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Vol. 72 | No. 5may 2009 The oFFicial PublicaTioN oF TheFlorida Pharmacy associaTioNP H A R M A C Y T O D A Y

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Departments 4 calendar

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5 President’s Viewpoint

7 executive insight

10 Florida Pharmacy Foundation

13 FPa News

32 buyer’s Guide

Featureshealth system Pharmacy highlights

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a peer reviewed journal which serves as a

medium through which the Florida Phar-

macy Association can communicate with

the profession on advances in the sciences of

pharmacy, socio-economic issues bearing on

pharmacy and newsworthy items of interest

to the profession. As a self-supported journal,

it solicits and accepts advertising congruent

with its expressed mission.

of the Florida Pharmacy Today boardof directors The mission of the Florida Pharmacy Today

Board of Directors is to serve in an advisory

capacity to the managing editor and execu-

tive editor of the Florida Pharmacy Today Journal in the establishment and interpreta-

tion of the Journal’s policies and the manage-

ment of the Journal’s fiscal responsibilities.

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the Florida Pharmacy Association members

to secure appropriate advertising to assist the

Journal in its goal of self-support.

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20 - 27 FloriDa PharMacy association ce at sea Port of Canaveral, Florida

CE CrEdits (Ce cycle)The Florida Board of Pharmacy requires 10 hours LIVe Continuing education as part

of the required 30 hours general education needed every license renewal period.Pharmacists should have satisfied all continuing education requirements for this

biennial period by September 30, 2009 or prior to licensure renewal.*For Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Application, exam Information and

Study materials, please contact ranada Simmons in the FPA office.For More Information on Ce Programs or events:Contact the Florida Pharmacy Association at (850) 222-2400 or visit our Web site at

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ContACtsFPA — Michael jackson (850) 222-2400FSHP — Michael McQuone (850) 906-9333u/F — Dan robinson (352) 273-6240FAMu — Leola Cleveland (850) 599-3301nSu — Carsten evans (954) 262-1300

disClAiMEr Articles in this publication are designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with respect to the subject matter covered. This information is provided with the under-standing that neither Florida Pharmacy Today nor the Florida Pharmacy Association are engaged in rendering legal or other professional services through this publication. If expert assistance or legal advice is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. The use of all medications or other pharmaceutical products should be used according to the recommendations of the manufacturers. Information provided by the maker of the product should always be consulted before use.

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Savvy, professionally enriching ed-ucation is part of the fundamental mission of the Florida Pharmacy

Association. This year, our Associa-tion theme has been “empowering the Pharmacist.” As part of our commit-ment to education, FPA is revisiting Medication Therapy Management Ser-vices (MTMS) in providing superior programs as a means of empowering members. The Association staff and a team of professionally recognized ed-ucators are poised to help pharmacists develop many new skills and break-down many old barriers. With MTMS, pharmacists must consider a) how and where new services should take place, b) what documentation to maintain, c) how to negotiate legal and contractual issues, and, in addition, d) juggle basic pharmacy activities in a variety of prac-tice settings allowing MTMS to occur. On july 8-12, at the annual meeting in St. Augustine, the Association will fea-ture innovative, empowering tools that pharmacists and technicians can use to sharpen their practice skills in this challenging time of change.

The educational Affairs Council has developed unique programs that will spotlight how current MTMS provid-er-pharmacists identified opportuni-ties and broke down barriers to provide MTMS to their patients. The Annu-al Convention program is not only fo-cused on entrepreneurial indepen-dent pharmacists, it will also include “hands-on” information for providing MTMS in a corporate medical environ-ment. Attendees will hear from MTMS practitioners in independent pharma-cies, educational institutions, hospital settings and clinical service pharmacies. Participants will review the challenges and successes and the presenter’s plan for the future. As an inclusive pharma-

cy professional organization, your As-sociation intends to invite pharmacists from the Managed Care practice arena to the annual meeting. Managed Care pharmacists have been charged with the bulk of professionally related func-tions required by health care reforma-tion. FPA will present a course on “un-coordinated Care” to address a role for all pharmacists. Mary Kay Owens is an innovative and inspiring pharmacist familiar to longstanding FPA members. Pharmacist Owens will be enlighten-ing practitioners on this topic while presenting new business opportuni-ties that lend to the health care reform agenda embraced by local, state and federal governments. Practice-focused education is an integral mission of the Association and the 199th Annual Con-vention is not the only opportunity to witness the commitment.

The 2008-2009 educational Affairs Council has also been charged with reviewing industry-recognized “best practices” to assist our consultant phar-macist members in meeting updated Ce requirements. This has evolved into an ongoing project as the Florida Board of Pharmacy and its tripartite educa-tion subcommittee have been willing to direct the issue. The tripartite com-mittee suggested language for a rule change to the Board of Pharmacy in or-der to better facilitate obtaining licen-sure required consultant continuing ed-ucation hours. Due to the requirement for subject continuity, Florida Consul-tant Pharmacist Ce planning presents unique challenges to the FPA staff. Be-sides an overall 12 hour theme, re-certi-fication programming must be provid-ed in a single topic, three-hour blocks. With member input, FPA will continue to review new clinically relevant sub-ject matter and resulting business op-

portunities in order to provide innovate education conferences to our colleagues practicing as Consultant Pharmacists. rectification through FPA will be an interesting, invigorating and practice-driven event.

The educational Affairs Council has also been involved with many of the administrative, behind-the-scenes, ac-

education: FPA Mission

The President’s Viewpoint

Carmen Aceves Chair, Educational Affairs Council

norM toMAkA, FpA prEsidEntCArMEn ACEvEs, ChAir, EduCAtionAl AFFAirs CounCil

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tivities that are required of active ACPe continuing-education providers. The Association recently completed a suc-cessful five-year review, which required FPA staffers to reproduce volumes of documentation to support the excel-lent educational programming offered to our members. After a thorough re-view of updated requirements, revised programs participant attendance moni-toring guidelines were recently enacted. With expert staff direction provided by Tian Merren-Owens, PharmD, FPA will assure that future Ce seminars will be fully recognized by ACPe as well as the Florida Board of Pharmacy.

As a provider of unique education-al topics that enrich the foundation of MTMS, FPA strives to demonstrate the value practice-based education can pro-vide to career development. Florida’s pharmacists routinely empower their professional advancement through sem-inars and presentations designed to up-date clinical performance in the work-place. Our Association will continue to employ self-assessment of individual practice skills in order to develop new educational initiatives for our members. Like all pharmacy practice, Medication Therapy Management Services must be continually refreshed, as the clini-cal marketplace requires. Practice tools needed to update MTMS will be avail-able by tapping into one of the many fu-ture educational programs FPA has un-der development.

While certainly not the only func-tion of our Association, education will remain a top priority. As new practice techniques emerge, FPA will develop and implement programs designed to train the members. Whether it be health care reform, innovative vaccination ser-vices or diabetes disease state manage-ment, our Association is poised to pro-vide unbiased market-driven education and training that elevates the practice of pharmacy far above the standard. With expert guidance from the members of FPA’s educational Affairs Council, staff will continue to deliver superior pro-grams. n

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Executive InsightbY MiChAEl JACkson, rph

Is it Time for a Pharmacist Tea Party?

