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CALENDAR
JUNE 6–9:
ASHP Summer Meeting & Exhibition, Tampa

Summer Meeting Focuses on Medication Safety
The 2010 Summer Meeting, June 6–9 in Tampa, will be a gold mine of best practices in medication safety. With a special focus on the role pharmacists can play in transforming medication safety leadership, the meeting will energize and enlighten attendees about what they can do within their own institutions. All five of the Leadership Learning Community sessions will focus on how pharmacists can achieve results with standards, practices, and measures from National Quality Forum 18. A session in the Informatics series, “Applying Technology to Facilitate Error Reports,” will explore the use of data to improve medication use. In the Hot Topics group, sessions will zero in on risk evaluation and mitigation systems, ways to decrease preventable IV medication errors by 50 percent, and the evolution, status, and justification of the medication safety officer position. For more information on the Summer Meeting, go to www.ashp.org/SM10.

AUGUST 15–17:
Commission on Credentialing meeting, Bethesda, Md.

19–21:
National Residency Preceptors Conference, Washington, D.C.

Candidates for ASHP President-Elect, Board, HOD Announced
The ASHP Committee on Nominations recently selected Stanley S. Kent and Kathryn R. Schultz as candidates for ASHP president-elect. The nominating committee also approved the following candidates:

SEPTEMBER 20–22:
Policy Week

24–25:
Board of Directors meeting, Bethesda, Md.

Board of Directors (2011-2014): • Ernest R. Anderson • Larry Clark • Thomas J. Johnson • Mary Ann Kliethermes Board of Directors (2010-2012): • Eric T. Hola • Randy Kuiper Chair, House of Delegates: • Timothy Brown • Gerald E. Meyer

ASHP active members can vote for the president-elect and members of the board of directors either online or by mail ballot. Ballots will be mailed to all members in July. Representatives to the ASHP House of Delegates will select the chair during its session at the Summer Meeting in June. Douglas E. Miller and Philip J. Schneider are running for ASHP Treasurer. The winner will be announced after the Summer Meeting. For more information, check out the podcast of ASHP’s “Meet the Candidates” session held at the Summer Meeting, featuring information about the candidates’ experience and qualifications. The podcast will be online in the “About ASHP” section of www.ashp.org after the Summer Meeting.

OCTOBER 23:
ASHP Research and Education Foundation Board meeting, Bethesda, Md.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

ASHP Intersections Summer 2010

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