|Videos|July 25, 2016

Recent Changes to the Pharmacy Profession

Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh, the executive vice President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, discusses the most significant changes experienced by the pharmacy profession in recent years.

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