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VASP leaders make their case via video

“What do you think of when you hear U.S. health-care reform? Think pharmacists!”

Live from D.C.! It’s a Virginia Academy of Student Pharmacists-produced video in conjunction with the 2009 APhA-ASP Summer Leadership Institute.

The three-minute video was filmed by School of Pharmacy students Karl Bituin (P3), Amanda Botteicher (P2), Amy Dembowski (P3), Danny Jaek (P3), Lauren Marston (P3) and Alexis Noble (P4). Jaek edited and produced it.

Featured in the video – along with some telling statistics
-- are Bituin, Botteicher, Dembowksi, Jaek, Marston and Noble, as well as Leah Belcher (P3), Josh Crawford (Pharm.D. ’09) and Melissa Hetzler, educational support specialist for the School of Pharmacy.

A copy of the video – which you can view by clicking the image above – was submitted to APhA, as well as to legislative staff after a group of students, including VASP immediate past president Jon Carter (P4), met with them on Capitol Hill in July.

The American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists Summer Leadership Institute, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, was designed to help APhA-ASP chapter officers develop leadership skills while preparing to guide their school-based chapters. Dembowski is president of the VCU chapter of VASP; Botteicher is president-elect, Marston is vice president and Jaek is treasurer. Carter is P4 class representative, and Belcher is community service co-chairwoman.

Also, Noble was APhA-ASP’s 2008-09 Region 2 member-at-large and a member of the APhA-ASP Reference Committee. Carter was on the 2008-09 APhA Policy Review Committee and is vice-chairman of the 2009-10 APhA-ASP Policy Standing Committee.

For details on VASP, click here. For more on APhA-ASP, click here.

Submitted By:
Cynthia McMullen
8/19/2009