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MPhA Town Hall
Sign Up Today for MPhA Southeast Minnesota Town Hall Meeting on March 29!
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Join us for an interactive evening and town hall as area pharmacists from the 11 counties of the old Southeast District of MPhA reunite and welcome current President Jeff Lindoo and MPhA Interim Executive Director Marsha Millonig to Rochester on Tuesday evening, March 29, at the Kahler Apache Hotel with food provided by The Canadian Honker.
Marsha will provide (for the first time to any group in Minnesota) a dynamic session entitled “10 Tips for Physician Communication/Collaboration,” in which you will learn tips to successfully build relationships with physicians to support their patient care practices through your medication therapy management services and other possible collaborative practices.
Jeff will then lead the town hall portion of the evening where we can have a good old-fashioned opportunity to share our ideas, concerns and thoughts with each other and MPhA leadership. We promise to adjourn by 8:15 PM.
If you live or work anywhere in the 11 counties of Southeast Minnesota please join us! Fabulous door prizes to be given away for members!
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Join MPhA NOW for $95 for 1 year! (A savings of $200!)
Join long-time friends, colleagues, classmates or come as a first-time pharmacist and meet new friends during this relaxing evening as we gather as one profession.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of our friends at Pharmaceutical Specialties of Rochester (www.psico.com), the makers of Vanicream amongst other fine products, this event is FREE to MPhA Pharmacist members and for all pharmacy students! We thank Brian Leary for continuing this great tradition of support for our profession here in Southeast Minnesota.
MPhA thanks Sanofi & Boehringer Ingelheim for their support of the this program. You will have the opportunity to visit with their representatives at their table top exhibits before the program.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe components upon which a collaborative relationship is built.
- Explain the common techniques that physicians use to establish trust among themselves and other collaborators, including pharmacists.
- List the elements that contribute to a physician-pharmacists driven collaborative drug therapy management program.
- Describe elements of pharmacy practice that must be better understood by a physician for a collaborative relationship to exist.
- Describe tips and tactics that would work best to improve the professional relationships between physicians and pharmacists.
Location:
Kahler Apache Hotel
Grand Ballroom C
1517 16TH ST SW
Rochester, MN 55902
Pricing:
MPhA Members – FREE
Nonmembers – $10.00
Are you a student? Click here to RSVP for free!
Registration preferred by March 23 but participants are welcome to register up to the event.
Schedule:
Join Us for Hors’Doeuvres!
Domestic and imported cheeses garnished with mixed nuts and dried berries and served with an assortment of gourmet crackers. Fresh fruit display served with yogurt dip, fresh vegetable crudités served with assorted dips, tomato bruschetta - Chef Le's recipe topped with parmesan cheese and served with crostini, egg rolls - served with a sweet chili sauce, bacon wrapped chestnuts, tempura chicken - sautéed in a Szechuan sauce, smoked lox of salmon - garnished with assorted accompaniments and served with gourmet crackers, stuffed mushrooms with Italian sausage, and assorted cakes.
Welcome & Educational Program
Speakers:

Marsha Millonig
MPhA Interim Executive Director
Marsha Millonig joined the team as MPhA’s Interim Executive Director in 2015. In addition to this role, Marsha is the President/CEO of Catalyst Enterprises, LLC, a health care consulting firm dedicated to creating change that will allow its clients to be more efficient and/or value-added healthcare service providers toward improved health outcomes. Marsha’s firm consulted with MPhA in 2014. Prior to forming her company, Marsha spent more than 20 years in association management with the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) where she led the philanthropic HDMA Healthcare Foundation, and also the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS.)
Her BS in Pharmacy is from the University of Minnesota and her M.B.A. from the University of Maryland. She completed the American Society of Health System Pharmacy (ASHP) Executive Residency in Association Management.
She a practicing pharmacist and pharmacist immunizer, working with both independent and chain pharmacies. Marsha is also an associate fellow of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy’s Center for Leading Healthcare Change.
She’s a published author with her last work, “100 MTM Tips for Pharmacists” published by APhA.
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Jeff Lindoo
MPhA President, Vice President, Governmental & Regulatory Affairs, Thrifty White Pharmacies
Jeff Lindoo, R.Ph. grew up in the world of pharmacy. His earliest experience consisted primarily of reading comic books in the back of his Grandfather’s and Father’s pharmacy in rural Wisconsin. He later graduated to responsibility for emptying the trash and finally worked as a clerk, made fountain syrups, scrubbed the floors and worked as a technician (before the concept of technicians really existed) in the pharmacy, preparing prescriptions for his Father’s final approval. He has been a member of MPhA since graduating from the NDSU College of Pharmacy in 1974. He has worked for Thrifty White Pharmacies since 1974 and has served as staff pharmacist, Pharmacy Manager, Store Manager, District Manager, Pharmacy District Manager, Vice President of Long Term Care Services and currently serves as Vice President of Governmental & Regulatory Affairs. He is President-Elect of MPhA and serves on the MPhA Executive Committee and Public Affairs Committee. He served on the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy from 1996 to 2000 and served as Vice President in 1999. His is a member of the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy National Board of Advisors. He is a member of the Minnesota Retailers Association Board of Directors and served as MNRA Board Chair in 2010. He is also a member of APhA, ASCP and NCPA.

