Minnesota Pharmacy Legislative Day Sessions

7:45 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m.
Welcome & Announcements

Morning Sessions

8:30 a.m.
Minnesota Pharmacy Advocacy Agenda: Issue Briefing & Status

Michelle Aytay, RPh, CDE, Region #21 Clinical Services, Walgreens Co. MPhA President-Elect, MPhA Public Affairs Committee Co-Chair
Jeff Lindoo, RPh, Thrifty White (retired), MPhA Public Affairs Committee Co-Chair
Jill Strykowski, Director of Pharmacy, Mercy & Unity Hospitals, Allina Health, PATF Co-Chair
Tamara Bezdicek, PharmD, BCPS, Fairview Health System, PATF Co-Chair
Buck Humphrey, PATF Lobbyist

This session will provide information on pharmacy related issues that are active or likely to be active in the 2017 Minnesota Legislature, details on the impact legislation will have on pharmacy practice.

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

• List the MPhA, MSHP and Pharmacy Advocacy Task Force's 2017 legislative initiatives.
• Describe for each initiative the present and future process it will need to go through toward passage.
• Explain what action is desired for legislator visits.

9:30 a.m.
Magnify Your Advocacy Power as a Key Contact

Heidi Ecker, Director Government Affairs & Grassroots Advocacy, NACDS

On a daily basis, our community engages elected officials with the goal of successfully advancing pro-patient and pro-pharmacy policy priorities. At the same time, advocates for other causes make their views known to members of Congress and their positions can be contrary to pharmacy's goals. Sheer engagement was enough in years' past, however today's constant buzz of competing priorities requires even stronger advocate and policymaker relationships to secure our legislative victories. You are positioned to build these relationships across the United States, making pharmacy an even more powerful force than it is today. To help you reach excellence in this capacity, NACDS has created a training program to help you become a self-sufficient and opportunity-generating Key Contact with quality relationships!

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

• Build relationships with policymakers and the right congressional staffers.
• Generate impactful opportunities to connect with policymakers.
• Multiply relationship quality via political events and campaign engagement.
• Advance value through supportive Letters-to-the-Editor, social media.
• Develop a plan of activities to establish a stronger relationship with an elected official.

11:00 a.m.
Roundtable Briefings

After participating in the roundtable session, attendees should be able to:

• List the key pharmacy issues being discussed in Minnesota.
• Explain key talking points for three issues.
• Create one action item for your professional and/or practice development based on the key talking points learned.

4:30 pm
Networking Social

Evening Sessions

5:30 p.m.
Welcome & Announcements

Molly Ekstrand, RPh, BCACP, AE-C, Medication Management Program Manager, Park Nicollet Health Services, MPhA President

Greetings from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy’s Century Mortar Club

5:35 p.m.
Visit Experience Sharing

Michelle Aytay, RPh, CDE, Region #21 Clinical Services, Walgreens Co. MPhA President-Elect

6:00 p.m.
Minnesota Legislative Panel: What's on the Horizon?

Steve Schondelmeyer, PharmD, PhD, CMC Endowed Chair, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

• List the major health-related initiatives being considered by the Minnesota legislature.
• Explain the legislative process and create one action item for advocacy to advance practice.

7:00 p.m.
Reforming Health Care Reform: Starting Over?

Steve Schondelmeyer, PharmD, PhD, CMC Endowed Chair, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

The new Administration has quickly moved on campaign promises to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Each day brings new headlines related to the ACA and the issue is moving quickly. Will it be repeal, replace, repair or reform? In this fast-paced session, Steve will bring his insider insights looking at how health care reform will be revisited in Washington, DC, and what the potential impact will be on Minnesota pharmacy and health care.

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

• List the major changes being proposed by the new administration and Congress to the Affordable Care Act.
• Describe the potential impact of those changes to health care in Minnesota.
• List likely milestones for implementing these changes.

7:30 p.m.
Minnesota Board of Pharmacy: Issue Update

Cody Wiberg, PharmD, MS, RPh, Executive Director, Minnesota Board of Pharmacy

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

• List the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy's 2017 legislative initiatives.
• Describe the reasoning for each initiative and the process it will need to go through toward passage.
• Explain other key issues the Board intends to address in the coming year.