Greetings CSHP Members!  It is hard to believe September is already upon us.  I wanted to take this time to welcome you back.  We are looking forward to another great year of networking, learning, and advancement of the pharmacy profession. 

The Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists (OSHP) has been quite busy since we last met in May.  At the end of June there was a very successful planning session which laid out different tasks for each division to work on this up coming year. A few items on the list were to target new graduate and young pharmacists to join, publish a new OSHP website with uniform local area chapter websites, refine physician consult agreements, and create a position statement regarding criminalization due to medication errors. At each meeting throughout the year we will dedicate time to update members with OSHP news and events. 

We will do our best to provide a nice variety of meetings this upcoming year.  The pharmaceutical companies have started to get accustomed to the PhRMA guidelines.  As mentioned last year, these guidelines limit us from being able to provide continuing education (CE) when a sponsor provides a meal in addition to a speaker.  Our goal is to provide CE at half the meetings each year and we already have a few CE meetings scheduled. 

Beginning this year, the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy (NEOUCOP) will be sending a student liaison to each CSHP meeting.  This student will report the current events and status of the NEOUCOP Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists to our members and will also report information about CSHP and OSHP meetings back to their student group.  This should be a great way to connect CSHP with some of the young professionals, which has been a goal of OSHP.

I look forward to seeing everyone on September 15^th. If you have not had a chance to register, please take a few minutes and sign up via the www.clevshp.org.  This month’s meeting provides a great opportunity to give back to our local community.

Sincerely,

Tim Heimann, PharmD

President

Cleveland Society of Health System Pharmacists