The 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) was held in Grapevine, Texas.
Energy, exchange, and electrifying are all adjectives that can be used to describe the 50th Annual Meeting for ASCP. The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging team was well represented with five posters (one receiving top poster award) and four podium presentations.
The 2019 Peter P. Lamy Memorial Lecture, titled "Aging in Place: What Can Pharmacists Do to Reduce Community Based Medication Harms in Older Adults," occurred on November 1. This was a fireside chat featuring Karen Pellegrin, PhD, MBA, director of continuing education, strategic planning and the Center for Rural Health Science at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo (UH Hilo). She has led teams to win more than $30 million in competitive federal grants for UH Hilo since joining the College of Pharmacy in 2008, and served as principal investigator and project director for the “Pharm2Pharm” program funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The highly successful program has advanced knowledge and practice of pharmacist-led care models while providing educational and professional opportunities for many students.