The recently launched Pharmacists For Healthier Lives campaign will promote the message that pharmacists are fully qualified, capable and willing to positively impact patients’ health.

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is honored to host the 2019 National Conference of Pharmaceutical Organizations (NCPO) in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. The conference will provide a forum for NCPO members to discuss the challenges and opportunities for pharmacy in the current health care landscape, featuring dynamic speakers, open networking sessions, and roundtable discussions.

New tools connect physicians and pharmacists to build stronger collaborative relationships. The American Medical Association wants to help physicians improve patient care. Through its STEPS Forward initiative, the AMA has broken down practice transformation into 50 strides, or modules in this Web-based, how-to, toolkit for physicians, each addressing a common practice challenge, offering solutions and implementation strategies.

Join Your Colleagues at INvolve 2019, the AACP Interim Meeting, in Tampa! Insightful speakers, dynamic microsessions and enlightening peer discussions will involve current and future leaders during four days of collaboration and hands-on learning. Attendees will return to their schools with new strategies to lead. Stay tuned for more detailed programming information!

Schools of pharmacy are incorporating the arts and humanities into the curriculum to give students more insight into patients’ experiences, foster greater empathy and strengthen the patient-provider connection.

Join your colleagues in Boston, July 21–25.

The AACP House of Delegates (HOD) is the democratic policy-setting body of the Association. Each Regular Institutional Member has two delegates and two alternates appointed or elected annually as either the Administrative Delegate or the Faculty Delegate, respectively. The House of Delegates meets annually at two sessions during the AACP Annual Meeting to conduct its business; an asynchronous Virtual House of Delegates Session may also be convened, typically in January or February.

The AACP Strategic Engagement Committee (SEC) is developing a central database where members from across the academy can search to get assistance in developing new advocacy practices for their institutions.  The SEC is asking for information on institutional advocacy practices, particularly within their home state and those including student pharmacists, using the developed survey instrument. Unique identifiers will be removed from all published information. The SEC requests members not to include personal advocacy practices that are not supported and or provided by their school/college of pharmacy (e.g. participation in a state organization as a member of that organization, not through their school/college). 

If members have more than one advocacy practice, they would like to report, the SEC requests a separate submission for each practice. There is no limit to how many times a member may submit their advocacy practices using the survey link.

A sample submission can be found here. Please complete the survey by no later than Friday, April 25. If you have questions, please reach out to SEC Chair, Richard Silvia. Thank you for your support with this important project.