Next CAPA Meeting Thursday March 4th
Our first meeting for 2010 has taken a while to finally appear, but it is here. We will be having a talk on buprenorphine given by William Nemeth, MD. Fore more details, visit our Facebook Fan Page or our Website. If you are not receiving e-vites, please reach out to our secretary Tara Penny. Remember if your membership is not current with TPA or CAPA, you will not be receiving the e-vites. You can always join now by visiting the TPA website, which is just about to get revamped. Many of the CAPA members and other local pharmacists have been helping TPA get ready for their annual meeting, which will be held in Austin, TX, this year. CAPA is the local chapter of the Texas Pharmacy Association that will be co-hosting the event. If you are interested in contributing to the event, make sure to reach out to Mark Zamutt, one of our local members. We are also looking for more sponsors for our meetings. Please contact our program director to sponsor any future events. You can see the current schedule of our meetings page of the CAPA website. If you are interested in sponsoring one of our meetings, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to seeing everyone at D&B on Thursday evening.
Pharmacists and health care reform
A member of CAPA passed along this quick read from Kaiser Health which describes the LA Times article on pharmacists in the health care reform movement. Take the time to read the article and see for yourself why we need to stand up as a profession and show why we can be the experts in managing patient’s medication therapy and medical conditions. See how pharmacists can achieve those positive patient outcomes by filling in the gaps that current health care solutions do not fill. Pharmacists Could Play Important Role In Reform Thank you to Scott Griggs for sharing the article to the rest of us. If you have something you would like to share with the rest of your fellow CAPA members do not hesitate to send us an e-mail with a link and any description you would like to include in the discussion.
Next CAPA meeting this Thursday (12/3)
We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the next CAPA meeting this Thursday at Cannoli Joe’s in South Austin. We will be listening to an update to Texas Law from our very own CAPA member Gay Dodson, the Executive Director of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. This educational session will have CE available and keep in mind that the session will be recorded for future use as a webinar CE. This is our joint meeting with AASHP, so please welcome all the new faces, and some regular ones, when you see them in the meeting room. As a reminder, e-mails and letters have been mailed out to renew your TPA memberships. There have been some changes to the renewal process including how you make a contribution to the local association. Please remember to add $30.00 in the appropriate section of the renewal, online or in print, in order for your local CAPA association to receive the dues to keep having these functions. More importantly the money is also used to provide scholarships to the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and for active CAPA members interested in promoting pharmacy advocacy. One of the added benefits to joining TPA this year will be a subscription to the Pharmacist Letter, which many pharmacist consider the best 20 minute read in order to keep up to date in our practice. This is a nice value for the renewal or beginning to your TPA membership. Also, use this opportunity to recruit other pharmacy personnel to the organization and to CAPA. The more members we have the more opportunities we can create for meetings like this one and for other great events in the future. Technicians, Students, Pharmacists and anyone else is welcome to join the association, just send them over to the TPA website for more information. We are looking forward to seeing everyone this week. And for those of you unable to make the event, have a healthy and happy holiday. Marcus — CAPA President
Next CAPA Meeting, December 3rd
We have our next meeting place and time set and the eVite should be coming out soon. CAPA is proud to announce Continuing Education (CE) to finish out 2009! And an opportunity to welcome AASHP members as we enjoy the evening together. We hope to see you there! We’ll be meeting at Cannoli Joe’s in South Austin. The address shows East 290 but for those of you Austinites, it is known as “west 290″ located between MoPac and S. Lamar on 290/71 south of downtown. A Texas Pharmacy Law Update Presented by: Gay Dodson, Executive Director/Secretary, Texas State Board of Pharmacy Learning Objectives: At the completion of this program, the participant will be able to: 1) Discuss the recent changes to pharmacy laws and rules, and 2) Discuss the current issues faced by the State Board of Pharmacy Agenda: 6:30 PM, Networking and Registration 7:00 PM, Dinner Buffet 7:30 PM, Program: A Texas Pharmacy Law Update 8:30 PM, Question and Answer 9:00 PM, Adjourn Up to 50 participants may register for this event. Cash Bar Self funded by the Capital Area Pharmacy Association. Texas Pharmacy Association (154) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been assigned ACPE number #TBD P/T and is accredited for 1.0 Contact Hours (0.10 CEUs). See our website for more information.
CAPA September October Meeting
We had a great turnout for our last meeting which was held at the University of Texas Club on The University of Texas Campus.The event was sponsored by Abbot and we had a guest speaker that presented two very relevant topics to our pharmacy practice. We want to thank Dr. Scumpia for shedding light on the thyroid controversy especially when it comes to substitution and for introducing us to some new therapies in the management of triglycerides. Look for our next meeting in early December where we will move to a larger venue and host our colleagues from the AASHP organization. Stay tuned to the blog and twitter feed for an update on teh meeting details. We hope everyone had fun last event, we are definitely looking forward to December.
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
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.
We can now welcome our newest Board members and Officers: Vice President/President Elect:Officers Inducted
Treasurer:Nathan Pope, Pharm.D. Vice President, President-Elect
Secretary:Paige Vincent, B.S., RPh. Treasurer
Director, UT College of Pharmacy Student Representative:Tara Penny, Pharm.D. Secretary
Director, Pharmacy Technician:Julieta Scalo UT College of Pharmacy Student Representative (1 yr)
Director, Pharmacist (3 Positions):Kim Stengal, C.PhT. - Director, Technician Representative (2 yr)
Jose Cervantes, Pharm.D. Director (1 yr)
Royd Malstrom, B.S., RPh. 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.Kris Klein-Bradham, Pharm.D. Director (2 yr)
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 PopeTreasurer: Paige VincentPharmacy Technician Director: Kim StengelSecretary: Tara PennyPharmacist Director (3 Positions):Royd MalstromKris Klein-BradhamJose CervantesWe 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
A Step in the Right DirectionJoe 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
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