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Summer Newsletter

Message from the Board
By: SPA Executive Vice President Steven Webbenhurst

With the 4th of July behind us, it will only be a short time until schools are back in session and many of us adjust our schedules. Change is everywhere! As pharmacists, technicians and students, we are constantly adjusting to change. For some of our colleagues at Rite-Aid, their professional lives are changing. They may be about to shift to becoming CVS employees or might be seeking employment elsewhere.

The Spokane Pharmacy Association is always changing too. I like the term “adapting” because that implies taking in the needs of our members and changing to provide for them (you).

In the last couple of years, our Continuing Education committee has really raised the bar for themselves, in quantity, in quality and in methods of attending our CE’s (live or virtual). We’ve had great programs with interesting topics and speakers, and that will continue this fall.

We have social/networking programs which are great for meeting new professionals as well as spending time with your pharmacy friends and colleagues. Trivia, bowling, hatchet throwing are examples of our recent events.

We’ve also started planning for next spring’s annual meeting and awards banquet. I think everyone can agree these are wonderful events.

Maybe you want to help make a change. Have you thought about becoming a board member? Applications will go out this fall. It’s a wonderful way to be active in our profession!

If you’re not currently a member, why not join today and have access to all that SPA offers? Or encourage a coworker or friend to join with you? That would be a positive change!

Hope to see you at an event soon!

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CE | Pharmacist Led Management of Hepatitis C

Presented by: Sharon Jayamohan, PharmD

When

Thursday, May 22, 2025
6:00-7:00pm

Where

This event will be held in-person and virtual!

In-person
Spokane Public Library – Central, 906 W. Main Ave.
Events Room B
Dinner will be provided. To guarantee you have a meal at the in-person session, you must register at least 1 day in advance.

Virtual
After submitting your registration, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Cost

SPA Member – Free
Non-member: Pharmacist – $10.00
Non-member: Pharmacy Technician – $5.00

Register

CE Information

Activity Type: Application
Target audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
CEUs: 0.1
ACPE UAN: 0130-9999-25-317-H01-P, 0130-9999-25-317-H01-T, 0130-9999-25-317-L01-P, 0130-9999-25-317-L01-T

Learning Objectives:
Pharmacists – At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Discuss the epidemiology and pathophysiology of hepatitis C
2. Review first line drug therapy choices for hepatitis C patients
3. Describe opportunities for pharmacist intervention in the treatment of hepatitis C
4. Utilize a primary care hepatitis C treatment workflow involving a clinical pharmacist

Pharmacy Technician – At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Recall the basics of hepatitis C
2. Recognize the role of pharmacy technicians in hepatitis C management
3. Utilize a primary care hepatitis C workflow to assist in adherence monitoring and medication management

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

To Earn CE Credit:
To receive credit, you must complete the evaluation as validation of attending. The evaluation as well as your NABP e-profile ID and birth date MMDD will need to be received by the WSPA in order for you to receive credit.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association only has 60 days from the date of the activity to upload the CPE information to the CPE Monitor. WSPA will upload the CE within 3-4 weeks after the event. It will be your responsibility to check the CPE Monitor before the 60 days to make sure the CE is uploaded in your profile. If there are any problems, you will need to contact WSPA at 425-228-7171. CE cannot be uploaded after the 60 days from the date of the event.

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Social Event | Spokane Indians Baseball Game

Take me out to the ballgame! It’s Spokane Pharmacy Day at the Spokane Indians. Bring your family, friends, or coworkers and enjoy a wonderful time.

When & Where

Saturday, June 21, 2025
Gametime: 7:05pm
This game is Star Wars and Fireworks Night!

Avista Stadium
602 N Havana St
Spokane Valley, WA

Buy Tickets
Tickets are discounted for us.

Visit the Spokane Indians Baseball website for more game information.

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CE | What’s New in Continuous Glucose Monitoring?

Presented by: Victoria Nguyenle, PharmD

When

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6:00-7:00pm

Where

This event will be held in-person and virtual!

In-person
Spokane Public Library – Central, 906 W. Main Ave.
Events Room B
Dinner will be provided. To guarantee you have a meal at the in-person session, you must register at least 1 day in advance.

Virtual
After submitting your registration, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Register

Cost

SPA Member – Free
Non-member: Pharmacist – $10.00
Non-member: Pharmacy Technician – $5.00

CE Information

Activity Type: Application
Target audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
CEUs: 0.1
ACPE UAN: 0130-9999-25-203-H01-P, 0130-9999-25-203-H01-T, 0130-9999-25-203-L01-P, 0130-9999-25-203-L01-T

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Discuss the clinical benefits of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) in managing diabetes.
2. Identify the various types and components of CGM devices.
3. Analyze CGM metrics and ambulatory glucose profile reports.
4. Compare and contrast traditional blood glucose monitoring, hemoglobin A1C, and CGM.
5. Interpret evidence of CGM use in adults with noninsulin-treated type 2 diabetes.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

To Earn CE Credit:
To receive credit, you must complete the evaluation as validation of attending. The evaluation as well as your NABP e-profile ID and birth date MMDD will need to be received by the WSPA in order for you to receive credit.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association only has 60 days from the date of the activity to upload the CPE information to the CPE Monitor. WSPA will upload the CE within 3-4 weeks after the event. It will be your responsibility to check the CPE Monitor before the 60 days to make sure the CE is uploaded in your profile. If there are any problems, you will need to contact WSPA at 425-228-7171. CE cannot be uploaded after the 60 days from the date of the event.

