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Update on APhA and APhA-ASP student leaders
We noted in November that Alexis Noble (P3) had been elected 2008-09 Region 2 member-at-large for the American Pharmacists
Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists. We also noted that Virginia Academy of Student Pharmacists president Jon Carter (P3) had been
appointed to serve on the 2008-09 APhA Policy Review Committee.
But wait! There’s more!
Lina Saliba (P3) reports that the National Executive Committee has appointed Carter vice-chairman of the 2009-10 APhA-ASP Policy Standing
Committee. During Carter’s tenure as vice-chairman, the committee will be helmed by Adriane N. Irwin (currently APhA-ASP
president-elect), a student at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center’s College of Pharmacy. The committee is charged with
implementing resolutions from the APhA-ASP House of Delegates.
Each of the four standing APha-ASP committees – Policy, Awards, Communication and Education – has four student members.
“If the other committee members are even half as passionate, driven and hard-working as Jon, the committee is sure to accomplish great things,” says
Saliba, who is vice president of VASP and president of Phi Lambda Sigma.
As vice-chairman, Carter also will be on the Advisory Policy Committee, which makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees. His duties – including
serving as a delegate to the APhA House of Delegates – will begin at the annual meeting April 3-6 in San Antonio, Texas.
While Carter remains involved at the national level, Amy Dembowski (P2) has been inducted into his former position at VCU School of Pharmacy
as president of the Virginia Academy of Students Pharmacists.
Noble -- as part of being a regional member-at-large -- will serve on the APhA-ASP Reference Committee, which makes recommendations to the APhA-ASP
House of Delegates on proposed resolutions. She also will serve as an alternate delegate to the APhA House of Delegates, host for the APhA-ASP
Welcoming Social and assistant to the Region 2 delegate in operating the Regional Caucus.
For information on the Academy of Student Pharmacists, click
here. For more on the Virginia Academy of Student Pharmacists, click here.
Submitted By:
Cynthia McMullen
2/17/2009