Program Overview
Leaders in health-system pharmacy continue to face significant challenges in today’s complex health care environment. Charged with offering higher-quality pharmacy services on tighter budgets, pharmacy managers must have good leadership and negotiation skills, which are necessary for enhancing services and implementing innovative pharmacy programs. Adding to these challenges are the demands to save costs while improving patient safety.
This year's Thirteenth Annual ASHP Conference for Leaders in Health-System Pharmacy, Addressing Key Issues in Health-System Pharmacy: Spotlight on Leadership, will prepare you to face the challenges ahead by providing timely information and strategies to enhance your pharmacy practice.
This conference will feature presentations by experts on a variety of relevant topics. The topics include the future of pharmacy practice and evolving models, developing leaders in health-system pharmacy, innovative pharmacy practice staffing models, application of social marketing concepts to pharmacy leadership efforts, and other current issues related to today’s health-system pharmacy practice.
You won’t want to miss this year’s opening speakers!
Charles R. Denham, M.D., Chairman of the Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT) in Austin, Texas, will open the 2008 Leaders Conference with “The New Role for Pharmacy Leaders: From Player to Conductor of the Hospital Orchestra.” Dr. Denham, a champion for the development of leadership roles for pharmacists, will present new opportunities requiring pharmacy leadership in health care systems.
Dennis C. Wagner, M.P.A., is an international leader in the fields of health care, the environment, and social marketing. As Deputy Director of the Health Resources and Services Administration Center for Quality in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mr. Wagner has extensive experience in driving change through social marketing. He will explore leadership strategies you can use to promote change, with “Increasing the Leadership Impact of Pharmacists: Social Marketing Strategies for Leading and Accelerating Change.” He will offer suggestions for incorporating ideas learned at this conference into your workplace.
Again this year, attendees can participate in two different types of breakout sessions, Workshops and Intensive Sessions, which will allow networking with colleagues in small group settings.
Workshops will be 3.5 hours in duration. These skill-building sessions will feature interactive, how-to discussions.Topics will include interfacing with the C-suite and senior management, pharmacy metrics, management skills for clinical managers, national quality agenda, and successful strategic planning for pharmacy departments.
Intensive sessions will be 1.5 hours in duration and will take an in-depth look at a particular topic, with interaction between faculty and participants. Intensive session topics will include enhancing patient safety with pharmacy informatics and specialty pharmacy implications for health-system pharmacy.
John W. Webb Lecture Award
The prestigious John W. Webb Lecture Award, which recognizes excellence in pharmacy management, will be presented. The lecture award is a collaboration of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University. This year’s award recipient is
Thomas S. Thielke, M.S., R.Ph., FASHP
Vice President, Professional Support Services
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
The award ceremony and lecture will occur during the luncheon on Monday. Click here for more information about the history of the John W. Webb Visiting Professorship.
Share your thoughts and experiences with your peers at these networking opportunities:
Informal roundtable discussions
The roundtable discussions will be held on Tuesday during lunch. Led by facilitators, tables will focus on contemporary issues such as medication safety, pharmaceutical waste, or CPOE.
Networking Dinners
Don’t dine alone. Instead, sign up for one of the networking dinners, where you can meet new colleagues and share your ideas over dinner. ASHP has made reservations at area restaurants on Monday evening. Sign-up sheets will be available at the meeting. Reservations are limited, so sign up early.
Additional details on these networking opportunities are described in the meeting program.
The Leaders Conference is not just for pharmacy leaders. The educational sessions are designed to appeal to all levels of managers, including the seasoned practitioner, new supervisor, and pharmacy resident.
Make it a staff event. Expose your staff to a conference that provides both outstanding educational programming and networking opportunities. Reduced registration rates are offered for multiple registrants from the same health system.
Invite your health-system administrator to join you at the conference. The varied topics presented are sure to broaden your administrator’s knowledge of issues facing pharmacy managers and successful ways to resolve those issues. Administrators can register at the reduced ASHP member rate.
To qualify for the special reduced rates, groups of registrants must send in their registration forms together. View detailed information on the registration page.