💫🗺️ Reg. Now Open: Blaze new trails at #PharmEd26, July 18-21 in Grapevine, TX! From cutting-edge insights to practical strategies, this is your opportunity to grow, learn & lead alongside peers from across #pharmacy education and practice. (1/5) 🔗: ow.ly/ZeyM50YGzSH

⚕️ This year's #NPHW theme, "Ready. Set. Action!," highlights how #publichealth initiatives are creating healthier communities through meaningful, community-centered care. @mann.usc.edu is living out this mission with the launch of its new Pharmacy and Wellness Center in south LA. (1/2)

⚕️ It's @apha.org's National Public Health Week! This year’s theme, "Ready. Set. Action!", is a call to recognize the vital role #publichealth plays in keeping families safe, communities strong, and creating a healthier future.

📰 Recent national media coverage highlights an encouraging trend: New research shows that, while many grad. degrees struggle to deliver strong returns, #pharmacy consistently stands out as a high-value pathway for students & practitioners. Follow this🧵for highlights 👇 (1/5)

🫀 "Our goal is to protect the heart…when it's most vulnerable," said Dr. Ke Huang, Texas A&M University assistant professor, of a new #heartattack treatment. "If we can ease that early stress & support repair, we may be able to change the trajectory of recovery." 📰: https://ow.ly/j3SS50Yy4KX#heartattack

📅💫 Save the Date: Discover big ideas and bright futures at #PharmEd26, July 18-21, in Grapevine, Texas! With can't-miss content beginning Saturday and ending Tuesday, experts and thought leaders from across the country will address critical topics including… (1/5)

🔬⚛️ "I can [call] and say this patient needs a dose right now and they can make it," says Dr. Philip Hines, nuclear pharmacy manager. That responsiveness is exactly what the new $16M @ou.edu cyclotron facility, used to produce #radiopharmaceuticals, is aiming for. 📰: https://ow.ly/A11G50Yy4q6

📝 Now Accepting Applications: The prestigious 2026 NAM Pharmacy Fellowship from @nam.edu, ACCP and AACP is designed to give early-career health science scholars the opportunity to participate in the National Academies' work, and to foster future leaders in the field. #PharmEd | #AcademicPharmacy

🚀🗺️ "Launching your #pharmacy career is exciting—but the choices you make early on can shape your professional path for years to come." Are you a new practitioner? Headed to #APhA2026 this weekend? (1/2)

🌎🥼 Join your colleagues from around the world at #FIPCongress2026, 8/30-9/2, in Montreal! FIP's World Congress brings together healthcare professionals, particularly #pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists & educators, to advance pharmacy’s role in patientcare & #globalhealth. 🔗: ow.ly/cmCQ50YxABW

⏪🌊 This #ThrowbackThursday, we’re pressing rewind 10 years to #PharmEd16 and celebrating the discussions, ideas and connections from Anaheim, California.

📅🍎 Today is Health Workforce Well-Being Day, seeking to improve #HealthWorkerWellBeing and reduce burnout among the health professions. AACP joins @nam.edu to spotlight the importance of system-level support for pharmacists, educators and all health workers. (1/4) #HWWBDay

Are pharmacy programs obligated to train students to use AI for clinical practice? This article highlights a collab between 2 ALFP groups examining AI’s benefits for clinical care and the challenges of integrating it into pharmacy education. Read more: ow.ly/EK7z50Ytzb4

🏅 ICYMI: Congratulations to the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy for receiving AACP's 2026 Lawrence C. Weaver Award! The school intends to use the award stipend to "support new efforts…for under-resourced areas and populations experiencing low #pharmacy access." https://ow.ly/h3zk50Yt1Vn

📢 @aacpharmacy.bsky.social has announced the recipients of the 2026 Rufus A. Lyman Award and Honorable Mention, recognizing the most outstanding papers published in AJPE over the past year. View our latest article to explore the papers and the authors behind them: ow.ly/41oV50Yqs0i

The new USC #Pharmacy and Wellness Center will offer a full range of pharmacy-led services, including prescriptions, immunizations, medication therapy management, and preventive services, reports @cbsnews.com. (1/2)

