As discussed at a recent Board of Trustees meeting, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates met last month in Chicago and passed a resolution aimed at evaluating pharmacists’ scope of practice issues. APhA spearheaded a joint comment letter that nine other pharmacy organizations cosigned. I do believe that our efforts to draft the comment letter, our efforts to offer other pharmacy organizations the opportunity to cosign, and our presence and testimony at the AMA meeting helped to soften the tone of the resolution. We can use this opportunity to continue our ongoing collaboration with AMA staff as they consider next steps to implement the policy and provide information back to their AMA House of Delegates.

Our pharmacist.com news article does a good job of further discussing the resolution. Thanks again to APhA staff Anne Burns, Brian Gallagher, Ben Bluml, Mitch Rothholz, and Marcie Bough for their efforts to work with me on this important issue. I also appreciate that our Margaret Tomecki could be at the meeting to support Marcie as she testified.