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

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.

Photos from https://mountaintopinn.com/

Please note that lodging is now sold out at the Mountain Top Inn and Resort. Please consider lodging at the Best Western Inn & Suites Rutland-Killington, about 15 minutes away from Mountain Top. 

Please reach out to us at VPAManager@gmail.com with any questions. We can't wait to see you in March!