AMCP’s Nexus 2015 highlights managed care pharmacy
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s Nexus 2015 conference attracted more than 2,400 managed care pharmacists and other health care professionals from the United States, Europe and Canada, including VCU School of Pharmacy Pharm.D. and Ph.D. students, faculty and alumni.
Nexus 2015: Connecting Health Care and Innovation took place in late October in Orlando, Fla. It was AMCP’s “most successful fall conference and our fifth successful national meeting in a row,” said Edith A. Rosato, “demonstrating once again just how important managed care pharmacy is to patient care and the stewardship of resources.” Rosato, CEO of AMCP, is a former member of the VCU School of Pharmacy’s National Advisory Council.
Ph.D. student Anisha Patel received a bronze medal for her poster, “Dispensing Channel Used for Specialty Drugs and Associated Costs in Medicare Part D Population.” Her presentation was well-attended, according to participants.
A record 230-plus poster presentations were made during the conference. They were judged based on relevance, originality, quality, bias and clarity, the same criteria used by the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy to evaluate manuscripts. To see Patel’s abstract, click here and scroll to page S81.
Among the VCU-related attendees were Patel and her advisor, professor Norman Carroll, and fourth-year Pharm.D. students Mina Antonius, Zeshan Mahmood, Jaeau Obcemea and Stephen Song.
Alumni on hand included Brian Bullock (B.S. ’83), president and CEO of the Burchfield Group Inc., in St. Paul, Minn.; Mi Jung Lim (Pharm.D. ’15), who is a PGY1 resident in managed care with Anthem Pharmacy Solutions in Norfolk; and Stephanie Taylor (B.S. ’92), clinical pharmacist and director of the PGY1 Managed Care Pharmacy Residency for Anthem.
The approximately 6,000 members of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy have as their goal to provide the best available pharmaceutical care for all patients.
The association represents professionals who develop and provide clinical, education and business management services for the more than 200 million Americans who are covered by managed pharmacy benefits.
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