news in brief organization and a future member of the Global Alliance for Pharmacy Education (GAPE), a recently organized group of pharmacy education associations around the globe. In addition to attending the VII Pan American Conference on Pharmaceutical Education, some attendees, including those from the U.S., attended several functions of the XX Pan-American Pharmacy Congress, which was also held in Porto Alegre. Rodriguez de Bittner was an invited speaker at the Congress and spoke about the Maryland P3 (Patients, Pharmacists, Partnerships) Program, which is a program for self-insured employers that provides pharmacist coaches who help employees manage their chronic disease(s). For this program, Rodriguez de Bittner and her University of Maryland colleagues were recipients of one of the 2010 Pinnacle Awards, which are presented annually by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation.
Dr. Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and Alejandro Nieto Rodriguez, executive director of the Mexican Association of Pharmacy Schools.
academic Pharmacy now  Jul/Aug/Sept 2010
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