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Michael S. Maddux, Pharm.D., FCCP; Executive Director Vol. 34, No. 7; July 2015

Buck Chosen ACCP President-Elect

Marcia Buck, Pharm.D., FCCP, FPPAG, was chosen ACCP President-Elect in an-nual elections held this past spring. Dr. Buck is a clinical pharmacy coordinator for pediatrics in the Department of Pharmacy and associate professor of pe-

diatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia Health

System. She is also a clinical associate professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Buck has been a member of ACCP since 1987. Her ser-vice to ACCP includes membership on the Board of Regents (2008–2011); ACCP representative on the multi-organizational Committee for Development of the Pediatric Petition to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (2011–2013); ACCP appointee to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Task Force on Collaborative Practice; author and reviewer for the Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP); coau-thor of ACCP’s Pediatric Medication Education Text; mem-ber of the Pharmacotherapy editorial board; and member or chair of several ACCP committees. She has presented often at ACCP meetings and symposia. Dr. Buck was rec-ognized as an ACCP Fellow in 1998. In other election results, Brian Erstad, Pharm.D., MCCM, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, was elected treasurer, and Tracy Hagemann, Pharm.D., FCCP, FPPAG, and Brian Hemstreet, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, were selected as regents. They will be installed at the 2015 ACCP Global

Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California, for 3-year terms. Dr. Erstad is currently a tenured profes-sor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy; Dr. Hagemann is a professor

and associate dean-Nashville at the

University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy; and Dr. Hemstreet is an as-sistant dean for student affairs and as-sociate professor at Regis University School of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado.

Rex Force, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, and Grace Kuo, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, FCCP, were each elected to 3-year terms as Research Institute trustees. Dr. Force is an as-

sociate dean for clinical research in the Division of Health Sciences at Idaho State University. He also holds appoint-ments as a professor of pharmacy prac-tice and family medicine and director of research in the Department of Family

Medicine. Dr. Kuo is a professor of clin-ical pharmacy, family medicine, and

public health and associate dean for academic clinical af-fairs at the University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Dr. Buck will be installed as pres-ident-elect at the 2015 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, and she will assume the presidency the following year. As president, she will serve as chair of the Board of Regents and guide College programs and activities. In an interview with the ACCP Report, Dr. Buck commented:

It will be an honor to serve ACCP as a presidential offi-cer. I would like to thank the membership for this op-portunity. I look forward to working with you, my fellow members of the Board of Regents, and our outstanding ACCP staff to achieve the goals contained in our strategic plan and set new ones. There are many opportunities for us to pursue. I’m proud to be a part of an organization whose members include internationally recognized lead-ers in clinical pharmacy, research, and interprofessional education as well as our profession’s future leaders who join us as students, residents, and new practitioners. I re-member very well how exciting it was to attend my first

Marcia Buck

Tracy Hagemann

Rex Force

Brian Hemstreet

Grace Kuo

Brian Erstad

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California. This year’s annu-al meeting will offer an exten-sive lineup of educational pro-gramming on the most topical issues ranging from emerg-ing therapies to national and international advancement and development of clini-cal pharmacy practice and education. Register now at www.accp.com/gc.

The meeting schedule of events will feature nine core educational sessions that provide a global per-spective on the emerging issues and challenges facing practitioners:

■ Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice: Innovative Models

■ Best Practices/Dilemmas in Pharmacy Education ■ Diabetes – A Global Pandemic ■ Innovations in Pharmacy Education ■ Innovations in Practice Technology ■ Issues in U.S.-Based International Research ■ Medication Safety: National and International

Perspectives ■ Optimal Management of Community- and Hospital-

Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections

■ Updates in the Management of Viral Infections

Global Conference programming will also include 23 highly specialized Practice and Research Network (PRN) focus sessions, scientific paper and platform pre-sentations, the international poster presentations, the Town Hall Meeting, the exciting live semifinal and final rounds of the ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge, ACCP Academy core programming, the increasingly popular Residency and Fellowship Forum, and much more!

Visit the ACCP Web site at www.accp.com/gc to view the complete meeting schedule, register for the meet-ing, and begin planning your San Francisco itinerary. Take advantage of the lower early-bird rates by register-ing before September 11, 2015.

BPS Approves ACCP’s Professional Development Programs for Recertification

ACCP is pleased to announce that the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has approved ACCP’s newly designed professional development programs in

ambulatory care pharmacy, critical care pharmacy, on-cology pharmacy, pediatric pharmacy, and pharmaco-therapy for the recertification of board-certified phar-macists for 7 years, beginning in 2016.

ACCP meeting as a new pediatric pharmacy resident. I’m just as excited to meet our new members at the Global Conference in Clinical Pharmacy who are experi-encing their first meeting. Thank you again for allowing me to serve this organization and share in its mission of advancing our profession.

Other candidates for office in the 2015 elections were John Cleary, Paul Gubbins, Dawn Havrda, Robert MacLaren, Richard Parrish II, and Cynthia Sanoski.

Fall 2015 BPS Exam Registration Open Through August 1

Registration for the fall 2015 Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) exam is now open through August 1, 2015. The fall exam administration window

is from Thursday, September 17, 2015, to Saturday, October 3, 2015. Be sure to view the BPS fall 2015 Candidate’s Guide and the Frequently Asked Questions page for more information.

