1st Annual TPA Leadership Forum
On August 28 & 29 of 2009, TPA invited some of their active leaders within the organization in order to talk about where the organization is heading. We spoke of our mission and strategic plan for the next three years. TPA staff along with many of the board of directors listened to various TPA members throughout the 2-day event. Each of the participants had something to contribute, but most of us left with optimism for the future of the association. Each participant set a goal for the coming year that was attainable. They conveyed their particular goal to the president of TPA, Gene Adams, in an open forum. CAPA had representation from Nathan Pope, Alexis Balko, Joe Jospeh, Jason Sparks, and Marcus Stavchansky. Many of the other large locals, and small, were also represented. Take a look at some of the photos from the event:

*I apologize for the large white space, it is something we are working to fix.

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Installation Ceremony Gallery
Please send all photos for the CAPA installation ceremony to this address so we can post them on our site. We hope everyone had a great time at the August Social Meeting.

CAPA Members

Joe gives his opening address

Joe DaSilva, CEO of TPA, gives his address

Joe thank Royd for his service with VHC

Marcus gives his address as new CAPA President

Mark Zamutt speaks about TPA

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CAPA Induction Ceremony
We celebrated the end of a successful year at CAPA and began a new chapter. We thanked Joe Joseph and Alexis Balko for their dedicated service over the past years and we welcomed some new faces to the Board of Directors.

Officers Inducted

We can now welcome our newest Board members and Officers: Vice President/President Elect:

Nathan Pope, Pharm.D. Vice President, President-Elect

Treasurer:

Paige Vincent, B.S., RPh. Treasurer

Secretary:

Tara Penny, Pharm.D. Secretary

Director, UT College of Pharmacy Student Representative:

Julieta Scalo UT College of Pharmacy Student Representative (1 yr)

Director, Pharmacy Technician:

Kim Stengal, C.PhT. - Director, Technician Representative (2 yr)

Director, Pharmacist (3 Positions):

Jose Cervantes, Pharm.D. Director (1 yr)

Royd Malstrom, B.S., RPh. Director (2 yr)

Kris Klein-Bradham, Pharm.D. Director (2 yr)

Please say hello at our next meeting to the new officers if you were not able to make it to Scholz’s Garten tonight.

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CAPA Social Tomorrow, Scholz’s Garten
We begin our next CAPA year tomorrow night, the 27th of August. Our annual social event will be held at the historical Scholz’s Garten. Follow the link and you can see us mentioned for Thursday night’s calendar. Based on our eVite RSVPs we are booked. However if you are not able to go please change your RSVP status in order to allow others that would like to go. We will be installing all the new officers on Thursday night. We will also have a guest appearance by Joe DaSilva, the newly appointed CEO and Executive Director of the Texas Pharmacy Association. The night will be packed with food and fun. We of course want to thank our outgoing officers for their commitment to the local pharmacy association. We especially want to give a big thanks to Joe Joseph for his time and effort in making sure our meetings are in order and that our vision remains in focus. Please congratulate all the new officers on the CABA Board:

Vice President/President Elect: Nathan Pope

Treasurer:  Paige Vincent

Pharmacy Technician Director:  Kim Stengel

Secretary: Tara Penny

Pharmacist Director (3 Positions):

Royd Malstrom

Kris Klein-Bradham

Jose Cervantes

We are all looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow night. Party starts at 6:30. If you are new to our officer group, please arrive at 5:30 to be a part of your first meeting. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter or become a Fan of CAPA_Austin on Facebook. Regards, Marcus — CAPA President ‘08-’09

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A Step in the Right Direction

Joe A. DaSilva, Executive Director/CEO of TPA has posted his August 2009 newsletter. It is important to follow where our parent organization is headed as it affects how our local association will move forward into the future. Take the time to read his post on taking a ‘Step in the Right Direction‘. If you would like to learn more about TPA, I encourage you to review the brief slide show to learn more about the oldest organization in the State of Texas. Our summer social is coming up, please make sure to reply to the Evite when you have received it and also remember to cast your ballots. Our ballot is available here. See everyone on August 27th. Marcus

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Piano Man, pharmacy style!
Hello all, Marcus here. I am going to be the managing editor and main contributor to our new CAPA Austin Blog beginning September 1st, 2009. Many of our board members will also be making posts to talk about CAPA meeting information, current events, news updates, and anything pharmacy and CAPA related they would like to talk about. I would highly suggest you follow us in a news reader such as Google reader to keep up to date with all of our latest posts. Google will walk you through the entire process for using their news reader. If you do not know what a new reader is, now is the time to learn, in what takes you hours to get information on the  internet can be reduced to minutes with the use of a ‘.rss’ reader. I am looking forward to our future meetings at CAPA and to our TPA conference in 2010 which will be held in our own town, Austin, TX. If you would like to leave any comments to any of our posts, please do so by clicking on the link that follows the post, “Leave a Comment” you would like to comment on. I wanted to end this post with a video. I stumbled upon this video from a college of pharmacy somewhere in the US, but I wanted to share it with everyone. It reminds a lot of UT Austin’s Pharmacy Follies. If you have a pharmacy related song or video you would like to share with the rest of CAPA, do not hesitate to contact us at blog@capa-austin.org. We can ALL relate to this video. Enjoy everyone: Music starts at around 1:13 Pharmacy Man

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CAPA Fan Page and Twitter Feed

For those of you who cannot frequent the CAPA website, we have created a CAPA Fan page on Facebook. By clicking on the below badge you can add yourself as a fan. We are no longer going to update the Group CAPA page in Facebook as it is more administratively friendly to edit the fan page.

CAPA – Capital Area Pharmacy Association on Facebook

Additionally we have a twitter feed you can follow. Just by clicking the badge below.

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