ASCP Reports

ASCP's 19th Midyear Conference and Exhibition Will Focus on Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

When Geriatrics '97, ASCP's 19th Midyear Conference and Exhibition, kicks off on May 18 at the Marriott Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, the society will take another major step to fullfill its ongoing commitment to providing intensive post-graduate training in geriatric pharmacotherapy.

The meeting, which will feature three pre-meeting workshops, the Geriatrics '97 certificate program, and three days of special industry symposia, will provide pharmacists and other health care professionals with the tools they need to deliver better pharmaceutical care to the nation's aging population.

Educational sessions on specific diseases and the medications used to treat them will use a combination of lecture and case study techniques and stress identification, prevention, and resolution of drug-related problems.

One conference program, "Chronic Care and the Medically Complex Patient," will focus on how the marketplace is responding to rising chronic care costs. Also scheduled are sessions on the pathophysiology of dementias and medications used to treat these conditions, and the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma in the elderly. For more information on Geriatrics '97, call the ASCP Education Department at 800-355-2727, or visit the ASCP home page at http://www.ascp.com.

Knoll Funds Development of Wound Care Traineeship

Pressure ulcers are a common and costly condition, especially among the institutionalized elderly. In concert with the treatment nurse, dietitian, physical and occupational therapists, physician, and caregiver, the consultant pharmacist can add substantial knowledge and skill to wound care management as part of a multidisciplinary team.

To better enable consultant pharmacists to provide pharmaceutical care to nursing facility residents with pressure ulcers, the ASCP Research and Education Foundation is developing a wound care traineeship for consultant pharmacists. The Foundation has received an educational grant from Knoll Pharmaceutical Company for the development of this traineeship program.

The first wound care traineeship will be offered in 1998. Application materials will be available later this year. To be placed on the mailing list for application materials, contact Sandra Fulton, ASCP Foundation, 1321 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; 703-739-1300, ext. 144; e-mail: sfulton@ascp.com.

1997 ASCP Research and Education Foundation Trustees Elected

The ASCP Research and Education Foundation Board of Trustees recently elected the following new trustees to two-year terms beginning January 1, 1997: Jade Gong, RN, MPPM; Eleanor Perfetto, RPh, PhD; and Carl Trinca, PhD.

Gong, a nationally recognized expert in subacute and long-term care issues, has more than 12 years of experience in the health care industry, including work as director of reimbursement and finance for the American Health Care Association.

Perfetto has worked as director of health outcomes assessment at Wyeth-Ayerst Research and was senior pharmacoepidemiologist with the Center for Medical Effectiveness at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Trinca is vice president of institutional progress and professor of pharmacy at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. Previously, Trinca held positions at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy as director of pharmacy affairs from 1982 to 1984 and as executive vice president from 1984 to 1995.

Donna Wagner, PhD, vice president for research and development at the National Council on the Aging, was re-elected to the Board for a second term. W. Gary Erwin, PharmD, vice president for professional programs and professor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, was elected chairman for 1997. The ASCP Council of Presidents elected Elliott Tertes as its representative on the Board, and the ASCP Board of Directors elected Region V director Mark Sey as its representative. Also joining the Trustees in 1997 is ASCP President-elect Jan Allen.

Continuing their current terms on the Board are ASCP Secretary/Treasurer Arnold Cammeyer; ASCP Immediate Past President and Chairman of the Board Brian Kahan; ASCP President Ralph Kalies, PhD; Penelope Pollard, MS, MBA; Gerald Roesener, RPh; T. Franklin Williams, MD; and ASCP Executive Director R. Tim Webster.