BPS uses an Internet-based examination offered through Castle Worldwide. A sample test is available that demonstrates the Internet-based testing environ-ment administered by Castle for BPS. Candidates are strongly encouraged to view the sample test and the testing instructions before sitting for the examination. Any questions you have should be answered during this demonstration or in the testing instructions.

Content outlines for each exam are available for re-view under the “Specialties” tab at the BPS Web site, http://www.bpsweb.org/. There will be 175 questions on each BPS specialty certification examination and 100 ques-tions on the recertification examinations in multiple-choice format. Four possible answers are provided for each ques-tion, with only ONE designated as correct or best choice. For initial certification candidates, the schedule is as follows:

■ Examination Part 1 (100 multiple-choice items): 2½-hour testing period

■ Optional break: Up to 45 minutes ■ Examination Part 2 (75 multiple-choice items):

1-hour-52½-minute testing period

BPS notes that all practice experience eligibility require-ments must be met before the candidate sits for an examina-tion. Visit http://www.bpsweb.org/ for more information.

2015 Global Conference to Feature an Extensive Lineup of Educational Programming

Plan now to attend ACCP’s Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, October 17–21, 2015, in San Francisco,

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ACCP’s newly designed professional development programs provide expanded professional development components in an effort to provide more opportunities and variety for board-certified pharmacists to earn re-certification credit.

Each recertification program offers a variety of com-ponents, in both live and home study formats, provid-ing board-certified pharmacists with a comprehensive refresher plus emerging and contemporary information related to the specialty. In addition, there will be many opportunities to earn the required number of recertifi-cation credit hours. Each program has been designed to address the domains, tasks, and knowledge statements as delineated by each respective BPS Specialty Council and the published examination content outline.

Included in each professional development pro-gram is a self-assessment program, a preparatory re-view course, live activities held in conjunction with the ACCP Annual Meeting, and a variety of webinars. In ad-dition, ACCP has collaborated with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) for Oncology Pharmacy and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) for Critical Care Pharmacy in an effort to provide expanded opportunities across multiple platforms and meetings. To learn more about ACCP’s new expanded professional development programs for recertification, visit the following links:

■ Ambulatory Care Pharmacy ■ Critical Care Pharmacy (in collaboration with the

Society of Critical Care Medicine) ■ Oncology Pharmacy (in collaboration with the

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) ■ Pediatric Pharmacy ■ Pharmacotherapy

Additional information, including release dates, pric-ing, and specific number of credit hours, will be released at www.accp.com during the next several months.

ACCP and HFSA Collaborate to Improve Quality of Care for Patients with Heart Failure

ACCP is participating as an invited partner organization with the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) in a multi-organizational effort to iden-

tify and establish benchmarks to improve the standards of quality care for individuals affected by heart failure. The effort aligns closely with the College’s mission and strategic initiatives in interprofessional care delivery and research to develop, advance, and position clinical pharmacists as integral members of patients’ health care teams.

J. Herbert Patterson, Pharm.D., FCCP, is represent-ing ACCP on the HFSA Quality Care Task Force Initiative, which held its initial meeting on June 8, 2015, in Chicago. Dr. Patterson, a past secretary of the ACCP Board of Regents, has been active in the activities of HFSA for several years. He currently serves as a professor of phar-macy in the division of pharmacotherapy and experi-mental therapeutics at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy and research professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine.

The HFSA Quality Care Task Force Initiative brings to-gether key heart failure stakeholders to gather their col-lective views on the current status of heart failure qual-ity of care in the United States and gain insight on ways to make improvements.

HFSA CEO Michele Blair states, “Our goal is to im-prove upon the systems of care to standardize best prac-tices and ensure continuum of care for patients. We be-lieve this may be the first such meeting to bring together this many interdisciplinary clinicians to look at this.” In addition to ACCP, HFSA Collaborative Partners include:

■ American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN)

■ Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (AECM) ■ Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) ■ American College of Cardiology (ACC) ■ American Heart Association (AHA) ■ Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) ■ Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin

(AACIO) ■ International Society for Heart & Lung

Transplantation (ISHLT)

ACCP Invites Student Chapter Presentations at Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy

The ACCP Student Chapter Forum will be held on Monday, October 19, 2015, 8:00 –10:30 a.m., at

the 2015 ACCP Global Conference in San Francisco, California. This session is an open forum for student chapter officers, faculty, student liaisons, and anyone else interested in learning more about ACCP student chapters. The session facilitates open discussion and re-views student chapter formation, achievements, suc-cesses, and challenges with the aim of spreading and sharing ideas and strategies between student chapters.

This year, ACCP is seeking input from local student chapters. Two student chapters will be selected to pre-pare a brief PowerPoint presentation to share insights

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Visit the ACCP Academy today at www.accp.com/academy to enroll and learn more about the Research and Scholarship Certificate Program. To view the com-plete Global Conference schedule and register for Research and Scholarship programming this fall, visit www.accp.com/gc.

Register for the Upcoming Webinar: “The PBRN—A Research Resource”

Join ACCP for an interactive 1-hour webinar on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. (CDT). This 1-hour webinar, aimed at enhancing members’

research and scholarship abilities, is designed for indi-viduals participating in the Research and Scholarship Academy as well as for those interested in improving their research skills. To register, visit http://www.accp.com/meetings/wrs1/.

Presented by Dr. Margie E. Snyder, assistant professor of pharmacy practice and codirector of the Center for Medication Safety Advancement at Purdue University College of Pharmacy in Indianapolis, Indiana, this we-binar will discuss practice-based research and practice-based research networks (PBRNs) and will compare and contrast PBRN research within the broader context of clinical research. Dr. Snyder will also provide examples of research questions that are appropriate for study within a PBRN.

