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May 19, 2015
APhA member Betsy Elswick, PharmD, could give a master class on how to engage with Members of Congress to advocate for provider status legislation (H.R. 592/S. 314).
As a Clinical Associate Professor at the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Pharmacy, Elswick brought a group of 12 student…
May 14, 2015
Milestones are important. Hank Aaron with 755 home runs. Cal Ripken with 2,632 consecutive games played. Last week, our Pharmacists Provide Care campaign reached an important milestone. Pharmacists and student pharmacists have sent more than 20,000 letters and e-mails to Congress to support…
May 12, 2015
OK. We’re going to make this REALLY EASY! Vote now for candidates for APhA leadership.
If you are reading this blog post, then you can complete the voting process just as fast.
If you think you’ll get to it later, you probably won’t. SO, VOTE NOW. The 2015 election for APhA’s leadership is open…
May 7, 2015
APhA’s year kicked off on April 24 when more than 40 Academy leaders and members of the Board’s Strategic Directions Committee (SDC) gathered for APhA’s 2015 Academies Leadership Meeting (ALM). ALM sets the stage for the year’s educational and policy agenda, which is developed from the ground up,…
April 13, 2015
The APhA House of Delegates is an amazing gathering of pharmacists from all types of practice settings and state and national pharmacist organizations. After most annual APhA House of Delegates policies are publicized, we get lots of comments, both pro and con from members and nonmembers.…
April 9, 2015
The CDC recently beefed up their national tobacco education ad campaign featuring real people living with the effects of smoking-related diseases or exposure to smoking secondhand. Guess who the campaign also features—pharmacists!
The Tips From Former Smokers campaign started in 2012. Recently, CDC…
March 31, 2015
Nearly 6,000 APhA members and pharmacy supporters raised the roof off of the San Diego Convention Center last weekend at APhA2015. From before sun up to after sun down, there were so many exciting education sessions, networking opportunities, and events to celebrate and advance our incredible…
March 27, 2015
The premier event in the pharmacy world is here! The San Diego Convention Center is pulsing with positive energy and enthusiasm generated by thousands of pharmacists from across the country who have showed up in record numbers to celebrate our profession at APhA2015. It gives me great pride to see…
March 23, 2015
Later this week, a record crowd of thousands of pharmacists from across the country will converge on San Diego for the 2015 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition. We have so much in store for you this year! In the words of Bruno Mars, “Don’t believe me? Just watch!”
Each year’s Annual Meeting is the…
March 20, 2015
On March 18, Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Mark Kirk (R-IL) introduced the Medication Therapy Management Empowerment Act (S. 776). Sens. Brown and Roberts also sponsored last session’s bill, S. 557, along with Sens. Kay Hagan (D-NC), Al Franken (D-MN),…