Our 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.

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