Priced at only $69.00 for ACCP members and $99.00 for ACCP nonmembers, this webinar is an economical way to bring a real-time, interactive learning experience right into your home or office. ACCP Academy enrollees can register for this webinar at no cost.

To receive 1.0 hour of continuing education credit, attendees must register and attend the webinar on July 22. Participants do not have to be enrolled in the ACCP Academy to attend the webinar or receive continuing pharmacy education credit; however, only enrollees in the Research and Scholarship Certificate Program will receive credit toward their certificate.

Registration for “The PBRN—A Research Resource” closes at midnight (CDT), July 21, 2015. Take advan-tage of this learning opportunity by registering today. Participation in this webinar is limited to 100 registrants.

Residency and Fellowship Forum Planned at 2015 Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy

ACCP’s Residency and Fellowship Forum connects pre-ceptors and program directors with prospective can-didates seeking 2016–2017 residency and fellowship

and activities that have helped them succeed. Each chapter will have about 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes to answer follow-up questions.

Student chapters interested in this opportunity are requested to submit an essay of no more than 500 words describing the chapter’s history, unique factors relating to the chapter, and the planned focus of the chapter presentation if selected for this opportunity. Applications should be submitted electronically to Dr. Jon Poynter (JPoynter@accp.com).

Applications are due by Monday, August 3, 2015. Chapters will be notified of their selection status by Tuesday, September 1, 2015.

Seeking to Enhance Your Scholarly Activity? Enroll Now in the ACCP Academy Research and Scholarship Certificate Program

The ACCP Academy’s Research and Scholarship Certificate

Program is designed to develop the basic clinical re-search and scholarly abilities of clinical pharmacists. Established by ACCP in 2008, the program integrates research theory with practical applications while in-volving the participant in scholarly work early in the curriculum. Participants are challenged to explore indi-vidual professional research and scholarly activity goals to make the experience as relevant as possible within their respective professional contexts. A certifi-cate of completion is awarded to participants who complete 24 contact hours, consisting of 20 hours of required modules and 4 hours of electives. The pro-gram’s required modules are as follows:

■ Prerequisite: Research Primer (4 hours) ■ Module 1: Basics of Clinical Research (4 hours) ■ Module 2: Statistical Issues (4 hours) ■ Module 3: Regulatory and Ethical Issues (4 hours) ■ Module 4: Conducting and Reporting Research (4

hours)

Each elective module, consisting of 2.0 contact hours of instruction, is designed to meet the widely varied needs of program participants, focusing on specific ar-eas of research and scholarship not covered in depth by the required modules.

Position yourself to lead and participate in the future of clinical research by enrolling in the ACCP Academy’s Research and Scholarship Certificate Program. The program’s prerequisite, Research Primer, will be of-fered Saturday, October 17, in conjunction with the 2015 Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California.

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work together is a key component of achieving optimal patient outcomes.

Effective interprofessional teams are typically fo-cused on a defined goal—achieving the best outcome for that patient and doing so efficiently and safely. However, if individual members of the team lose sight of that big-picture goal and become too focused on day-to-day challenges, or individual practitioner/discipline-specific needs, achievement of the overarching goal can be negatively affected. Collaboration among profession-al organizations must similarly be designed around a fo-cused goal to be most productive.

During the past 5 years, ACCP has developed some important organizational partnerships and collabora-tions to help achieve our overarching goal of provid-ing comprehensive medication management (CMM) by qualified and appropriately credentialed clinical phar-macists. Patrick Lencioni, in his book Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues into Competitors, de-scribes in detail how to identify and remove barriers that prevent achievement of an important goal (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006). He provides an important caveat that is pertinent to how ACCP views its current partnerships and collaborations. In Lencioni’s view, the most essential component of an effective collaboration is a compelling goal that provides context for all team members to work in a single direction rather than pur-suing siloed, individual goals. And of course, CMM can only be optimally accomplished through meaningful in-terprofessional, non-siloed collaboration.

This prompted me to think more deeply and ask, “But is ACCP really a collaborative organization?” After all, the College has often been questioned—and criticized—for its lack of formal participation in the Patient Access to Pharmacists’ Care Coalition (PAPCC) since that coalition was established in 2013. However, it is important to re-call that the option for the College to participate in the PAPCC was made conditional, with the stipulation that ACCP abandon its CMM Medicare reform initiative and supporting policy framework that was developed in col-laboration with other health care stakeholders after sev-eral years of interprofessional foundational work. This focus remains a guiding principle for ACCP—so much so that we have allocated up to $2.5 million to fund re-search that will study the impact on patient outcomes of CMM provided by qualified clinical pharmacists in primary care medical practices. Although the PAPCC’s goal of recognizing all pharmacists as providers should be beneficial to patients if achieved, devoting ACCP staff time and resources to both that effort and the College’s primary priority (advancing CMM) would likely be un-successful, if the perspective of Lencioni is accurate. In

positions. This year, the Residency and Fellowship Forum will be held on Sunday, October 18, from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. and from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. during the 2015 Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California.

