Our Campaign for Growth

I am proud to have been a PPAG member for over 10 years. PPAG has helped build up my confidence during my training, shaped my career over the years, and offered me ways to maintain my professional skills as I take a leave of absence from the work force. Through PPAG opportunities, I have also discovered new interests that I continue to explore on a daily basis. PPAG has also helped me cultivate friendships, which I will definitely cherish.

Most of us can say without exaggeration that we wouldn't be who we are today without the support of fellow PPAG members. I love how the organization makes you feel special, important and valued, regardless of the size of our contributions. Our meetings are phenomenal and full of practical tips and wisdom for our various sites of practice. Our most valuable asset is the warmth we pass between each other when we gather for conference or pick up the phone and call each other with a question.

The founders and organizers of PPAG took visionary steps for pediatric practice and patients. I recently became a member again, and attended the Spring meeting in Salt Lake City. The educational content and presentations were outstanding; the collegiality was sparkling! I encourage all of our clinical pharmacists, specialists, and residents at Children's National to become active members, and vigorously support the new PPAG.

I joined, became involved, and remain because it is the only group focused on Pediatric Pharmacotherapy. I also appreciate the pediatrics education, membership diversity, and networking that helps improve practice.

I have many reasons that I am a member of PPAG. One in particular involves my involvement with my residency program. PGY1 accreditation standards note that preceptors must demonstrate leadership in advancing the profession of pharmacy through active participation in professional organizations at the local, state, and national levels. Local and state levels are easy to obtain. PPAG allows me to be actively involved, in my case with the Membership committee, at a national level. Thanks PPAG!

PPAG has been instrumental in my professional growth over the past 10 years. I have attended many annual meetings over the years and have thoroughly benefitted both professionally and personally from each and every one of them. The info shared on Pedinet is also extremely helpful in daily practice. Thank you PPAG! I will be contributing to our campaign today.

As I was nearing the end of my PGY-1 year, I sought after a pediatric based career and seasoned, diverse role models to emulate and learn from. Then one of best mentors to be reached out to me and got me involved in one of PPAG's many committees and I was completely caught up. Publications, conferences, contacts beyond count and life-long friends later, I believe in PPAG more than ever and continue to strive to keep it strong. It is time to show how much we need PPAG as much as it needs us!

As a pediatric pharmacist in a community hospital, PPAG has opened doors to a tremendous amount of resources. The sharing of information between practioners is wonderful. It helps knowing that through PPAG I can find other pharmacists that have developed solutions for pediatric specific problems and it provides a way of sharing that information to impoved our pharamceutical care for the our kids we see.

Prior to my current position, I was the only pediatric trained pharmacist at a rather large hospital . I know there are several pharmacists in this same position. PPAG served as a network, and a life line, for me in that position! It allowed me to communicate through the list-serve for questions I had, that no one else at my institution had the training to help me with. This organization is a necessity for pharmacists who are working in, or have an interest in, pediatric pharmacotherapy.

PPAG is the organization I chosse many years ago to commit my energies to. It represents exactly what I am- a pediatric pharmacist, and the CE offerings are second to none. The meetings allow me to network with other pediatric pharmacy practitioners, and the list-serves provide support on a day to day basis. The benefits are incalculable, but I am pleased to offer my monetary support also. I would like to see this organization continue to prosper and grow.

PPAG has helped me grow as a clinician since joining when I was a pediatric specialty resident at UNC. Last year, even though the hospital did not help pay for my trip, I still attended the conference because I knew that I can improve my clinical skills as a pediatric clinician from the wide arrange of topics that the conference provided. I consider myself as a rookie of PPAG, but I do want to see this organization grow and continue to help improve the practice of pediatric pharmacotherapy.

PPAG has been a vital organization to many pediatric pharmacists for the last fifteen plus years. This is our pediatric organization and we need to invest in its future and assure it success as we grow and adapt to change. I am happy to contribute to this campaign as a sign of my committment to PPAG's continued growth. Please join me in helping us shape the future. This is a time of action