SBLBSHP NEWS

South Bay/Long Beach Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Editor: Heather Yen, USC PharmD Candidate 2024

Message from the President

Mailing Address

SBLBSHP 11138 Del Amo Blvd, Ste #127 Lakewood, CA 90715 Newsletter Archive issuu.com/SBLBSHP Email SBLB.SHP@gmail.com

Dear SBLBSHP members,

For those of you who don’t know me, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tammy Ginder and I am serving as your local chapter President for SBLBSHP. Amongst my mentors that have served with SBLBSHP, I am humbled to be able to serve in this capacity.

We had a lovely Hawaiian feast at our SBLB Night with Industry and Installation, which was held at the Los Verdes Golf Course in beautiful Rancho Palos Verdes. This event was hosted by members Angela Jeong and Erwin Jeong. The 2023 CSHP President, Dan Kudo, was in attendance.

With 29 years in various roles in pharmacy, I know first-hand how technicians are an integral member of Pharmacy Services. (Continued on next page)

There is a proposal to align with Pharmacy Technician Schools, to increase Student Technician interaction with sites, and grow technicians into advance roles and leadership. This is on the heels of ASHP’s summary on the technician shortage where “the majority pharmacy administrators reported turnover rates of at least 21-30% in 2021, and nearly 1 in 10 had lost 41% or more of their pharmacy technicians.”1

I attended the first quarterly Affiliate Chapter Presidents (ACP) meeting and I am inspired how there is a vision to use technology and media to help promote what a Pharmacist really does behind the scenes. More to come later on that.

As we transition back to more in-person meetings, we have had three consecutive monthly educational dinners at Fogo de Chao, Spaghettini, and Paul Martin’s American Grill. Thank you to all of you that supported and attended. If you were unable to attend, we hope to see you at our future events.

We are seeing an uptick in student involvement with our chapter and had a nice report out of activities at our Winter meeting. In correlation with our SBLBSHP member growth, we have been able to add one more delegate, Hai Tran, to represent SBLBSHP at the state level, bringing our total delegate count to four.

Encourage your colleagues, co-workers, and classmates to join CSHP. We incorporate great food, support, education, objectives, networking, celebrations, and hosted events! Together we unite stronger.

1Technician-Shortage-Survey-Exec-Summary.pdf (ashp.org)

Sincerely,

Tammy Ginder, Pharm.D.