The Residency and Fellowship Forum’s two 90-min-ute sessions provide preceptors and program direc-tors with easy access to some of clinical pharmacy’s most promising candidates. Set in an informal, even-paced atmosphere, the simple format of the forum is designed to provide programs with an early opportuni-ty to sit with candidates for one-on-one interviews and make valuable connections with top candidates. ACCP’s online database of applicants will give registered pro-grams the ability to view candidate profiles, download CVs, and contact potential applicants before attending the 2015 Global Conference. Preceptors and program directors interested in participating must register to at-tend the 2015 Global Conference, post at least one of their available positions online, and submit a $75 non-refundable fee. Programs can reserve a table at the fo-rum by submitting their available positions by October 2, 2015, or before all tables are filled.

Applicants are encouraged to get a head start on identifying their next position by taking advantage of this opportunity to have face time with the preceptors and directors of the programs in which they are inter-ested. Registered applicants will receive access to on-line program listings before the meeting, which will in-clude all of the available fellowships and PGY1 and PGY2 residency positions. Applicants interested in participat-ing must post their applicant profile online, upload a CV (optional), and register for the 2015 Global Conference.

To start your search early, obtain more information, and register, visit the ACCP Residency and Fellowship Forum page today.

President’s Column

Judith Jacobi, Pharm.D., FCCP, FCCM, BCPS

Partnerships and Collaborations

The success of clinical pharmacy in team-based care depends on effective partnerships and collaborations. Clinical pharmacists collaborate with our care team colleagues, with patients and their caregivers, and with other members of the pharmacy profession—whether within an institution or the community. Our ability to

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short, we chose instead to channel our relatively limit-ed human and fiscal resources toward support of what ACCP’s members do—namely, comprehensively man-age patients’ therapy in collaboration with other mem-bers of the health care team.

Despite ACCP’s absence from the PAPCC, many other productive collaborations continue with colleague phar-macy organizations, medical societies, foundations, and other groups. The JCPP (Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners) Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process docu-ment is an example of how diverse pharmacy organiza-tions can meet a fundamental need of the profession (see https://www.accp.com/docs/positions/misc/JCPP_Pharmacists_Patient_Care_Process.pdf). Pharmacists will now be educated, trained, and expected to perform this patient care process whether in a hospital, commu-nity, nursing home, or other pharmacy practice setting. This standardized expectation for pharmacist practice is extremely important because it will establish what oth-er health professionals and patients can expect from a pharmacist. It is an important foundational compo-nent toward ensuring that pharmacists have the exper-tise and skills to provide CMM. This document reflects the potential impact of a collaborative like JCPP, a group that includes major national pharmacist organizations, including ACCP. Through JCPP, these organizations meet face-to-face quarterly to discuss topics of relevance to the profession including health informatics, pharmacist workforce issues, interprofessional education and prac-tice, and health care reform policies, to name but a few. This group will continue to work together to promote and implement the PPOC. The JCPP agenda for this year also includes the use of quality measures to deter-mine patients’ medication-related outcomes. Through the Pharmacy Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative, an outgrowth of JCPP, national pharmacy organizations are also working together to ensure that pharmacists have needed access to patients’ health in-formation. Although not always a perfect process, even competitor groups can achieve mutual goals when the outcomes of working together are compelling.

ACCP also serves an important role on the Council on Credentialing in Pharmacy (CCP). This group con-sists of organizations that have a commitment to qual-ity in the areas of pharmacy accreditation, certifica-tion, and credentialing/privileging. In that forum, we have discussed the training and associated credential-ing that serve as an important foundation for devel-oping pharmacy practice competency standards. The work of this group led to the 2009 foundational doc-ument, “Scope of Contemporary Pharmacy Practice: Roles, Responsibilities, and Functions of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians” (see http://www.

pharmacycredentialing.org/Contemporary_Pharmacy_Practice.pdf). A noteworthy diagram in this document, reproduced here (“Figure 2”), illustrates the continuum from generalist practice to advanced specialty practice and the progressive levels of knowledge and experience required to assume certain practice responsibilities. This framework provides essential context for the train-ing and experience needed to provide CMM. ACCP has been an important contributor to work products like this paper and others produced by CCP. Recent CCP meetings have considered how privileging processes can provide important structure and documentation to ensure that providers of direct patient care meet mini-mum practice criteria, as well as how competency state-ments for practitioners are being developed and used in other countries.

Of course, the organization leading specialist cer-tification and specialty recognition is the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS). Many ACCP members have served on BPS specialty councils, and their leadership and input have helped shape BPS’s approach to special-ty recognition and specialist certification. Board certifi-cation remains one of the foundational components of our effort to advance CMM.

The National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM), is another important col-laborator for ACCP. For several years, ACCP staff have participated in the IOM Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care’s Best Practices Innovation Collaborative. The roundtable has produced papers im-portant to practice innovation, most recently “Patients and Health Care Teams Forging Effective Partnerships” (see https://www.accp.com/docs/positions/misc/PatientsForgingEffectivePartnerships%20-%20IOM%20discussion%20paper%202014.pdf). This paper discusses

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how health professionals can more effectively include their most important partners—our patients—in inter-professional care. The key tenets of this paper illustrate the need for clarity in the role of the patient as a mem-ber of the health care team and the need to support shared and personalized decision-making that enhanc-es communication among team partners while suggest-ing improvements to strengthen these efforts. Patients who were involved in developing this document indi-cated that health professionals still have much to learn in order to fully meet patients’ expectations for team-based care. We can be more effective in the provision of CMM if we understand how to truly meet patient needs.

