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“Presidential Forum #13 from 5/12/2013”
“Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
Hello SNPhians,
As I am sitting in the airport writing this Presidential Forum, I am reflecting on the last four years of my pharmacy school and all the good times that I have had while being a pharmacy student. I want to congratulate all the Class of 2013 students for all their accomplishments and for their dedication to the field. I look forward to seeing your transition into NPhA be that much smoother with your continued dedication to serve the under served. Please make sure to share your graduation spot light moment with SNPhA by tagging us on Twitter, Instagram, or FB. We would love to be able to share these moments with all your fellow colleagues and SNPhA family members. You can also email all your pictures to myself at pejmanahmadi@snpha.org and I will make sure they get posted.
Now for all the great updates:
1) Have you heard of the Rite Aid Leadership Academy? If not, then you need to definitely get registered for this great opportunity to develop your leadership skills. Spots are limited and highly recommended to fill the application ASAP. Here is the application and flyer for the event.
a. Members can either participate in the leadership academy OR the Clinical Skills Competition, NOT BOTH.
2) We are looking for leaders!!!! Rite Aid is looking for nominations for this year’s Community Leader Award. This award is for current Executive Board members (2012-2013) and they need to be nominated by specific individuals. Please look over the Guidelines/Criteria before nominating. Also, here is a link to the nomination forum or you can find it on the Forms Tab of the SNPhA website. The deadline is June 16th.
3) This year we will be having the Scrapbook Competition as well. Please make sure to bring your scrapbooks to the meeting and to pay attention where we would you like to display them. During the judging we ask that all competitors to not bother the judges so that they can judge on a timely manner. If we observe a school or member is conflicting with and judging manner, then we would be considering disqualifying that chapter from the Scrapbook Competition. Please direct all your questions to myself at pejmanahmadi@snpha.org
4) I have great news!!! The results from all your hard work are in. Attached you can find the breakdown to the Walmart Diabetes Health Fairs in March and April. Pictures of these events can be found on our Facebook. Please make sure to tag yourself on the pictures and to promote these services you have provided to the community. Our Executive Board and the Executives of Walmart are extremely pleased and proud of the success of these events and have hailed our professionalism and dedication to serving our underserved communities. Please make sure to share these statistics in the attachment on your social media. Again, Thank you to all the members that were involved in these events.
5) Here is a message from Dr. George Okpamen PharmD, your Executive Chairman:
When Dr. Coleman brought up the idea of designing a commemorative lapel pin for the 40th Anniversary conference, it was another opportunity to build yet another bridge. This year our board put an emphasis on getting more of our chapters and more importantly our members involved in everything that we do. The chance to represent all 80 chapters and over 4,000 members with just 1 pin was a monumental challenge. Seven chapters took the bull by the horns and produced twenty ingenious designs. Those significant seven were:
Auburn University College of Pharmacy
Chicago State University College of Pharmacy
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Texas A&M University College of Pharmacy
Touro University College of Pharmacy – California
Touro University College of Pharmacy – New York
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Although all of our designs were creative, our board could only choose four to make it to the final voting round. Those final four were crafted by:
Auburn University College of Pharmacy
Texas A&M University College of Pharmacy
Touro University College of Pharmacy – California
Touro University College of Pharmacy – New York
As a member of our SNPhA family you have the power of letting your voice be heard. You can vote for your favorite design on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/SNPhA). Polls will be closing Monday, May 20th at 12pm PST/ 2pm CST/ 3pm EST so please do not wait. Thank you to all of the members who participated and all of the members who voted. You all are a constant reminder of how we can build bridges together.
-Respectfully,
George Okpamen, Pharm.D.
6) Here is some updates from the Target Business Committee:
We would like to take this opportunity to thank every chapter who applied for the Target Business Plan Competition. Target had a lot of great submissions this year and they have chosen the teams who will be presenting their business plan during the national conference in New Orleans.
Congratulations to the following chapters:
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy
California Northstate University College of Pharmacy
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy
University of Florida- St. Petersburg
Auburn-Mobile, Alabama
South Carolina College of Pharmacy-Columbia
University of Michigan
The Ohio State University
University of Southern California
As a reminder all presenters must be registered to attend the national conference, if you haven’t registered yet please register soon.
For those chapters competing in the business plan please keep these suggestions from Target in mind:
- Ensure that your idea considers the typical Target guest profile. If you are proposing an idea that targets another guest segment, tell us why!
- Focus on one idea instead of several.
- What role if any will the Pharmacy have in your idea? This is not required but may be a question from the judges!
- Have you considered the costs/risks in your SWOT analysis of your proposed idea?
- Lastly, review the project question. How might Target position itself as the one stop shop for guest’s health and wellness wants/needs? Does your proposal answer this question?
If your team has any questions Target will be hosting a conference call on Wednesday, May 15th from 4-4:30pm PST. Check your email for further details. You may also contact Amy Raz at Amy.Raz@target.com or Mshonda Reynolds at Mshonda.Reynolds@target.com if you have any questions.
Best of luck to all the teams!
7) Your Public Liaison, Dr. Jasmine Lau, has released a new Signatura. Please make sure to look at this great Signatura. We are also calling all chapters to make sure to submit all their articles for our final Signatura that will be featured/printed for the National Convention. If you have any questions please contact Jasmine at jasminelau@snpha.org
9) Walgreens has included us in their intern Newsletters. Make sure to take a look at the attached newsletter. Thank you Walgreens for sharing this and continuing to support us.
8) Finally, the Rough draft of the schedule for the national meeting has been released. You can find a copy on the Meetings Tab online or right here.
Here are all the reminders:
1. Next Signatura article submissions are due May 31, 2013 and sent to Jasmine Lau at jasminelau@snpha.org with original pictures attached separately.
2. SNPhA/Rite Aid Community Leader Award deadline is June 16th.
3. Visit www.facebook.com/snpha and “LIKE” our page.
4. Follow us on Twitter by following @SNPhA.
5. Follow us on Instagram by following SNPhA.
6. Monthly Reports are due at the end of each month.
WHO IS NEXT? Next to submit their big idea or share their previous event with other chapters. We want to hear from you. Please email me with details to share. We are not here to compete but to work together for the better of SNPhA as a whole. We would like to share those quality ideas. Please email me at pejmanahmadi@snpha.org so I post them on the next Presidential Forum. Thank you.
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” —Sam Walton
Respectfully,
Pejman Ahmadi
National President 2012-2013