Welcome to the 2014 Interchange

Scott A. LaGanga

Executive Director Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM)

Senior Vice President, Public Affairs -Advocacy at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

PSM MEMBERSKidney Cancer AssociationThe Latino CoalitionThe Life Raft GroupMaryland Pharmacists AssociationMaine Pharmacists AssociationMaine Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP)Men’s Health NetworkMissouri Pharmacy AssociationNational Alliance for Hispanic HealthNational Alliance On Mental Illness National Association of Chain Drug StoresNational Association for Uniformed ServicesNational Association of Boards of PharmacyNational Association of Drug Diversion InvestigatorsNational Association of ManufacturersNational Alliance of State Pharmacy AssociationsNational Biopharmaceutical Security CouncilNational Community Pharmacists Association National Grange of the Patrons of HusbandryNational Latina Health NetworkNeedyMedsNevada Board of PharmacyNew York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists

(NYSCHP)North Carolina Association of PharmacistsOklahoma Pharmacists AssociationParenteral Drug AssociationPDMA AlliancePennsylvania Pharmacists AssociationPennsylvania Society of Health-system PharmacistsPharmaceutical Industry Labor Management

Association (PILMA)

Academy of Managed Care PharmacyAIDS Drug Assistance ProgramAlaska Pharmacists AssociationThe ALS AssociationAmerican Association for HomecareAmerican College Health AssociationAmerican Pharmacists AssociationAmerican Society of Health System PharmacistsArizona Pharmacy Alliance (AzPA)Association of Nurses in AIDS CareBioForwardBiotechnology Industry OrganizationCalifornia Healthcare InstituteCalifornia Pharmacists AssociationCalifornia Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP)Colorado Biotechnology AssociationCommunity Access National NetworkThe Council for Affordable Health InsuranceEuropean Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)Generic Pharmaceutical AssociationGlobal Medicines ProgramHealthcare Distribution Management AssociationHealthCare Institute of New JerseyHealthcare Leadership CouncilHealthcare Leadership CouncilThe Hispanic InstituteIllinois Pharmacists AssociationInstitute for Safe Medication PracticesInternational Anti-Counterfeiting CoalitionInternational Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations

Pharmaceutical Security InstitutePharmacists Planning Services, Inc.PhRMARetireSafeSan Diego Center for Patient SafetySpina Bifida Association of AmericaTexas Pharmacists AssociationTexas Society of Health-System PharmacistsUnited States Chamber of CommerceUniversity of New England College of PharmacyUniversity of Texas Pharmacy SchoolVietnam Veterans of AmericaVirginia Pharmacists AssociationVermont Pharmacists AssociationWest Virginia RxWomenHeart

International and Governmental Liaisons

World Health Organization

Orange County Healthcare Agency

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Thomas T. Kubic

James Dahl

Marvin D. Shepherd

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Distributed with our partner The Doctors Company,

the largest medical malpractice insurance underwriter in the US.

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Orson Welles played a black marketer who sold diluted penicillin in post-war Vienna

in The Third Man (1949)

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Andrew Strempler(second from the right)

“[In 2004] his sales amounted to $60 million”

2005

During an FDA operation where 800 packages from one of Strempler’s companies were intercepted and tested, 90% were found to be substandard compared to the authentic product.

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With these partners, PSM reaches the public in both their roles as consumers and patients.

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Kenneth “Mac” McCall, III

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Professor Marv ShepherdUT Austin School of Pharmacy

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Lindsay A. Kelly

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Attorney General Jim Hood Howard Sklamberg, J.D.

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TODAY’S CONFERENCE

•Please quiet your cellphones.

•Wifi connection: on page 4 of your program

•Presentations are all available on www.safemedicines.org through

slideshare.

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Up next: New Research

Marv Shepherd, PhD, Director, Center for Pharmacoeconomic Studies,

College of Pharmacy, University of Texas. 

Tim K. Mackey, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California,

School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology