The Gifts of Talent, Knowledge, and Time
 The President's Message
By Joel Hennenfent, MSHP President
What are your special talents? How can an individual’s skills change the practice of pharmacy in Missouri? One way to utilize your unique talents and skills is by volunteering your time on an MSHP committee or running for a MSHP office. Over the past 9 months many MSHP members have taken the organization to the next level with major recent successes including the new website and a very active Public Policy Committee. MSHP continues to be a great organization!
A key strategy for impacting the profession of pharmacy in Missouri is to enhance a powerful team with new members and ideas. How individual member involvement benefits MSHP appears obvious enough, but how MSHP involvement benefits an individual member may not be so clear. For me, it has been the opportunity to meet many amazing people whose paths I probably would never have crossed without my involvement in MSHP. I have developed many strong relationships and friendships that will last through the coming years. Additionally, the motivation gained personally and professionally from being around highly passionate, innovative, and high achieving individuals is rewarding. The snow ball effect is contagious and can impact so many other components in your life. I must return to one of my favorite quotes from a previous newsletter with a twist - Work hard with amazing people and unimaginable things happen!
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KCHP-MSHP 2010 Spring Meeting Information
The Missouri Society and Kansas Council of Health-System Pharmacists are pleased to announce a preview of their biennial Joint Spring Meeting, Crossing the Divide. Attendees may earn a minimum of 12 hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
This year’s event begins Thursday evening with a pre-meeting dinner symposium on Regional Variations in the Delivery of Care for Multiple Myeloma: Treatment Strategies and Coverage Decisions affecting Healthcare System Pharmacists.
The full conference opens on Friday, April 9 with keynote and general sessions on stress and humor in the workplace, leadership and the practice model challenges, health care reform and opportunities for health system pharmacy. Additional sessions include Clinical Pearls, the Patient-Centered Medical Home, varied technician programming, student programming including a residency panel, law updates for Missouri – plus posters and exhibits – so there is definitely something for everyone!
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MSHP Supports the Missouri Pharmacy Coalition and MPA’S Legislative Day
By Nancy Konieczny, MSHP Coalition Liaison
Pharmacists representing health system, community, academic, nuclear, and consulting pharmacy practices met in Columbia on January 11th hosted by the University of Missouri to continue the dialogue facilitating alignment among pharmacy organizations.
Kimberly Grinston, Executive Director of the Missouri Board of Pharmacy, attended the meeting as a guest and provided background on the pharmacist provided Medication Therapy Management (MTM) rule in process of being drafted by the Board. The Board has formed two working groups to provide input on the draft rule. The first working group is the Education working group. This group will provide suggestions for language pertaining to training and credentialing. The second group is the Standards working group which will advise on the language pertaining to what the pharmacist will be allowed to do. MSHP will be represented on both of the working groups which meet on February 4th in Jefferson City. Consideration will be given to models and language from other states. Once the Board has drafted the written language it will be posted with the intent to receive written public feedback by April 14th for review at the April 28th Board meeting. If there are no significant barriers, the rule could be finalized by the end of July and become effective by early 2011. Physician champions may be needed to support the language if the Board of Healing Arts has concerns. Please contact any member of the Public Policy Committee if you have any suggestions about the promulgation of this rule.
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2009 ASHP Midyear Meeting
Our Mission Statement
The mission of the Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacists is to provide education, leadership and advocacy to support our members in helping people make the best use of medications.
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