Washington DC—Following the retirement of William Ellis, MS, RPh, ICE–CCP, after a distinguished 14-year tenure as executive director of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS), the American Pharmacists Association and its autonomous division of BPS announces that the search for a permanent executive director has commenced. The search will be led by a search committee consisting of BPS board members.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Pharmacists Association released the following statement after Congress’s response to the hundreds of APhA members’ pleas to include major federal PBM reforms in the end-of-year spending package set to pass Congress this week.

“Yes” on CR with specific Medicaid and Medicare reforms is essential to confront PBM tactics that inflate American’s prescription drug costs, force pharmacy closures, and block access to Americans’ pharmacies of choice 

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) began announcing the selection of the 2025 APhA Awards and Honors Program recipients. The APhA Awards and Honors Program is the most comprehensive recognition program in the profession of pharmacy. All honorees in the profession-wide, practitioner, research, and student pharmacist categories will be announced over the next few weeks and can be found on APhA’s awards website. Recipients will be officially recognized during the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Nashville, TN, March 21–24, 2025.  

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) response to APhA’s request to issue a twelfth amendment to the declaration under the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act for medical countermeasures.