For a history lesson, let us go back in time to the year 1773. Accord-ing to eyeWitnessToHistory.com,

the British participation in the French and Indian War was very expensive. To help fund some of these costs, the American colonists were asked to pay their share through a series of taxes. naturally, this did not sit well with the locals who complained about a govern-mental entity making fiscal decisions without proper representation by the colonists in British parliament. Interest-ing how I get that same feeling when-ever my kids hit me up for some cash!

Well, as the story goes, colonial pa-triots had it up to their neck lines when the British government repealed all taxes except one on tea from a single source provider that was granted ex-clusive authority to ship to American soil. I know that you are wondering why anyone would initiate a revolu-tionary war over a tax on something like tea. After all, according to the Tax Foundation, each of us in Florida had to work until April 9 of this year to en-joy what is affectionately known as Tax Freedom Day.

Depending on how you look at it, this means that the first 99 days you worked in 2009 were simply to fund your tax obligations. The rest of the year you work to pay your other bills and purchase any “needs” and “wants” that you may have. Can you imagine the potential bloodshed if the folks in Boston in 1773 could not get their dou-ble espresso latté?

Well, as the story goes, the colo-nists finally had enough of some-one else making their decisions for them, climbed aboard three ships and dumped their cargos of tea into the Boston Harbor.

Let us fast forward to the year 2009. From the increasing number of incom-

ing telephone calls, e-mail messag-es and letters from both member and nonmember pharmacists, it is clear that there is a lot of “stuff” happening with-in and outside of our profession. This includes, but is not limited to, DMe-POS accreditation, average manufac-turer pricing, pedigree requirements, reimbursement, Medicare and Medic-aid policy changes, PBM abuses, health care reform, work place policy chang-es and the current trends in pharmacy career options. everywhere I have trav-

eled on your behalf there is discussion on a variety of issues and questions on what track our profession should be riding.

I, for one, believe that we should not be riding on anyone’s track but should be laying down our own path. just like the concerns raised by the colonists, there are no pharmacists seated at the legislative table here in Tallahassee.

Your leadership, volunteer advocates and consultants are spending hours educating Florida’s “parliament” on

things that are important to pharmacy health care. Still, with so many issues being placed on the table, it is clear to me that a health care provider “tea par-ty” is in our future. After all, it got the attention of the British and resulted in the creation of the most powerful and influential country on the planet.

A little revolution can be a good thing, don’t you think? If you believe this then it is in your future to meet with us in St. Augustine, Florida, at the 119th Annual Meeting and Convention of the Florida Pharmacy Association. Issues are routinely discussed during the House of Delegates. Come and par-ticipate in these important discussions. n

bY MiChAEl JACkson, FpA ExECutivE viCE prEsidEnt/CEo

Michael JacksonI, for one, believe that we should not be riding on anyone’s track but should be laying down our own path. Just like the concerns raised by

the colonists, there are no pharmacists seated at the legislative table here in

Tallahassee.

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Executive Vice President/CEOMichael Jackson

(850) 222-2400, ext. 200Director of Continuing Education

Tian Merren-Owens, ext. 120Controller

Wanda Hall , ext. 211Membership CoordinatorRanada Simmons , ext. 110

Educational Services Office AssistantStacey Brooks , ext. 210

FloridA phArMACY todAY boArdChairman .................................................. Dick Witas, OdessaTreasurer ..............................Stephen Grabowski, TampaSecretary ........................Stuart Ulrich, Boynton BeachMember ..........................Betty Harris, Lighthouse Point Member .................................... Joseph Koptowsky, MiamiMember ..................................... Jennifer Pytlarz, BrandonExecutive Editor ........Michael Jackson, TallahasseeManaging Editor ........................Dave Fiore, Tallahassee

This is a peer reviewed publication. ©2009, FLORIDA PHARMACY JOURNAL, INC.ARTICLE ACCEPTANCE: The Florida Phar-macy Today is a publication that welcomes articles that have a direct pertinence to the current practice of pharmacy. All articles are subject to review by the Publication Review Committee, editors and other outside referees. Submitted articles are received with the understanding that they are not being considered by another publication. All articles become the property of the Florida Pharmacy Today and may not be published without written permission from both the author and the Florida Pharmacy Today. The Florida Pharmacy Association assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions made by the authors to the Florida Pharmacy Today.

The Journal of the Florida Pharmacy Association does not accept for publication articles or letters concerning religion, politics or any other subject the editors/publishers deem unsuitable for the readership of this journal. In addition, The Journal does not accept advertising material from persons who are running for office in the association. The editors reserve the right to edit all materials submitted for publication. Letters and materials submitted for consideration for publication may be subject to review by the Editorial Review Board.

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FPA STAFF

Have you noticed that “time” has become the newest currency in our daily lives? People will

inquire how long it takes to arrive at a destination rather than the distance to be traveled. Or, have you noticed how family members, friends and colleagues proclaim: “I’m sorry. I don’t have time for that?”

Well, it is about time…yours.recently, we celebrated national Vol-

unteer Appreciation Week (April 27-May 1). It was the perfect opportunity to pause from our hectic pace to honor those who have contributed their time and their talents so generously to reli-gious and civic groups, foundations and charities of every size, shade and description.

Within the next few months, the state professional pharmacy associations, the Florida Society of Health-System Phar-macists (FSHP) and the Florida Phar-macy Association (FPA) will be hold-ing their respective Annual Meetings. One of the most important events will be the celebration of those pharmacy colleagues who have served as Officers, Directors, Chairs and members of coun-cils and committees.

Without diminishing the generous and meaningful contributions of these individuals, I want to remark how em-barrassed I am to note that so few of our colleagues are truly engaged in our profession. I have noted that fewer than a couple hundred members “carry the load” for all of the others who claim to be “active” members. Still more trou-bling is the fact that many thousands of licensed pharmacists in Florida are not members of either FSHP or FPA and ap-pear to be “just along for the ride.”

Yes, it is all about time…. yours!

If you haven’t done so recently, or perhaps if this is your first time, volun-teer! Here are a few suggestions on how you can make a major contribution on a tight “time” budget:

Offer to “share” a project or an as- n

signment with a colleague. Divide the larger project into segments that together you can accomplish in the time available.Offer to make a few phone calls to n

remind colleagues of an upcoming meeting or continuing education of-fering.Write a few letters, or send a few e- n

mail messages to legislators or regu-lators advocating for issues impor-tant to your profession.Approach a non-member colleague n

and offer to meet them at the next regional meeting. Better yet, offer to transport them to the meeting and introduce them to the “regulars.”Become a “virtual” mentor to a new n

practitioner. Communicating via e-mail or phone is not the ideal situa-tion, but it can be made to work.Contact your favorite college of n

pharmacy and offer to provide a “telephone interview” to the stu-dents about your experience as a pharmacy practitioner.

each new graduate is told that as a licensed pharmacist one has a duty to preserve, protect and advance the pro-fession of pharmacy. For some of our “seasoned” colleagues, it may be time to remind them of this duty.

remember, it is just about time. just do it! Volunteer today! n

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er, chair, fund raising, and Ken norfleet, president stand next to life size figures, at the FPA Law Conference, held in April, to advertise the Brick Cam-paign “I Bought One.”

