Board of Directors Meeting, March 22, 2014, National Harbor, Maryland

1. Roll Call

President Peggy Piascik welcomed the Board and staff members present at the Gaylord National at 10:00 a.m. on March 22, 2014. The following Board members participated in the discussion: David D. Allen (Council of Deans), J. Lyle Bootman (Immediate Past President), J. Chris Bradberry (Treasurer), Patricia A. Chase (President-elect), Craig D. Cox (Council of Sections), Lynn Crismon (Council of Deans), Joseph T. DiPiro (Council of Deans), Philip M. Hritcko (Speaker of the House), Timothy J. Ives (Council of Sections), Lucinda L. Maine (Executive Vice President), Steven A. Scott (Council of Faculties), Denise A. Soltis (Council of Sections), Robin M. Zavod (Council of Faculties) and David P. Zgarrick (Council of Faculties).

AACP staff included: Jennifer L. Adams, Lynette R. Bradley-Baker, Melinda D. Colón, Barbra A. Gustis, William G. Lang, Vincent Lau, Allan L. Lee, Ruth E. Nemire, Cecilia M. Plaza and Sibu Ramamurthy.

Guests included: Cynthia J. Boyle (President-elect designate), Gayle Brazeau (AJPE Editor-designate joined the meeting after her selection), Edward M. DeSimone, (Council of Sections chair-elect designate), Todd D. Sorensen (Council of Faculties chair-elect designate), and Caroline Small, a rotation student from the University of New Mexico.

2. Proposals for Additions to the Agenda

Two items were proposed as additions to the agenda. One was an AACP Institutional membership request. There was also a request to discuss milestone exams and the role in the draft Standards. This item was folded into Item 9 – Standards Input Committee.

3. Conflict of Interest Statement

President Piascik read the Conflict of Interest statement and conflicts related to the selection of the new Editor for the American Journal for Pharmaceutical Education were identified.

4. Approval of Minutes of February 7, 2014 Board of Directors Meeting

On MOTION (Ives, Crismon) the Board approved the minutes of the February 7, 2014 Board meeting.

5. Chalmers Award Criteria

Melinda D. Colón, Associate Director of Governance Programs and Meetings, presented proposed changes made to the Chalmers Award Criteria for Board consideration. These changes include requiring nominees for this award be at the associate professor level or higher and demonstrate the nominee’s impact on pharmacy education. On MOTION (Scott, Allen) the Board approved that the changes be adopted as presented by the committee.

The Board engaged in a discussion of how to treat emeritus status and FTE status for AACP awards. The 3 Council Chairs were asked to examine the current language concerning emeritus and fulltime status and propose changes for action at the July 2014 Board meeting.

6. Financial Update

Treasurer Bradberry presented a new way of reporting financial information for the Association. This included a detailed analysis of risk factors, factors impacting the budget, sources of expenses, new initiatives and changes and the preliminary 3-year budgetary forecast. This new format included new graphical representations of these data to show trends.

7. Professions Quest, LLC

Associate Executive Vice President, Ruth E. Nemire, provided an update on the progress that has been made in the development of a new initiative in education innovation to develop serious educational games for health professions education. An overview was also provided for potential partnership models with other health professions education colleague organizations and publishers. Additional discussion on the continued development of these partnerships has been docketed to a May 2014 Board of Directors conference call.

8. New Editor of AJPE

J. Chris Bradberry, chair of the AJPE Editor Search Committee, and Cecilia M. Plaza, Senior Director of Academic Affairs, presented the results of the work of the Editor Search Committee.

On MOTION (Bradberry, Chase) the Board selected Gayle Brazeau as the new Editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. DiPiro, Zavod, and Zgarrick declared conflicts of interest and abstained from voting. Sorensen also declared a conflict of interest and excused himself from the room.

9. Standards Input Committee

President Peggy Piascik and Cecilia M. Plaza, Senior Director of Academic Affairs, provided an overview of the process that the Standards Input Committee would use over the course of the year to gather input from the AACP membership. The Committee will provide a draft of early input for the July 2014 Board meeting in anticipation of meeting with ACPE guests at that meeting.

10. Approval of the Pharmacist Patient Care Practice Model

Lynette R. Bradley-Baker, Director of Professional Alliance Development, provided an overview of the changes to the proposed Pharmacist Patient Care Process model based on feedback since the AACP Interim Meeting. The Board engaged in discussion of these changes and provided additional input. Action on the proposed revisions will be docketed to May Board of Directors call.

11. Institutional Member Request

On MOTION (Soltis, Ives) the Board approved California Health Sciences University as an institutional member pending final House of Delegates approval at the July 2014 Annual Meeting.

12-13. Emerging Issues

President-elect Chase provided a brief update on her 2014-2015 Presidential Priorities. Follow-up to the Leadership Retreat was also briefly discussed.

The meeting adjourned at 12:45 p.m. on March 22, 2014 after a time of roundtable sharing of additional news from Board members and staff.