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NABP Celebrates a Century of Patient Safety at its 100th Annual Meeting
Patient safety — the number one priority of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®).
At the Association's birth, its programs and services focused on helping the states organize to create uniform standards for licensure, reciprocity, and competency assessment. Through the maturing years, NABP successfully evolved its competency assessment programs into computer-adaptive examinations and online practice examinations, such as the Pre-NAPLEX™; a practice examination for the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination™ (NAPLEX®) the Pre-FPGEE™; a practice examination for the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination® (FPGEE®) and the upcoming Pharmacist Self-Assessment Mechanism™ (PSAM™). The Association also began its support of the state boards of pharmacy by becoming a focal voice for education and awareness of issues that would affect the state boards of pharmacy, pharmacy practice, and the safety of the public health. NABP accomplished this through its communication vehicles such as the North American Licensure/Multistate Pharmacist Jurisprudence Examaniation® Registration Bulletin, NABP Newsletter, the State Newsletter Program, and media tours and interviews, as well as through the promotion of its Annual Meetings and Fall Conferences.
Throughout the 100 years of NABP's existence, the Association has ensured that these programs and services continue to serve as the backbone of NABP, supporting and assisting the Association's member boards.
NABP's 100th Annual Meeting and Centennial Celebration, entitled "NABP 100 Years: Building a Regulatory Foundation for Patient Safety," April 24-27, 2004, at The Fairmont Chicago in Chicago, IL, will celebrate the Association's 100 year history and discuss the future of patient safety and protecting the public health.
Featured Events
Special programs include the Keynote Address on Sunday, April 25, which will be delivered by Donna Shalala, former secretary of the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) and the longest serving HHS secretary in US History. Other events include the Educational Presentation Area/Poster Session, which will be open Saturday, April 24, from 1 to 5 PM and Sunday, April 25, from 8 AM to noon; and the Public Board Member Session and the New Member Seminar, both held on Saturday, April 24.
In celebration of the Association's 100th anniversary, this year's President's Welcome Reception will take place at the world-famous Art Institute of Chicago and will honor NABP President Donna S. Wall. As the attendees enter The Art Institute, they will be serenaded by a string quartet and pass through the hall with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist exhibits, and then dine in the famous Stock Exchange Trading Room. Welcome Reception attendees will enjoy a variety of buffet-style entrée stations.
Other special events include the NABP/USP Breakfast, sponsored by the US Pharmacopeia, Inc, and the Association's Annual Awards Dinner and Dance. Awards presented during this dinner include NABP's Lester E. Hosto Distinguished Service Award and the Fred T. Mahaffey Award. Black tie dress and formal evening wear is highly recommended for this event.
The Optional Spouse/Guest Tour this year is the Chicago Highlights Tour, which will take attendees on a bus trip through downtown Chicago where they will see such sights as the historic Water Tower Pumping Station, Lake Shore Drive, The Magnificent Mile, and the John G. Shedd Aquarium. The tour concludes by exploring the newly renovated John Hancock Observatory. Spouses and guests are encouraged to stay and shop on Michigan Avenue afterward.
Timely CE Sessions
This year's Annual Meeting will continue with its exciting schedule of events such as timely continuing education (CE) programming. As in the past, the CE sessions have been divided into three programming tracks targeting state board of pharmacy executive officers and members, compliance staff, and practicing pharmacists. The five CE sessions will discuss such timely topics as "Drug Importation: A Public Policy Discussion," "Improving the Practice of Pharmacy for America's Patients," "Canadian Standards for the Investigation of Internet/Online Pharmacies," "JNC VII Update on the Treatment of Hypertension," and "Error Reporting Systems: New Directions."
For more information regarding the 100th Annual Meeting, please contact the NABP Meetings Desk at 847/698-6227. Information and registration forms may also be found on NABP's Web site at www.nabp.net.
Renee Renganathan