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Spring Newsletter

Hello fellow members of Spokane Pharmacy Association! My name is Elizabeth Satterwhite and I’m the president of SPA for 2025. I’m honored to be the president of this organization at a time where we are experiencing growth in our membership, largely thanks to the efforts of our incredible board members. We have five new board members this year, and I’d like to tell you a bit about each of them. I also asked each of them to share a fun fact about themselves.

  • Nathan Ramsbacher is a professor at WSU, and in this role splits his time between teaching and seeing patients at MultiCare Rockwood in the Valley. His area of expertise is in the management of diabetes. Nathan can speak some French.
  • Janice Poe graduated from WSU in 2022 where she developed a love for serving the community through working at Rite Aid. Janice is an avid animal lover with 3 horses, 2 sheep, 2 dogs and several cats at her 10-acre property in Newman Lake.
  • James Hendrix-Ward has been on the SPA board in the past and is a Pharmacy Operations Manager at NEW Health. James used to operate nuclear power reactors!
  • Josh Ecksteen is a pharmacy technician at Deaconess, and before becoming a pharmacy technician got an automotive technology degree at SCC. He is fluent in Afrikaans, which is a language spoken in several countries in Africa.
  • Maggie Byrd is a clinical pharmacist with Providence Medical Group. She went to pharmacy school at the University of Montana and stays very busy with her four children and being involved in the local community.

In January and February our board members met and had productive and fun meetings. Did you know that SPA has been an organization since 1921? All that time, the goal of SPA has been to support pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and students through education and advocacy. We support the education of all our members by having eight continuing education events per year, all of which are accredited for both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Our Pharmacy Technician Day (once yearly in October) offers technicians an easy and fun way to complete CE including required topics. We also believe that sometimes the best relationships are born out of a non-professional setting – that’s why we have social events several times a year that allow members to network and have a good time. Last but not least, our Annual Meeting is an event where our members come together for a fun evening, and we recognize those who positively impact our community every day.

Now that it’s 2025, it’s hard to believe that we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century. With how much turbulence there has been in our world over the past few years, I think a lot of us are sometimes apprehensive about the future. I’m a big Star Trek fan, and one of my favorite Star Trek movies is ‘The Undiscovered Country’. In that movie, Captain Kirk says: “Your father called the future ‘the undiscovered country’. People can be very frightened of change.” This has always resonated with me – why are we so averse to change? Is it a superficial aversion – laziness, stubbornness? Or is it a deeper, subconscious product of human evolution? This is something I have been focusing on personally, and I have been learning that change is actually one of the things that feels like it gives my life the most meaning. I would like to encourage you as a member of our incredible pharmacy community to embrace change. The world around us is constantly changing, and healthcare is no exception. The Hippocratic Oath includes the following phrases – ‘I will accept the responsibility to improve my professional knowledge, expertise, and self-awareness’, and ‘I will embrace and advocate changes that improve patient care’. Let’s make 2025 a year of positive change, however that looks to you. I hope that SPA will continue to be a part of your professional life and be a resource that you can use to bring about positive change in 2025 and beyond.

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CE | A New Generation of Antipsychotics

Presented by: Caesar Yeaman, PharmD

When

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
6:00-7:00pm

Where

This event will be held in-person and virtual!

In-person
Spokane Public Library – Central, 906 W. Main Ave.
Events Room B
Dinner will be provided. To guarantee you have a meal at the in-person session, you must register at least 1 day in advance.

Virtual
After submitting your registration, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Register

Cost

SPA Member – Free
Non-member: Pharmacist – $10.00
Non-member: Pharmacy Technician – $5.00

CE Information

Activity Type: Knowledge
Target audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
CEUs: 0.1
ACPE UAN: 0130-9999-25-065-H01-P, 0130-9999-25-065-H01-T, 0130-9999-25-065-L01-P, 0130-9999-25-065-L01-T

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Explain the symptoms and pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
2. Describe the safety and efficacy of different antipsychotic generations.
3. Discuss the theory and literature behind KarXT.
4. Identify places in therapy for Cobenfy, relative to current guidelines.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

To Earn CE Credit:
To receive credit, you must complete the evaluation as validation of attending. The evaluation as well as your NABP e-profile ID and birth date MMDD will need to be received by the WSPA in order for you to receive credit.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association only has 60 days from the date of the activity to upload the CPE information to the CPE Monitor. WSPA will upload the CE within 3-4 weeks after the event. It will be your responsibility to check the CPE Monitor before the 60 days to make sure the CE is uploaded in your profile. If there are any problems, you will need to contact WSPA at 425-228-7171. CE cannot be uploaded after the 60 days from the date of the event.

