P.O. Box 13463, Fort Wayne, IN 46869-3463

2^{nd Quarter Newsletter – 2008}

                                                President                                   Jon Wolf

                                                Past President                           Jackie Clouse

                                                President Elect                          Pending

                                                Secretary                                  Christine Itt

                                                Treasurer                                  Cathy Carmien

                                                CE Coordinator                        Lisa Newnam

                                                Newsletter Co-Editor               Susanne B Long

                                                Board Member                         Amelia Holloway

                                                Board Member                         Jeremy Enyart

                                                Board Member                         Laura Elmer

                                                Board Member                        Renee Jarrett

                                                Board Member                        David Speer

April has arrived and the season is changing from snow to spring. During the wintry months your Board of Directors has been busy planning some great programs for April & May. Thanks to our sponsors, the meetings will take place at several of Fort Wayne’s finest restaurants. Lisa Newnam is to be commended for her active role in taking the lead to plan and organize our CE / Dinner meetings to date in 2008. Please continue to submit any suggestions for future programs or activities via email at: ^{info@neipa.org.}

ììì Scholarships ììì

Purdue and Butler University Pharmacy Schools have been notified of our decision to provide annual scholarship donations for the 20th year consecutively. We were able to provide a total of $2000 in the form of $1000 scholarship to each college. We would like to thank the generosity of our members who have made it possible for us to financially assist 2 future pharmacists from our area.

The schools will award the scholarships to students enrolled in their 3rd or 4th professional year and will notify us of the recipients’ names. The students selected will be from the Northeast Indiana area. We will recognize the students in a future newsletter & will invite them to one of our future CE / dinner programs to introduce them to our membership.

We will continue to list web sites you may use to obtain credit for ACPE approved programs sponsored by various entities. The following sites are free:

CE Certificates for 2007 will be available at our April 22 and May 1 programs during registration and after the meetings. Certificates which are not picked up on those dates will be mailed to members in May. License renewals for Indiana pharmacists will be due no later than June 30, 2008. As a reminder, CE certificates are available to members who are in good standing and are current on their membership renewals. Thanks to all Board members who assisted in readying the certificates for distribution.

We would like to recognize the following Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and their sales representatives for assisting with the sponsorship of our meetings to date in 2008:

Without the help of our area sales representatives and their companies, we would not be able to provide the nice programs which we have had with excellent speakers and great dinner locations. Please thank them for their generosity when the opportunity arises.

Recently we have had trouble sending email notices to members who have Comcast internet services. This has been due to a spam blocker which Comcast uses. This appears to be corrected for now, however it would help to add your email addresses from NEIPA to your "contacts" in order that your incoming NEIPA messages will be recognized by your email service. If your email address changes or you have not been getting email notices, please resubmit your address to: ^{info@neipa.org & we will update your information.}

For those members who do not have email access or do not wish to have NEIPA send notices or information via email, we will continue to send newsletters and meeting notices by US Mail. Please keep in mind we have been able to reduce our expenses and maintain low annual dues because of our ability to utilize email and maintain our Web Site (^{www.neipa.org) with up to date news and meeting information.}

The University of Saint Francis is looking for a pharmacist to teach pharmacology in their Physician Assistant Studies Program. This would be a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with students on a part time basis. If you would be interested, contact Keith Graham, PhD, Professor and Academic Coordinator, at 260-434-7657 or email him at ^{kgraham@sf.edu.}

Tuesday, April 22
"Clinical Overview of PPI’s & Night Time Acid Control"

Speaker – Suzanne Rivkin, Pharm.D.

Biaggi’s at Jefferson Pointe
Fort Wayne, IN

*Registration 6:30PM *Dinner and Presentation 7:00PM

By Santarus with G. Kruger, Sales Representative

RSVP to Lisa Newnam by April 18 if you have not already.
(260) 426-5431 EXT 71781 or on-line at ^{NEIPA@aol.com}