SBLBSHP Fall 2022 Newsletter

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SBLBSHP NEWS

South Bay/Long Beach Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists

Editor: Angela Lee, PharmD, BCPS, APh

Message From the President

President’s Message 1-2

CSHP Award Recipients 3

NWI Save-the-Date 4

Industry Dinners 5

Legislation Updates 6-8

UCI Student Report 9

USC Student Report 10

Mailing Address

SBLBSHP 11138 Del Amo Blvd, Ste # 127 Lakewood, CA 90715

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Hello SBLBSHP members,

I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe and warm! I can’t believe this is my last President’s Update. This year has truly flown by and thank you all so much for allowing me the opportunity to serve as your President for our amazing chapter! As I reflect on this past year, our chapter was able to return to hosting many successful in-person events and we couldn’t have done it without the active participation of our wonderful members!

For the Fall quarter, we continued to provide monthly industry educational dinners including the promotion of various dinner events during the CSHP Seminar in Anaheim. (continued on next page)

In October, we hosted a successful and well attended industry dinner and residency panel in partnership with Genentech, various pharmacy residency programs in the South Bay/Long Beach area, and University of California, Irvine School of Pharmacy. This event provided an educational talk for our pharmacist members as well as an opportunity to support the growth of pharmacy students, especially introducing them to the benefits of involvements with local pharmacy organizations. Our chapter was also well represented at the CSHP Seminar in November with multiple awardees from our local pharmacy leadership.

As we look forward to the new year, our chapter will continue to work hard to provide our members with many exciting opportunities for learning, advocacy, and networking under the leadership and guidance of our incoming president, Grant Lackey. I am very excited to see what is to come for next year! Last but not least, we will be hosting our 2023 Board Installation and Night with Industry on Friday, January 20th, 2023 at the Los Verdes Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes. Please be on the lookout for more detailed information to come! We hope to see everyone there!

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

Warm regards, Michelle Ding, PharmD, BCPP, APh

SBLBSHP board members at the annual festive board dinner on December 16 at Tantalum in Long Beach

Honoring 2022 CSHP Award Recipients

By Angela Lee, PharmD, BCPS, APh, Communications Chair

2022 was an extra exciting year for our chapter as the current and previous SBLBSHP board members were honored with prestigious CSHP Awards. Please join us in congratulating Steven J. Thompson, PharmD, Angela Jeong, PharmD, APh, and late Kenneth Horowitz, PharmD, FCSHP on their well-deserved recognition for their leadership and dedication to pharmacy profession!

Friday, January 20, 2023 Los Verdes Golf Course, Rancho Palos Verdes 6:00-7:30pm Night with Industry 7:30-9:30pm Installation Program

Recap: Industry-sponsored Educational Dinners

By Matt Kamada, PharmD, BCPS, Industrial Relations Co-Chair

Thank you for attending our Industry Educational dinners! We took a short break through the holidays, but this article will recap the dinners we had in the last quarter.

In October, our chapter learned about Multiple Sclerosis as Dr. Dolly Roy came to give us a great overview of the disease state. The dinner was hosted by Biogen and was held at the new Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in downtown Long Beach.

The month of November we did not hold any official educational dinners as a chapter because of Seminar held in Anaheim. An email was sent out with several different educational talks in and around Seminar so I hope you were able to attend at least one.

In December we had a joint educational dinner with the Southern California CSHP Chapter at Crustaceans in Beverly Hills. It was hosted by Genentech on the topic of Evrysdi (risdiplam).

A special thank you to all our industry partners! We are looking to continue strong in 2023 with new restaurants and topics so please be on the lookout for emails/Evites from our chapter for these dinners!

Legislation Updates

By Rosalin Preechakul, Pharm.D. BCPS, APh, Legal Affairs Co-Chair

CSHP Seminar continues to offer plenty of educational sessions including a few sessions on legal and legislative updates. Below are some of the highlights of pharmacy related law and legislative update from Seminar 2022.

Regulations Effective 2022

CCR §1746.4 Pharmacist Initiating and Administering Vaccines (Effective Jan 25, 2022)

CCR §1704 Providing Addresses

(Effective April 1, 2022)

-Must complete 1 hour of CE focused on immunizations and vaccines from an approved provider once every 2 years.

-At request of a patient, shall notify each patient’s PCP of any vaccine administered (within 2 weeks of vaccine administration)

-Each applicant holding a license who has an electronic mail address shall provide to the Board and maintain a current electronic mail address with the Board and notify the Board of any change of electronic mail address within 30 days

Statutes Effective 2022

AB 2789 (2018) e-Prescribing 19 (Starting 1/1/2022)

-Prescribers must have the capability to issue an electronic data transmission prescription on behalf of a patient and to transmit that electronic data transmission prescription to a pharmacy selected by the patient.

-Pharmacy, pharmacist, or others authorized under California law to dispense or furnish a prescription shall have the capability to receive an electronic data transmission prescription on behalf of a patient.

AB 1064, Fong Pharmacy practice: vaccines: independent initiation and administration

-Permits pharmacists to independently initiate and administer any vaccine approved or authorized by FDA.