🏆📢 Today, AACP has announced the 2026 recipients for its top awards, recognizing outstanding individual and institutional contributions made to #PharmEd, research, service and more. 🔗: ow.ly/Jtb350YpgoG

🌱🥾 Spring is the season for growth: including professional growth! With AACP Learn's "Choose Your Own Adventure" certificate program, move at your own pace through a reflective journey in personal and #ProfessionalDevelopment. (1/3)

🌴💬 This past week saw the end of #Interim26, the 2026 AACP Interim Meeting in Puerto Rico, focused on "Conversations that Matter." 📚👇 Read our latest LinkedIn article for a few highlights, including from attendees themselves. #PharmacyEducation | #HigherEducation | #Academia

Mastering billing is critical to modern pharmacy practice, and academic pharmacy can help prepare students to not only provide care, but also navigate the financial and operational aspects of real-world practice. Learn how: ow.ly/jWSM50YiVYX

🌴💬 Thank you, attendees! #Interim26 may be winding down, but that doesn't mean the end of the "Conversations That Matter"! We hope you maintain the discussions and connections, and utilize the lessons and resources gained on-site in San Juan until we see you next.

"It's important to be flexible. [There's no need to] immediately react." 🌴💬 What’s Next: Sarah Spreitzer, @aceducation.bsky.social, kicked-off an #Interim26 focused on important discussions with an exploration of the 1st year of federal higher education policy under the 2nd Trump administration.

💰🤖📚 Grad Students, Residents & Fellows: @phrmafoundation.bsky.social & JMCP are hosting a Trainee Challenge Award for outstanding manuscripts addressing #AI in managed care pharmacy. Details incl.: 🔹 A $5k prize for up to 5 first authors 🔹 JMCP will publish all accepted manuscripts 📅: Due 3/2.

🥼🌤️ Forecasting #Pharmacy: "Pharmacy education and workforce development are undergoing significant disruption," write members of the AACP Academic Affairs Committee in the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP).

📈🎯 Optimize Your #ExperientialEducation Program: Examine ways to better support learners, and enhance the policies, processes and structures that sustain high-quality experiential programs, 4/15-4/17, at the Experiential Education Institute. 🔗: ow.ly/vC6t50Y8sZs

📢📝 Over the weekend, AACP joined national #pharmacy partners APhA, ASHP and AAPP in releasing a shared statement on the violence in Minnesota. 🔗 For the full statement, and for a list of mental health and well-being resources, see this thread and visit: ow.ly/yS8i50Y7P2r

🥼📈 The increase in pharmacy school applicants, "reflects a renewed recognition of the vital role pharmacists play in advancing patient care," says Dr. Robin Zavod, AACP President, in Becker's Hospital Review.

💭 Thoughts on the latest draft of the Clinical Prevention and Population Health (CPPH) Curriculum Framework? The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) is inviting faculty, students, practitioners & professional organizations to review and comment by 2/16. For more 👇

🦠🛡️ "There is still time to protect yourself and your loved ones against respiratory viruses." Today, AACP joined 12 other national pharmacy groups to urge patients to talk with their pharmacist about available #vaccines.

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) School of Pharmacy has its first endowed professorship, due to a major contribution from Dr. Therese Poirier, professor emerita. The Therese Poirier Endowed Professorship in Pharmacy is the largest single gift in the School of Pharmacy’s history.

🥼🔎🏛️ This Week: AACP joined national pharmacy partners to address critical policy challenges impacting pharmaceutical distribution and pharmacists' services at the January meeting of the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) in Alexandria, Virginia.

💉📊 "These changes appear to most vaccine experts—clinical care providers, pediatricians, pharmacists, [NPs], PAs, [others] who provide care for children—as baseless, as far as scientific information." Dr. Mary Hayney (UW) joins WORT FM to discuss the CDC's recent changes to vaccine recommendations.

Congratulations to alums Kate Smith and Alina Cernasev on being elected to these important leadership positions! #UMNproud #UMNalumni

🧵🥼 Today is #NationalPharmacistDay, recognizing pharmacists' vital contributions to their community's health. For a closer look, we've collected stories, discussions and celebrations from across National Pharmacist Day 2026, including:

"It’s rewarding to be able to explain to [patients] how their medications can help them," says Dr. Carter Diges of choosing #pharmacy as a career. "Unlike working in the ER, where hopefully you don’t keep seeing your patients, I like seeing my patients."

