Minutes of the 2022 House of Delegates Sessions, July 24-27, 2022 Grapevine, Texas

Policy Statement #1 (Source: 2021-2022 Argus Commission)

AACP supports the integration of curricular components related to social forces and environmental factors and their impact on the environment, health, and health equity within Doctor of Pharmacy and graduate education programs to support the development of knowledge necessary to understand the role pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, and other health care professionals must play in reducing the negative impact of global climate change and environmental degradation.

Policy Statement #2 (Source: 2021-2022 Argus Commission)

AACP supports the expansion of public and private resources to make health care services more accessible to address the needs of growing numbers of people around the world of migrant and refugee status.

Policy Statement #3 (Source: 2021-2022 Professional Affairs Committee)

AACP encourages colleges and schools of pharmacy to collaborate with individual faculty members and practice partners to develop sustainable faculty models that include transparent reimbursement agreements and clearly written expectations.

Policy Statement #4 (Source: 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee)

AACP supports recognition of education, service, and research activities related to cultural humility, accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism for faculty evaluation, reappointment, promotion, and tenure.

Policy Statement #5 (Source: 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee)

AACP encourages institutions to commit to creating and sustaining environments that support accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, and anti-bias action and awareness among all faculty, staff, leaders, and students.

Policy Statement #6 (Source: 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee)

AACP supports the development of nontraditional, innovative postgraduate research training programs in order to decrease barriers to entry, retention, and completion.

Policy Statement #7 (Source: 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee)

AACP endorses early, longitudinal engagement in research through structured programs to stimulate interest in research careers among middle school, high school, and undergraduate students.

Policy Statement #8 (Source: 2021-2022 Student Affairs Committee)

AACP believes that school and college leaders (e.g., deans, department chairs) are responsible for creating positive working and learning environments through an appropriate balance of expectations and resources or support.

Resolution #1 (Source: 2021-2022 Women’s Faculty SIG Rules Resolution Committee)

AACP encourages institutions to provide support and flexibility for faculty, staff, and support personnel throughout child-bearing and child-rearing years, including paternal, surrogate, and adoptive parenting. Support could include remote working, longer-term leave of absence, flexibility for tenure time frame, and temporary reductions in workload with no impact on annual review and no loss of professional status, rank, or years of service. Accommodation and collegial support for lactation should be provided.

AMENDMENTS TO CURRENT POLICIES

The following amendments to current policies were recommended by the Bylaws and Policy Development Committee and were approved as presented below.

Amendment #1

Original Policy:

AACP believes that all administrators, faculty, staff, preceptors, student pharmacists and alumni should contribute to a culture of wellness and resilience in pharmacy education. (Original Source: Student Affairs Committee, 2018)

Approved Revised Policy:

AACP believes that all administrators, faculty, staff, preceptors, student pharmacists and alumni should contribute to a culture of well-being in pharmacy education. (Source: 2021-2022 Student Affairs Committee; Original Source: Student Affairs Committee, 2018)

Amendment #2

Original Policy:

AACP encourages schools and colleges of pharmacy to proactively promote overall wellness and stress management techniques to students, faculty, and staff. (Original Source: Student Affairs Committee, 2018)

Approved Revised Policy:

AACP encourages schools and colleges of pharmacy to proactively promote overall well-being for students, faculty, and staff. (Source: 2021-2022 Student Affairs Committee; Original Source: Student Affairs Committee, 2018).

