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56th Annual WMSHP Spring Seminar

  • May 13, 2025
  • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Calvin College Prince Conference Center, 1800 East Beltline SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546

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First-Time Offering; Initial Release Date Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Deadline for pre-registration is May 7, 2025.

On-site registration will be available for an additional $10. On-site registration for residents and students will be available for $25.

We encourage early registration to ensure sufficient seating and materials.  Only requests for cancellation received prior to May 7, 2025 will be refunded.

Presentation Slides & Materials:


Tentative Topics:

7:15 – 8:15 | Registration, Continental Breakfast, Exhibits 


8:15 – 8:30 | Welcome and Announcements 


8:30 – 9:30 | Evidence-Based Law: How to Be Part of the Standard of Care Revolution

Deeb D. Eid, PharmD 

Senior Advisor, Regulatory Affairs in Pharmacy 
CVS Health 


Objectives:

  1. Compare the concepts and published literature of Standard of Care to Bright Line Rules

  2. Identify state changes to laws and rules within pharmacy on Standard of Care

  3. Recognize steps of advocacy that could be taken towards Standard of Care 


9:30 – 10:30 | Finding Pearls in Kidney (Transplants)

Paige Watkins, PharmD, BCPPS
Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacist
Corewell Health Helen Devos Children’s Hospital

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the medication management of a kidney transplant patient at each phase in care

  2. Describe common infectious complications seen in kidney transplant recipients along with their corresponding prophylaxis and treatment

  3. Review important considerations for pharmacists not specialized in transplant care who will be managing transplanted patients


10:30 – 11:00 | Break and Exhibits


11:00 – 12:00 | Managing Pain, Minimizing Harm: Considerations for Reducing Risks with Opioid Prescribing

Haylee Batten, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner in Pain Management

Battle Creek VA Medical Center


Objectives:

  1. Summarize the CDC's Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2022)

  2. Apply appropriate risk mitigation strategies to patients prescribed opioid therapy

  3. Differentiate buprenorphine's unique characteristics from other opioids


12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch and Exhibits 


1:00 – 2:00 | SGOULT-2

Tracey Mersfelder, PharmD, BCPS
Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Ferris State University College of Pharmacy/Borgess Medical Center Department of Pharmacy

Adjust Clinical Professor

Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine


Objectives:

  1. Review the 2020 gout guidelines

  2. Summarize studies evaluating the SGLT-2 inhibitors for gout

  3. Determine if SGLT-2 inhibitors should be prioritized in patients with gout and diabetes


2:00 – 2:30 | Break and Exhibits


2:30 – 3:30 | Implicit Bias: Weight Bias

Katie Axford, PharmD, MPH, BCPS

Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Ferris State University College of Pharmacy


Objectives:

  1. Explain how an individual healthcare provider’s implicit biases could affect the quality of patient care provided and subsequent patient health outcomes. ​

  2. ​Examine how implicit biases can lead to discrimination and health inequities among different patient populations. ​

  3. Discuss strategies to identify, reflect on, and minimize implicit bias.


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Requirements for successful completion of credit: Attendees will need to submit a provided CE Activity Code code within 12 hours of the activity in order to check-in for the activity. They will then have 30 days to log-in to their WMed Profile to complete the evaluation form and receive credit.

We recommend that you create a WMed account before attending one of our meetings.  Please see our Help Page for detailed instructions on creating a WMed account and claiming your CE credits.

  



In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine and Western Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit amount subject to change.

Other Learner Attendance (5.00 hours), General Attendance (5.00 hours), Continuing Pharmacy Education ACPE (5.00 hours)

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