Five for Friday August 15: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
Welcome to Five For Friday!
We are thrilled to welcome our members to the 2025 PQA Leadership Summit and the summit’s pre-meeting event, PQA Convenes: Artificial Intelligence in Medication Use Quality, on November 13-14, in Arlington, Va. This year’s summit will focus on Blueprint PQA 2030 and will leverage PQA members’ expertise to inform the strategies and tactics needed to successfully implement the plan.
Enhance the impact of your attendance by becoming a sponsor of these meetings. The benefits of sponsorship include recognition as a national leader in quality, opportunities to build strategic partnerships, the generation of business leads through brand exposure, and insights on market trends and best practices. Review these opportunities in the Sponsorship Prospectus, learn more below and connect with me.
We also highlight our members' perspectives on pharmacy deserts, team-based care models and medication utilization. If you have news you'd like for us to spotlight in an upcoming Five For Friday, send us an email!
-- Loren Kirk, PharmD, CAE, IOM, PQA Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships
When independent and retail storefronts close across the country, creating a lack of pharmacy services in the community, pharmacy deserts arise. Cencora detailed insights into the prominence of pharmacy deserts, issues within its definitions, how they impact both patients and pharmacists, and how they are an inherently community-based issue.
Building a Team-Based Approach to Blood Pressure Control
Building and testing a team-based care model in primary care, the heart-2-heart blood pressure control partners study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to evaluate the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led team-based home blood pressure (BP) management program compared to enhanced usual care.
Studying Equitable Access to Medication
A recent study from the National Pharmaceutical Council found racial and ethnic disparities in medication use persisted, most notably the underutilization of medicines relative to disease burden among Black populations. These patterns varied by state, highlighting the need for local- and condition-specific approaches to advancing pharmacoequity in the US.
Elevate Your Brand as a PQA Sponsor 
Sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2025 PQA Leadership Summit and PQA Convenes: Artificial Intelligence in Medication Use Quality. PQA meetings are the most concentrated gathering of influencers and decision makers across sectors in medication use quality.
Benefits of sponsoring PQA meetings include complimentary meeting registrations, invitations to attend the PQA Board and Sponsor Appreciation Event and enhanced brand exposure and visibility during networking events and meeting promotions.
Opportunities are also available for 2026 sponsorship. Review these details in the Sponsorship Prospectus. To learn more or develop custom packages, contact [email protected].
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Save the date for the 2025 PQA Leadership Summit, November 13-14 in Arlington, Va. The summit convenes thought leaders, key decision makers, and quality stakeholders to interactively and collaboratively develop strategies to improve medication use quality and is an invitation-only event.