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May 21, 2012
The pharmacy and health economics communities suffered a tragic loss on Sunday morning when Judy Shinogle was killed in a head-on crash between Washington and Baltimore.
Judy was a PhD health economist from Johns Hopkins University with whom I had the privilege to work more than 20 years ago at…
May 9, 2012
Our own Tiffany Bridge, the APhA staff force behind @pharmacists, recently engaged in a Twitter conversation that I think does a good job of explaining why pharmacists need to be involved with associations.
The back-and-forth tweeting began when a pharmacist expressed frustration that pharmacy…
May 9, 2012
Held this year on April 26, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at APhA headquarters was loud. At least that’s what I hear. I was sorry to miss the big day, but I was in Savannah, GA, to join the Independent Pharmacy Cooperative meeting as part of another travel odyssey for me.
Association…
May 8, 2012
A recent Crain’s Chicago Business article describes a chronic disease management program in Illinois that uses community pharmacists as coaches. Now expanding from diabetes to other chronic diseases, Taking Control of Your Health is an employer-sponsored program provided by the Illinois Pharmacists…
April 30, 2012
In 1987, shortly after I joined the APhA staff the first time, George Griffenhagen, who has since retired, but who worked here at APhA with five CEOs (now six if you include me; he’s still working part time as our historian) stopped by my office and dropped off a copy of this article, written by…
April 26, 2012
On April 18, I took a very early morning flight from San Francisco to Denver to participate in the Dean’s Convocation at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The presentation I made to the 450 professional year (P…
April 19, 2012
APhA and LearnSomething are excited to announce the launch of a new website focused on Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) education.
Our partnership with LearnSomething began in early 2011 to leverage the strengths of the two groups and stake a claim in the ever-changing landscape of…
April 18, 2012
A new Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA) website has premiered with a full set of state-of-the-art capabilities. We hope you and your colleagues can spend a little time at the new www.japha.org and let us know what you think.
The website is hosted by Silverchair Information…
April 17, 2012
Discovery flies past the Washington Monument. Photo by APhA staff member Chris Baker.
Today, Team APhA watched great theater from atop our headquarters as the space shuttle Discovery flew over the Washington Monument and rest of the National Mall on its way to a new home at the National Air &…
April 13, 2012
A Washington Post article published April 10 hits many key issues surrounding current medication shortages.
The article does a nice job of describing how pharmacists and technicians dilute or ration doses from stronger concentrations or short supplies of medications. However, the article totally…