CSHP-PACIFIC

2024-2025 Executive Board

 

Message from the President:

 

WHY CSHP? As a pre-pharmacy student, like most of the world, I was under the impression that all pharmacists worked in a community setting. I began to work at a local retail pharmacy where I was a clerk for a few years. It was this job that expanded my knowledge of other pharmacy fields and practices. Upon attending orientation last year, I learned about CSHP, California Society of Health-System Pharmacists. What is a Health-System Pharmacist? From the world health organization, health system is defined as quality service to all people, when and where they need them. CSHP’s mission is to “advance professional practice, optimize patient outcomes, and improve the quality of patient care”. These are things I wish to learn and embrace within my years at University of the Pacific. Throughout my first year of pharmacy school, I attended numerous CSHP events that helped me attain a better understanding of what it truly means to embody CSHP’s mission. Events such as Residency Showcase, Research Symposium, and Pharmacy Specialty Series. I came to the decision that this was the organization I wanted to grow in. Furthermore, it is time for me to contribute back and help the next generation grow in this organization as well. 

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I hope to continue to develop the biggest CSHP student chapter by building upon current events and creating new ones purposed for our own UOP student members. My goal is that our students won’t have to google what “health-system pharmacists” are anymore. In the near future, we will be those to provide quality service to all people, when and where they need them.