PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE “WOW!” It is the one word that continues to escape my lips around every corner during this year as President. I know I seem to keep going down this road of saying this, but The Association is in a ton of areas within the practice, and there are a lot of things happening for us, against us, and by us. I am moved more to tears of happiness and feelings of professional warmth, realizing just how dynamic pharmacists and pharmacy technicians’ roles are in public health and overall patient wellbeing and care.
be paid for the services we provide within the usual practice of our profession. It is imperative you ask Just a few quick updates: your local representative to support you and all of us on this bill. Their co-sponsorship will cement We are still amid a once in a lifetime (hopefully) pandemic. Pharmacists are ROCKING it all over the with you that they do support you and us. Go get them! place, from our colleagues developing vaccines to those who help set policy on the roll-out and/or We are still working on defending our right to be providing #ShotsInArms, and all the while still the official dispensers within health care The opmanaging your daily jobs providing kickass patient tometrist seem to think that your mastering of outcomes. YOU ARE IT! The dedication you show these abilities can be done with a few hours of educannot be appreciated enough! cation. Engage your local optometrists and tell them you are willing to help them care for patients Organizationally, we have a ton of activities going jointly. Their purpose, in my opinion, will only lead through our committees. From JoAnne’s Public to patient jeopardy and increase health care cost. Health group producing our COVID-19 Toolkit to Clark’s Professional Affairs group staying abreast of Plans for the Annual meeting have begun and this pharmacy practice and further exploring the enviyear we will be back IN PERSON in the safest physironment in which many of us practice and the cally distanced way possible. June 3rd-6th we will staffing with which we surround ourselves. Also, meet at the Marriott downtown in Louisville. More Sam’s Organizational Affairs beginning the annual information will be forthcoming but please get exreview of the Association’s Policy and Procedures cited, feel safe knowing we are taking all precausto starting the development of the Board of Directions, and know we can’t wait to see everyone tors’ ballot. Finally, Trish’s Governmental Affairs again. The programing will again be broad and group has begun weekly meetings as The Session unique. kicks into full gear and with so much going on surChanging gears a little, I want to pose a question rounding the Profession itself. Things never stop, so stay tuned to our email blast and social meeting that often rumbles around in my head: posts.
If Pharmacy were a Superhero, which Superhero would we be?
KPhA member Representative Danny Bentley has prefilled House Bill 48 that would require the This question might sound a little crazy on the surrecognition and ability of the pharmacist to bill and face, but when you run as many miles as I do (as an |3| www.KPHANET.org
