During the month of January, I had the unique opportunity of serving as the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Extern. As a fourth year student pharmacist, I aspire to pursue a career path focused in ambulatory care. I can foresee
In 1976, as the US celebrated its 200 birthday, there was little fanfare around the birth of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS), in fact our birth name was Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. The launch of BPS presaged the anticipated
I am writing this edition of the BPS Leadership Blog as the 50th ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in New Orleans concludes. While the growth of this meeting from its humble beginnings in 1966 with less than a 1000 attendees to
On September 11, 2015 I departed Sacramento Airport for Vienna, Austria. The significance of the date did not escape me as I sat in the international terminal at LAX, waiting to board a 10-hour flight to Dusseldorf Germany.
Following the 2012 tragedy involving the New England Compounding Center (NECC) and other similar albeit smaller compounding misadventures, the public and healthcare professions pushed for improved safety of compounded drugs, primarily by seeking regulatory reform.
For many years the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) had five recognized specialties (Nuclear Pharmacy — 1978, Nutrition Support — 1988, Pharmacotherapy — 1988, Psychiatric Pharmacy — 1992, and Oncology — 1996).