🥼 "You never know what your day is going to look like," says Dr. J. Ryan Shaw in a @pharmacytimes.bsky.social podcast focused on #oncology pharmacists. "You may have 3-4 people on your schedule and it's the busiest day possible…you may have [0] and it's even busier." 🎧 To listen:

📢🗳️ Congratulations to AACP's 2025 election winners, incl.: ✅ Dr. Pamela Heaton (University of Toledo) for President-elect; ✅ Dr. Jeremy Hughes (@uwpharmacy.bsky.social) for Council of Deans Chair-elect; and ✅ Dr. Michael Gonyeau (@northeasternu.bsky.social) for Council of Faculties Chair-elect.

⏳Time is running out on savings for #Interim26, Conversations That Matter! Register by 12/19 to lock in your best value for engaging w/ peers & thought leaders on critical issues shaping #pharmacyeducation — all set against the vibrant backdrop of San Juan, P.R., 2/14-17. 🔗: ow.ly/zubw50XKXVo

🥼 Congratulations to Dr. Kim Croley, Dr. Robert DiCenzo (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences), and Dr. John Clay Kirtley on their appointment to the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Board of Directors.

🥼 AACP is proud to announce the 7 outstanding student pharmacists selected to receive the 2025 Walmart Community Pharmacy Scholarship for Pharmacy Students! (1/4) 🔗: ow.ly/Tl7P50XFOLs

📈 Newly released data from AACP shows continued growth in pharmacy school interest, marking a second consecutive year of increases in both applicants and applications across PharmCAS schools.

What role does #entrepreneurship play in pharmacy? Join Jeff Jellin, former CEO of TRC Healthcare & founder of Pharmacist's Letter, for an inspiring conversation exploring his own career journey, emerging opportunities & the skills needed to thrive. 📅: Dec. 4 🕑: 2pm ET 🔗: ow.ly/Y5Aw50XuUXj

📲 Healthcare's new frontier isn't just treating patients, it's fighting misinformation. Pharmacy curricula must equip students with evidence-based strategies to combat false health claims amplified by social media. To learn more: ow.ly/EGtz50XxFSq

📝📢 AACP has joined more than 50 leading medical, health and patient advocacy organizations in a statement responding to recent CDC website changes regarding vaccines and autism. The science is clear: Over 25 years of research confirms #vaccines are not linked to #autism.

⏰🗣️ Last Chance: #PharmEd26 session proposals are due Nov. 25! Submit your ideas for 60- and 30-minute sessions, and interactive workshop and conversation world café sessions by 11:59 p.m. PT this-coming Tuesday. For details: ow.ly/yO4v50XvPtO

What role does entrepreneurship play in #pharmacy? Join Jeff Jellin, former CEO of TRC Healthcare & founder of Pharmacist's Letter, for an inspiring conversation exploring his own career journey, emerging opportunities & the skills needed to thrive. 📅: Dec. 4 🕑: 2pm ET 🔗: ow.ly/Y5Aw50XuUXj

"Pharmacists [are] some of the most accessible healthcare professionals, making their presence in these areas especially impactful." 🌾🥼Today is #NationalRuralHealthDay, celebrating rural healthcare providers, and highlighting the unique challenges facing rural patients.

🛬 This Week at AACP: In-person connection at our "3D Days"! AACP staff left their screens behind to travel across the country and connect in "3D" at our HQ in Virginia. We met new staff, refreshed work processes, & prepared for exciting new initiatives in the coming year.

🌠🥼 "We're proud to partner with others [committed] to advancing #pharmacy for the next generation." Today, AACP EVP & CEO Lee Vermeulen joined Walgreens' Pharmacy Academic Seminar for a CEO panel on where the profession is headed "and how we can move forward together." (1/2)

"This is what the #PBMs do already…It doesn't make sense to me." Dr. Sean Sullivan, former dean & current @uwpharmacy.bsky.social professor, provided perspective and solutions on a proposal for a new type of pharmaceutical sales middleman, for @statnews.com.