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Laura Cranston, RpH, CEO of Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), discusses the organization's origins as a measure developer during the PQA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Officials with the FDA have approved alpelisib (Piqray, Novartis) tablets, to be used in combination with the endocrine therapy fulvestrant, to treat postmenopausal women, and men, with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, PIK3CA-mutated, advanced or metastatic breast cancer following progression on or after an endocrine-based regimen.

Lisa Hines, PharmD, vice president of Measurement and Operations at Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), discusses PQA's new opioid measures and how they complement existing measures during the Pharmacy Quality Alliance Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

PQA's Primary Roles

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PQA is described as a "a neutral convener of a multistakeholder base."

Norris Turner, PharmD, PhD, vice president of Strategic Alliances and Measures at PQA discusses the uses of PQA's measures in Medicaid during the Pharmacy Quality Alliance Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Regulatory affairs is another frontier for pharmacists to explore, and pharmacists are just scratching the surface of the opportunities in this area. In this interview with pharmacist Brendan Doran of CTI Clinical Trial & Consulting, he touches on the many phases of the drug life cycle with an emphasis on the process of bringing a drug to regulatory bodies for market approval, and gives a look into some of the current and emerging roles available in regulatory affairs.

Laura Cranston, RpH, CEO of Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA), discusses the current landscape of medication quality during the PQA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Lisa Holle, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, associate clinical professor at the University of Connecticut, explains the role of genomics in prostate cancer.