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NABP's 102nd Annual Meeting Offers the Opportunity to Earn Up to 6.5 Hours of CE Credit
Attendees of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy®’s NABP®) 102nd Annual Meeting have the opportunity to earn up to 6.5 Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)-approved continuing education (CE) credit hours by attending a variety of CE sessions on crucial topics from public policy to disaster preparedness. The 102nd Annual Meeting will be held April 8-11, 2006, at the Westin St Francis in San Francisco, CA. CE designed to address current issues affecting the practice of pharmacy will be divided into three programming tracks for state board of pharmacy executive officers and members, compliance staff, and professional development. Three CE programs are also offered in the joint programming track, which is geared toward all Annual Meeting participants.
Monday, April 10
Two Joint CE Programming sessions will be held on Monday, April 10. From 8:15 to 10:15 AM, the Honorable Tommy G. Thompson, former secretary for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will assess “Public Policy Decisions: An Analysis of Issues that Have Dramatically Changed Health Care in the United States”(Program No. 205-000-06-001-L04) from his unique perspective while overseeing HHS. This session is sponsored by Pfizer US Pharmaceuticals, Inc and provides 0.20 continuing education units (CEUs) (2.0 contact hours).
“A Legislative Update for State Boards of Pharmacy” (Program No. 205-000-06-002-L03) will be presented by Eleni Z. Anagnostiadis, NABP professional affairs director, and Melissa A. Madigan, PharmD, JD, consultant to NABP, from 10:30 AM to noon and provides 0.15 CEUs (1.5 contact hours). Anagnostiadis, who oversees NABP’s professional affairs and accreditationprograms, and Madigan, who served as NABP’s professional affairs manager for eight years and is a pharmacy law instructor at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Pharmacy in Downers Grove, IL, will discuss several crucial legislative topics affecting the practice of pharmacy during this session, which is sponsored by Walgreen Co. These include the medication counterfeiting threat, wholesale distributor licensure, electronic prescribing, methamphetamine precursors, and automated dispensing systems, among others.
Tuesday, April 11
Three concurrent CE sessions will take place from 9 to 10:30 AM and provide 0.15 CEUs (1.5 contact hours) each. Executive officers and board members will want to attend the session “Medical Gases: A Food and Drug Administration Invitation to Partner with the State Boards of Pharmacy” (Program No. 205-000-06-003-L03), sponsored by Barr Laboratories and presented by Richard H. Barnes, director of the Division of Federal-State Relations, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Duane S. Sylvia, consumer safety officer, FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. During this session, participants will explore and discuss opportunities on how the boards of pharmacy can partner with FDA in the regulation of medical gases, given that in recent years, FDA has received reports involving several deaths and injuries to patients who were thought to be receiving medical grade oxygen but were in fact receiving a different gas (eg, nitrogen) that had been mistakenly connected to the oxygen supply system.
A Compliance Officer Programming session, “USP Chapter 797: Surveying for Sterile Compounding Compliance” (Program No. 205-000-06-004-L04), sponsored by Medco Health Solutions, Inc provides 0.15 CEUs (1.5 contact hours) and will be presented by Sheila L. Mitchell, PharmD, FASHP, vice president of the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy and the director of pharmacy, material, and environmental sciences at Methodist Hospital Germantown in Germantown, TN, who oversaw the design and building of a new pharmacy department in 1994, including the first I.V. department in western Tennessee to meet new American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guidelines; and Eric S. Kastango, MBA, RPh, FASHP, president of Clinical IQ, LLC, who is author of the ASHP Discussion Guide on Sterile Preparation: Summary and Implementation of USP Chapter 797. Among other topics, Mitchell and Kastango will discuss the major recommendations of the NABP 2005-2006 Task Force on Standards for Compounding and explain how the Model State Pharmacy Act and Model Rules of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy addresses sterile compounding.
The Professional Development Programming session, “Effective Communication and Delivery of Board Policy in Public Meetings and with the Meia” (Program No. 205-000-06-005-L04), sponsored by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, will be presented by Rea Blakey, media training consultant for Spectrum Science Communications. Blakey, who has covered a variety of health related stories, medical breakthroughs, innovative surgeries, and public health issues as a Washington, DC-based medical TV correspondent for CNN, and as an award-winning news anchor and health reporter for Washington, DC’s ABC affiliate, WJLA-TV, will explain the basic principles and techniques for preparing clear and concise information that will be ultimately conveyed to the media, legislatures, or similar audiences, and demonstrate how to develop appropriate responses to difficult questions that may be posed during a meeting or other public venue.
From 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM, a third Joint CE Programming session titled “Structuring an Effective Disaster Plan: Lessons Learned” (Program No. 205-000-06-006-L04) will provide 0.15 CEUs (1.5 contact hours) and is sponsored by Thomson Prometric. Part One, “Rising to the Occasion: The State Boards of Pharmacy Vital to Hurricane Relief and Recovery Efforts,” will be presented by Robert Joseph “Bob” Dufour, RPh, pharmacy director, professional services, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, and Malcolm J. Broussard, RPh, executive director, Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. Dufour and Broussard saw firsthand what was required to deal with the barriers preventing patients from receiving their medications in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For Part Two of the session, “Where Do We Go From Here? Open Forum and Panel Discussion on the State Boards of Pharmacy Role in Emergency Preparedness and Response,” Dufour and Broussard will be joined by Richard A. Palombo, RPh, director of compliance, professional practice for Medco Health Solutions of Willingboro LLC and a member of NABP’s Executive Committee, and Captain Christopher Jones, NP, regional emergency coordinator, US Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
Sponsors of the 102nd Annual Meeting CE sessions acknowledge that NABP is solely responsible for designing and conducting the continuing educational program supported by their education grant and for NABP’s 102nd Annual Meeting Offers the Opportunity to Earn Up to 6.5 Hours of CE Credit the selection of faculty. They further acknowledge that activities supported by this grant will be educational, nonpromotional, and free from commercial bias.
NABP and the NABP Foundation are approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as providers of continuing pharmacy education. ACPE Provider Number: 205. Participants may earn up to five hours of ACPE-approved continuing education credit from NABP. Participants in continuing pharmacy education programs will receive credit by completing a “Statement of Continuing Pharmacy Education Participation” and submitting it to the NABP office. A validated Statement of Credit will be sent as proof of participation within approximately six weeks. Full attendance and completion of a program evaluation form for each session are required to receive continuing pharmacy education credit and a Statement of Credit.
For more information on the 102nd Annual Meeting, please contact the NABP Meetings Desk at 847/391-4406 or via e-mail at custserv@nabp.net. Information and registration forms may also be found on NABP’s Web site at www.nabp.net.
Larissa Doucette
