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January 29, 2013
Last weekend, the APhA Board of Trustees made a major commitment to give patients access to pharmacists’ clinical services. The Board’s action followed months of preparatory work and direction from our House of Delegates and led to allocation of $1.5 million towards a multiyear, multifaceted,…
January 17, 2013
I commend to your reading an excellent Executive Perspective article in Public Health Reports by RADM Scott Giberson, BSPharm, PhC, MPH, the Chief Pharmacy Officer for the U.S. Public Health Service, about pharmacists’ roles in achieving the ABCS (Aspirin therapy, Blood pressure control,…
January 7, 2013
We have been working on provider status for some time now, but we have not been very public about it while we did some early groundwork. This morning, APhA issued a public statement for members of the pharmacy, medical, consumer, and legislative communities about those efforts to seek provider…
December 20, 2012
By now, we’re all aware of the terrible tragedy and 39 deaths that resulted when unfortunate and unsuspecting patients were injected with products inappropriately manufactured by a pharmacy in Massachusetts that called itself a compounding pharmacy.
Yesterday FDA held a closed intergovernmental…
December 17, 2012
I want to commend to your reading Sunday’s New York Times editorial, “When the Doctor is Not Needed,” which correctly points out that pharmacists providing patient care can help meet the shortage of primary care physicians.
The unsigned editorial said that the U.S. Public Health Service report to…
December 5, 2012
If not, now is the time. If you are an immunizing pharmacist, let us know how it is going.
Here’s the big picture from CDC: More than one-third of adult vaccines are given at either work sites or pharmacies. And pharmacists are the health care personnel (HCP) with the highest rate of influenza…
November 21, 2012
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.—W. T. Purkiser
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I want to pause for a moment and reflect on some of the blessings in my life. At a recent meeting, the APhA Board of Trustees reviewed my…
November 21, 2012
I heard from several APhA Trustees that they were very impressed with and so pleased to be a part of this year’s Veterans Day tribute at APhA. I am happy that they were able to share in this special event with staff.
Many were happy to see George Griffenhagen at the event since age has impeded his…
November 9, 2012
One of our staff members recently received a wonderful letter from a pharmacist in Pennsylvania who had completed APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program in Scranton. Nelson Kardos, PhD, PharmD, is an APhA member. I’ll let his kind message speak for itself.
It is…
November 7, 2012
As I watched the election returns last night, I recalled Election Day in 2008. It was an important day for our country, and a little selfishly, it was important to me. That day, the APhA Board of Trustees hired me to serve as our Association’s new CEO.
Almost immediately, while working in…