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NCDEU Poster Submission Deadline - Thursday, January 5th

    The deadline for Poster submissions is Thursday, January 5th .   The 52nd NCDEU: An Annual Meeting Sponsored by ASCP will be held at the Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona, May 29 - June 1, 2012. To submit a ...

Students are Vital to our Profession and CPNP

Approximately 1 in 7 CPNP members are pharmacy students. Students play a vital role in the future of CPNP and the future of our profession. The CPNP Student Committee has been working hard to outreach to students by offering:  

  • Student membership
  • Student chapters
  • Student-centric programming at the CPNP Annual Meeting
  • Student Grant

We hope you will share information on these Student Committee initiatives with students you know or work with.

update in antipsychotics in nursing home pts

List,   Just wanted to send out a message in regards to the use of antipsychotics in the nursing home population. For some background info, secondary to the black box warning for mortality w/ antipsychotics in the dementia population, the ...

US committee recommends HPV vaccine for boys

All boys in the United States should receive the quadrivalent vaccine to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which can cause cancer, a US committee has recommended.It should be made...

Patient Drug Information

  All:  The Consumer Relations Committee will be following up on Tiffany-Jade’s great suggestion to translate the NAMI medication information sheets into Spanish.  Anyone out there fluent in medical Spanish who would like ...

Psychiatry Pharmacy Residencies - how many pharmacist preceptors? how many rotations?

Listmates involved in PGY-2 Psych Pharm  residencies – in any capacity (resident, preceptor, director) – I have questions!   How many pharmacist preceptors do you have teaching in your program?   How many ...

Nominate Your Peers for CPNP Leadership Positions and the Saklad Memorial Award

By Steve Stoner, PharmD, BCPP—Nominating Committee Chair

Thanks to the contributions of time and talent, members have helped CPNP to make great strides in its short 15 years of existence. CPNP is truly a membership-driven organization. This is especially true in selecting future leaders of the organization. Another of the many ways you can contribute is to nominate your peers and colleagues with the dedication and time to take CPNP even further.

Managing Pain in Patients with Addiction

Sarah Melton, PharmD,BCPP,CGP,FASCP
Chair, CPNP Recertification Committee
Director of Addiction Outreach
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Appalachian College of Pharmacy

The Office of National Drug Control Policy recently released the Obama Administration's action plan to address the national prescription drug abuse epidemic and announced new Federal requirements aimed at educating the medical community about proper prescribing practices. The 2011-2012 CPNP Recertification Committee recognized a need to provide evidence-based education to pharmacists and other health care providers to encourage our professions to be agents of change in providing solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic and has developed programming to be presented at the 2011 ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting and 2012 CPNP Annual Meeting.

Neurology Academic Advisory Committee: A strategy for faculty retention and advancement

Major effort and expense are devoted to faculty recruitment. Subsequent direction, support, and guidance of faculty members for retention and academic advancement are often inconsistent and ineffective. Individual mentorship is widely endorsed as an important element in advancement but often does not occur or is uneven in its pragmatic benefit. We formed a Departmental Academic Advisory Committee to provide individualized advice and guidance about career development and institutional promotion, retention, and tenure procedures.

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