2. Standing with President nor-fleet is Karen Whalen, FPA president-elect, who “Bought One.”

3. ed Gutierrez bought two bricks – one “in memory” of his fa-ther, eduardo H. S. Gutierrez— and one for himself.

4. Will the real Al Tower please identify himself? Salesia Smith stands next to Al Tower’s life size figure after buying a brick to help replace the FPA’s old sidewalk.

50/50 drawing5. robert Sopocy, longtime FPA

member, joins in the fun to sup-port the Foundation by buying an arm’s length of tickets from Al Tower for the 50/50 draw-ing. The drawing was held dur-ing one of the breaks of the Law Conference.

The Trustees Meet Their MatchbY pAtsEY J. poWErs

FoundAtion ExECutivE viCE prEsidEnt

The concrete bricks are 4x8 and can be engraved with up to 14 characters per line, three lines available, spaces and punctuation count as one character. Please fi nd enclosed my check for $_________ for _________ bricks.

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Have you been searching for just the right gift or thought of placing your name in perpetuity? If so, then consider purchasing an engraved brick for you or someone else.

The main sidewalk at the Florida Pharmacy Association needs replacing. The Florida Pharmacy Foundation has undertaken the project to repair and beautify the sidewalk with engraved personal bricks purchased by pharmacists or friends of pharmacy.

Engraved 4x8 bricks can be purchased for $250.00 each with the donor’s name engraved (3 lines available) or you could also purchase an engraved brick for someone you feel should be honored or remembered.

The monies earned from this project will be used to fulfi ll the goals and future of the Foundation. There are a limited number of bricks available – so, it is fi rst come fi rst served.

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Ed Hamilton Installed as APhA PresidentAt the recently completed American Pharmacists Association (APhA) An-

nual Meeting and exposition in San Antonio, one of our own, FPA Past Presi-dent ed Hamilton was installed as the APhA president. ed is the first person from Florida, since r.Q. richards, 1952-1953, to serve as president of this na-tional organization. Congratulations ed!

One of the events held during that meeting was a reception for ed as the incoming president. That annual event is co-sponsored by APhA and the state association with which the new president is affiliated. This year, obvi-ously, that was the FPA.

The FPA through an ad-hoc committee comprised of the following four past presidents (Don Bergemann, Betty Harris, Kathy Petsos, and Theresa Tolle) raised the FPA co-sponsorship fee privately. Our thanks to the follow-ing for their generous contributions:

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Colleges of Pharmacy

FAMU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical SciencesWe practice What We teach

Since 1951, the Florida A&M university, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has be-lieved in practicing what we teach. The College has grown leaps and bounds in terms of the growth of its students, faculty, and staff populace, its pharma-cy and pharmaceutical science programs, and pro-viding increased pharmacy services around the state of Florida to indigent and uninsured patients. The College provides over 60, 000 prescriptions an-nually at the following locations:

The Bond Community Health Center, 872 W. Orange Avenue, the neighborhood Health Ser-vices, Inc., 438 West Brevard Street, Suite 11, and Apalachee Mental Health Services, 2634-j Capital Circle n.e., in Tallahassee.

johnnie ruth Clarke Health Center, 1344 22nd St. S., in St. Petersburg.

The Wesconnett Health Center, 5150-9 Timuqua-na road, West jax Family Health Center, 120 King Street, South jacksonville Primary Care Center, 4131 university Blvd., S., Bldg. #18, and Agape Commu-nity Health Center, 1760 edgewood Avenue West in jacksonville.

University of Florida College of Pharmacydeveloping partnerships in research & Education

economic times are tough for Florida schools, and we have to seek resources beyond shrinking state funding to fulfill our missions. At the univer-sity of Florida College of Pharmacy, we are build-ing strong programs through unique collabora-tions with strong education and research partners who share a common vision of patient-centered health care.

This fall, uF is partnering with the Food & Drug Administration’s Center for Drug evaluation and research (CDer) to recruit individuals to become research scientists trained in safety and regulatory decision-making.

The FDA/CDer Graduate Scholarship program works in collaboration with the u.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. It offers graduate education to career-minded healthcare profession-als who are interested in research surrounding the safe, effective and cost-effective use of medica-tions.

The new research program will provide mas-ter’s and doctorate education developed to advance scientific training and analysis involved in the safe-ty and regulatory decisions unique to the center’s

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Colleges of Pharmacy

Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy“Changing lives .... Changing the World”

The mission of nova Southeastern university’s (nSu) College of Pharma-cy (COP) is to educate professionals who will address the pharmacy related needs of society. The college strives to achieve this in a very unique fashion -- from the onset of admission as a pharmacy student to graduation as a pharma-cy professional, we prepare graduates today to be ready for the evolving global practices within the pharmacy profession of the future. Graduates of our col-

Palm Beach Atlantic Universitydeveloping servant leaders for our profession

Over 150 volunteer pharmacy students, professors, and nursing students and professors from Palm Beach Atlantic university Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy hosted their first community health fair entitled “Get Health-wise.” understanding the importance of giving back to their community, stu-dents gave generously of their time to volunteer.

Free screenings for glucose testing, blood pressure, and cholesterol were provided. Patients also were educated in the proper use of asthma peak flow meters and were able to participate in “Cookersize” lessons. Additionally, flu shots were available. While the health fair offered a number of free screen-

Preparing the Next Generation of Pharmacy Professionals

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See "LECOM," continued on page 23

LECOM School of Pharmacy BradentonHolding true to the College mission of community service, students at the

Lake erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LeCOM) School of Pharmacy Bra-denton have made helping the community stay healthy a top priority.

Since LeCOM expanded the School of Pharmacy to Bradenton two years ago, students have participated in health and nutrition programs with the Sarasota County school system and have worked with the Gulf Coast South Area Health education Center (GSAHeC) to spread the anti-tobacco message to students in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Both the College of Osteopathic Medicine and School of Pharmacy re-ceived the 2009 excellence Award from GSAHeC for LeCOM’s commitment to tobacco cessation programming. Tobacco cessation training coordinator emily Hite said 450 LeCOM students have spread the cessation message to

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and agency’s mission. The partnership plans to admit 15 to 20 recent graduates from the health sciences annually into the master’s or Ph.D. program in the uF Department of Pharma-ceutical Outcomes or Policy. extensive hands-on experience in FDA regulatory science, including regulatory review op-portunities and mentoring, will be provided by affiliate fac-ulty located at CDer.

Students selected for these programs will be full-time stu-dents at the university of Florida, and must qualify for ser-vice as a uSPHS Commissioned Corps officer. They will re-ceive tuition, room, board, and a salary during their training. The student must agree to work for FDA/CDer for two years for each year of paid tuition.

diverse research topics

DiSCOVEring COMPOunDS unDEr thE SEAuniversity of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers in

medicinal chemistry have discovered a marine compound off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, that inhibits cancer cell growth in laboratory tests, a finding they hope will fuel the development of new drugs to better battle the disease.

The uF-patented compound, largazole, is derived from cy-anobacteria that grow on coral reefs. uF researchers, work-ing with scientists at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, Fla., say it is one of the most promising new com-pounds they’ve found since the college’s marine natural prod-ucts laboratory was established three years ago.

