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June 21, 2011
I’m pleased to report that on June 8, ballots for APhA’s 2011 elections process were sent to our members. Depending on voter preference, ballots were sent either electronically or by regular mail. The 2011 APhA Voter’s Guide that contains the bios and election statements for the candidates is…
June 17, 2011
On June 3, I chaired the Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative meeting at the National Community Pharmacists Association headquarters in Alexandria, VA. The meeting brought together the founding members of the collaborative plus new Associate Members (National Council for…
June 16, 2011
David Starrett, BSPharm, stands in front of his old Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Joplin, MO
I wanted to share with you the incredible story of Medicine Shoppe 620 in Joplin, MO, based on firsthand accounts I’ve read. The pharmacy, owned by David and Sheree Starrett, was destroyed by a tornado on…
May 26, 2011
Anne Burns, our Senior Vice President of Professional Affairs, reports that the National Quality Forum (NQF) has officially accepted a PQA/APhA case study as one of five case studies to be profiled in a national evaluation of the NQF National Priorities Partnership. PQA is a pharmacy quality…
May 25, 2011
Tim Mitchell, the pharmacist in the yellow shirt, vaccinates a patient in the "walking tetanus immunization clinic."
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people affected by the tornadoes that struck Joplin, MO, and the Midwest. We just got an update from Patrick Clay, APhA’s Science Officer.…
May 18, 2011
Raising awareness about medication adherence, the National Consumers League (NCL) launched a public education campaign, Script Your Future, last Wednesday. VADM Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, the U.S. Surgeon General, helped to kick off the campaign event, saying that three out of four Americans fail to…
May 17, 2011
I wanted to make you aware that the Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology Collaborative recently submitted a set of clinical terminology codes for pharmacists’ services to the National Library of Medicine. These codes will be important in the electronic health record (EHR) system infrastructure…
May 9, 2011
APhA historian George Griffenhagen blows out the candles.
May 3 was an important day in pharmacy history—at least to those of us here at APhA. May 3, 1817, was the birth date of William Procter, Jr., the Father of American Pharmacy. And on May 3, 1941, the statue of Procter in the Rotunda at APhA…
May 1, 2011
By now, everyone on the planet has probably heard that Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan. Most of us will remember exactly where we were when we first learned of the 9/11 attacks, and now we’ll remember exactly where we were when we heard this most recent news. I was with…
April 28, 2011
To spot an APhA member in action as the medication expert on the health care team, all you have to do is take a look at WebMD, the highly popular website for health information.
APhA has once again teamed up with WebMD for “Ask the Pharmacist,” part of WebMD’s “Ask the Specialist” series. This…