In the quality arena, the College is a member of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA). ACCP members Mary Roth McClurg, Carla Cobb, and Joseph Vande Griend represented ACCP in 2014 work groups of PQA relat-ed to team-based care, behavioral health, and quality assessment measures. The work of PQA appears to be transitioning from a narrow focus on Part D/community pharmacy quality metrics to a broader medication use focus. Our ability to lead the development of metrics around CMM is a significant additional component of our overall goal.

Our partnerships with organizations outside phar-macy are similarly important to advancing CMM. ACCP staff have met regularly with senior staff of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and have been in-cluded in interprofessional policy forums focused on a permanent solution to the Sustainable Growth Rate and Medicare physician payment reform issues. ACCP has also been involved in discussions on collaborating with AAFP on team-based CMM as part of the current CMS Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative.

Similarly, successful collaboration with the American College of Physicians (ACP) led to specific mention of clinical pharmacists as primary members of the clini-cal care team in a recent ACP policy paper (Doherty RB, Crowley RA; for the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians. Principles Supporting Dynamic Clinical Care Teams: An American College of Physicians Position Paper. Ann Intern Med 2013;159:620-6). A more recent collaborative relation-ship has been established with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACCP is par-ticipating in their invited interprofessional task force on Collaborative Practice. Represented by ACCP member Marcia Buck and staff member Ed Webb, the task force is currently completing work on a policy document and practice toolkit, working alongside representatives of a range of health care provider organizations. See also the nearby story in this issue of the ACCP Report about our newest interprofessional collaboration—working with

the Heart Failure Society of America and eight other medical and nursing societies to identify and establish benchmarks to improve the standards of quality care for individuals affected by heart failure.

Successful partnership with the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has resulted in our organizations being recognized by BPS as joint providers of recertifi-cation activities for pharmacists who become Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacists. ACCP-SCCM edu-cational initiatives at SCCM meetings will be delivered by interprofessional teams to further reinforce the im-portance of the role of clinical pharmacists as essential team members. Such support from specialist providers in medicine is fundamental to successfully achieving recognition of clinical pharmacist specialists and their provision of CMM.

Having posed the question above, I must conclude that ACCP is indeed a truly collaborative organization. Therefore, after reading this column, I hope ACCP members will ap-preciate the importance that the College’s leadership plac-es on effective partnerships and collaborations—and how these efforts are yielding meaningful results and outcomes aligned with our core values and strategic goals.

Attention Students and Trainees: Apply Online Now for 2015 ACCP Global Conference Travel Awards

Have you thought about attending an ACCP meeting, but have limited financial resources available to cover your travel and registration costs? ACCP and its mem-bers want to help!

ACCP Student Travel Awards and Resident/Fellow Travel Awards enable students and postgraduate train-ees to attend ACCP meetings by awarding travel stipends and/or complimentary meeting registrations. Apply online now for an award to attend the ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, October 17–21, 2015.

How to ApplyStudents: Student members of ACCP who are full-

time pharmacy students pursuing their first profession-al pharmacy degree are invited to apply for an award. Applicants must submit a completed application includ-ing a CV or resume, two letters of reference, and an es-say of no more than 500 words detailing the applicant’s objectives for attending an ACCP meeting. All applica-tion material should be submitted online at http://www.accp.com/stunet/award.aspx. The application deadline is August 24, 2015.

Residents/Fellows: To qualify, applicants must be en-rolled in a residency or fellowship program at the time

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of the meeting. Applicants must submit a CV, an essay of no more than 250 words detailing the applicant’s ob-jectives for attending an ACCP meeting, and a person-al reference from the residency or fellowship program director or his or her designee. All application materi-al should be submitted online at http://www.accp.com/membership/resfelAward.aspx. The application dead-line is August 24, 2015.

For more information on ACCP travel awards, contact Jon Poynter, ACCP Senior Membership Project Manager, at jpoynter@accp.com or (913) 492-3311, ext. 121.

Order ACCP’s Preparatory Review Course Home Study Instructional Materials Now

Do you plan to take the Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, Critical Care Pharmacy, Pediatric Pharmacy, or Pharmacotherapy specialty exam this fall, but find it difficult to start reviewing? Do you question your un-derstanding of some of the key concepts that may be covered on the specialty exam? If so, take the home study version of the 2015 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course, the new 2015 Critical Care Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course, the new 2015 Pediatric Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course, or the 2015 Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course to ful-ly prepare! The home study versions contain the lec-tures from ACCP’s internationally recognized live re-view course held in Rosemont, Illinois, in April 2015. Instructional materials for both courses can be ordered today at www.accp.com/bookstore.

By purchasing the home study version of these cours-es, you can reap the benefits of learning from nation-ally recognized content experts, whose fast-paced, yet comprehensive reviews of the full scope of the relevant specialty will help you reaffirm your areas of strength and identify potential weaknesses, all from the comfort of your home or office. Each home study course offers a detailed two-volume workbook covering more than 18 key therapeutic areas and providing more than 200 case-based questions and feedback for effective learn-ing and self-assessment.

This home study course will be delivered directly to your home, office, or anywhere you have either a com-puter or broadband Internet access. Instructional ma-terials are available in a variety of formats. The prep course instructional materials may be ordered online at www.accp.com/bookstore, by telephone at (913) 492-3311, or by fax at (913) 492-0088. Learning objectives, faculty disclosures, target audience, program goals, technical requirements, and samples are available at http://www.accp.com/bookstore.

