Members of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy are invited to submit topics for the topical roundtable discussions on Sunday, July 21; Monday, July 22; and Tuesday, July 23, 2024.
The roundtable sessions are intended for informal discussions of pressing current topics important to the Academy. They provide a venue to both share and learn from other colleges and schools.
Deadline: Friday, April 5, 11:59 p.m. PST
Reminders
- All roundtable submitters and facilitators must be AACP members. Information on joining or renewing your membership can be found on the AACP website.
- AACP does not assume responsibility for costs associated with presenting at the meeting and all facilitators must be registered attendees at the 2024 Annual Meeting.
- Roundtables that include reference to commercially available products or services must include fair balance for other resources in the same category.
- Exhibitors/Sponsors/Promotional products, goods, and services are prohibited.
Submitting a Roundtable Discussion Topic
- All topics must be submitted online to Lakesha Butler, Council of Sections Immediate Past Chair, by Friday, April 5, 2024.
- If you have suggestions for a roundtable facilitator, please submit the name of the potential facilitator along with the suggested topic.
- When submitting your roundtable topic, please submit up to two objectives as to what information the participants will take away from the discussion.
- For topics that receive multiple submissions, roundtable facilitators will be selected for the Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday session.
- There should only be one facilitator per roundtable topic.
- Notification regarding which topics have been selected will be e-mailed to the submitter in mid- May.
Criteria for Selection
Each roundtable topic submission will be evaluated on the following three criteria: originality, applicability, and objectives.
- Originality – Is the topic area unique (i.e., no other proposals that are similar), innovative, and interesting?
- Applicability – Is the topic area applicable to one or more academic pharmacy constituent groups? Will the information aid attendees in their academic activities?
- Objectives – Do the objectives indicate what information the participants will take away from the discussion?
Roundtable Discussion Session Logistics
- Meeting participants have the opportunity to select and rotate three times between twenty tables.
- Each facilitator will have three groups of approximately nine people.
- Each rotation will be approximately 17 minutes.
- Unfortunately, PowerPoint presentations, Internet, posters and other A/V equipment are not possible in this setting.
- Facilitators may provide handouts; however, handouts are not required.
Please send any questions to Dorothy Novilus at: dnovilus@aacp.org.