New Association policies set at second House session
2010 House of Delegates concludes with approval of new policies
dealing with pharmacogenomics, e-prescribing, and personal health
records.
In one of the final events of the 2010 APhA Annual Meeting &
Exposition, the House of Delegates concluded business on Monday
afternoon, March 15. The Policy Review Committee’s three new
policy statements, which addressed pharmacogenomics and personalized
medicine, e-prescribing standards, and personal health records, were
accepted by the 320 delegates present during the second session and
became official Association policy. Two amendments to the policies were
proposed and accepted during the session, and the final text of the
statements will be available on the APhA website at www.pharmacist.com/hod shortly.
The House of Delegates also discussed other policy statements during
the second session. Part II of the Policy Review Committee Report, which
contained statements referring to personalized medicine, e-prescribing,
and personal health records, was accepted with one amendment referring a
statement to the Board of Trustees. Four new business items were
proposed during the session; these policies addressed prescription
transfer coupons, the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies, the
pharmacy accreditation process, and introductory pharmacy practice
experiences for student pharmacists. The accreditation process policy
was referred to the Board of Trustees, and the other three statements
were accepted as official APhA policy.
The second session of the House of Delegates also marked the
transition of several officers. Steven Zona, Lawrence “L.B.”
Brown, Matt Osterhaus, and Marialice Bennett were installed as trustees,
and Harold Godwin officially took over as president. New
trustee Walt Chambliss was unable to be present and was installed later.
The House conducted an election for 2010–2011 Speaker-elect; Brad
Tice, PharmD, defeated Dick Gourley, PharmD, and Kevin Musto,
BPharm.
Posted by Alex Egervary (aegervary@aphanet.org)
March 17, 2010, 5:00 pm
Updated March 18, 2010, 10:00 am
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