Available Until 8/16/2025

Developing an Advocacy Agenda: Political, Professional, and Personal Passions

ACPE Number: 0204-0000-22-580-H04-P
Content Release Date: 8/16/2022
Expiration Date: 8/16/2025
Activity Type: Knowledge-based
CE Credits: 1.0 contact hours
Activity Fee: Members: Free/ Nonmembers: N/A

 This activity is a recording from a live webinar and those that claim credit for the live webinar should not claim credit for this activity.

Activity Overview

This activity will explore the topic of advocating for yourself, your teams, and the pharmacy profession. Pharmacy leaders will share their advocacy journey and tips for practitioners to establish a personal advocacy agenda. The panel of speakers will also highlight recent state and national advocacy efforts along with opportunities to engage in efforts at the organizational level and beyond

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

This activity was planned to meet the educational needs of pharmacy practitioners, particularly new practitioners, with an interest in advancing practice through advocacy.  

After completing this activity, the learner should be able to… 

1. Discuss advocacy as a professional obligation.  

2. Describe examples of opportunities that balance different forms of advocacy. 

3. Identify champions and mentors to support development of a personal advocacy agenda.

* Introduction

* Presentation

* Q&A

Jeff Little, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, FACHE, FASHP
Director of Pharmacy and Outpatient Imaging
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
Kansas City, Missouri

Tara B. Vlasimsky, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, FASHP
Senior System Manager, Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy
Intermountain Health
Denver, Colorado

Tyler Vest, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, BCSCP
Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer, Inpatient Operations
Duke University Hospital
Durham, North Carolina


Moderators

Hope Rockett, PharmD
Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident
The University of Kansas Health System
Kansas City, Kansas

Vinny Rotunno, PharmD, MBA
Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio

No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company.

As defined by the Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education definition of ineligible company. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the CPE activity.

This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP Learning Center. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity. Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.