Newly elected NACDS chairman of the Board delivered his first remarks as chairman during the NACDS Annual Meeting's Tuesday Business Program.
The Foundation awarded six traditional merit-based awards in the amount of $20,000 each, and two diversity scholarship awards for $15,000 each.
Newly-elected NACDS officers: NACDS Chairman Mark Panzer of Albertsons Companies; NACDS Treasurer Richard Ashworth of Walgreens Boots Alliance; and NACDS Vice Chairman Chris Lane of Wakefern Food Corp./ShopRite
A new report quantifies 2017 NACDS chain-member giving of $630 million and 1.5 million volunteer hours. The top three focus areas in 2017 were: access to affordable medicines and vaccines; preventing diabetes and promoting healthy meals; and preventing opioid abuse.
Change – confronting it and creating it – has emerged as a powerful theme of the 2018 NACDS Annual Meeting. That fact was on display throughout Business Program remarks today by members of the NACDS leadership.
NACDS hailed a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in support of achieving pro-patient and pro-pharmacy reforms of direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees in Medicare Part D.
The Gourmet Gala makes possible research, education, advocacy and programs that “help more moms have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies.”
Legislation by Sen. Joni Ernst pursues flexible, state-focused drug disposal strategies to help address the opioid abuse epidemic.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., issued an advisory urging more Americans to carry the lifesaving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
CMS signals potential action on DIR fee reform, takes action on NACDS-backed strategy to help address opioid abuse epidemic.