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Special Event CE | Statistics for Busy Practitioners

Join us for this special event! Jon Glover, PharmD, will be discussing statistics for practitioners. Statistics are usually taught prior to and/or during pharmacy school and it’s not like riding a bike. Practical application often does occur until well after formal education. During this session, we will strap on our helmets, engage the training wheels and ride through foundational building blocks. By the end of the session, we will be able to ride our bike through the methods and analytics plans of student and resident projects, as well as the methods section and results of articles we read. This event will be 2.5 hours of CE and for both pharmacists and technicians!

When

Saturday, December 14, 2024
8:00 – 10:30 AM

Where

This event will be held in-person and virtual!

In-person

WSU Spokane Campus, PBS 112
205 E Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, WA
Coffee and pastries will be provided. To guarantee you have a meal at the in-person session, you must register at least 1 day in advance.

Parking: See the Campus Map for available parking. Please utilize parking kiosks to pay for parking.

Virtual

After submitting your registration, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Register

Presenter

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Jon Glover, PharmD is the Senior Director and Medical Lead for DoD/VA/Kaiser in Western US with Pfizer Medical. Jon received PharmD from U of AZ and completed Residency at a VA in Tucson. Jon supports outcomes and analytics projects for colleagues across the country as well as residency programs he supports in Western US, as well as Banner in AZ.

Cost

SPA Member:  Free
Non-member Pharmacist: $10.00
Non-member Pharmacy Technician: $5.00

CE Information

Activity Type: Application
Target audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
CEUs: 0.25
ACPE UAN: 0130-9999-24-641-H99-P, 0130-9999-24-641-H99-T, 0130-9999-24-641-L99-P, 0130-9999-24-641-L99-T

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

    • Outline the basic elements of a project and data considerations.
    • List the scales of data types and most commonly used statistical approach.
    • Describe the differences and when to employ descriptive vs inferential statistical tests.
    • Define methods to determine heterogeneity of data and implications in statistical analyses.
    • Describe the purpose of non-inferiority studies, why they are done, and how to interpret the results.
    • List the most commonly employed parametric and non-parametric tests, and when to use.
    • Formulate appropriate responses around various statistical principles and concepts given a series of questions on a project/research example.
    • Articulate the differences between standard deviation, standard error of the mean, confidence intervals and p values.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

To Earn CE Credit:
To receive credit, you must complete the evaluation as validation of attending. The evaluation as well as your NABP e-profile ID and birth date MMDD will need to be received by the WSPA in order for you to receive credit.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association only has 60 days from the date of the activity to upload the CPE information to the CPE Monitor. WSPA will upload the CE within 3-4 weeks after the event. It will be your responsibility to check the CPE Monitor before the 60 days to make sure the CE is uploaded in your profile. If there are any problems, you will need to contact WSPA at 425-228-7171. CE cannot be uploaded after the 60 days from the date of the event.

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CE | What you don’t know about statins; the drugs you know everything about

Presented by: Hyeyoung Jung, Pharmacy Resident PGY1

When

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
6:00-7:00pm

Where

This event will be held in-person and virtual!

In-person
Spokane Public Library – Central, 906 W. Main Ave.
Events Room B
Dinner will be provided. To guarantee you have a meal at the in-person session, you must register at least 1 day in advance.

Virtual
After submitting your registration, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Register

Cost

SPA Member – Free
Non-member: Pharmacist – $10.00
Non-member: Pharmacy Technician – $5.00

CE Information

Activity Type: Application
Target audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
CEUs: 0.1
ACPE UAN: 0130-9999-24-660-H01-P, 0130-9999-24-660-H01-T, 0130-9999-24-660-L01-P, 0130-9999-24-660-L01-T

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
1. Recognize the role of statins in cardiovascular health.
2. Compare new approaches to atherosclerotic risk assessment to prior methods.
3. Examine the use of statins for primary prevention in HIV patients.
4. Interpret evidence of the timing of statin initiation post-stroke.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

To Earn CE Credit:
To receive credit, you must complete the evaluation as validation of attending. The evaluation as well as your NABP e-profile ID and birth date MMDD will need to be received by the WSPA in order for you to receive credit.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association only has 60 days from the date of the activity to upload the CPE information to the CPE Monitor. WSPA will upload the CE within 3-4 weeks after the event. It will be your responsibility to check the CPE Monitor before the 60 days to make sure the CE is uploaded in your profile. If there are any problems, you will need to contact WSPA at 425-228-7171. CE cannot be uploaded after the 60 days from the date of the event.