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to limit the number of pharmacists to 4. “The Board will include more members not practicing in the industry they are responsible for regulating,” Patrick said in a news release. But Christian A. Hartman, PharmD, MBA, FSMSO, named to chair the commission by the governor on November 1, 2012, backed the commission’s recommendations and disagreed with the governor in an interview with Pharmacy Today. “Part of the issue of how we got here is: We didn’t have the expertise on the board of pharmacy, and the proposed governor’s legislation makes it even worse.” Hartman is Director of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety at Wolters Kluwer; Principal and Director, Patient Safety and Quality, at Lucian Health; and founder and President of the American Society of Medication Safety Offi cers. Currently, according to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy website, 7 members of the 11-member board are pharmacists; there’s also 1 physician, 1 nurse, and 2 public members. Carmen Catizone, MS, BSPharm, DPh, Executive Director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, provided national context. “The typical board of pharmacy usually consists of six to eight members,” Catizone said. “The members include pharmacists from various practice settings, such as community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy, as well as at least one consumer, nonpharmacist member.”
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