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VPA Spring Meeting - Beyond Medications: A Pharmacist's Role in Safety and Stewardship

  • 03/13/2022
  • 08:00 - 16:00
  • Rutland, Vermont

Registration

  • Vendor sponsorship, table at spring program
  • Your registration fee includes a VPA Student Membership!
  • Please reach out to us at VPAManager@gmail.com for the registration code
  • Please reach out to us at VPAManager@gmail.com for the registration code
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VPA Spring Meeting

Beyond Medications: A Pharmacist's Role in Safety and Stewardship

8 AM - 4 PM | Sunday, March 13, 2022

Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden, VT

Registration:

Pharmacists: $69 members, $149 non-members

Technicians: $40 members, $50 non-members

Students: $40 members, $50 non-members (includes student membership until August 2022!)


CE Topics will include: Medication Safety, Benzodiazepine deprescribing, Opioids, and Anticoagulation


This meeting will fulfill 2 hours of controlled substance CE required for VT pharmacists and 1 hour of medication safety CE as required by NY state.

All state and local guidance in regards to COVID-19 will be followed for this event. Attendees must be vaccinated, and masks must be worn when not eating or drinking.


Agenda:

  • 8:00-9:00 am Breakfast and time to socialize, visit exhibitors
  • 9:00-10:00 am: Anticoagulation Stewardship and Safety
    • Alison Notte, RPh, CACP
    • Clinical Pharmacist, Rutland Regional Medical Center
  • 10:00-10:15 am Updates from the Vermont Department of Health
    • Melissa Southwick and Rebecca O’Reilly
  • 10:15-11:15 am Does Human Error Exist?: A Safety Discussion for Pharmacy
    • Jeffrey Schnoor, Pharm.D., M.B.A., CPPS
    • Medication Safety Coordinator, The University of Vermont Medical Center
  • 11:30-12:30 pm Benzos: Friends or Foes? A Guide to Benzodiazepine Deprescribing
    • Melissa Gianetti, PharmD
    • PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, Rutland Regional Medical Center
  • 12:30-1:15 pm Lunch/Meet with Vendors
  • 1:15-1:30 pm Awards
  • 1:30-2:30 pm Lessons Not Quite Learned: Doctors and Opiates (A history of the opiate epidemic)
    • Beach Conger, MD
  • 2:40-3:40 pm Update on the Opioid Crisis in Vermont – with Implications And Opportunities for Pharmacists
    • Mark Levine, MD
    • Vermont Commissioner of Health
  • 3:40-4:15 pm Business Session


Join us for snowshoeing at Mountain Top Inn at 2:45 PM on Saturday, March 12 and for a social gathering at the inn's tavern at 6:00 PM.