“It’s exciting because we’ve found a compound in nature that may one day surpass a currently marketed drug or could become the structural template for rationally designed drugs with improved selectivity,” said Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., the study’s principal investigator.

intErnAtiOnAl PhArMACOgEnEtiCS COnSOrtiuMuF researchers joined an international team of medical sci-

entists to form the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium. In February, the team representing nine coun-tries, described in The new england journal of Medicine how they developed a way to use information about a patient’s ge-netic makeup to determine optimal doses of the anticoagu-lant warfarin, commonly referred to as a blood thinner.

An estimated 2 million new patients with heart conditions or other risk factors begin warfarin treatment annually in the united States, making warfarin one of the most widely pre-scribed drugs in the world. It is used to prevent blood clots, which can lead to heart attacks, strokes or death.

“In this study, we used data from the largest, most diverse group of patients to date to develop a method for using ge-netic information in combination with other patient informa-tion to determine the dosage of a very commonly used drug,” said julie A. johnson, who directs the uF Center for Pharma-cogenomics and is an associate director of the uF Genetics Institute.

FDA PArtnErS FOr COnSuMEr MEDiCAtiOn inFOrMAtiOn

Two uF pharmacy professors told an FDA panel in Febru-ary that a study of information that accompanies prescription medicine shows much of it still does not follow FDA format and content recommendations.

The researchers examined the pamphlet of information that pharmacies distribute along with prescription medica-tion. Is it easy to understand? How big is the font? Can you distinguish the important information from the less essen-tial? All these factors affect the quality and accessibility of the instructions and other information consumers need to safely take their prescription medicines.

And, according to Carole Kimberlin, Ph.D., and Almut Winterstein, Ph.D., much of this information is not presented the way the FDA says it should be.

The FDA does not have regulatory authority over such in-formation, so it varies from one pharmacy to the next — even for the same medications. The information comes from pri-vate companies that collect and format the data for pharma-cies to distribute.

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“What we found was that there was more content, more pieces of information, included in most of the information leaflets that were given to patients,” said Kimberlin, “but that the formatting, the reading level, the font size, how easy it is to read in terms of the spacing between lines — all of the for-matting that would make it more readable and interpretable did not improve at all.”

even with the general increase in the presented informa-tion, some pamphlets did not include all the vital information recommended by the FDA.

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rapid growth in enrollment in the university of Florida’s online master of pharmacy programs may bode well for the growth of Florida’s pharmaceutical industry, says a universi-ty of Florida professor.

The uF College of Pharmacy offered its first online mas-ter’s degree program two years ago, and interest has been so high that the college has followed up with three other degree programs, offering six specialized tracks. More than 90 stu-dents were admitted last fall, said pharmacy professor and online program coordinator David Brushwood, r.Ph., j.D.

This year, Brushwood has two educational partners that bring career-development opportunities to graduating phar-macists interested in a master’s degree with a regulatory or business focus.

The uF MSPharm-MBA program, in partnership with Stetson university, allows online students to get a master’s de-gree in pharmacy from uF and a master’s of business admin-istration from Stetson in significantly less time than would be required to pursue each degree separately.

Working with the ASHP Foundation, Brushwood also brings opportunities for graduate students who wish to de-velop leadership skills. The ASHP Foundation, in a joint ef-fort with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, created the Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership to address leadership issues within health-system pharmacy. Beginning fall 2009, the College of Pharmacy will offer an on-line, part-time Master of Science in Pharmacy major in Insti-tutional Pharmacy Leadership.

“If we can be successful at transferring knowledge from our academic institutions to the high achievers in the busi-ness world, Florida can become a third focus of national lead-ership (after California and the northeast) in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries,” Brushwood said.

PAtiEnt-CEntErED PhArMACy EDuCAtiOnStudents in white coats — palms sweating, hearts racing

— sit in class knowing they may be called on to defend their researched prescription-care plan. It is a test of everything they have learned in the first two years of pharmacy school, and they can’t continue without passing this course on pa-tient care.

“You can imagine sitting there in the class hoping and

praying that your name doesn’t get called on,” said Paul Do-ering, M.S., a distinguished service professor in the uF Col-lege of Pharmacy. “But the minute it does, it’s your turn to have 125 sets of eyes on you.”

The class is Pharmacotherapy V, and verbal defense — or “verbal assault,” as students jokingly call it — is just a portion of what is expected in the class. And the video camera, re-cording everything, adds even more pressure.

The class started out as an idea sketched out on a cafeteria napkin back in the early 1990s, said Doering. His colleague, Tom Munyer, M.S., a clinical associate professor in the college, wanted to change the way pharmacy courses were taught by placing the responsibility on the students. They would have to come to class, prepared and ready to use the information they had been given, Doering said. The video camera is used as a learning tool for students to later review their skills.

EnVirOnMEntAl FOrEnSiC SCiEnCE DOwn unDErThe forensic science online master’s program at uF is the

largest graduate forensic science program in the world with 450 students from 28 countries. The program’s creator and di-rector, Ian Tebbett, Ph.D., believes it’s making a difference in educating forensic scientists. Others see it that way, too. In november 2008, Tebbett was awarded an International edu-cator of the Year award from the uF International Center for his work globalizing the campus and curriculum. The award recognizes Tebbett’s international endeavors through his on-line program.

“The program puts people in touch with others in the same fields, all over the world,” Tebbett said.

Through its international connections, uF’s forensic sci-ence program has established partnerships with academic in-stitutions in the united Kingdom, South America, and most recently, Australia.

uF has an agreement with the university of Canberra to offer students a new master’s in environmental forensics from either institution. More than 30 students have enrolled, bene-fitting from the combined technology edge from uF’s core fo-rensic studies and the environmental expertise from Canber-ra’s curriculum.

Today’s carbon trading means higher costs in disposal, which creates a forensic problem when companies illegally dispose of toxins, said Chris Lennard, Ph.D., a professor of fo-rensic studies at the university of Canberra. An environmen-tal forensic scientist would be called upon to investigate the source and prove liability for contamination anywhere in the world, he said.

Lennard, who worked 12 years for the Australian Federal Police as an operational forensic scientist, enjoys his new role in academia on an international scale.

“I see the unique opportunity students have today to log-on and share coursework with students on the other side of the world — being able to share their experiences and percep-tions,” he said. n

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Osceola County Health Depart-ment Pharmacy, 105 n. Doverplum Avenue, Kissimmee, Florida. Addi-tionally, we have experienced an in-crease with our instructional sites that include Tallahassee, jackson-ville, Miami, Kissimmee and soon, Crestview, Florida.

Shown below are a few highlights from our instructional sites.

Faculty1. Dr. Jasmine King received a

grant from the Gulf Coast north AHeC for student training in Community Health education in Tampa. Dr. King used the grant to purchase equipment for train-ing students to participate in community health screenings (cholesterol, blood pressure, dia-betes, asthma, etc.) and for train-ing community participants to better manage their health prob-lems.

2. Dr. robert thomas received a grant from Target (Pharmacy Di-vision) to establish training pro-grams in medication therapy management (MTM) in the Tam-pa Bay area.

3. Dr. Charlie Colquitt opened an anticoagulation clinic in january 2009 at the johnnie ruth Clarke Community Health Center (jrC-CHC) in South St. Petersburg, Florida. This is the second successful clinic opened by Dr. Colquitt at jrC. Since early 2008, Dr. Colquitt has provided MTM services to the resi-dents of South St. Petersburg at the clinic. The FAMu Col-lege of Pharmacy manages pharmacy operations at the jrC CHC through a contractual arrangement.

