Last Day at TPA 2009Our closing day at TPA was a dandy.
Nathan Pope and Marcus Stavchansky presented their Hot Topic continuing education seminar along with several other presenters from the TPA RLI (RxPerts Leadership Institute). The talk had a lot of discussion from the audience and it really provided some great information for all who attended.
We spent time at the Delegation meeting discussing the revisions or rewrite of the CAPA Bylaws. This discussion was to say the least long winded, but it is great to see discussion actually happening. Times are changing for the profession and all of us need to be prepared for what comes ahead for the profession of pharmacy.
At the closing session we saw the changing of the guard. Bill Moore passed on his duties to Gene Adams and all the board of directors were sworn in for their responsibilities for the association in the coming year.
We had a closing session with a motivational speaker who used the sounds of his guitar, and skillful playing to ask the questions ‘What If?’ and ‘Why not?’
What a great weekend to meet colleagues and old friends. We also had the opportunity to see where our profession is headed in the state of Texas.
In the end we all learned that it is up to us, the pharmacy community, to dictate where our profession should go. The worst thing you can do is sit down and do nothing. We need to continue our local association meetings, like CAPA. We need to grow the membership and more importantly we need to get that membership more active within teh pharmacy community.
Thank you TPA for hosting a great event. The Capital Area Pharmacy Association is looking forward to representing the event in Austin next year. Mark Zamutt will be serving as chair representative for the TPA event in 2010.
Don’t forget you can follow us on our twitter feed @CAPA_Austin and now follow us on Facebook by friending us and joining the CAPA group. We will soon be moving over to a fan page which will allow us to have more presence in the facebook community in a more organized manner.
2nd Day at TPA
Today was a filled with Local Caucus discussions more educational sessions and the Awards Luncheon where yours truly actually won the raffle, w00t! We saw Royd Maelstrom, R.Ph., an officer with CAPA win the local association pharmacist of the year for his management and contributions to the Volunteer Health Clinic (VHC).
Two members of CAPA, Nathan Pope, Pharm.D. and professor at UT Austin and CAPA program director along with Marcus Stavchansky, Pharm.D., VP of CAPA; did a practice run for their talk on ‘Hot Topics in Pharmacy’ with the rest of the speaking panel for the continuing education event.
We closed out the evening with several PharmPAC events including a wonderful time at Casino Night. It was held at the conference hotel where all participants played blackjack, roulette, poker, and craps. There was music, food, and spirits. All the chips were donations for the PharmPAC organization which helps to keep our voice present at the state legislative level. The Auction held at the end of the evening was exciting and lots of fun everyone there.
1st Day at TPAWe enjoyed our first full day of the conference at TPA.
The opening session was a passing of the guard from Jim Martin to Joe DaSilva as the new CEO/Executive director for the Texas Pharmacy Association. We also heard from our current president Bill Moore, R.Ph. the current president of TPA.
There were several Educational sessions to attend to throughout the morning and afternoon.
Additionally there were delegation meetings to discuss bylaws and resolutions that were of interest to the members that were attending.
We wrapped up the day at the Exhibit Hall showcase where we visited the various sponsors of the event and the new and exciting products for pharmacy practice that they made available. There was food, fun, and lots of people to meet.
We are looking forward to the second day of sessions and more time to network with colleagues from all over the state.
Don’t forget that we have a twitter feed that you can follow by clicking the image below:
We attempted some live microblogging during the keynote of the opening session. Tell me what you think?
More posts to come after Day 2 at TPA.
Arrived in San Antonio for TPA
We have arrived at the Riverwalk town of San Antonio, Texas. The conference is being held at the beautiful Westin Riverwalk. It has a gorgeous scenery and some very rustic decor.On the Riverwalk
We are looking forward to an early start tomorrow. If you have any questions about the 2009 Rxperts Southwest Conference & Expo make sure to visit the event page on the TPA website.Westin Lobby
A Message from TPA
Here is a video from TPA and Joe DaSilva regarding the state of the Association and a call for involvement. Please listen to this brief video message from TPA’s Executive Director/CEO Joe DaSilva. A Message from TPA
And be sure to join your colleagues at the Texas Pharmacy Association’s Rxperts 2009 SW Conference & Expo in San Antonio from July 23-25, 2009. Register today!
Facebook and Twitter
You can connect with more CAPA members using two major social networking sites found easily on the Internet. In Facebook, we have a group setup called Capital Area Pharmacy Association (CAPA), where you can request to join and one of the officers can add you to the roster. We will be good about posting any events that CAPA might be participating in. It will also be a place where you discuss anything with your fellow CAPA Facebook friends right on the web. Take a look when you have the chance. For those interested in Twitter, please visit twitter. By following us at @capa_austin you will see some quick news posts relevant to the central Texas pharmacy community. Additionally you will receive tweets that talk about updates to our CAPA blog. This will inform you of when to visit our site for the latest updates. These are two new features that we will be really working hard keeping up to date so everyone will find their Preferred method to communicate with the rest of the CAPA membership. As always, if you have any questions, do not hesistate to contact us.
The CAPA Blog
Welcome to our CAPA Blog. We have begun our entry into the Web 2.0 space and are ready to find new an innovative way to communicate to our members and guests of the http://capa-austin.org website. Make sure to follow us in over the next several months to see what we are up to at CAPA. We will post relevant pharmacy news, advocacy information, and general administration information for all to be updated. Expect at least one new post each week. As the blog gains more popularity we will hopefully being posting three time per week. Please remember that each post contains a comments ability where all our visitors can leave comments or questions that we can help to answer to. We have implemented SPAM protection so hopefully only real people will be allowed to post, but do not hesitate to contact us if you notice any issues. If you want to contribute to our blog or have any general questions please send an e-mail to ‘blog at capa-austin dot org’ Enjoy the new site and the new information that we will provide.