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 vaccination, 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
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- 1 Hour CE
- Speaker: Allison Notte, RPh, CACP, Clinical Pharmacist, Rutland Regional Medical Center
- 10:15-11:15 am Does Human Error Exist?: A Safety Discussion for Pharmacy
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- 1 Hour CE
- Speaker: 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
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- 1 Hour CE
- Speaker: Melissa Gianetti, PharmD, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, Rutland Regional Medical Center
- 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch, Awards and VPA Business Session
- 1:30-2:30 pm Lessons Not Quite Learned: Doctors and Opiates (A history of the opiate epidemic)
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- 1 Hour CE
- Speaker: Beach Conger, MD
- 2:40-3:40 pm Update on the Opioid Crisis in Vermont – with Implications And Opportunities for Pharmacists
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- 1 Hour CE
- Speaker: Mark Levine, MD, Vermont Commissioner of Health
Lodging is available at the Mountain Top Inn. Rooms are available for $175 on Saturday, March 12, 2022, and $125 for Sunday, March 13, 2022. Please call the Mountain Top Inn at (802) 483-2311 for reservations; please request the special room rate for the Vermont Pharmacists Association Meeting.
Join us on Saturday, March 12, 2022 for a social and gathering ahead of the VPA Meeting on Sunday! Details forthcoming.
Please reach out to us at VPAManager@gmail.com with any questions. We can't wait to see you in March!
