— MPA IN ACTION —
2022
PRESIDENT-ELECT CANDIDATES
HOPE M. BROXTERMAN, a clinical pharmacist at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, received her
Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Ferris State University (FSU) in 2010. She attained Board of Pharmacy certification in pharmacotherapy in 2014 and board certification in cardiology in 2019. Broxterman was awarded MPA’s Distinguished New Pharmacist Practitioner Award in 2018. In 2019, Broxterman was recognized as the Residency Preceptor of the Year by Munson Medical Center. Broxterman has served as co-chair for the Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP)/Michigan Pharmacists Association (MPA) Membership Committee, as a delegate to the MPA House of Delegates, and as a member of the Pharmacy Advocacy Response Team (PART). She has also served as treasurer of the MSHP Board of Directors, as a member of the MSHP Educational Affairs, MSHP Finance, MSHP Organizational Affairs, MSHP/MPA Membership and MSHP/MPA Public Affairs committees. In 2015, Broxterman completed the Michigan Pharmacy Foundation’s Health Professional Leadership Academy and Munson Medical Center’s Frontline Leadership program in 2016. Broxterman is a member of the Northern Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (NMSHP), having served as the organization’s treasurer since 2014. She also serves as an active member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American College of Cardiology. An active MPA member since 2008, Broxterman resides in Traverse City.
What will be your top priority as president of MPA? Why do you believe this issue is important? Although this past year has proven to be challenging, our pharmacy profession demonstrated the ability to adapt to whatever a pandemic may throw at us. As a profession, despite many of our everyday activities needing to be adjusted this past year, we accomplished many important, valued, and exciting things such as: delivering thousands of vaccine doses, navigating drug shortages, performing a multitude of patient education visits virtually, and with focused effort passing legislation for PBM reform. While we have accomplished many milestones, there remain many challenges. For example, increased daily responsibilities and burnout, drug pricing
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and patient affordability, PBM transparency, telemedicine and remote verification, curbing the opioid epidemic and gaining provider status are just a few. Yet, as important as all these are to our profession, the pandemic exposed a bigger challenge that needs to be addressed, health equity. As pharmacists we are patient advocates. We are the most accessible healthcare professional. To me, harnessing our collective effort to address the disparity of healthcare access is an emerging issue that MPA members should tackle. I don’t have an answer to this. Yet our history as a professional association focused on patient care gives me encouragement that we can find ways to address this issue and create a new space for our profession to demonstrate our commitment to patient care.
Why do you think it is important for MPA members to be actively involved in the association? While challenges will always loom, we have the perfect solution for all the trials we face, our members and the talented team at MPA. By collaborating and sharing ideas we can improve reimbursement and limit inappropriate DIR fees, expand upon health information technology to improve patient outcomes, and provide necessary tools to ensure the health of our communities is accessible to all in need. Having the opportunity to continue to work on your behalf and support MPA through the many transitions it faces as your next president would be a true honor.