Amendment #3

Original Policy:

AACP supports the efforts of schools and colleges of pharmacy working with health entities to promote and advocate for the inclusion, reimbursement and sustainability of pharmacist services as a required element of patient-centered care in all settings. (Original Source: Professional Affairs Committee, 2011)

Approved Revised Policy:

AACP strongly supports the work of colleges and schools of pharmacy with practice partners and payors to promote and advocate for the inclusion, reimbursement and sustainability of pharmacist services as a required element of patient patient-centered care in all settings, including mutually beneficial financial models between colleges/ and schools of pharmacy and practice partners. (Source: 2021-2022 Professional Affairs Committee; Original Source: Professional Affairs Committee, 2011)

Amendment #4

Original Policy:

AACP will work with the colleges and schools of pharmacy to promote innovation and excellence in graduate education programs, including new and established programs, to provide graduate students and postdoctoral trainees with professional development skills, and career guidance, that best prepares them for success in a wide array of opportunities in the workforce. (Original Source: Research and Graduate Affairs Committee, 2016)

Approved Revised Policy:

AACP will work with the colleges and schools of pharmacy to promote innovation and excellence in graduate education and research programs to provide graduate students and postdoctoral trainees with professional development skills, career guidance, and mentoring that best prepares them for success in a wide array of opportunities in the workforce. (Source: 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee; Original Source: Research and Graduate Affairs Committee, 2016)

Emerging Resolution #1 (Referred back to originator.)

AACP is committed to supporting the expansion of capacity and infrastructure to support students’ and colleagues’ social and economic needs, and will seek opportunities to develop and provide training to students and colleagues on strategies for promoting social justice for pharmacy education and training. (Source: 2021-2022 Social and Administrative Sciences Section)

Emerging Resolution #2 (Referred back to originator.)

AACP is committed to supporting the expansion of capacity and infrastructure to support diversity and inclusion of diverse individuals, and recognizes the efforts of its members in fostering a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for students and colleagues, and will seek further opportunities to increase the diversity of opinion and expression, and promote safe spaces for open discourse. (Source: 2021-2022 Social and Administrative Sciences Section)

Emerging Resolution #3 (Referred back to originator.)

All Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy and ACPE accredited providers of Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) should incorporate education/training reinforcing telehealth skills that may include, but are not limited to, implementation and use of technology, patient and healthcare professional communication, recordkeeping, compensation and reimbursement models, and integration of telehealth along with routine and existing pharmacy practices. (Source: 2021-2022 Continuing Professional Development Section)

Emerging Resolution #4 (Referred back to originator.)

AACP supports allowing colleges and schools of pharmacy to report to ACPE students with documented personal reasons (unrelated to academics or professionalism) for program withdrawal separately from those related to academics or professionalism, and to eliminate such students from the original cohort size in the institution’s progression calculations. (Source: Melissa Hogan, Roosevelt University; Michael Hogue, Loma Linda University; Kem Krueger, University of Wyoming; Kelechi Ogbonna, Virginia Commonwealth University; Matt Fete, Chicago State University; Dana Singla, Roosevelt University; Beth Welch, Western New England University; Karen Marlowe, Auburn University)

The following emerging resolutions were approved as presented below.

Approved Emerging Resolution #5

AACP supports instituting a 1.5 times program-length completion standard as a second option for colleges and schools of pharmacy to meet ACPE accreditation standards for reporting on-time completion. (Source: Melissa Hogan, Roosevelt University; Michael Hogue, Loma Linda University; Kem Krueger, University of Wyoming; Kelechi Ogbonna, Virginia Commonwealth University; Matt Fete, Chicago State University; Dana Singla, Roosevelt University; Beth Welch, Western New England University; Karen Marlowe, Auburn University)

Approved Emerging Resolution #6

AACP supports a two-year ultimate NAPLEX pass rate (the average pass rate of test-takers two calendar years from graduation, regardless of number of attempts) as an additional option for programs to meet ACPE reporting requirements. Source: Melissa Hogan, Roosevelt University; Matt Fete, Chicago State University; Dana Singla, Roosevelt University; Kem Krueger, University of Wyoming; Beth Welch, Western New England University; Karen Marlowe, Auburn University; Mike Malloy, William Carey University)

