ACCP-ASHP-VCU Congressional Health Policy Fellow named
Daniel J. Nam of Floral Park, N.Y., has been named the 2013-14 ACCP-ASHP-VCU Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow. The fellow program, which is now in its seventh year, provides pharmacists with unique insights into health care policy analysis and development, under the auspices of the VCU School of Pharmacy in collaboration with the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
The current fellow, Derrick Griffing, Pharm.D., M.P.H., is a health policy fellow for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who serves on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Nam earned his B.S. Pharm. from St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions in 2003 and is a J.D. candidate for the class of 2013 from St. John’s University School of Law. Nam currently practices as a pharmacist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York. Previously, he owned and operated an independent community pharmacy, concentrating on programs for increasing health literacy and access for minority patients.
Nam will begin the fellow program on Sept.1. After a structured orientation to Congress from VCU faculty and the Brookings Institution, Nam will spend one month with the ASHP government affairs and policy team and one month with the ACCP government and professional affairs staff. In November, he will begin working as a policy fellow on a congressional committee or with the personal staff of a United States senator or representative.
More information about the ACCP-ASHP-VCU Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow Program is available by clicking here.
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