Letter from the Board
It was good to see many of you at our RxAdherence 2012 conference, co-sponsored with UBM Canon. The speaker line up was one of the best developed for this conference to date, with presentations from Merck, Pharmacy Quality Alliance, National Consumers League, and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. We even had a few presentations by our esteemed members, Anderson Packaging/AmerisourceBergen, Burgopak and RxPack McKesson that required additional time for the very interested audience's Q&A. We were pleased with the increase in the number of pharmaceutical manufacturing representatives at the conference.
However, we were surprised to see a slight decrease in our membership attendance at the event, especially after delivering the news that we were expecting a larger pharmaceutical turn-out. In the near term, we will seek your input as to how we can better ensure increased participation among our membership in upcoming events.
In addition to planning RxAdherence 2013, we are looking forward to our biennial HCPC Showcase, to be held on Tuesday, September 11. Many of you may recall that the HCPC Showcase provides our members a platform to detail goods, services and packaging solutions for drug delivery systems that your firm provides in a technologically educational manner to a distinct audience.
Our valued member, Honeywell, has agreed to again host this meeting at the Larry Bossidy Learning Center, which we greatly appreciate. Please join me in extending a thank you to Honeywell HCPC Board representative Ralph Mendoza for arranging this fantastic location. We are looking forward to hearing which of our members will be making technical presentations at the 2012 HCPC Showcase. I understand that some of you who were exhibiting at Interphex had an opportunity to discuss the possibility of a 2012 Showcase presentation. If you haven't done so already, please contact Vicki Welch, HCPC Communications Director and advise her of your interest or respond to our email on this event.
I invite you to plan a presentation for the HCPC Showcase 2012, September 11, in Morristown, NJ. If you will be attending the upcoming Pharmapack NA, on May 22 - 23, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, we invite you to discuss your participation with Walt Berghahn or Vicki Welch of the HCPC. They will be exhibiting the Compliance Packages of the Year in Booth #620.
Best Personal Regards,
Bill Sharpless ,
Board Chairman,
Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council |