Approved Emerging Resolution #7

AACP supports the development of an interstate portability multistate licensure compact for pharmacists and student pharmacists. (Source: Eric Barker, Purdue University; Wanda Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico; Anne Lin, Notre Dame of Maryland University; Toyin Tofade, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science; Renae Chesnut, Drake University; Debra Parker, University of Findlay; George MacKinnon, Medical College of Wisconsin; Steve Swanson, University of Wisconsin; Kathy Giacomini, University of California San Francisco; Angela Kashuba, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Glen Schumock, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lynda Welage, University of Minnesota; Don Letendre, University of Iowa)

Approved Emerging Resolution #8

AACP recommends the removal of a stand-alone examination of federal and/or state pharmacy law as a requirement for licensure. (Source: Eric Barker, Purdue University; Wanda Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico; Anne Lin, Notre Dame of Maryland University; Toyin Tofade, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Renae Chesnut, Drake University; Debra Parker, University of Findlay; George MacKinnon, Medical College of Wisconsin; Steve Swanson, University of Wisconsin; Kathy Giacomini, University of California San Francisco; Angela Kashuba, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Glen Schumock, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lynda Welage, University of Minnesota; Don Letendre, University of Iowa)

1. Speaker Grice noted that there was no unfinished business to be addressed by the House. She thanked Chair Waite and the members of the BPDC for their important work.

2. Speaker Grice proceeded to an open forum discussion and invited delegates and other attendees to raise matters of policy or procedure, or substantive suggestions that would enable AACP to better serve member needs. The following points were raised.

   • A comment encouraging AACP to improve the way the work of Special Interest Groups are weaved into the fabric of other organizational affinity groups (Councils, Sections).

   • A suggestion that AACP take a policy position opposing legislation that limit pharmacists’ ability to counsel patients on any medication, particularly when those legislative limits result in the advancement of anti-scientific, unsafe misinformation (e.g., legislation that prevent pharmacists from discouraging the inappropriate use of ivermectin).

   • A suggestion that AACP encourage NABP to support the formal recognition of pharmacy technicians in states where they do not have regulatory status currently (e.g., Hawaii).

   • A suggestion that the AACP member database provide demographic details of individual members (e.g., whether at a public or private institution, how long a person has been a member, race, ethnicity, sex) in a way that allows that information to be analyzed.

   • A suggestion that policy statements be finalized earlier in the association year, prior to the Annual Meeting, at a time when delegates can discuss individual statements with colleagues at their respective colleges or schools of pharmacy, such that they can better represent their colleagues in the House of Delegates.

   • A recommendation that AACP recognize the impact of our statements on accreditation standards set by ACPE, and that AACP committee efforts around educational outcomes be reviewed by elected officials of AACP before they are advanced to ACPE.

   • A request that all efforts be made to limit the cost of attending the Annual Meeting, particularly given budget cuts affecting many colleges and schools of pharmacy with dwindling financial resources for professional development activities.

3. Past President Anne Lin installed the officers and members of the 2022-2023 Board of Directors:

   • Russell Melchert, President

   • Craig Cox, President-Elect

   • Stuart Haines, Immediate Past President

   • Gloria Grice, Speaker of the House

   • David Holdford, Treasurer

   • Toyin Tofade, Chair, Council of Deans

   • Renae Chesnut, Immediate Past Chair, Council of Deans

   • Tommy Smith, Chair-elect, Council of Deans

   • Margarita DiVall, Chair, Council of Faculties

   • Jennifer Trujillo, Immediate Past Chair, Council of Faculties

   • Jennifer Danielson, Chair-elect, Council of Faculties

   • Lakesha Butler, Chair, Council of Sections

   • Pamela Heaton, Immediate Past Chair, Council of Sections

   • Tim Bloom, Chair-elect, Council of Sections

   • Lee Vermeulen, Executive Vice President

4. Past president Lin was congratulated and presented a commemorative clock by Past President Haines. Newly installed President Melchert was congratulated and presented a gavel by Past President Haines.

5. Speaker Grice then called for any additional or unfinished business. Hearing none, she adjourned the House of Delegates at 10:48 a.m.