ACCP Member Spotlight: Alexandre Chan

Alexandre Chan, Pharm.D., MPH, FCCP, BCPS, BCOP, is assistant head and asso-ciate professor at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science at National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also jointly appointed as an asso-ciate professor at Duke-NUS Graduate

Medical School in Singapore and adjunct faculty at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and University of the Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Chan earned his Pharm.D. degree from Rutgers University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and his M.S. degree in public health from National University of Singapore. He com-pleted a pharmacy practice residency (PGY1) at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and an oncology specialty residency (PGY2) at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. Currently, he is dually board certified in pharmacothera-py and oncology pharmacy.

Chan moved to Singapore to begin his academic ca-reer in 2006, where he established a clinical pharma-cy service with the lymphoma and sarcoma team at the National Cancer Center in Singapore. Through his clini-cal service, Chan has been providing direct patient care and drug optimization to patients with cancer, ensur-ing drug efficacy and safety. Today, Chan’s clinical ser-vice also provides experiential learning opportunities for pharmacy students and residents in Singapore and different parts of the world. As a strong advocate of clinical pharmacy education, Chan has cowritten sev-eral textbook chapters, including the lymphoma chap-ter in Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. He is also a program director for the National Oncology Pharmacy Residency Program in Singapore.

As a clinician-scientist, Chan is heavily involved in cancer research. He has great interest in cancer support-ive care with an emphasis on understanding the biolog-ical mechanisms, clinical prediction, and management strategies of chemotherapy-induced and cancer-related toxicities in patients with cancer and survivors. He also has a strong interest in cancer pharmacoepidemiology, medication safety in oncology, and clinical pharmacy ed-ucation. Chan has published more than 110 full-length peer-reviewed manuscripts in a wide array of cancer supportive care topics, including chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, myelosuppression, cognitive im-pairment, dermatological toxicities, and cancer-relat-ed fatigue. Chan supervises Ph.D. students and fellows, and his research program has attracted more than $1.7 million in funding support from numerous agencies

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and pharmaceutical companies at the national and in-ternational level. Chan was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award from National University of Singapore in 2013 and was elected as an American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Fellow in 2014.

Chan has served as a leader in various regional, na-tional, and international organizations. He has served on many committees and task forces with ACCP, as well as organized numerous conferences and workshops in Asia to advocate for ACCP. With the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP), he has served as a chair for the education committee, as well as the sci-entific co-chair for the 2014 and 2016 biannual meet-ings. Chan is also an associate editor for the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice, the official journal for ISOPP. He is currently serving his second term as a board member with the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) while also chairing the neurotox-icity study group and membership committee. Chan has served on numerous guideline panels for MASCC, includ-ing two clinical management guidelines for dermatologi-cal toxicities associated with EGFR inhibitors and radiation dermatitis. Chan has also served in various capacities for other organizations, including the Asian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy and the Ministry of Health, Singapore.

Chan firmly believes that his mentors have influ-enced and inspired him greatly throughout his career. These individuals include Drs. Jacky Olin, Robert Ignoffo, Andrea Iannucci, Jeanne Reede, William Dager, William Kehoe, and Gary Yee. He is very grateful for their valu-able guidance, both personally and professionally. He has also learned the meaning of mentorship from them, and he hopes to follow their footsteps to provide great mentorship to his trainees and students.

Chan encourages everyone to be adventurous and not fearful of changes and challenges. He could have taken a safe and conservative route to develop his ca-reer in the United States. Instead, he made a bold, yet conscious, decision to move to Singapore to develop his academic career. He saw great opportunities, and he was determined to expand the presence of clinical phar-macy in Asia. Today, Chan is a leader in pioneering clini-cal pharmacy practice, research, and education in Asia. He is grateful to have met many wonderful colleagues in Singapore and Asia who share his vision. Chan believes that his career successes to date would not have been possible without these colleagues. He urges everyone to cultivate a broader mindset, step out of his or her com-fort zone, and embrace the challenges lying ahead.

Chan’s favorite quotation is, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” He is a firm believer that we must be passionate and enthusiastic about what we do, and it is important that we continue to network and

surround ourselves with like-minded individuals. Chan believes that ACCP has given him many wonderful op-portunities. He strongly encourages everyone to stay ac-tive within ACCP and to find his or her niche within this excellent organization.

Board of Pharmacy Specialties Announces Plans for New Role Delineation Studies Sterile Compounding, Solid Organ Transplantation, and Emergency Medicine are Identified

The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has approved role delineation studies in sterile compounding, solid organ transplantation, and emergency medicine. These role delineation studies will take place during the next 12–24 months and will not be conducted concurrently.

“Because BPS strongly supports residency training and we believe that consideration of new pharmacy specialties should be consistent with, but not necessar-ily exclusive to, the evolution of ASHP-accredited PGY2 programs, conducting role delineation studies in or-gan transplantation and emergency medicine is a logi-cal next step,” explained BPS Executive Director, William Ellis, RPh, M.S. “Both Solid Organ Transplantation and Emergency Medicine rank in the top 10 as far as the number of PGY2 residency programs and have grown by 29% and 40%, respectively, during the past year.”

“The issues surrounding sterile compounding have been well chronicled in the lay and professional media and represent an important public safety issue which was the impetus for the BPS Board of Directors explor-ing this as a possible specialty,” said Immediate Past BPS Chair Sharon Durfee, RPh, BCNSP. “Sterile compounding may represent a specialty that is more technical because there is most likely a smaller component of direct patient care when compared to other BPS specialties; however, the impact on patient safety and outcomes is significant.”

