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• FDA doubles down: Tirzepatide is off shortage

  ...but that doesn't mean the issue is completely settled. read more →

• A couple of state updates

  Good news from Alabama, but a problem in Massachusetts read more →

• Defending GLP-1 compounding

  The latest letters APC's been sending to oppose efforts to restrict compounding read more →

• Thumbs-up for FDA crackdown

  APC was thrilled when the FDA announced it was taking action against illegal online businesses claiming to sell “research-grade” compounds. read more →

• A PANS/PANDAS explainer

  For your patients: Information about a couple of underdiagnosed pediatric mental health conditions read more →

• What, a year?

  In the final board chair column of the year, here are our top 7 accomplishments in 2024. read more →

• “Simply not a rational approach to regulating an industry”

  This week APC offered its final (and pointed) suggestions to the California Board of Pharmacy on their proposed significant – and we would say unjustified – changes to their compounding regulations. read more →

• Get a cease and desist letter from Verrica?

  APC has heard reports from several pharmacies that have received them — here's what to know. read more →

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In life, we might not get what we wish for, but we will definitely get what we work for.

I wished to be and worked hard to become your APC Board Chair. But the plan was for that to happen in 2025. Yet here I find myself, one month into 2024, taking the reins from my colleague Tenille Davis, who started work yesterday as APC’s chief advocacy officer.

That’s why I’m practically jumping for joy, and you should be, too—not about me becoming board chair, but about Tenille joining our APC staff team. She brings the number of pharmacists on our staff to three, and her extensive experience and expertise in non-sterile and sterile compounding certainly bring depth to our team. My hat is off to Tenille and our CEO Scott Brunner for the conversations and creative thinking that led to this outcome. 

But I don’t mean to make light of my earlier-than-planned board chair role. I love our profession and I love APC and I’m happy to bring my leadership abilities to this role.

We are an organization with a 34-year tradition of capable leaders and leadership. As I begin in this role, I want to recognize and express appreciation to the men and women who have preceded me and worked hard for you. It’s their efforts—and those of the passionate board and committee members with whom they served—that have brought us to this place.

We begin 2024 with big challenges, yes, but we’re also at a place of big opportunities. Over the next several weeks, I hope to discuss some of these in this column, so please keep reading, okay?

Here’s another quote I like, from President Dwight Eisenhower: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

I’d say we’ve got the planning and the hard work down pat. Now we execute and adjust as needed. With your partnership and support, we’ll get what we’re working for.

– Joe

P.S. As you’ll see below, you only have a couple more weeks to take advantage of early-bird registration rates for APC’s Compounding Pharmacy Owner Summit, set for April 4-6 in beautiful La Jolla, Calif. Thirty presenters, two dozen fast-paced sessions focused on your business, and the promise you’ll come away with ideas and solutions that you can take home and implement immediately. REGISTER HERE.

Joseph P. Navarra, RPh, FACA, FAPC is the owner of Town Total Compounding Center in Woodbury, New York. You can reach him at joseph.navarra@towntotalcompound.com.