4. Dr. henry lewis iii, Dean and Professor of the College, became the 2009 recipient of the American Pharmacists Association’s (APhA) Hugo H. Schaefer Award. estab-lished by APhA in 1964 in honor of its longtime treasur-er, the award recognizes outstanding voluntary contri-butions to the organization, the profession and society. The award was presented to Dr. Lewis at APhA’s Annual Meeting and exposition in San Antonio, Texas, April 3-6, 2009. APhA’s awards program is pharmacy’s most com-prehensive recognition program.

5. The Miami instructional site has a joint pharmacy prac-tice residency with jackson Memorial Hospital.

Jacksonville brown bag Community programThe Florida A & M university College of Pharmacy and

Pharmaceutical Sciences jacksonville Division is committed to excellence. The brown bag program was started in conjunc-tion with Shands Medical Center jacksonville. The goal of the program is to educate the community on ways to get the most out of their medications. A secondary goal of the program is for doctor of pharmacy students to get hands-on experience in patient counseling. The faculty and students have worked diligently to facilitate the brown bag program. Approximate-ly 15 senior citizen centers have been visited and 700 patients have been seen. The jacksonville Division Faculty rotate at-tendance and students on their research months are expected to attend. The jacksonville Division Brown Bag was a grant awarded by Shands, jacksonville, to conduct the program.

brown bag program ActivitiesThe faculty and students engage in numerous activities at

each brown bag program. During the brown bag sessions, a faculty member presents a power-point presentation, titled “Take It right.”

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The patients are educated on how to get the most out of their medication regimen. They are counseled on reading a prescription label, when to take certain medications, what questions to ask their pharmacist and physician. The patients are given the opportunity to meet one on one with a phar-macist or pharmacy student to go over their medications and ask any outstanding questions that they may have. Patients are also assisted in completing a medication record form that lists all the medications that the patient is currently taking as well as the medication strength, dose, how to take or di-rections, color and shape of tablet/capsule. educational pam-phlets are distributed to the patients in case they would like to further review the information covered in the brown bag session. Lastly, patients are highly encouraged to be proactive about their medications.

brown bag program benefits The jacksonville Division brown bag program brings a

service to the community forefront by educating the elder-ly population at various senior citizen centers throughout the jacksonville area. Without this program, many patients may not have access to information provided due to transportation limitations. Commonly, patients who attend the session are bused by their respective community center if they are unable to provide their own transportation. The program also allows students to receive hands-on experience in patient counsel-ing and patient interaction. The development of this program has built and strengthened relationships and rapport with the community as well as with jacksonville healthcare facil-ities. This program shines a positive light upon Florida A & M university College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sci-ences. The motto of our institution is “excellence with Car-ing,” and the jacksonville brown bag program embodies this very spirit.

FAMu partners with the Walgreens take Care health tour

The Florida A&M university (FAMu) College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (COPPS) joined forces with the Walgreens Take Care Health Tour to provide health screen-ings and other services to Tallahassee and surrounding com-munities.

The Walgreens Take Care Health Tour arrived in Tallahassee dur-ing the 2008 fall se-mester as part of a 300-city, 12-month nationwide health screening tour. T he expa nded 2008 program pro-vided more than $35 million in free health screenings and featured 10 customized trav-eling education

and health-screening vehicles. This is the tour’s fourth year of crossing the country.

The Walgreens Take Care Health Tour aim was to bring free screening services and better health awareness to local communities throughout the united States and Puerto rico. The six free screenings take place inside the customized ve-hicle and include total cholesterol levels, blood pressure, bone density, glucose levels, waist circumference and body mass index. The services were worth more than $115 in value, and no appointment was necessary.

Many diseases can be detected through screenings long before any symptoms are noticed, making awareness the key to remaining healthy. After receiving results, visitors are en-couraged to see their doctor regarding any concerns.

The Tallahassee Tour screened over 900 individuals and made referrals on 32 individuals with significantly elevated test levels.

“We Measure our success by the success of our graduates”

Dr. Gwenesia Collins was appointed by the Governor of n

the state of Michigan to the Board of Pharmacy.Dr. Cynthia Griffins was appointed by the Governor of n

the state of Florida to the Board of Pharmacy.Dr. Hyacinth C. Akunne, the first PhD graduate in the n

pharmaceutical sciences at FAMu is the President and CeO of H&j Pharm, Detroit, MI. n

The Jacksonville Division brown bag program brings a service to the community forefront by educating the elderly population at various senior citizen centers throughout the Jacksonville area. Without this

program, many patients may not have access to information provided due to

transportation limitations.

the College of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences joined forces with the Walgreens take Care health tour to provide health screenings and other services to tallahassee and surrounding communities.

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lege are prepared throughout their training to transcend the academic setting. They are groomed to generate real, lasting improvements in healthcare outcomes from the onset of their training on through their personal and professional lives as alumni. As a result, these students excel both inside and out-side the classroom. We have been privileged to witness many students’ achievements during this past year, which is an au-thentication of our mission. Many of these achievements are manifested by both individual and collective involvement, as noted in the examples which follow:

Our curriculum and related experiences emphasize the ap-plication and translation of learning to the real-world deliv-ery of patient care everywhere to all populations. Our diverse students and faculty have a keen interest and are engaged in issues in the pharmacy profession that impact healthcare worldwide, including understanding the role of culture in healthcare.

For her excitement and advocacy to explore the hands-on integration of international pharmacy techniques to her edu-cation and professional career; for her keen interest in study-ing the similarities and differences between the healthcare system in the u.S. and other nations and exploring the role of the pharmacist in other countries; and finally, for wanting to learn the various medications and treatment methods that are employed abroad, student Laura Chan was chosen to par-ticipate in the American Pharmacists Association’s Interna-tional Pharmaceutical Student’s Federation Student exchange Program in Madrid, Spain, in june, 2008. Laura explains that “considering the ever-increasing rate of social and economic globalization, pharmacists carry a heavy burden to promote the current state-of-the-art in treatment and medication op-tions worldwide. Moreover, pharmacists have a critical role to fulfill in enhancing cultural awareness and acceptance in a time when understanding the challenges of other cultures is so critical to the advancement of healthcare within the glob-al community.”

Cop students are taught the importance of advancing pharmacy from an active role in community grassroots levels up to the state legislative processes.

Mentored by enthusiastic faculty advisors who understand the necessary linkage between the pharmacy professions, the community and the legislative community, the COP Amer-ican Pharmacists Association (APhA) Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) Chapter fully engaged the local commu-nity and state government officials in creating an awareness of various critical issues affecting the pharmacy profession. These various experiences afforded students opportunities to work alongside faculty mentors, other pharmacists, and other volunteers at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. The stu-dents avidly participated in numerous initiatives and rigorous campaigns that encouraged and empowered them to partici-pate in the legislative process and strengthened ties with oth-er pharmacist associations. These activities rallied support for the immunization bill that helped pass legislation allowing

pharmacists in the state of Florida to provide immunization services and to monitor controlled substances electronically. The Chapter’s involvement in grassroots community efforts leading to legislative progress did not go unnoticed. The nSu APhA ASP Chapter received the coveted APhA Chapter Poli-cy & Legislative Award in March 2008 to recognize their suc-cesses. Only five such awards are given nationally.

