Featured Programming

Midyear 2023 offers featured programming in several areas beyond the leading clinical topics of interest. These areas include: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Innovation, Integrated Informatics Institute, Opioid Associated Education, Practitioner Health & Wellness, Sterile Compounding, and Workforce Development.


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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Join us for programming centering on topics and perspectives surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the healthcare and pharmacy space.

  • Advancing Health Equity: A Trauma-Informed Lens for Pharmacists 
  • Beyond the Surface: Exploring the Evidence Behind Common Race-Based Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy Recommendations
  • Guess Who™: Diversity Edition
  • Mitigating Stigma and Bias: A Person-Centered Approach to Care
  • Simple Acts of Inclusion: Practice Advancement Begins with You
  • The Art and Science of Compassion
  • Together We Shine Brighter! Lighting the Path to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Innovation

Participate in programming dedicated to the implementation and use of innovative strategies and solutions to further pharmacy practice.

  • AI and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Emerging Science Considerations for Pharmacists: Nanomedicines and Biosimilars
  • Innovations in Drug Information Practice and Research 2023
  • Putting Oncology into Practice: Modern Treatment Approaches in Women's Health
  • The New Age of Phage Therapy: Utilizing Viruses to Treat Antimicrobial Resistant Infections
  • We Go Together! A Novel Primary Care and Community Pharmacy Collaboration to Optimize Population Level Medication Use Management
  • Partnering with an Innovation Center to Implement Design Thinking Across the Health System (Management Case Study)

Integrated Informatics Institute

Advances in technology connect all specialties and facets of both professional practice and personal life. The 2023 Midyear Clinical Meeting will feature Integrated Informatics Institute sessions providing informatics- and technology-focused education.

  • 2023 Health Technology and Patient Safety Hazards: Are You Playing at the TOP of Your Game? 
  • Informatics Gems 2023: Resident & New Practitioner Bytes of Informatics
  • Informatics Pearls 2023: Gigabytes of Informatics
  • Predictive Modeling to Advance Practice
  • Putting Data to Work: Deploying Key Performance Indicators to Optimize Operations and Automation

Management Case Studies

  • Development and Implementation of a Technology-Assisted Final Product Verification (TAFPV) at a Community Teaching Hospital 
  • Expansion of Medication Tray Check Technology Across Multiple Sites Within a Health System 
  • Implementation Considerations Associated with a High-Speed Intravenous (IV) Syringe Compounding Robot at a Large Academic Medical Center
  • Implementation of IV Room Verification Technology Across a Health System
  • Implementation of Mobile Medication Tracking Technology for Controlled Substance Chain of Custody

Opioid-Associated Education 

Balancing patient pain relief needs and the potential for opioid abuse and misuse continue to be top of mind for the pharmacy profession. Comprehensive strategies are key to making progress. The ASHP Midyear Meeting schedule offers sessions focused on unique ways to address various aspects of opioid management.

  • A Review of Substances of Abuse
  • It's a Small World After All: Diversion Prevention Software Challenges
  • No Pain, No Gain: Updates in Opioid Prescribing and Non-Opioid Pain Management
  • Opioid Guidelines, Regulations, Legislation, Oh My! Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions
  • Opioid Metrics: Monitor Well and Improve Safety in Your Health System
  • To Equitable Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Beyond: DEA Registered Pharmacists to the Rescue
  • The Pain Debates: Honoring the Bow Tie
  • The Scoop on Bupe: Best Practices and Barriers Bridging Care
  • Wear a Seatbelt, Use Condoms, and Carry Naloxone: Harm Reduction Strategies in the Context of the Opioid Crisis

Practitioner Health & Wellness

Pharmacy practitioners are under continued stress to manage new and evolving practice demands. Both drug and staffing shortages can challenge even the most experienced staff members. ASHP, in concert with leading national organizations, supports education to develop best practices in practitioner health and wellness. The Midyear Meeting schedule features programs in this area.

  • A Different Kind of Toxicology: Addressing Toxic Positivity
  • Cultivating an Inclusive Culture: Managing Difficult Co-Workers Including Yourself
  • Occupational Burnout and Moral Injury: The Most UNhappiest Places on Earth
  • Work-Life Harmony and Fulfillment

Sterile Compounding

Applying new standards and understanding the risks associated with compounding is a critical aspect of medication and patient safety. The 2023 Midyear Clinical Meeting will provide multiple educational sessions focusing on the latest updates in sterile compounding.

  • 2023 Sterile Compounding Updates from The Joint Commission
  • A Shortage Crisis: IV Compounding Automation Success Story
  • Compounding ABCs: Following Categories 1, 2, and 3
  • Implementation Considerations Associated with a High-Speed Intravenous (IV) Syringe Compounding Robot at a Large Academic Medical Center
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Risks of Sterile Compounding Inside the Operating Room
  • USP <800>: Focus on Compounding and Administration — Pharmacy and Nursing Safe Practices
  • We've Got All This Data — Now What? Best Practices for Tracking, Trending, and Responding to Environmental Monitoring Data
  • Would’ve Should’ve Could’ve: Training Pharmacy Compounders Correctly the First Time

Workforce Development

Pharmacy practice faces increased pressures to grow and maintain its workforce. Given current practice environments, there is a need for a holistic approach considering the barriers and the overall needs that the pharmacy profession faces.  These sessions will highlight themes that are best practices and strategies needed for both self and workplace development.

  • A Bright Future for Pharmacy Technicians: Next Steps for Pharmacy Technician Integration in the Ambulatory Care
  • Educating for the Future: Bringing Academia to Pharmacy Technicians
  • Let’s Make a Deal: Own Your Career and Negotiate Like a Pro
  • One Small Step for Pharmacy Technicians, One Giant Leap for Recruitment: A Novel Use of Apprentice Programs
  • Pharmacy Technician Education Across the Continuum: Focus on Recruitment and Retention
  • The Crystal Ball Project: Insight and Recommendations for Improving the Future of Pharmacy Education and Workforce
  • What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There! Managing Yourself and Your Career as a New Practitioner

Management Case Studies

  • Enhancing Access to Medications for Heart Failure Patients Prior to Discharge by Utilizing Certified Pharmacy Technicians
  • Expanded Clinical Pharmacy Technician Rules: Comprehensive Medication Management and Population Health
  • Increase Your Employee Engagement by Engaging Your Employees!
  • Prescription for Success: Implementation of a Pharmacy Technician Apprentice Program
  • Utilizing Clinical Pharmacy Technicians to Improve Patient Access to Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Services

Spotlights on Science 

ASHP will offer three featured sessions on cutting-edge technology that will influence your future practice. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 6 at 10 a.m. and see you there! 

  • AI and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Putting Oncology into Practice: Modern Treatment Approaches in Women's Health
  • The New Age of Phage Therapy: Utilizing Viruses to Treat Antimicrobial Resistant Infections
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