Your AlSHP Officers and Board are working hard toward a great 2012! We held an all-day board retreat in February to discuss board goals and planning for our activities

and aspirations for the remainder of 2012, and we have developed and approved meeting programming that we believe is vital and relevant to health-system pharmacy practice in Alabama. A significant part of our discussions have focused on what we can do to promote ASHP’s Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) and grow our membership ranks, both in numbers and engagement.

I recently sent an e-mail to Alabama hospital pharmacy directors requesting completion the PPMI Self Assessment, if not already done. In the next few months, AlSHP would like to also host a state meeting of interested pharmacy leaders to address how we can work together to make PPMI a reality in Alabama. If you have not already, please contact me (cpeevy@baptistfirst.org) to let me know that you would like to participate in this important

gathering. AlSHP will only move forward with this meeting if there is genuine interest amongst our members to do so.

Finally, you will soon see some innovative methods we are utilizing to increase AlSHP membership, and all of you are a vital part of that membership growth. Please take the time to invite your colleagues that are not yet a part of AlSHP to become members and join us in promoting health system pharmacy practice in our state. We will look forward to seeing you all at the AlSHP 2012 Summer Meeting, coming up on June 7-9 at Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida. Thank you for being a part of this vital organization, and please let us know if there is anything your board and leaders can do to serve you better.

Thanks,

Clint Peevy