Cop students develop “hands-on” research-related skills, such as publishing, throughout their training in very unique ways.

Pharmacy student Viviana Sumi Lee published an account of her experiences in the legislative process as a chapter mem-ber of the COP’s APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists. The piece, entitled “Legislative efforts help the community and the profession,” was published in the 2008 july/August issue of Student Pharmacist Magazine, a publication of the APhA, shared the Chapter’s successes with a much broader audi-ence. Viviana wrote that “Student pharmacists are charged with building the future of the profession.” While that future begins on the academic campus, it ideally extends to the local, state and national levels. Our Chapter’s future leaders must continue to collaborate and engage in productive dialog with local, state and national lawmakers to secure the future of the profession of pharmacy.

the Cop strives to improve students’ understanding of diversity in pharmacy practice and the knowledge of cross-cultural health care among different ethnic populations.

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pictured from left: Michele McCue, pharmacy student, Michael Jackson, r.ph., Executive director, FpA, Marco rubio, Florida house of representative, Joy Marcus, pharm.d., nsu Cop Alumni, Former president, FpA

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Pharmacy student and nSu SnPhA Chapter President Kirk Latibeaudiere, understands this concept very well. un-der his enthusiastic leadership during Black History Month, he coordinated the active participation of the SnPhA chapter in several professional events to create increased awareness of the need to address disparities in the health profession. He in-vited Dr. Marisa Lewis, President of the national Pharmaceu-tical Association and Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Health Care Management in the School of Allied Health Sciences at Florida A & M university (FAMu) to share with the COP faculty, students and other guests her personal challenges, perspectives, and views during a thought-provok-ing and interactive dialogue on addressing disparities within pharmacy. Kirk further involved the SnPhA chapter by join-ing forces in a collaborative effort with several other student pharmacist, physician, dentist, researcher, and optometrist or-ganizations to discuss the presence of minorities within the health care system and how to address disparities in an on-going manner from their own personal and professional per-spective.

the College of pharmacy graduates professionals prepared to become recognized leaders and activists for our country.

Michelle M. echevarria Carter was commissioned by the Air Force and assigned as the Chief of Pharmacy Services with the 20th Medical Group at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. Wasting little time in her first Air Force duty assign-ment after earning her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2007, she has already been awarded the highest honors bestowed upon a pharmacist in the military. In 2008, she received three awards --- the Combat Command Company grade Pharma-cist of the year, the Medical group Company grade Offi-

cer of the year, and the Fighter wing & team Shaw Com-pany grade Officer of the Quarter (July - September). These awards recognized a very busy and competent Captain Cart-er’s:

Management and leadership of a team of pharmacists, n

technicians, and volunteers who filled over 200,000 pre-scriptions for 30,000 Shaw Air Force Base beneficiaries; Management of a $7.6M budget and her ability to maxi- n

mize the Base's High Dollar Drug Program/national con-tracts/Basic Core Formulary usage and return of $1.1M for redistribution; execution of a $198K pharmacy renovation that led to an n

increase in efficiency and cut patient wait times by 30%; Implementation of the medication refill clinic that was n

a crucial relief during a nursing/provider shortage and saved the Base's Family Practice Clinic staff 80 hours per month; and establishment of the Force Health Protection Prescription n

Program for the Base which increased critical information by 70% and saved providers 50+ walk-ins quarterly.

The successes presented above are just a few examples of how the College of Pharmacy is changing the lives of its stu-dents and graduates by enabling them to realize their educa-tional and professional ambitions in the pharmacy profession. The COP provides a curriculum and experiences focused on linking the academic world to addressing the needs of society outside the classroom, in the real world where they can make a difference. As part of a university renowned for encourag-ing innovation, we prepare professionals for lifelong learn-ing, humanitarian care, and leadership roles that will have impact on local, national and world-wide healthcare. The Col-lege of Pharmacy prides itself in educating students in pro-cedures vital to meeting the challenges facing the profession today and important to improving global healthcare in the fu-ture. Our students begin developing their professional skills with a personal purpose to change their own lives through commitment to communities and the pharmacy profession. They learn today how to change the world for tomorrow. n

The COP provides a curriculum and experiences focused on linking the academic world to addressing the

needs of society outside the classroom, in the real world where they can make

a difference.

Joseph t. guastella, Jr., Colonel, usAF Commander, presents awards to dr. Michelle M. Carter, Captain,

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ings, this was not the sole focus of the event. educating the commu-nity was a high priority for the vol-unteers. Twenty-five booths were set up to make the public aware of health-related information that would encourage wellness and pre-vention of diseases. These booths included heartburn, smoking ces-sation, COPD/asthma, immuniza-tions, osteoporosis, weight loss, di-abetes, hypertension, cholesterol, sexual health, women’s health, al-ternative medicine, child health and much more.

Among the favorite booths at the fair was the poison preven-tion booth, which included a chal-lenge for participants to correctly identify medications or poisonous material from household prod-ucts. The South Florida Blood Bank accepted blood donations and the Florida Department of Law en-forcement collected outdated pre-scriptions. Overall, the Health Fair was a great success. not only did it provide a public service, but more importantly, it allowed the student pharmacists an opportunity to connect with the public in a way that could not be duplicated in a classroom setting.

Our APhA chapter’s attendance at national professional meetings has increased, and students have been able to share and collect ideas from student pharmacists all over the coun-try. This past fall, Palm Beach Atlantic was one of the host schools for the APhA-ASP Mid-year regional Meeting. At this meeting, students had the opportunity to develop their leadership skills, participate in chapter roundtables, attend residency forums, participate in the legislative process, and attend other lectures to further advance their development as student pharmacists.

Continuing the excitement of the students at PBA, they lat-er decided to have a “CVS vs. Walgreen: rumble with Chains Basketball Game.” The students gathered early for a pre-game pizza party. The players used this time to warm up and show off their skills. T-shirts with scripture verses rath-er than their names were provided to each of the players (ex. jeremiah 29:11) In addition, the fans showed off their brightly painted signs, banners, and T-shirts. CVS won handily with an impressive 14-4 final score. Crowd loyalties were equal-ly divided, as emotions ran high among supporters of the two powerhouse teams. This event brought about a spirit of friendly competition and team pride. Congratulations to both teams for a very entertaining game. All players were good sports and represented their teams well. n

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students providing screenings at the school's community health fair entitled “get healthwise.”

this past fall, palm beach Atlantic was one of the host schools for the AphA-Asp Mid-year regional Meeting.

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over 1,200 students this year.“LeCOM’s participation in this pro-

gram has been unbelievable,” Hite said. “LeCOM students, faculty and staff have been instrumental in the success of the program.”

In addition, pharmacy students have participated in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K Walk, Hab-itat for Humanity and the American Cancer Society’s relay for Life.

Students are also politically active. In a recent visit to Tallahassee for Florida Pharmacists Legislative Days, students met with state legislators regarding Medicaid cuts and curbing prescription drug abuse in Florida.

This commitment to community ser-vice fits in well with the College’s mis-sion of preparing students to become osteopathic physicians and pharmacists through programs of excellence in edu-cation, research, clinical care and com-munity service to enhance the quality of life through improved health for all humanity.