About the Host: Sherwood Peterson, Jr., RPh
Sherwood Peterson, Jr., RPh grew up on the family farm near Baker, Minnesota in the Red River Valley of the North. 1987 graduate of NDSU College of Pharmacy where he served as SAPhA President, relaunched the College of Pharmacy's Yearbook in 1987 and was a student of current Dean at the U of MN Duluth, Randy Seifert! Sherwood has lived and worked in the Rochester area since 1987 when he began his career at Shopko North Pharmacy.
MPhA member since 1987. Sherwood served as MPhA Southeast District Chair for 6 terms from 1988-2000 and held monthly CE meetings throughout the various towns in the District for the benefit of the members. He hopes to relaunch those District meetings to grow MPhA membership here in SE Minnesota starting March 29th!
Sherwood served 2 terms as the co-chair of the Government Affairs committee and chaired the first MPhA Task Force that eventually secured the law allowing for Pharmacists' in Minnesota to be immunizers. Sherwood served on the MPhA Board of Directors for 1 term in the mid 90's and currently serves on the nominations committee.
Sherwood has hosted the hour long "The Corner Pharmacist" Radio Show each and every month since November 1994 on the second Tuesday of the month from 8-9AM on Rochester's KROC AM 1340 which has earned him the moniker "America's Most Listened to Pharmacist". The show is LIVE, unscreened and uncensored with interactive emailed and phoned in questions from listeners which are answered in plain English by a practicing pharmacist. Sherwood often interviews special guests including APhA President Steve Simonson, U of MN College of Pharmacy Dean Marilyn Speedie, Minnesota State Senator and chief author of Medical Cannabis law Scott Dibble of Minneapolis, US Congressman Collin Peterson of Minnesota's 7th District, frequent guests Dr.Thomas Kottke and Dr.Robert Jacobson (cardiologist and pediatrician) of Mayo Clinic and various pharmacists from the Poison Control Center at HCMC. Visit the show's website at: www.thecornerpharmacist.com and the show's Facebook page "The Corner Pharmacist Radio Show". Also listen online at www.krocam.com. Episode # 256 is Tuesday, March 8th on the air!
Preceptor to dozens of PharmD externs since 1991 from NDSU, U of MN and U of MN-Duluth. Since 2012 is the PIC for Sterling Drug Long Term Care Pharmacy in Rushford serving patients in SE Minnesota and Northern Iowa. MTM certified provider and Nicotine Cessation certified provider by Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center. Sherwood has been honored by his colleagues being named as Minnesota's Distinguished Young Pharmacist in 1992, Excellence in Innovation Pharmacist in 1999 and Bowl of Hygeia in 2001. During his career, Sherwood has been sought out often by local and regional TV, radio and newspapers for interviews about various pharmacist and patient health related topics and speaks often to area groups including the state convention for retired teachers and MTM meetings at senior centers throughout SE Minnesota.
Sherwood and his wife, Wendy, live in Rochester and have 2 children. Sherwood is an avid Minnesota Twins, Wild, Vikings AND NDSU Bison fan!
This evenings presentations are being submitted to the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy by MPhA for Continuing Education credit approval of 1 credit hour (s). Pharmacy students and residents are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend as our guest.
You are the future of this great profession wherever you may end up practicing and what better time to continue or begin being active in the profession than NOW.
Our profession will continue to grow in importance only through the collective efforts of all of us together educating our patients and the general public both in and out of our various pharmacy practices. Pharmacist MTM services and pharmacist administered immunizations just didn’t happen in this state, they were tirelessly worked for and advocated by your colleagues locally, statewide and even nationally.
Continuing Education:

The Minnesota Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 1 credit hour (s).
To receive Board of Pharmacy credits for this program the following must be completed:
- Full participation/completion of the live program
- Completion of survey post webinar acknowledging participation.
Board of Pharmacy credit processing takes place on the 15th of each month.
Questions? Please contact karip@ewald.com with questions about credits.
Consent to Use of Photographic Images
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, MPhA meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to MPhA's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions and audiotapes of such events and activities.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations received by March 22 will receive a full refund minus a $10 administrative fee. Cancellations received after March 23 will not receive a refund.
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