Medication Management: Advice From Your Local Pharmacist
Show: Health Talk Radio w/ Melanie Cole M.S.
Guest(s)
Joe H. Harmison, President, National Community Pharmacists Association
Topic
American Pharmacists Month
Topic Info
October is American Pharmacists Month and the *National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)* is urging to patients to use the occasion to visit with their community pharmacist, and to talk with their community pharmacists about all aspects of their medications, including dosage, storage and disposal.
Joseph H. Harmison, President of the NCPA, comes on the show to discuss the benefits of keeping more open channels with a pharmacist and details of * DisposeMyMeds*, a free program with more than 1,000 pharmacies nationwide signed up to help consumers dispose of their unused prescription medication.
Joseph H. Harmison, President of the NCPA, comes on the show to discuss the benefits of keeping more open channels with a pharmacist and details of * DisposeMyMeds*, a free program with more than 1,000 pharmacies nationwide signed up to help consumers dispose of their unused prescription medication.
Guest Info
Joe Harmison is a second-generation pharmacist who values the practice of pharmacy and patient service. Within the first year of pharmacy ownership, he realized he would have to fight to protect those values from external forces trying to control his destiny. Thus began his career of service to the National Community Pharmacists Association and the Texas Pharmacy Association.
He steps into the NCPA President position after nearly two decades of leadership in NCPA and TPA. Harmison urges all pharmacy owners to be involved in political action through NCPA’s increasingly powerful PAC program. This advocacy is essential to protecting the pharmacy values he learned from his father and from his own years of pharmacy ownership. During his decades of service, Harmison has fought attempts to chip away at pharmacist rights and today believes pharmacy benefit managers are the most significant threat to the profession.
Harmison is immediate past-chairman of the NCPA Executive Committee and serves on the Political Action Committee. He is a past president of TPA and chairman of the TPA political action committee.
Harmison is an active alum of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, serving on the Alumni Affairs Board and on the National Advisory Committee to the Dean. He was named a Distinguished Alumni in 1999 and received the university’s Ralph Boinfang Practitioner of the Year Award in 2003. His honors also include the national Bowl of Hygeia Award in 2005 and Pharmacist of the Year awards from TPA in 19999 and from the Tarrant County Pharmacists Association in 1998. In 1996, Harmison earned the NCPA Leadership Award, the Merck Outstanding Achievement in Pharmacy Award and the Tarrant County Pharmacists Association Texas Distinguished Service Award.
Harmison owns three pharmacies in the Fort Worth-Dallas area, including Apothecary Pharmacy; Medical Village Surgery Center; and Harmison Pharmacies, an office and surgical-based practice specializing in pain management and ambulatory surgical center consulting.
He steps into the NCPA President position after nearly two decades of leadership in NCPA and TPA. Harmison urges all pharmacy owners to be involved in political action through NCPA’s increasingly powerful PAC program. This advocacy is essential to protecting the pharmacy values he learned from his father and from his own years of pharmacy ownership. During his decades of service, Harmison has fought attempts to chip away at pharmacist rights and today believes pharmacy benefit managers are the most significant threat to the profession.
Harmison is immediate past-chairman of the NCPA Executive Committee and serves on the Political Action Committee. He is a past president of TPA and chairman of the TPA political action committee.
Harmison is an active alum of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy, serving on the Alumni Affairs Board and on the National Advisory Committee to the Dean. He was named a Distinguished Alumni in 1999 and received the university’s Ralph Boinfang Practitioner of the Year Award in 2003. His honors also include the national Bowl of Hygeia Award in 2005 and Pharmacist of the Year awards from TPA in 19999 and from the Tarrant County Pharmacists Association in 1998. In 1996, Harmison earned the NCPA Leadership Award, the Merck Outstanding Achievement in Pharmacy Award and the Tarrant County Pharmacists Association Texas Distinguished Service Award.
Harmison owns three pharmacies in the Fort Worth-Dallas area, including Apothecary Pharmacy; Medical Village Surgery Center; and Harmison Pharmacies, an office and surgical-based practice specializing in pain management and ambulatory surgical center consulting.
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Host
Melanie Cole, M.S.
Original Air Date
10 / 20 / 2010