-ACIP recommendation, 3+ YO, Immunization training, Give Epi and diphenhydramine if needed

Statutes Effective 2022 (continued from previous page)

AB 1533 – Committee on Business and Professions Omnibus Board of Pharmacy Sunset Review Bill

-Advanced Practice Pharmacist (APh) - completion of one requirement is subsumed within completion of another requirement

-Eliminates requirement of collaborative practice agreement for Advanced Practice Pharmacists -Expands collaborative practice agreement to include any health care provider with prescriptive authority -Authorizes a pharmacist to provide medication-assisted treatment pursuant to a state protocol (pending change in DEA regulations) -Permits any registered pharmacist to engage in a collaborative practice agreement (no requirement for residency)

SB 306 – Pan: Sexually transmitted disease: testing

-Permits a pharmacist to dispense a drug to treat sexually a transmitted disease (STD) without the name of an individual for whom a drug is intended if the prescription includes the words "expedited partner therapy" or the letters "EPT.” -Requires health plans to cover home test kits for STDs -Permits HIV counselors to perform rapid STD tests

SB 362 – Newman Chain community pharmacies:

Quotas

-Prohibits a chain community pharmacy from establishing a quota to measure or evaluate a pharmacist or pharmacy technician’s performance of duties -Authorizes the BOP to take enforcement action against a community pharmacy that establishes a quota related to a pharmacist or pharmacy technician duties.

Statutes Effective 2023

AB 2194 Cultural CE for Pharmacists (Effective 1/1/24)

Complete one of cultural competency Course, as defined in BPC 4231 during the preceding two years. 1. focuses LGBTQ and “gender nonconforming” or persons “who question their sexual orientation or gender identity and expressions, 2. accredited by BoP approved entity, 3. covers health disparities faced by Black, Indigenous and people of color, and 4. contains elements demonstration how sexual identity is directly impacted through intersectionality.

Recap: SBLBSHP & UCI SSHP Educational Dinner and Residency Panel

By Marian Tan, PharmD Candidate, UC Irvine School of Pharmacy Student Liaison

On the 21st of October 2022, a joint event was held by SBLBSHP and SSHP at UCI student chapter. at the Acapulco Restaurant in Long Beach. The event comprised of an educational talk presented by the industry sponsor Genentech on the topic of exploring treatment options in Her2+ early breast cancer. Multiple pharmacists from SBLB came to participate and listen in on the informative talk.

After the talk, the UCI students stayed to partake in a residency panel. There were 9 residents in attendance from various residency programs in South Bay, Long Beach, and Irvine. The pharmacy residents came from Kaiser Permanente Downey, Long Beach MemorialCare, and UC Irvine Medical Center. SSHP at UCI is grateful for all the residents who participated: Dr. Stephanie Bandera, Dr. Tracy Ly, Dr. Kristin Keeno, Dr. Tammy Nguyen, Dr. Angela Chaili, Dr. Jasmine Ventenilla, Dr. Joanne Wong, Dr. Sandy Wong, and Dr. Catherine Tran for providing the students with insights and wisdom regarding their residency experiences. We also want to extend our gratitude to the residency program directors who were instrumental in letting the residents know about the event.

There were about 24 students from UC Irvine in attendance to the event. The event was a success, and it was deemed very informative and insightful by the students. Timothy Nguyen, a first year PharmD student from UCI School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences said: “This experience was invaluable because we were able to listen to and interact with recent graduates that are currently attending various residency programs.” It was truly wonderful for the students to experience this event with the help of South Bay Long Beach chapter.

I want to especially thank Dr. Michelle Ding in helping me organize this event. I am eternally thankful for her guidance in making this event a success!

On November 7th, the USC student chapter hosted the annual Meet the Directors event. This event serves as one of the largest networking events of the academic year for our chapter. It aims to provide an opportunity for student pharmacists to learn from and network with directors from various areas of pharmacy. This event also aims to provide students with insight about the numerous career paths that they can explore within the profession of pharmacy, as well as foster a leadership mindset and professionalism. Our esteemed guests who attended this event represented the areas of academia, ambulatory care, independent, inpatient, outpatient, managed care, and pharmaceutical industry. Our very own Dr. Angela Jeong and Dr. Erwin Jeong represented the SBLBSHP chapter at this event!

SBLBSHP 2022 Board Members

MICHELLE DING President

GRANT LACKEY President-Elect

JOHN MCGADY Immediate-Past President

STEPHANIE LEE Secretary

JENNIFER FONG Treasurer

DAN BAUMAN & TIM CHOU Directors

MARK NGUYEN CSHP Liaison

MICHELLE DING, GRANT LACKEY, JOHN SIE & HAI TRAN CSHP Delegates ANGELA JEONG & ERWIN JEONG

Social Affairs Chairs

JEANIE CHEN, JENNIFER WEST, JASMINE CHOI & CAITIE KAWATA Educational Affairs

YEN DOAN & CHAD HUDSON Membership Chairs

ANGELA LEE Communications Chair

ROSALIN PREECHAKUL & CAMERON SERAJI Legal Affairs Chair

Student Liaisons

USC HEATHER YEN

WESTERN JOCELYN PERAZA & JULIANNE NGUYEN

MARSHALL B. KETCHUM ERIC NG

AUHS BILL CHEN

UC IRVINE MARIAN TAN

DANNY PHAM, HEATHER YEN & GILBERTO PENA Mentorship Program Chairs

MATT KAMADA, STEPHANIE BANDERA, TRACY LY & KELLEY HWANG Industrial Relations

DIANA TOMICIC & CYNTHIA BENNETT Technician Liaison

KGI RODELLE SACMAN & KELLY VO

UCSF BRITTANY HUYNH & STEPHANIE WONG

CHAPMAN CHRISTINA NGUYEN, CHELSEA PAN, CHARLOTTE TRAN & MEGAN ECLEVIA

WEST COAST SHEILA MELONE