2008 Summer Meeting
New Drugs in Primary Care 2008
Track: Hot Topic
Program Code:106-L01
Date: 9 June 2008
Time: Monday, June 9, 2008
Location:615 - Level 6MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Dr. J. Frank, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice, Family and Community Medicine, Area Health Education Center NE, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
| Biographical Sketch: Tom Frank, Pharm.D., BCPS
Tom Frank has been involved in various aspects of drug therapy for over 30 years. He has worked in retail, hospital, nursing home, clinical and consultative pharmacy practice settings.
Currently, he is the director of AHEC Northeast. He also teaches drug therapeutics to family medicine residents at the Northeast Arkansas Area Health Education Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He also provides clinical pharmacy consultation services and serves on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Quality Assurance Committee at St. Bernards Medical Center. In these settings he directs drug therapy rotations for family medicine residents, pharmacy students and medical students.
Dr. Frank is married and has two children. He grows roses for a hobby.
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MODERATOR:
Dr. J. Frank, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice, Family and Community Medicine, Area Health Education Center NE, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
| Biographical Sketch: Tom Frank, Pharm.D., BCPS
Tom Frank has been involved in various aspects of drug therapy for over 30 years. He has worked in retail, hospital, nursing home, clinical and consultative pharmacy practice settings.
Currently, he is the director of AHEC Northeast. He also teaches drug therapeutics to family medicine residents at the Northeast Arkansas Area Health Education Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He also provides clinical pharmacy consultation services and serves on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Quality Assurance Committee at St. Bernards Medical Center. In these settings he directs drug therapy rotations for family medicine residents, pharmacy students and medical students.
Dr. Frank is married and has two children. He grows roses for a hobby.
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PRESENTER:
Dr. J. Frank, PharmD, BCPS, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice, Family and Community Medicine, Area Health Education Center NE, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
| Biographical Sketch: Tom Frank, Pharm.D., BCPS
Tom Frank has been involved in various aspects of drug therapy for over 30 years. He has worked in retail, hospital, nursing home, clinical and consultative pharmacy practice settings.
Currently, he is the director of AHEC Northeast. He also teaches drug therapeutics to family medicine residents at the Northeast Arkansas Area Health Education Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He also provides clinical pharmacy consultation services and serves on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and the Quality Assurance Committee at St. Bernards Medical Center. In these settings he directs drug therapy rotations for family medicine residents, pharmacy students and medical students.
Dr. Frank is married and has two children. He grows roses for a hobby.
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Description:
As drug therapy experts, pharmacists are often called upon for facts and opinions about recently introduced drugs. New drugs are introduced at a rate that exceeds the reading time of many busy practitioners. This presentation is intended to provide a broad-based discussion and objective information about new drug options.
Learning Objectives:
- Assess new trends in drug development.
- Explain indications, pharmacology, adverse effects and dosing of the products discussed.
- Determine the role these products will play in the participant's practice.
- Evaluate the economic implications of these choices.
- Examine products in the short-term pipeline that will be important to the practice of the participants.
