VENUE: Marriott Waterside Hotel,               Norfolk, Virginia
DATE:   Wednesday, April 29, 2009
TIME:   11:30 A.M.to 1:30 P.M.

                 11:30 AM   Registration & Networking
                       Noon   Luncheon & Introductions
                 12:30 PM   Lecture
                   1:15 PM   Q&A
                 

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Daniel G. Garrett, MS, FASHP
Executive Director, American Health Care Foundation
"The Economics of Health Care vs Sick Care ...
  The Asheville Project Model"

As former executive director of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, Dan helped unify four state pharmacy organizations, pass the Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Act and Pharmacy Technician Statutes, and develop the Diabetes Community Health Project.  During his 20+ years as a hospital pharmacy director, he continually spearheaded quality improvement processes for efficient utilization of pharmaceutical services and enhanced standards of care.  He facilitated the original “Asheville Project” and founded both the Western North Carolina Pharmacy Co-op and the North Carolina Center for Pharmaceutical Care.

Dan’s previous position was the senior director for medication adherence programs for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation.  He was responsible for the patient self-management program which was focused on replicating and expanding the “Asheville Project Model” for large employers in diverse markets.  [The program now includes over 100 employers in over 20 states and programs for patients with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, and depression.]  He is also a writer—coauthoring the book Testing the Limits of Teams…Implementing Self-Management in Health Care—and frequent presenter on clinical and administrative pharmacy topics.

Also, Dan Garret was instrumental in the national success of the "Asheville, N.C. Project", for implementing community based pharmaceutical care services for chronic diseases such as diabetes.  The backbone of this nationally replicated program rests on successful health management adherence by helping patients make good choices through counseling and coaching to self-manage their chronic diseases.  The Asheville experiment, now 7 years old, cites outstanding outcomes and a four-to-one return on investment (ROI).  For every $1 spent on medicines or counseling about diet, exercise and lifestyle, the city saved $4 by preventing emergency room visits, dialysis, amputations or other common complications of diabetes.    Garrret will describe the role of pharmacists and other health professionals as care managers in the unusual long term success of this model.