From the Desk of the CEO

From health care informatics to public health leadership, pharmacists around the country are practicing in nontraditional roles. Few pharmacists may have charted these territories, but in the years to come, these roles may become more commonplace.

Loren Bonner

Pharmacy technicians have always been integral members of the pharmacy care team, and now, with health care growing more complex by the day and the national shortage of pharmacists showing no signs of abating, technicians are taking on expanded roles in the care of patients and finding new paths forward in pursuit of their own career goals.

Elizabeth Briand

Up in the mountains of Colorado, Lucas Smith, PharmD, wears many hats as the owner and lead pharmacist of two independent community pharmacies.

Loren Bonner

Under the right circumstances and in a favorable regulatory environment, pharmacist-led primary care services are financially sustainable, according to real-world evidence from Idaho published November 1, 2025, in JAPhA.

Loren Bonner

A pharmacy is not obligated to process every legal prescription that is transmitted to the pharmacy. A federal judge in Oklahoma recognized this principle in a lawsuit that alleged liability of a pharmacy for harm caused to a patient due to the failure by the pharmacy to honor a 12-year-old girl’s prescription for leuprolide acetate injection.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD