Can't Attend Live- No Worries! All Sessions Will Be Recorded and Available After the Conference
AzPA Spring Clinical Conference
Proudly Presented by the
ARIZONA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION - state affiliate of ASHP
Can't Attend Live- No Worries! All Sessions Will Be Recorded and Available After the Conference
This 1.5 day seminar provides continuing education for pharmacy professionals focusing on clinical topics pertinent to institutional and ambulatory care settings.
DIGITAL PROGRAM
AGENDA
7:30 AM-8:00 AM | Coffee/Networking
8:15 AM-9:15 AM / General Session | Let Your Voice Be Heard: A Discussion of Advocacy and ASHP House of Delegates
Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Mindy Burnworth, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Janelle Duran, PharmD, BCPS; Jake Schwartz, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP, BCCCP, BCPS, FAzPA; Christi Jen, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Danielle Kamm, PharmD
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Describe ways Arizona pharmacy professionals can get involved in advocacy through state and national pharmacy associations.
- Discuss the role of Arizona delegates to the ASHP House of Delegates.
- Discuss the potential impact of selected policies coming before the ASHP House of Delegates in June to the practice of pharmacy in Arizona and to pharmacy personnel.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Describe how a pharmacy technician may contribute to ASHP policies.
- Recognize how policies may impact pharmacy technicians.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
9:15 AM-10:15 AM / General Session | Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Recognizing Excellence
David Warner, PharmD; ASHP-Senior Director, Consulting and Practice Development
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Identify opportunities that participation in national pharmacy practice initiatives offer to enhance pharmacy services at your institution.
- Describe opportunities that practice standards offer to evaluate pharmacy services and plan strategically.
- Evaluate strategies to use quality and benchmarking tools for pharmacy services evaluation.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Explain opportunities for pharmacy technicians to use pharmacy practice initiative tools to improve pharmacy operations and services.
- Identify how to prepare for practice standard evaluation process surveys.
- List pharmacy operations measures useful to evaluate pharmacy services.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
10:15 AM-10:45 AM / Networking Break
10:45 AM-11:45 AM / Breakout Session | Focus on Sepsis: Medication Review
Kathleen Bloomquist, PharmD; Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Describe the pathophysiologic basis for hemodynamic instability in septic shock.
- Identify vasopressors that are likely to be of benefit in patients experiencing septic shock.
- Identify fluids used in resuscitation that are most likely to remain in the intravascular space.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Identify vasopressors that are likely to be of benefit in patients experiencing septic shock.
- Identify fluids used in resuscitation that are most likely to remain in the intravascular space.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
10:45 AM-11:45 AM / Breakout Session | Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Medication Review
Lauren Rimsza, PharmD; Amy K. Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP; Alejandro Vazquez, PharmD
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Describe the mechanisms of action (MOA) of evinacumab, bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.
- List the adverse profiles of evinacumab, bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.
- Recall the data that demonstrates the efficacy of evinacmab, bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- List the new treatment options that are alternatives to statin therapy.
- Discuss the storage requirements, dosage forms, and strengths available for these alternative treatment options.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
12:00 PM-12:45 PM / Non-CE Product Theatre Lunch
1:00 PM-2:00 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Sepsis: Guideline Update
Gabriella Gambadoro, PharmD, Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the role of corticosteroids in managing sepsis.
- Review the goal timing of antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.
- Differentiate patients with sepsis who may benefit from a fluid restricted resuscitation strategy.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the role of corticosteroids in managing sepsis.
- Review the goal timing of antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
1:00 PM-2:00 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Guideline Update
Caroline Adrian, PharmD; Jacob D. Northrup, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDCES
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Summarize most recent updates to guideline(s).
- Review lipid goals and ASCVD risk factors and identify indications for treatment.
- Contrast treatment options for hyperlipidemia based on most recent guideline(s).
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the most recent updates to guideline(s).
- List the first line medications recommended by the guideline(s) for the treatment of hyperlipidemia.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Application | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
2:00 PM-3:00 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Sepsis: Patient Case for the New Practitioner
Jacob Schwarz, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP, BCCCP, BCPS, FAzPA
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Apply criteria for sepsis and/or septic shock to a patient case.
- Design an appropriate resuscitation strategy for a hemodynamically unstable patient with septic shock.
- Apply criteria for initiating corticosteroid treatment to a patient case
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Application | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
2:00 PM-3:00 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Patient Case-When Statins Aren't Enough
Erin Raney, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Choose treatment goals for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.
- Recommend treatment for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.
- Monitor treatment outcomes for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
2:00 PM-3:00 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Sepsis: Medication Safety and the Technician's Role
Christi Jen, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Sylvia Gomez, CPhT
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Describe the consequences of delays in antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.
- List 4 medications that are truly STAT when treating patients with septic shock.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Technicians
3:15 PM-4:15 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Sepsis: Therapeutic Debate
Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP; Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Critique the evidence for and against a liberal fluid resuscitation in early management of sepsis.
- Evaluate the evidence for "maximum" doses of norepinephrine when treating patients with septic shock.