“LeCOM promotes a high level of professionalism among the staff and students,” says second-year student Al-vana nicaj. “everyone at the pharmacy school shows a high level of willingness to assist the students with the resourc-es necessary to help them do their best, whether in class or in the community helping people.”

Current enrollment in the first two

classes stands at 184 students. The school has a target recruitment goal of 112 students for the Class of 2013 and 120 students for the Class of 2014. Ap-proximately 65 percent of the students are female and 60 percent are Florida

residents. The first class will graduate in 2011.

“I chose LeCOM since it is a modern school with a chal-lenging curriculum, which will prepare me well for my future pharmacy career,” says first-year student Margaret Kaflinski.

In the past year, students also have been active in sev-eral professional organi-zations such as the Acade-my of Students of Pharmacy (ASP-APhA) and the Flori-da Society of Health System Pharmacy – Student Chapter (FSHP-SC). In March, Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraterni-ty chartered the epsilon eta

Chapter of LeCOM Bradenton.LeCOM is a private, not-for-profit in-

stitution. LeCOM Bradenton’s founding Dean, Gary M. Levin, Pharm.D., BCPP, FCCP has been a Florida licensed phar-macist since 1990. He has experience as a faculty member, clinician and admin-istrator at several Colleges of Pharmacy in Florida prior to joining LeCOM.

The state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility sits on a landscaped property (5000 Lakewood ranch Bou-levard) in the master-planned commu-nity of Lakewood ranch.

While Bradenton offers the four-year doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D) learn-ing pathway, LeCOM’s main campus in erie, Pa., offers a three-year fast-track pharmacy program.

For more informat ion about LeCOM’s Pharmacy programs in Bra-denton, Fla., and erie, Pa., please call (941) 756-0690 or visit us on the web at www.lecom.edu. n

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second-year student pratima patel works on her aseptic techniquet

second-year student ivy bure serves up healthy snacks to elementary school students in sarasota County.

119th Annual Meetingand Convention

Florida Pharmacy Association

Mark Your Calendar!

Pharmacists are an integral part of the healthcare system. Pharmacists provide substantial care and make a great impact on improving patient’s quality of life. FPA would like to empower pharmacists, enhance their therapeutic knowledge, and equip them with practical tools that can be utilized in their various professions as they make a difference in patient care.

FPA’s mission is to “serve, represent and assist Florida pharmacists to advance the profession and practice of pharmacy.” The year’s convention will offer a variety of important topics that will be applicable to your practice setting. We will offer consultant and general continuing education hours, in addition to a Wholesaler Conference and a Compounding Conference. Come and Get Empowered at FPA’s 119th Annual Meeting and Convention!

Renaissance Resort at World Golf VillageSt. Augustine, FL

July 8-12, 2009

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009 6 hrs of GCE/TECH)

7:00am Registration/Check-in

7:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks

7:30am-3:00pm Wholesaler Conference

7:30am-3:00pm Compounding Conference (6 hours CE Available)

7:30am-8:30am Compounding Pharmacy Today

8:35am-9:35am <797> State and Federal Regulations

9:35am-9:50am BREAK

9:50am-10:50am Legal Update for Compounding Practices & Accreditation

10:55am-11:55am Compounding Veterinary Medicines

12:00pm-12:50pm LUNCH

12:55pm-1:55pm Florida Compounding Regulations

2:00pm-3:00pm Sports Medicine and Pain Management Compounding

4:00pm-5:00pm HOD Board of Directors Meeting

5:00pm-6:00pm Florida Pharmacy PACCE Meeting

6:00pm-7:00pm Budget & Finance Committee Meeting

6:00pm-8:00pm Florida Pharmacy Foundation Annual Meeting

7:30pm-9:00pm Officer’s Dinner

CODE KEY: GCE = General Continuing Education RC = Recertification Consultant TECH = Technician STC = Student Continuing Education

119th Annual Meeting and ConventionSchedule

Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village • St. Augustine, FloridaSchedule is subject to change

Who should Attend?

• Community Pharmacists • Consultant Pharmacists • Hospital Pharmacists • Pharmacy Technicians • Pharmacy Students • Long term Care Pharmacists• Wholesalers • Compounding Pharmacists

Thursday, July 9, 2009 6 hrs of GCE/TECH or 3 hrs RC

6:00am Registration Desk Open

7:00am-8:30am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC HIV/AIDS (Will also be the required BOP HIV/AIDS course)

8:35am-10:05am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC HIV/AIDS Management

10:05am-10:15am Break

10:15am-11:15am Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH Legislative Update 11:20am-12:20pm Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH Uncoordinated Care Analysis

11:20am-1:20pm CE Provider Workshop

12:20pm-1:20pm Lunch (Attendees on their own)

12:20pm-1:20pm Annual Business Meeting (Lunch Available for Purchase)

1:25pm-2:25pm Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH/STC Keynote Address: Advocating for Pharmacy: The Face of Neighborhood Healthcare

2:30pm-6:00pm Exhibit Hall Grand Opening 2:30pm-6:30pm Journal Board Meeting

4:30pm-6:00pm Adopt-A-Student and Mentor Social

7:00pm-8:00pm Foundation Reception Social

Consultant Track

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3:00pm-5:00pm FPA House of Delegates Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH/STC Issue Presentation (3:00pm-4:00pm)

4:30pm-6:00pm Student Poster Presentations

4:30pm-7:00pm Exhibit Hall Opens

5:30pm Golf Winners Announced in Exhibit Hall

7:00pm-8:30pm PACCE Wine Tasting Reception

8:00pm-9:00pm #1 Club Reception (Invitation Only)

8:00pm-9:30pm University Alumni Receptions

Saturday, July 11, 2009

7 hrs of GCE/TECH or 6 hrs RC

6:00am Registration Desk Open

7:00am-8:30am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Asthma Management

8:35am-10:05am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Asthma Management

9:00am-11:00am Education: 2 hrs GCE/TECH/STC Career Forum with Jim Powers 10:05am-10:20am Break

10:20am-11:50am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Lipid/Hypertension Management

11:15am-1:00pm Student Banquet/Awards/ Scholarships

12:00N-1:00pm Lunch Break

12:00N-1:00pm Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH Board of Pharmacy Update (Box Lunch Available for Purchase) 1:00pm-2: 30pm Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Lipid/Hypertension Management

1:00pm-2:30pm Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/STC Over-the-Counter Medications

CODE KEY: GCE = General Continuing Education RC = Recertification Consultant TECH = Technician STC = Student Continuing Education

Friday, July 10, 20097 hrs of GCE/TECH or 4.5 hrs RC

6:00am Registration Desk Open

6:30am-7:00am Golf Tournament Practice

6:30am-7:30am Christian Pharmacist Fellowship International Breakfast

7:30am Golf Tournament

7:00am-8:30am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Diabetes Management

8:00am-9:45am Local Unit Leaders Meeting

8:00am-10:00am Education: 2 hrs GCE/TECH/STC NASPA/NMA Game Show

8:35am-10:05am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Diabetes Management

10:00am-12:00pm Delegate Registration

10:05am-10:15am Break

10:15am-11:15am Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH/STC Career Empowerment

10:15am-11:45am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Hormonal Therapy Management (Consultants must attend the Sunday course)

11:15am-3:00pm Student Patient Counseling Competition

11:20am-12:20pm Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH/STC Patient Empowerment