Conducting a role delineation study is a critical first step in determining whether BPS will issue a call for petition in a proposed specialty. One purpose of the role delineation study is to determine whether a practice area is based on specialized knowledge of the pharmaceutical sciences, as well as specialized functions routinely performed by prac-titioners in the proposed specialty. If the role delineation studies in any of these three areas yield information sug-gesting that sterile compounding, solid organ transplanta-tion, and/or emergency medicine should be recognized as a pharmacy specialty, BPS will issue a call for petition fol-lowing the criteria outlined in the BPS Petitioner’s Guide for Recognition of a Pharmacy Practice Specialty.

BPS recently issued a call for petition in both Cardiology and Infectious Diseases because of the results

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of previously conducted role delineation studies; if they are approved as specialties, they will be the 9th and 10th specialties to be recognized by BPS.

ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge – Team Registration Deadline September 8

The team registration deadline for the ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge is fast approaching—plan now to partici-pate this fall. This unique competition offers eligible student teams the oppor-tunity to test their clinical pharmacy knowledge and skills and compete in up to four online rounds. The top eight teams will advance to the live quarterfi-

nal competition at the 2015 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy in San Francisco, California.

Students are not required to be members of ACCP to participate. Team registration may be submitted online and must be initiated by a current faculty member at the respective institution. Students interested in form-ing a team should contact their ACCP faculty liaison. If no ACCP Faculty Liaison has been identified, any facul-ty member from the institution may initiate the regis-tration process. The registering faculty member must confirm the eligibility of all team members and/or al-ternates online before a team will be permitted to com-pete in the Clinical Pharmacy Challenge. The deadline to complete team registration and confirm eligibility is September 8, 2015. To view a list of teams already reg-istered for this year’s competition, click here.

Competition OverviewTeams of three students compete against teams from

other schools and colleges of pharmacy in a “quiz bowl”–type format. Only one team per institution may enter the competition. Institutions with branch campuses, dis-tance satellites, and/or several interested teams are en-couraged to conduct a local competition. ACCP provides a local competition exam that institutions may use in se-lecting their team. Faculty members interested in using the exam may send an e-mail request to Michelle Kucera, Pharm.D., BCPS, at mkucera@accp.com.

Preliminary rounds of the national competition are conducted virtually in September. The quarterfinal, semi-final, and final rounds will be held live at the ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, October 17–19, 2015.

Each round will consist of questions offered in the three distinct segments indicated below. Item con-tent used in each segment has been developed and re-viewed by an expert panel of clinical pharmacy practi-tioners and educators.

■ Trivia/lightning ■ Clinical Case ■ Jeopardy-style

Each team advancing to the quarterfinal round held at the ACCP Global Conference will receive three com-plimentary student full-meeting registrations. Each team member will receive an ACCP gift certificate for $125 and a certificate of recognition. In addition to the above, semifinal teams not advancing to the final round will receive a semifinal team plaque for display at their institution. The second-place team will receive a $750 cash award ($250 to each member) and a com-memorative team plaque. The winning team will receive a $1500 cash award ($500 to each member), and each team member will receive a commemorative plaque. A team trophy will be awarded to the winning institution.

For more information on the ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge, including the competition schedule, sample items, and FAQ section, please click here.

New Titles in the ACCP Bookstore

The ACCP Bookstore has recently added new titles fea-turing discounted prices for members. Check out these publications and more at www.accp.com/bookstore. If you know of a publication you’d like to see in the ACCP Bookstore, contact us at accp@accp.com.

New from ACCP!

Clinical Pharmacist’s Guide to Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation, Second EditionBoost your knowledge of biostatistical tools for interpreting the literature with material drawn from ACCP’srenowned Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) and the live pharmaco-therapy preparatory course Updates in

Therapeutics®. Editor Robert DiCenzo, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, designed this review to support pharmacists’ preparation for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) examinations.

Whether you are interpreting the medical literature to optimize patient care, improve health outcomes, or generate hypotheses for research, an understanding of biostatistics is essential for success. This book was de-veloped to bolster the pharmacist’s knowledge and con-fidence in using biostatistical tools for interpreting the literature. Pharmacists new to practice as well as sea-soned practitioners wanting to refresh their under-standing of biostatistics and literature evaluation will benefit from this helpful guide.

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LANGE Smart Charts; Pharmacology, Second Edition

A pharmacology review composed entirely of tables and diagrams, Smart Charts; Pharmacology covers every essential topic in pharmacology.

The unique tabular presenta-tion facilitates comparisons and clarifies relationships among drugs within all classes. Each chapter begins with an outline of the drug class discussed, followed by a list of key terms. Coverage of each drug includes terms of actions, pharmacokinetics, uses, drug interactions, and side effects. Mnemonics and other learning aids are included throughout the book to facilitate learning.

Antibiotic Essentials, 14th EditionThis is the latest edition of Antibiotic Essentials, a pocket guide to antimi-crobial therapy and infectious dis-eases, updated annually.

Not simply a collection of guide-lines, but also a practical and au-thoritative guide written by expert clinicians for practicing clinicians, presented in a user-friendly format,

Antibiotic Essentials provides an overview of antimicrobi-al therapy, followed by guidance on therapy for more than 550 clinical syndromes, including cardiovascular infections, sexually transmitted diseases, sepsis, and transplant infec-tions. Subsequent chapters cover antibiotic susceptibility profiles; parasites, fungi, and other organisms; HIV infec-tions; and prophylaxis. A separate chapter covers infectious diseases and antimicrobial agents in pediatrics. A chest x-ray atlas and a list of antibiotic pearls and pitfalls are also provided. This new edition encompasses more than 170 antimicrobial drug summaries in its concluding chapter, in-cluding six recently approved antimicrobials, new to this edition. Each antimicrobial drug summary includes phar-macokinetic data, antibiotic resistance potential, adverse effects, drug interactions, and dosing recommendations.

Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Fifth Edition

The definitive treatment textbook in psychiatry, this fifth edition of Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders has been thoroughly re-structured to reflect the new DSM-5 categories, preserving its value as a state-of-the-art resource and in-creasing its utility in the field. The editors have produced a volume

that is both comprehensive and concise, meeting the needs of clinicians who prefer a single, user-friendly vol-ume. In the service of brevity, the book focuses on treat-ment over diagnostic considerations and addresses both empirically validated treatments and accumulated clinical wisdom where research is lacking.

An authoritative resource for pharmacists, psychia-trists, psychologists, and psychiatric nurses and an out-standing reference for students in the mental health pro-fessions, Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders will prove indispensable to clinicians seeking to provide excellent care while transitioning to a DSM-5 world.

New Members

Mohammed AbutalebJessica AdamskiSajjad AhmadHend AiadSaleem AlsaadiAljohara AlsakranKyle AmesKenneth Amoo-MitchualBarbara ArenzAndre ArizpeTamara AsediSureena Bains-TakherJill BarrettChristina BarryDean BaysCherie BeandoJohn BegertCarol BellJessica BenteJessica BenzerMark BiagiJessica BinzFernando BlancoErik BorgJeffrey BoyerJonathan BurkelKayla BurnsJulie CalerBrent CarlsonLaura CarsonLily ChaoTammy ChenBinky CoocRobin CookeAaron CreechPage CrewWilliam CriswellDonna Damiano

Ryan D’AngeloAanika DasSara DeJongYana DoughtyJessica EftaSamah ElghosseinBrian EstersCeleste EwigChelsea FitzgeraldMolly FlynnAlexandra FosterMadeline FryKristen FunelliCarolyn GalletsAndrew GarciaKrutina GarciaRenee GittensMatt GlausMegan GoetzXiaohua GongSeyedeh HamooniBrittany HarshmanMyra HawkinsMichele HebdaLiz HenryKathryn HensleyJaclyn HernandezBrittany HerringMelissa HerschmanMary Ellen HethcoxBenjamin HohlfelderJan HolleyEvan HoodAnita Hosac-HarrisonCora HousleyNina HuynhJennifer JamesStephanie James

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Laurie JohnsonHannah KallioHari KalluriKelsey KauffmanMuhammad Ahsan KhalidAbigail KojetinAnna KrattliNicholas LadikosLauren LaPintaIrvin LauSpencer LeeAndrew LenanderJenna LensmeyerRobert LewisKevin LinJohn LittlerGael LorisLisa MacDonaldSara MahmoudJosh MaloneyTimothy MarsingillBert MatsuoJovan MilesElizabeth MillerTracy MillerHannah MohammadDiane MorganMohan MunirajuMaida MuratagicBarry NakaokaSaurabh NarkhedeMelissa NelsonHolly NewbyAndrea NewgrenChristine NguyenThuy NguyenEthan NilssenVitarani Dwi NingrumMay NishiokaMebanga Ojong SalakoIjeoma OnyemaEthan OsbornRawa OsmanNilam PatelRajesh PatelNicholas PatriciaJanell PenhaIsaac PeralesMatthew PetersonStacy PoindexterElyse PratherRoger PritchardJimmy Pruitt

Carrington RaneySheilla RashidMargaret ReillyJohn RemchickCatherine RennaStephen RettigJoshua RickardKrista RiegerJudy RodbergJanna RoitmanJohn Patrick SanchezMelissa SandersMartine SchifferMaryliz SchmiedebergPrabu SegaranClarissa SemaMargi ShahJamie ShaverRani ShenHarshal ShuklaThomas SilverNavneet SinghBrandi SmithBrandi SmithMinji SohnJeffrey SonneborhShannon StamperCarly StonemanStacia StreetLucy StunMatthew SwankhuizenEdward TarterSrilatha TavisalaNattawat

TeerawattanapongMaggie ThomasKen TrinhAshley TurnerMichael TurpinAshley UlsenheimerStefanie UnderwoodJulianna Van EnkDavid VeaseyChristopher ViesselmannClaire VinesAnita WangYun-Jan WangCatherine WangariDiane WhitleyNeisha WilliamsMichael WolcottHuanyan WongStephanie Wong

Nicholas WyattPatricia Young

Lusha YuNedaa Zainy

The following members recently advanced from Associate to Full Member:

Michael AndrewsJeremy DanielBobby JacobManar LashkarCynthia Muthusi

Duyen NguyenDavid Pritchard IXNathaniel RhodesNisha ThomasLauren Welch

New Member RecruitersMany thanks to the following individuals for recruiting colleagues to join them as ACCP members:

May AdraStephanie ArmstrongChristopher BoldiRegina CassidyChelsea ConwayShawn DaltonG. Robert DeYoungPeter GalJennifer GednalskeDrayton HammondRandy HattonJaren Howard

Kelly KabatDirk KilleleaLauren McKinleyChristopher PaciulloTricia PattersonTracy SankbeilErik SenutyWendy SlipkeJessica SobnoskyShardae Young