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Exhibitor Information
Thursday, February 28th
Exhibitor Sessions:
12:00 - 2:00 pm Reverse Showcase Roundtables with Decision Makers
2:30 - 3:30 pm Product Roundtables with Conference Attendees
4:30 - 5:30 pm Networking with Exhibitors Reception
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Space is limited and the format is a hassle-free event. There will be no booth set up, and no need to ship or bring a display; all exhibitor sessions are to be small group roundtables or one-on-one interactions.
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Contact Rhonda Horner-Davis at rhonda@ncpharmacists.org or 336-266-8784
SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE
Thursday, February 28th
7:30-8:15am Breakfast and Registration
8:15-8:30am Welcome (Tasha Woodall & Brock Harris)
8:30-9:30am Diabetes Update: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Cathey Miller)
9:30-10:30am Diabetes Update: Drug Updates (Elizabeth Mills)
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-11:45am Choose a Breakout Session
Chronic Care--Palliative Care: Symptom Management (Cindy Johnston)
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Health-System--Pharmacogenomics (Amber Frick)
11:45-12:00pm Transition to Lunch
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-1:15 Transition back to Classroom
1:15-2:15pm Infectious Disease Primer: UTI, SSTI, & Pneumonia (Bill Hitch)
2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:30pm Product Roundtables
3:30-4:30pm Osteoporosis: Post-Fracture Care (Mollie Scott)
4:30-5:30pm Networking Reception
Friday, March 1st
7:30-8:15am Breakfast and Registration
8:15-9:45am Debate: A Lower BP Goal for Older Adults (Irene Ulrich & Kim Nealy)
9:45-10:45am Pain Management: Opioid Alternatives (Mackie King)
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-12:30pm Choose a Breakout Session
Chronic Care--Innovative Solutions to Meet Regulatory Requirements (Panel)
Health-System--Mental Health Updates: Depression Treatment Resistant Focus (Chue Lee Black)
12:30-12:45pm Break & Reset Room for Lunch
12:45-2:30pm Speaker Lunch (AstraZeneca)
2:30-3:30pm New Drug Update (Hien Nguyen)
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Total Available ACPE-Accredited Continuing Education Hours:
= 10 (5 hours per day)
Friday, March 1
Enjoy lunch with speaker Cathey Miller.Her topic will be The Contribution of the Kidney to the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes.
Sponsored by AstraZeneca
Health-System
Administrative/Leadership
Track
Thursday, February 28th
9:30-10:00am Registration
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Section I:
Leading Your Most Valuable Resource: Your People
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10:00-11:30am Workforce Resilience: Developing an Open & Successful Environment (Robert Granko--ConeHealth)
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11:30-12:00pm Managing in the 'Me Too' Movement (Katie Sheldon--Mission Hospital)
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12:00-2:00pm Lunch & Reverse Showcase with Exhibitors
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Section II:
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance, While Managing Operations
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2:00-2:30pm Structuring Quality and Regulations into Your Daily Activities (Kuldip Patel--Duke Health)
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2:30-3:00pm Developing and Utilizing a 340b Compliance Program (Jami Mann--UNC Medical Center)
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3:00-3:30pm Developing and Utilizing a Drug Diversion Prevention Program (Evan Frasure--Duke Health)
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3:30-4:00pm Getting Your Organization Ready For USP
800 Compliance (John Valgus--UNC Medical Center)
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4:00-4:30pm NCAP Advocacy Update (Penny Shelton)
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4:30-5:30 Networking Reception
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Meet Our Speakers
Chue Lee Black, PharmD, CPP, BCPS
Educational Session Title: Mental Health Updates with a Focus on Resistant Depression Treatment
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Objectives:
1) Describe the state of mental health in North Carolina
2) Discuss pharmacotherapy strategies for treatment resistant depression
3) Review new psychiatric drug updates
Evan Frasure III, PharmD, BCPS
Educational Session Title: Developing and Utilizing a Drug Diversion Prevention Program
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Objectives:
1) Outline the framework needed for a successful drug diversion prevention program
2) Determine next steps for your institution to implement or enhance your drug diversion prevention program
Amber Frick, PharmD, PhD
Educational Session Title: Pharmacogenomics
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 10:45am - 11:45am
Objectives:
1) Define precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, and related nomenclature
2) Apply pharmacogenomics guidelines and resources to patient scenarios
3) Describe successful examples of pharmacogenotyping implemented in hospital and ambulatory care settings and lessons learned
4) Evaluate how pharmacogenomics may affect future clinical practice
Robert Granko
Educational Session Title: Workforce Resilience: Developing an Open and Successful Environment
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 10:00am - 11:30am
Objectives:
1) Define the signs and symptoms of burnout and understand the difference between burnout versus stress
2) Discover mechanisms to deal with and reframe how you and your team look at those function(s) that are causing burnout
3) Identify ways to reevaluate goals and incorporate de-stressing and burnout tactics to reduce, improve, and recover from burnout and lead a healthier lifestyle toa llow you to flourish
