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JFPS is known for delivering high-quality education programming specifically crafted to meet the unique needs of the federal pharmacy community. We’ve planned three exciting days of education and networking for you and can't wait to host you at JFPS 2023 on October 29-31, 2023, in Dallas. Earn up to 19 of CPE and explore tracks covering health equity, leadership, medication management, and more.
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Are you ready to shape the future of federal pharmacy?
JFPS 2023 will bring together federal pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from all practice settings and experience levels to learn, connect, and create opportunities to transform the future of pharmacy—together—as a Unified Force for Patient Care.
At JFPS 2023, you’ll gain access to more than 40 engaging education sessions, inspiring keynote speakers, and networking opportunities that will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to advance patient care and shape a resilient future for federal pharmacy.
The education program is organized by tracks to help you find just the right sessions in your interest area.
Health Equity
- Addressing the Quintuple Aim of Health Care with the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner
Explore the individual components of the quintuple aim and the opportunity for Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) to impact each component.
- Disparities in Healthcare
Discuss the concept of health equity and pharmacoequity and design a program to address healthcare disparities within your organization.
Leadership
- The Chief Effect: Preparing to be a Director of Pharmacy in the Military Health System
Discuss strategies used by senior pharmacy officers currently leading medical center pharmacies that have contributed to their success and develop a personal leadership vision to maximize your leadership potential.
- The Elizabeth Keyes Distinguished Federal Pharmacy Lecture
The 2023 lecturer will share leadership pearls.
Medication Management
- Addressing the Quintuple Aim of Health Care with the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner
Explore the individual components of the quintuple aim and the opportunity for Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) to impact each component.
- Anti-Obesity Medication Management
Discuss each class of anti-obesity medications, analyze and evaluate efficacy of medications available and how they are utilized in current evidence based guidelines.
- Biosimilar Integration and Surveillance Efforts within the VA System
Review unique pharmacologic characteristics of biosimilar medications, formulary management, and surveillance.
- Buprenorphine for Pain
Discuss formulations of buprenorphine FDA-approved for pain.
- Implementing a Pharmacovigilance Program
Discuss the pharmacovigilance processes for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and identify how to incorporate IHS processes into other agencies’ pharmacovigilance activities.
- Management of Pandemic Medical Countermeasures
Explain the centralized management process for medical countermeasures used to support pandemic care.
- New Drugs 2022-2023
Compare and contrast newly approved medications with currently available agents with the same or similar indications or ingredients.
MHS Genesis
- EHR Modernization at Lovell FHCC: A Tale of Two Agencies (KEYNOTE)
Discuss the pros and cons involved in the decision to transition the VA electronic health record to Oracle Cerner at Lovell FHCC.
- MHS Genesis Pharmacy Reporting
Discuss How to access and use the Federal Content Catalog and what types of options are available for reports to be created.
- The Roles of Preparedness, Readiness, and Response Using a Combined EHR at Joint DoD/VA Sites
Identify challenges and gains associated with using a combined EHR at joint DOD/VA sites.
Patient Care
- Dazed and Confused: Seizure Prophylaxis in Traumatic Brain Injury
Summarize the pathophysiology of and physiologic response to traumatic brain injury (TBI).
- Federal Chiefs Panel (KEYNOTE)
The federal pharmacy chiefs will discuss the unified force for patient care across the federal pharmacy community.
- More Than Just an Allergy
Discuss the ABLE Initiative and the process of documenting an allergy within an electronic health record.
- Motivational Interviewing: Assisting Patients with Self-Directed Health Decisions
Describe motivational interviewing and its role in self-directed health decisions and use tools and techniques to assist patients with behavior change.
- Now What? When Statin Medications Aren’t Enough
Review guidelines for the management of hyperlipidemia and create a therapy plan for lipid management given a patient case.
- Operation Remission: Reframing Our Approach to Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Review the evidence-based ways to put type 2 diabetes into remission.
- Pharmacists Making a Difference in Suicide Prevention (KEYNOTE)
- Pharmacogenomics: Where We Are Now and What To Know
Describe the current state and use of pharmacogenetic and direct-to-consumer genetic testing and implementation of pharmacogenomics into clinical pharmacy practice.
Pharmacy Operations
- Case Law Update
- Drug Shortages and Supply Chain Management
- I Wish I Knew That Sooner: Lessons Learned that Make Life in The Pharmacy Easier
Identify 3 process improvements that can positively impact pharmacy operations.
- Legislative and Regulatory Update
Pharmacy Technicians
- METC Technician Training Program
- The Pharmacy Technician’s Role in a High Reliability Organization
Review Pharmacy Technician Safety/HRO Case Studies and summarize the principles and values of a high reliability organization.
Readiness
- Blood in the Nick of Time: Initial Management of Traumatic Hemorrhage
Discuss the importance of early control of hemorrhage in trauma patients.
- Increasing Medical Readiness and Continuity of Care
Discuss how pharmacists can fill the gaps during critical Primary Care Provider shortages and how Active Duty Service Members (ADSM) can remain medically ready at all times.
- Management of Pandemic Medical Countermeasures
Explain the centralized management process for medical countermeasures used to support pandemic care.
- Operational Pharmacy: Role 3 Field Hospital
Identify best practices for pharmacy support in a Role 3 Field Hospital.
- The Roles of Preparedness, Readiness, and Response Using a Combined EHR at Joint DoD/VA Sites
Identify challenges and gains associated with using a combined EHR at joint DOD/VA sites.
Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
- Buprenorphine for Pain
Discuss formulations of buprenorphine FDA-approved for pain.
- Controlled Substance Prescribing Authority and Opportunities in Improving Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Discuss the need for pharmacist controlled substance prescriptive authority and identify opportunities to improve care access through DEA registered pharmacist practice.
- Evolving Risks and Ethical Dilemmas of the Opioid Crisis
Discuss ethics and implications of nonconsensual opioid tapers/discontinuations.
- Innovative Approaches to Addressing Substance Use (KEYNOTE)
Discuss current efforts and initiatives within the clinical and community settings that are aimed at helping to address the national crisis related to substance use.
- Pharmacist Success Stories: Saving Lives Impacted by SUD
Discuss the role of Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners (CPPs) on interprofessional teams to provide SUD care across practice settings.
Technology/Automation
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare
Describe AI and its application in healthcare.
- DHA Pharmacy Program Office: Equipment and IT
Discuss the impact of pharmacy technology and automation on the quality of patient care.
- Moving the Needle: Automating Immunization Data Exchange
Examine the benefits achieved by implementing an enterprise-wide, automated, bidirectional immunization exchange solution.
- National Comprehensive Infusion Library (NCIL): Development and Implementation of a Standardized IV Smart Pump Library in VHA
Describe current recommendations by ISMP and The Joint Commission regarding the effective utilization of smart IV pump technology and identify best practices for the sustained use and management of the NCIL.
Wellness
- The Road to Workplace Wellness
Discuss clinician burnout and develop strategies on improving wellness to reduce the overall burden for healthcare/workforce.