2023 Together - PP207P - Pharmacy Executives and Leaders
Pharmacy leaders continue to face a myriad of challenges in today’s environment as healthcare organizations continue to strive to improve clinical care and value across the continuum. Presenters will share how they are tackling these challenges through the financial and workforce lens. Specifically: Financial challenges through a variety of projects and programs that touch on billing practices, sterile compounding and drug diversion Workforce challenges through the intersection of regulatory compliance and use of technology and mitigation strategies around maintaining a robust pipeline of pharmacy staff Rising to New Heights: Bold Strategies for growing revenue and ensuring patient safety.
Target Audience
- Healthcare Executives
- Healthcare Quality Professionals
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Physicians
- Other Healthcare Professionals
Learning Objectives
- Illustrate a plan for advancing technician roles while solving common regulatory compliance issues as part of DSCSA compliance.
- Examine the opportunity for strategic advertising of a clinical pharmacy career to a young, diverse student population
Faculty
Kristen Kruszewski, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Strategy, Geisinger, Danville, Pa.
Randy Braun, PharmD, Pharmacist Coordinator, Informatics and Automation, UNC Health, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Eric Marshall, BA, JD, Principal, Leavitt Partners and Executive Director, PDG
Shoshana Krilow, JD, SVP, Public Policy and Government Relations, Vizient (moderator)
Kavish Choudhary, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, Salt Lake City, Utah
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships:
Relevant Financial Relationships
Vizient, Inc., Jointly Accredited for Interprofessional Continuing Education, defines companies to be ineligible as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Eric Marshall, JD, speaker for this educational activity, is a consultant for the following companies:
AbbVie;Alexion; Alnylam; American Pharmacists Association (APhA); AmerisourceBergen; Apotex; Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM); AstraZeneca; Bayer; Biogen; Biomarin; Bristol-Myers Squibb; CardinalHealth; CVSHealth; Fresenius Kabi; Genentech; GlaxoSmithKline; Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA); Inmar; International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA); Johnson & Johnson; Merck; Novartis; Partnership for DSCSA Governance (PDG); Pfizer; Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA); Takeda; United Parcel Service (UPS); Upsher-Smith Laboratories; Viatris (formerly Mylan);
All relevant financial relationships listed for these individual(s) have been mitigated.
All others in a position to control content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Identification, Mitigation, and Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.
It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.
Credit Types
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
This activity was planned by, and for, the healthcare team, and learners will receive 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 2.00 ACHE
- 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
- 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy Technician
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 ANCC
- 2.00 CPHQ – Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- 2.00 General CE - Attendance
- 2.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)