Welcome to the Redwood Empire Pharmacists Association (REPhA) website!
The Redwood Empire Pharmacists Association (REPhA) is a regional chapter of California Pharmacists Association (CPhA). REPhA/CPhA's vision is to advance the practice of pharmacy for the promotion of health. Open to everyone, the organization represents pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, and general public members in the areas of Santa Rosa, Sonoma, Pt. Reyes Station, Ukiah, Mendocino, Eureka and everywhere in between. We work closely with our neighboring local chapter, the Marin County Pharmacists Association.
OK, folks! Tell us when and where we are going to have a real meeting in May!
Please email us at redwoodempirepharmacists@gmail.com and let us know!
Otherwise, we get to decide and that means it will be in Petaluma, probably on Wednesday, May 15 at 6:30pm. Email if you want to join us and we will tell you where (makes it more exciting that way, kind of like an old detective movie...)
If any of you make it to Marin County Pharmacists Association meeting (usually the first Thursday morning of every month), please let us know so we can update our website with what they are up to so people can participate in their activities, as well (I know they have an AIDS Walk and a few CEs coming up soon. They don't have a website yet so we will let you know what they are up to as best we can.)
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We had our first Continuing Education Event in April!
Thanks for those of you who joined us at Petaluma Cattlemens on Thursday, April 18
for two awesome CEs and some great food and drinks! Thank you so much to our
wonderful brilliant speakers, the sponsoring drug companies, and of course the
Marin County Pharmacists Association (MCPhA) who really made the whole thing
happen in hopes that it would jump-start our new group. I think it worked since
a few new members that joined right there at the event! We are thrilled about that!
Please go to CE events under the Calendar of Events section of this website if you want to read more about what we learned.
Please also see the CE events section for upcoming CE events in our area, and please let us know about future CE events that you hear about so we can spread the word!
We went to our first Free Health Care Event in Indio, CA the first weekend of April!
Colleen and Katie drove down to the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area/Southern California) to participate in the first ever RAM Coachella Expedition! Haven't heard of RAM or the Flying Doctors yet? You had best be googling it right this second or check it out here at http://www.ramusa.org/ and http://www.fdoamerica.org/, or watch the 60 Minutes spot at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4256735n! During the four days there, the all-volunteer staff of dentists, surgeons, optometrists, opticians, nurses, EMTs, veterinarians, physical therapists, x-ray technicians, dental hygienists, PHARMACISTS, social workers, laboratory technicians, normal Joes, etc provided over one million dollars of FREE health care to over 2,700 patients! The next event is May 17-18 in San Jose, then September in Thermal, CA and then in San Diego in December. This was the BEST thing we have ever participated in and they were thrilled with Pharmacists being there; we just can't recommend it enough. Please google RAM California and join us at the next event. Sign up!
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Say Hello!
We are excited to meet our fellow REPhA Pharmacists!
At any event we attend you will recognize us wearing our famous pinecone pins. Please come up and say hi!
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