12:20pm-1:00pm Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:00pm Education: 1 hr STC Review of Pharmacy Calculations

1:00pm-3:00pm Education: 2 hrs GCE/TECH Reducing Medication Errors

2:00pm-3:00pm Education: 1 hr GCE/TECH Empowering Technicians

2:00pm-3:00pm Education: 1 hr STC Preparing For The Most Important Test in My Career

Consultant Track

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1:00pm-2:30pm Delegate Registration

2:30pm-4:30pm House of Delegates Reconvenes

5:00pm-6:30pm Past Presidents Reception (Invitation Only)

6:00pm-10:00pm Awards Ceremony Reception

Sunday, July 12, 2009

4.5 hrs of GCE/TECH/RC

6:00am Registration Desk Open

6:30am-8:00am President’s Breakfast and Installation of Officers

8:00am-9:30am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Anticoagulation Management

9:35am-11:05am Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Anticoagulation Management

11:05am-11:20am Break

11:20am-12:50pm Education: 1.5 hrs GCE/TECH/RC Hormonal Therapy Management (Consultants must attend the Friday course)

Consultant Track

Hotel InformationThe Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village

500 South Legacy TrailSt. Augustine, Florida 32092

Phone: (904) 940-8000 or (888) 740-7020www.pharmview.com

OVERVIEWThe new Renaissance Resort at

World Golf Village is the premier vacation and meeting destination in the Southeast, offering groups, fami-lies, couples and friends a world full of Florida’s finest pursuits. A golfer’s paradise, this luxurious resort is set in the heart of World Golf Village… surrounded by two 18-hole champi-onship courses designed by legends of the game…and central to St. Augustine, Jacksonville and beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach.

The largest resort and confer-ence center combination between Atlanta and Orlando, The Renais-sance Resort offers a total of 86,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The resort sits on 6,300 beautifully landscaped acres, next to the one-and-only World Golf Hall of Fame, the Walk of Champions, PGA

features of the 7,279-yard course are its placid lakes edged with large co-quina rocks, and its 200-year-old live oaks. The course challenges amateurs and pros alike with five sets of tees, a course rating of 75.2, and a slope of 143.

Slammer & Squire is named for legendary Hall of Famers “Slammin” Sam Snead and Gene “The Squire” Sarazen. They partnered with archi-tect Bobby Weed to create this im-pressive par 72 tree-lined course that features gentle rolling fairways and challenging lakes. The 6,939-yard course has a course rating of 73.8, and its slope is 135.

Both courses feature such on-course amenities as chilled apples on the first and tenth holes, complimen-tary range balls, and Global Position-ing Systems (GPS) in every cart.

TOUR Golf Academy, PGA TOUR Stop retail center, and such restaurants as the golf-themed Murray Bros. and Cad-dyshack.

The 301-room Renaissance features a lush 10-story atrium garden lobby, complete with running streams, a cascading waterfall and exotic 30-foot palms. An all-new Colonial Asian theme and recent resort-wide renovations, ap-parent upon arrival, set the stage for an elegant, upscale stay, where your every need is our pleasure to handle.

GOLFThe Renaissance Resort at World

Golf Village offers two extraordinary 18-hole championship golf courses that were designed by the legends of the game. King & Bear is the only course in the world designed jointly by Arnold Palmer (known as “The King”) and Jack “The Bear” Nicklaus. The signature

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Room Rates (Rate cut off date is Wednesday,

June 17, 2009). The special Florida Pharmacy Association Group room rate is $129 plus tax per night. Please be sure to ask for the Florida Pharmacy Association group rate. The check-in time is 4:00pm and the checkout time is 12:00 noon. Room reservations can be made by calling 1-888-740-7020. Complimentary self parking is available and valet parking is op-tional for a nightly fee.

Keynote Speaker Steven C. Anderson, IOM, CAE is

President and Chief Executive Of-ficer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, a position he as-sumed in 2007. He represents and is the chief spokesman for the com-munity pharmacy industry, which has annual sales of $827 billion. In 2004, Anderson was named the “Association Executive of the Year” by Association Trends newspaper, joining only 25 men and women honored with that title since 1980.

General Education Track Thursday - Sunday The general education track will

offer courses designed to educate pharmacists on a wide variety of important topics pertaining to their pharmacy practice. Specific courses being offered are Reducing Medica-tion Errors, Over-The-Counter Med-ications, and a Board of Pharmacy Update as well as the always-pop-ular offerings of Florida Legislative Update.

Consultant Education TrackThursday- SundayDisease State Management Clinics The consultant education track will

provide the pharmacists with the most current information available on empowerment and overcoming barriers in various disease state clin-ics. Some specific therapeutic topics being offered include Management

of Diabetes, Asthma, Lipid/Hy-pertension, Anticoagulation, HIV/AIDS, and Hormonal Therapy. There are 18 hours available for consultant pharmacists.

Student and Technician TrackThursday – Sunday Students and Technicians will ben-

efit from interacting with practicing pharmacists and attending student and technician focused continuing education programs. The technician track offers several hours of continu-ing education on a variety of topics, including a course on Empowering The Technician. The student track consists of 10 hours of fun and ex-citing continuing education. Some specific courses being offered in-clude Preparing for the Most Im-portant Test In Your Career, Review of Pharmacy Calculations, and the NASPA/NMA Game Show.

Pre-Convention EducationWednesday Only Our traditional Wednesday pro-

gramming has expanded this year to a Wholesaler’s Conference and an outstanding Pharmacy Compound-ing Program. The wholesaler’s con-ference will offer live continuing education credit. The compounding conference will offer 6 hours of live continuing education credit. Reg-ister for these programs and walk away with valuable information for your pharmacy practice. A sepa-rate registration fee is required for each program.

Special Events Exhibits: Participate in our grand

opening reception in the exhib-it hall! Poster Presentations: Browse submissions from students. Contact Tian Merren Owens in the FPA office for more information if you would like to submit a poster presentation. Awards Ceremony Reception: Honor outstanding practitioners during the awards pre-sentation. The Dress code is busi-

ness casual which is a business suit or sports coat for men and a din-ner dress or pants suit for women. President’s Breakfast: Attend the Sunday morning installation of new officers. Receptions: Enjoy catch-ing up with your colleagues as the Universities entertain their alumni and friends, and as the FPA Foun-dation thank their supporters at a reception. House of Delegates: Be a delegate or observer and see how important member participation is to the direction of the Association. Student Events: Students will ben-efit from interacting with practic-ing pharmacists, attending student focused continuing education pro-grams and learning first hand about the FPA and how involvement can improve their chosen profession. Call the FPA office and offer to men-tor or sponsor a student. Pharm-PACCE Wine Tasting Reception: Purchase a ticket to this reception to support your Political Action Com-mittee. Golf Tournament: Join us Friday morning for the traditional FPA Golf Tournament. Please reg-ister early to save your space.

The Florida Phar-macy Association is accredited by the Ac-creditation Council for Pharmacy Edu-

cation as a provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education. Up to 30 contact hours are available upon successful completion of the pro-gram through attendance and sub-mission of completed attendance forms. Statements of continuing pharmacy education will be mailed six weeks after the meeting. The Florida Pharmacy is also a Florida Department of Health approved provider of continuing education for pharmacists.

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