Bill Hitch
Educational Session Title: Infectious Disease Primer: UTI, SSTI, and Pneumonia
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Objectives:
1) Assess primary care infectious disease knowledge through interactive trivia game
2) Review infections frequently seen in primary care including urinary tract infections, cellulitis, and pneumonia
3) Explore local patterns of resistance and how to apply to drug therapy decision making
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Cindy Johnston, PharmD, BCPS, CPE
Educational Session Title: Palliative Care: Symptom Management
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 10:45am - 11:45am
Objectives:
1) Discuss use of medications to manage common symptoms of advanced disease
2) Participate in creating a patient-centered pharmacy care plan for a patient with symptom management needs
Mackie King, PharmD, BCPS, CPP
Educational Session Title: Pain Management: Opioid Alternatives
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 9:45am - 10:45am
Objectives:
1) Assess patients' improvement in pain and function using validated tools
2) Compare risks and benefits of different adjuvant analgesics for a given patient
Create a pain regimen for a patient considering the following factors: description of pain, comorbid conditions, pertinent laboratory values
Todd King
Educational Session Title: Approaches to Meeting Regulatory Requirements
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Objectives:
1) Understanding the pharmacy implications of phase three of the Mega Rule
Jami Mann
Educational Session Title: Developing and Utilizing a 340b Compliance Program
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Objectives:
1) Identify HRSA 340b Drug Pricing Program requirements
2) Summarize covered entity eligibility and entity type compliance considerations
3) List tools and resources for development of 340b compliance program
4) Describe strategies for utilizing a 340b compliance program
Cathey Miller
Educational Session Title: Diabetes Update: Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 8:30am - 9:30am
Objectives:
1) Introduce new CGM technology for management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes
2) Role of professional and personal CGM therapy
3) Use of CGM data in clinical practice
Elizabeth Mills, PharmD, CPP, BCACP, BC-ADM, CDE
Educational Session Title: Diabetes Update: Drug Updates
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 9:30am - 10:30am
Objectives:
1) Recall the dosing, mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety considerations for recently approved medications for the management of diabetes mellitus
2) Explain the clinical impact and role in diabetes management of recently approved medications
3) Select a medication for the management of diabetes for a patient utilizing the American Diabetes Association 2019 Standards of Medical Care treatment algorithm
Kim Nealy, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, CPP
Educational Session Title: Debate: A Lower BP Goal for Older Adults
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 8:15am - 9:45am
Objectives:
1) Evaluate primary literature supporting lower blood pressure goals
2) Describe recommendations for measurement of blood pressure
3) Discuss risks and benefits of aggressive and conservative blood pressure lowering
4) Identify patient populations who would require more conservative blood pressure lowering
Hien Nguyen, PharmD, CPP
Educational Session Title: New Drug Update
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Objectives:
1) Explain the mechanisms of newly approved FDA medications and their place in therapy
2) Discuss key monitoring parameters and counseling points for these medications
3) Review data available for newly approved medications and compare to current therapies available for similar indications
Kuldip Patel, PharmD
Educational Session Title: Structuring Quality and Regulations into Your Daily Activities
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Objectives:
David Phillips
Educational Session Title: Approaches to Meeting Regulatory Requirements
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Objectives:
1) Describe current regulatory and non-regulatory challenges consultant pharmacists face in long-term care facilities.
Mollie Scott, PharmD, BCACP, CPP, FASHP
Educational Session Title: Osteoporosis: Post-Fracture Care
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Objectives:
Katie Sheldon, PharmD, MS
Educational Session Title: Managing in the #MeToo Movement
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 11:30am - 12:00pm
Objectives:
1) Define the types of sexual harassment
2) Describe the results of research characterizing harassment in the workplace
3) Describe the risks of historical employment practices and methods to turns these risks in to opportunities
Robert Smith, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS, FASCP
Educational Session Title: Workforce Resilience: Developing an Open and Successful Environment
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 10:00am - 11:30am
Objectives:
1) Participants will identify challenges that may negatively impact regulatory compliance
2) Participants will examine strategies that may promote more timely and more consistent adherence to regulatory treatments
Irene Ulrich, PharmD, BCACP, CPP
Educational Session Title: Debate: A Lower BP Goal for Older Adults
Date & Time: Friday, March 1, 2019, 8:15am - 9:45am
Objectives:
1) Evaluate primary literature supporting lower blood pressure goals
2) Describe recommendations for measurement of blood pressure
John Valgus
Educational Session Title: Getting Your Organization Ready for USP 800 Compliance
Date & Time: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Objectives:
1) Understand key concepts in operationalizing hazardous drug management in compliance with USP<800>
2) Identify controversies and common barriers to achieving best practices in hazardous drug management