Compounding for Pediatric Patients
Lisa D. Ashworth, BS Pharm, RPh, BCSCP, FACA

System Compounding Specialist and Clinical Pharmacist, Children’s Health System of Texas

Activity Description: This session will explain some challenges in choosing an API, excipient, vehicle, and flavorings for a compounded formulation. Vehicles and excipients can affect a patient clinically – balancing their potential adverse effects is important. Stability and storage needs, especially for chronic medications has to be considered. This presentation will lead to better patient care by understanding how the components in a compounded formulation can affect a patient clinically.

The intended audience is compounding pharmacists and technicians who may compound for pediatric patients.

Equine Pharmacology
Sue Hudson Duran, RPh,MS,PhD, DICVP, FSVHP,FACVP
GMP Pharmacist/Professor Emeritus, Auburn University/Auburn Equine SPP

Activity Description: Veterinarians would practice equine medicine depend on pharmacists that are training in proper preparation, compounding and dispensing medication. The pharmacists need to be aware of medications in horses that may be toxic. The practicing pharmacists needs to know the difficulties of dosing horses in order to prepare safe and efficacious medication. Drug interactions ae also a skill that pharmacists may contribute for the veterinarian as many horses may be on polypharmacy . Safe handling of equine medications will be discusses as well as an occupational safety step to protect your employees.

Vitamins Fact or Fiction: Functionally Using Nutrients to Impact Positive Patient Outcomes

Jeff Robins RPh, FAARFM, FACA, ABAAHP
Consultant/Functional Pharmacist, Summit Functional Consulting

Activity Description: Many of our patients eat the standard American diet (SAD). Along with poor daily diet, most of our patients are taking medications that cause drug induced nutritional deficiencies. Our patients are at risk for further health degradation due to their nutritional status. Jeff will help you understand how to pick nutritional products that are efficacious in your patients. You will learn how to meet your patient’s nutritional needs generally, and for specific common ailments and disease states. Not only does this type of practice offer a sustainable profit model, your practice will set itself apart from the competition by giving in depth nutritional care to your patients.