Alba, Alex Moskhos, Emily Allen
• 2019: University of Houston — Van Nguyen, Eileell Alin Nguyen, Amilda Medina
• 2018: University of Texas at Austin — Cathleen McCormack, Victoria Vaughan, Sydney Yogi