{events} Reed Conference Celebrates Diamond Anniversary 1940 was a big year for healthcare innovation. Plasma was first used as a blood substitute and penicillin as an antibiotic. The first hip replacement surgery took place, and so did the inaugural Howard L. Reed Educational Conference. After 75 years, each innovation is still vital in healthcare. The Reed is also a reunion opportunity for MCPHS School of Pharmacy alumni. Last spring, more than 720 pharmacy professionals, including alumni representing 59 different class years, celebrated the diamond anniversary at Gillette Stadium. The conference offered the perfect forum for alumni to socialize, rekindle connections, and exchange leading-edge knowledge about pharmacy practice. The agenda included presentations on topics ranging from cardiovascular disease risk management and advances in type 2 diabetes care, to opiate and benzodiazepine issues, to the current state and future of sterile compounding. Featured speakers included MCPHS faculty members Judy Cheng, PharmD, MPH, professor of pharmacy practice; Jennifer Goldman BSP ’90, PharmD ’96, professor of pharmacy practice; Michael Angelini PharmD ‘97, associate professor of pharmacy practice; and Eric Kastango BSP ’83 of Clinical IQ LLC and CriticalPoint LLC. Michele Matthews PharmD ’02, associate professor of pharmacy practice, authored the exclusive online pain management presentation associated with the conference. Educational grants supporting the conference content were provided by Boehringer Ingelheim/Lilly USA and Novo Nordisk. Twenty-three companies and their representatives exhibited products and services on-site, with Rite Aid Pharmacy as the featured Goldlevel exhibitor and CVS Health as the Bronze-level exhibitor. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals also held a product theater session during the lunch hour.
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