2008 Summer Meeting
Current Legislative and Regulatory Issues in Pharmacy 2008
Track: Hot Topic
Program Code:120-L03
Date: 10 June 2008
Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Location:615 - Level 6MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Mr. Brian Meyer, MBA, Director, Government Affairs Division, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
| Brian Meyer is Director, Government Affairs Division for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the 30,000 member national professional and scientific association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term-care facilities, and other components of health systems. As Director, he is responsible for advocating ASHP policy before federal and state policy makers, empowering ASHP members to partner on advocacy with the Society and its state affiliates, and to use grassroots and political action to achieve its policy objectives. Mr. Meyer also serves as Secretary to the Council on Public Policy which develops recommendations on ASHP policy with respect to Congress, federal agencies, and state governments.
Mr. Meyer has more than twenty-five years of association experience in the government affairs area with Washington, DC based national organizations. Since joining ASHP in 1991, he has managed the federal legislative, federal regulatory and state government affairs functions prior to assuming overall leadership of the Government Affairs Division in 1997. Prior to joining ASHP, he served in various government affairs positions with the American Bankers Association from 1978-1990.
Mr. Meyer received his Bachelor of Arts in Politics from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, and Executive Masters in Business Administration from
Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland. |
MODERATOR:
Mr. Brian Meyer, MBA, Director, Government Affairs Division, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
| Brian Meyer is Director, Government Affairs Division for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the 30,000 member national professional and scientific association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term-care facilities, and other components of health systems. As Director, he is responsible for advocating ASHP policy before federal and state policy makers, empowering ASHP members to partner on advocacy with the Society and its state affiliates, and to use grassroots and political action to achieve its policy objectives. Mr. Meyer also serves as Secretary to the Council on Public Policy which develops recommendations on ASHP policy with respect to Congress, federal agencies, and state governments.
Mr. Meyer has more than twenty-five years of association experience in the government affairs area with Washington, DC based national organizations. Since joining ASHP in 1991, he has managed the federal legislative, federal regulatory and state government affairs functions prior to assuming overall leadership of the Government Affairs Division in 1997. Prior to joining ASHP, he served in various government affairs positions with the American Bankers Association from 1978-1990.
Mr. Meyer received his Bachelor of Arts in Politics from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, and Executive Masters in Business Administration from
Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland. |
PRESENTER(S):
Mr. Joseph Hill, MA, Director, Federal Legislative Affairs, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
| Joseph Hill currently serves as director of federal legislative affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He advocates ASHP’s positions on critical issues before members of Congress and their staff. Prior to that he was government affairs manager for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists where he represented ASCP before state and federal legislators. Mr. Hill holds a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. |
Ms. Justine Coffey, JD, LLM, Director, Section of Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
| Justine Coffey currently works as the director of federal regulatory affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. In this position, she advocates ASHP’s positions before federal agencies whose regulatory and rulemaking authority impacts on health-system pharmacy. Previously, Justine worked as a consultant, providing health policy consulting services to individual clients and advising state government agencies on federal and state laws, regulations, and policies impacting on Medicaid and other state programs. From 2002 to 2005, she worked for the American Pharmacists Association, first as a policy and regulatory writer, and then as a senior policy analyst handling 340B Drug Pricing Program issues for the HRSA Pharmacy Services Support Center. Justine received her JD degree from American University’s Washington College of Law and her LLM degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. |
| Geralyn is the current State Government Affairs Director at the ASHP and has worked in health policy for the past five years. Prior to coming to ASHP, she was the Senior Health Policy Analyst for State Issues with the American Academy of Actuaries. The public policy and professionalism arm of the U.S. actuarial profession, her work concentrated on issue areas such as Medicaid, Medicare Part D, long-term care, and disease management programs from an actuarially-sound perspective. Prior to the Academy, she worked with the American Psychiatric Association as the Administrator for Commercially-Supported Symposia and as a Scientific Program Coordinator.
Geralyn earned her Masters in Public Policy, with a concentration in Public Administration, from the American University in Washington, D.C. She earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Management from Virginia Commonwealth University. |
Description:
Find out the latest legislative and regulatory issues affecting hospital and health system pharmacy. Learn about issues being considered by Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and state legislators and regulators. Apply this information to a range of practice, no matter your setting.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify current regulatory and legislative issues impacting health-system pharmacists in a variety of practice settings.
- Apply the regulatory and legislative information to a range of practice topics.
