Anthony V. Minniti, RPh FACA joins the PPN on the PBM Reform Podcast to talk about why the PBMs, in their current state need to be removed from pharmacy care.

During this episode of the NASP Podcast, Sheila Arquette, President & CEO of NASP, chats about A.I. in Specialty Pharmacy with Carl Mazzanti, Co-Founder and President of eMazzanti Technologies, Microsoft’s four-time Partner of the Year and one of the premier IT consulting services for businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area and internationally. 

 I still can’t believe we’re already on season 7 of the podcast - marking 7 years!

TheAnswerPage is a medical education resource that has been providing the highest quality accredited education to the healthcare community for over 25 years. Recently 'The Answer Page" was approved by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management to launch “The New York Medical Cannabis Program Required Course Podcast. Access here: ConveyMED.io Founders of the Answer Page --are Stephen B. Corn, MD, is the founding Editor-in-Chief, and Meredith Fisher-Corn, MD, is the current Editor-in-Chief, of TheAnswerPage.com. TheAnswerPage.com, a medical education website that launched in 1998, and has become an internationally recognized leader in providing unbiased peer-reviewed continuing medical education (CME) content on the endocannabinoid system and the therapeutic use of medical cannabis, pain medicine and opioid prescribing. TheAnswerPage.com provides accredited content for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and dentists and provides free educational resources also for caregivers and patients. Drs. Corn have created hundreds of continuing medical education courses in multiple areas of medicine, including perioperative & hospital medicine, palliative care, opioid prescribing & risk management, and medical statistics. In 2012 TheAnswerPage.com educational focus became directed at addressing the huge national educational gap in terms of providing formal education on the endocannabinoid system and medical marijuana. Since then, TheAnswerPage.com has pioneered the creation of accredited courses, such as the “New York State Practitioner Education-Medical Use of Marijuana Required Course,” and for the several other states, with a required medical cannabisn course for practitioners, such as for Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Utah and West Virginia. Both Drs. Corn were named “Medical Professional of the Year” by the “Americans for Safe Access” in Washington DC and were the 2017 recipients of the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicine “Special Award for Major Contributions to the Reintroduction of Cannabis as Medicine.”

• YARAL Pharma, Inc., which launched in 2022, is the U.S. generics subsidiary of IBSA, a long-standing, fully integrated, multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland. Yaral is committed to providing high-quality products across a range of therapeutic areas, ensuring continuity of supply, and offering affordable authorized generics and complex generic medicines.    

Pete Johnson, Pharm.D. is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and President’s Associate Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Over the last 17 years, Dr. Johnson has practiced in both the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at Oklahoma Children's Hospital at OU Health. Currently, he spends most of his clinical time in the CICU where he also precepts pharmacy residents and students. Dr. Johnson serves as the Residency Program Director for the PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency at the OU College of Pharmacy. Dr. Johnson received his B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Following his tenure at Ole Miss, Dr. Johnson completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency followed by a Pediatric Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. He is board certified in Pediatric Pharmacy and is a fellow of the Pediatric Pharmacy Association (FPPA), American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), and American Society of Health-System Pharmacy (ASHP). His research/scholarship focuses in pain management and sedation in children, pharmacokinetic alterations in critically ill children, and education/training in post-graduate pharmacy trainees.