- Evaluate the literature for the use of balanced salt solutions or saline as resuscitative fluids in patients with sepsis and septic shock.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
3:15 PM-4:15 PM / Breakout Session | Focus on Hyperlipidemia: How Old Is Too Old? Debating the Use of Statins for Primary Prevention in the Elderly-Therapeutic Debate
Ariane Guthrie, PharmD, BCPS; Thu Nguyen, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate the evidence for initiating statin therapy for primary prevention in older adults.
- Evaluate the evidence for deprescribing statins in persons with advanced age.
- Compare risks and benefits of statins for primary prevention in older adults.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
4:30 PM-5:30 PM / General Session | Demystifying Pain Management - Overview of the 2022 CDC Opioid Guidelines Update
Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP; Amy Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP; Jaclyn Juarez, PharmD Candidate
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Given a patient case, develop a plan to taper the patient off of long-term opioid therapy.
- Evaluate a patient case to determine if co-prescribing of naloxone is appropriate.
- Differentiate between substances detectable and not detectable on commonly available opioid screening assays.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Identify long-term opioids used in pain management.
- Discuss the purpose of co-prescribing naloxone.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
7:30 AM-8:00 AM | Coffee/Networking
8:15 AM-9:30 AM / General Session | Pharmacy Law Update
Roger Morris, RPh, JD; Katie Lavigne, JD; Kaitlyn Fydenkevez, JD
Learning Objectives:
- Describe ramifications of recent pharmacy related court cases.
- List recent changes in Federal Pharmacy Law.
- List recent changes in State Pharmacy Law.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.25 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
9:45 AM-10:45 AM / Breakout Session | Interstitial Lung Disease Associated With Anticancer Therapy
Farah Raheem, PharmD, BCOP
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Identify anticancer agents associated with pulmonary toxicity.
- Describe diagnosis of treatment related interstitial lung disease.
- Define grading of anticancer treatment related interstitial lung disease.
- Discuss management of anticancer treatment related interstitial lung disease and pneumonitis.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
9:45 AM-10:45 AM / Breakout Session | Immunization Update - Jeopardy Style!
Holly Van Lew, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the most recent updates for routine vaccinations, including pneumococcal, Hepatitis B and other vaccines with updated indications and expanded age ranges.
- Apply the current recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations to case-based scenarios and review planned commercialization activities for COVID-19 vaccinations.
- Assess current immunization practices at your practice site and determine implementation strategies for expanding vaccination efforts.
- Discuss vaccine administration best practices, including injection technique and documentation.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Describe tools and resources available for immunization schedules and recommendations.
- Identify the appropriate age-based recommendations for immunizations that impact dose and route of administration.
- Determine ways to support increased vaccine administration and improve workflow to support vaccinations.
- Discuss vaccine administration best practices, including injection technique and documentation.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
9:45 AM-10:45 AM / Breakout Session | Pharmacogenomics Primer for Pharmacists
Adrijana Kekic, PharmD, BCACP
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Discuss navigation of genotype-based guidelines.
- Discuss the current and future role of the pharmacist in pharmacogenomics (PGx) implementation efforts.
- Define the role of pharmacogenomics in personalized drug therapy.
- Identify pharmacogenomics resources.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists
10:45 AM-12:15 PM / Breakout Session | Advances in Pharmacotherapy
Robert J. Lipsy, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, FAzPA
Pharmacist Learning Objectives:
- Identify new drugs approved in 2022-2023.
- Describe the anticipated benefits of the newly approved drugs.
- Describe the possible adverse drug reactions of the newly approved drugs.
- Summarize any specific storage or administration of the newly approved drugs.
Technician Learning Objectives:
- Identify new drugs approved in 2022-2023.
- Identify drug related questions that require the technician to refer to the pharmacist.
- Summarize any specific storage recommendation of the newly approved drugs.
Disclosure: The speaker for this CE activity has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.5 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
10:45 AM-11:45 AM / Breakout Session | Health Needs of Refugees in Arizona: Caring for Traumatized People ... And For Yourself
Kathleen Fairman, MA, PhD; Mary Kaech; Juliana Davis
Learning Objectives:
- Explain principles of trauma-informed care for vulnerable refugee populations.
- Explain self-care strategies to protect against negative health consequences of refugee work among healthcare workers.
- Describe the demographic profile of Arizona's refugees.
- Describe the health profile of refugee populations.
Disclosure: The speakers for this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
ACPE UAN: Accreditation Pending
Activity Type: Knowledge | CE Credits: 1.0 contact hour
Target Audience: Pharmacists, Technicians
Accreditation Information
The Arizona Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE).
Continuing Education
Sessions approved for CE credits are indicated by the CE icon, an ACPE number, and the number of CEUs in the session listing.
To obtain CPE credit for any of the LIVE sessions, learners must attend the session live, enter the session code, and complete the assessment quiz and evaluation for each session attended. The session code and further instructions will be provided at the end of each LIVE session.
- Learning Level: Varies
- Activity Type: Knowledge and Application-based
- Target Audience: Pharmacists and Technicians
Disclosures
Disclosures will be announced at the beginning of each session and can be found in the Event Program under each speaker(s) biography. AzPA CE staff declare no conflicts of interest or financial interests in any product or service mentioned in this activity. View Disclosures
Conflicts of interest have been resolved through content review by the AzPA CE Committee Department and Committee.