| 9:15am – 10:45am | Health Care Quality: The Changing Landscape & the Opportunities they Create for PharmacistsSteven T. Simenson, BPharm, FAPhA, President. APhA Steven T. Simenson is an active community pharmacist, Managing Partner and President of six community pharmacies. Simenson graduated with his pharmacist wife Wendy from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. He is involved in Project ImPACT, practice based research, MTM, collaborative practice, employer health and wellness services, and compounding. He chaired the APhA Policy Committee and served on the APhA American Pharmacist Month and MTMS Model Advisory Committees. Simenson is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota, University of Iowa, and Creighton Colleges of Pharmacy. He precepts residents and student pharmacists. Simenson is Past President of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association, Minnesota Pharmacists Foundation, MnCare Pharmacists, Partners in Pharmacy Cooperative, and Secretary-Treasurer of Pharmacy Network of Minnesota. Simenson is on the Board of Directors of Pharmacist Mutual Insurance. He has received the Weaver Medal, Minnesota Distinguished Alumni Award, Community Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year, the Bowl of Hygeia Award, APhA Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award, APhA-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Community and Ambulatory Practice, and is an APhA Fellow. Brian J. Isetts, RPh, PhD, BCPS, FAPhA  Brian Isetts is currently Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. Dr. Isetts has distinguished himself in the application of comprehensive medication management as a practitioner, researcher and educator. He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and has experience working as a pharmaceutical care practitioner, nursing home consultant, and in community and institutional practice. Brian received his undergraduate degree in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin, and his PhD in Social and Administrative Pharmacy from the University of Minnesota as a Kellogg Foundation Fellow in the Pharmaceutical Clinical Scientist Program.
Brian Isetts has been extensively involved in developing a new health service in which pharmacists collaborate with physicians and other providers to help patients achieve goals of therapy while identifying and resolving drug therapy problems. Comprehensive medication management has been demonstrated to improve clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes of care, as well as decrease health expenditures when provided within integrated health care systems. Brian’s scholarly contributions to evaluating comprehensive medication management span the medical and pharmacy literature including publications in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and in Medical Care. Dr. Isetts worked 12 years with the Minnesota Legislature to enact the Minnesota Medicaid Medication Therapy Management Care Law. At the national level, Brian has worked with the American Medical Association to recognize and report pharmacists’ medication therapy management services within official CPT® health reporting and billing nomenclature. Brian recently completed a two-and-a-half year sabbatical as a health policy fellow in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services working on improvements to the Part D MTM Program and serving in the CMS Innovation Center as a Contracting Officer’s Representative and federal co-lead in measuring and improving medication safety and care transitions across 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems in the Partnership for Patients Initiative. Jim Chase, President, Minnesota Community Measurement  Jim is the President of Minnesota Community Measurement, a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve health by publicly reporting information on health care quality. Over the last eight years, Community Measurement has grown to be one of the leading health care reporting organizations in the country and has pioneered measures using clinic data from medical records and patient reported data on health status. Community Measurement reports 76 measures on chronic and preventive care, procedural specialist care, hospital care, health information technology, patient experience, and cost. Community Measurement reports results on over 670 physician practice sites in Minnesota and surrounding communities.
Jim has more than 25 years of experience in health care management including eight years as Director of Health Purchasing for the government programs administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Jim is the Past Chair of the Network of Regional Healthcare Improvement, a group of leading regional health initiatives working to improve the quality and value of health in their communities. Jim also serves on the boards of the Institute of Clinical Systems Improvement and Apple Tree Dental. Jim holds a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota and taught from 1987 until 2007 in the School’s ISP Health Administration Program. |
| 6:45pm – 8:00pm | Minnesota Board of Pharmacy UpdatePublic Officials Panel DiscussionCody Wiberg, Pharm.D., M.S., R.Ph., Executive Director, Minnesota Board of Pharmacy  Cody Wiberg, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, received a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Minnesota in 1985. He has worked as a clinical pharmacist for the Hennepin Regional Poison Center and the Minnesota state psychiatric hospital system, as a community pharmacist and as a nursing home consultant. From 1999, until he joined the Board in September of 2005, he was the Pharmacy Program Manager for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Cody is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and an Instructor and Course Director for the University of Florida Graduate School. (From which he received a Master of Science in Pharmacy Policy and Outcomes in 2009). Cody was named to Minnesota Physician's quadrennial list of the state's 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders in 2008 and 2012.
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