4137.0 Pharmacists’ Role in Health Education and Health Promotion

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
With their knowledge of medication safety, highly visible roles in the community, and frequent interactions with diverse individuals, pharmacists are in key positions to expand their roles in the promotion and support of healthy behaviors. Leveraging an underutilized resource such as pharmacists to address unmet preventive health needs is especially important in our current health care delivery environment.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the contributions of pharmacists in health education, promotion, and communication. 2. Identify strategies to increase utlization/inclustion of pharmacists into health promotion programs and activities.
Moderator:
Raymona Lawrence, DrPH, MPH

10:30 AM
Pharmacists' Role as Members of an Interdisciplinary Health Care Team in the HRSA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative
Linda Kwon, MPH, Eric Lai, PhD, MPH, Zandra Glenn, PharmD, Christina Mead, PharmD and Karen Williams, PharmD
     
10:45 AM
Pharmacists impacting international public health: A post-graduate pharmacy residency in southern Africa
Marie-Josephine Seya, Doctor of pharmacy, Joseph Barone, Doctor of pharmacy and James Alexander, Doctor of pharmacy
11:00 AM
Maryland Vote & Vax initiative: Students' and faculty pharmacists' planning and implementation of an immunization clinic on Election Day to improve public health
Christina Dang, PharmD candidate, Janet Dudley, PharmD candidate, Hoai-An Truong, PharmD, MPH, Cynthia Boyle, PharmD, FAPhA and Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, CGP
     
  
11:15 AM
Loosening CAHPS on prescriptions: Surveying how patients in a large urban Medicaid health plan rate the quality of pharmacist instructions, 2007-2010
S. Rae Starr, MPhil, MOrgBehav and Susan Leong, RPh
     
  
11:30 AM
Teaching pharmacy students to develop an evidence-based public health program directed toward a vulnerable population
Roger A. Edwards, ScD, Margarita DiVall, Pharm D, Craig Stevens, PharmD candidate, Elina Zilberman, PharmD candidate, Jennifer Kirwin, Pharm D and Mark Watanabe, Pharm D
     

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Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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