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Pharmacists

Approved Continuing Education Programs

The University of Illinois College of Pharmacy Office of Continuing Education and Meeting Services (OCEMS) has released 50 ACPE-approved Pharmacist's Education Programs. More programs are currently in development.

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Under Pressure: Treating Hypertension - Precision Prescribing for Providers
Friday, April 5, 2024
Available through: April 12, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Saving Lives with Naloxone-A focus on Opioid Harm Reduction
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Pain in Special Populations - A Guide to Pain Management and Safe Opioid Prescribing
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
A Prescriber's Guide to HPV Vaccination
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Opioid Use Disorder in Special Populations- A guide to Treatment
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
NOWS the Time to Reduce NAS: A guide for managing newborns affected by opioids
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Opioid prescribing for chronic pain- CDC guideline overview
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Opioid Medication Storage and Disposal: Strategies to prevent opioid misuse
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Chronic Pain Management- A Guide to Opioid Alternatives
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Available through: March 7, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Rethink Relievers: Optimize Asthma Therapy with PRN Anti-Inflammatory Relievers
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Talk. Test. Treat. Focused CDC Updates to Stop the Spread of STIs for Adolescents and Adults
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
PrEP For Zero: Zero New HIV Transmissions, Zero Barriers to Care, Zero Stigma
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
It's quitting time- A prescriber's guide to smoking cessation
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Getting to the Heart of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Right Therapy. Right Time. Right Outcome
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Get SMART with Asthma Management: Focused Updates to Guidelines
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Buprenorphine: Increasing Access to Recovery - A Guide to Treating Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
Friday, February 9, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.
Preventing Opioid Misuse and Abuse: A Guide to Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Tapering Opioids
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Available through: February 16, 2026
Faculty: Please visit https://illinoisadvance.com/about-us/meet-team/ for a list of potential speakers.

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Moderator and panelists
Exploring Pharmacy in Rural America, Episode 1: Washington & Illinois
Friday, April 26, 2024
Available through: April 26, 2026
Speakers: : Heidi Olson, PharmD and Megan R. Undeberg, PharmD, BCACP
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The 411 before 911 on USP 797: Changes, Challenges, and Choices
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Available through: November 30, 2025
Moderator/Panelists: : Katrina K. Harper (Moderator), Anita Abata, Kirk Starr, Ehigie Garvey Omorodion, Paul Menasco, and Cindy Polk Dumas
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Precepting Through the Generations
Monday, July 10, 2023
Available through: July 10, 2025 Faculty: Melissa S. Medina, EdD, Annette A. Carmichael, PharmD, Mathew Thambi, PharmD, MPh, and Robert Wittenberg, PharmD
New Drugs for 2022-2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Available through: January 16, 2025
Speaker: Annette Hayes, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES
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All Hands On Deck! Strategies for Incorporating Layered Learning Into Your Practice Sites
Monday, June 13, 2022
Available through: June 3, 2024 Faculty: Jill S. Bates, PharmD, MS, BCOP, FASHP, Deborah Bondi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCPPS, and Elizabeth Van Dril, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CDCES

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Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Available through: June 3, 2025
Faculty: Pamela Bryan Kramer, BA, LPhT

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Let's Get Explicit with Implicit Bias
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Available through: January 16, 2025
Speaker: Brianna M. McQuade, PharmD, BCACP, MHPE​

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NICU Pearls and Controversies
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
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Ethical considerations in pediatric resuscitation and clinical practice
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty: K. Sarah Hoehn, MD, MBe and Christine A. O’Malley, APN, NNP-BC
Under Pressure – Management of Elevated Intracranial Pressure
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Leslie A. Hamilton, PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FNCS, BCPS, BCCCP
Antibiotic dosing in pediatric critical illness
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Gideon Stitt, PharmD, BCPPS, BCCCP
Pump Up The Heart – Contemporary Management of Cardiogenic Shock
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Ben (Bow) Chung, MD and Sajni Patel, PharmD, BCCP
If it's not broke, should we FiX it?
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Nick Panos, PharmD and Gary D. Peksa, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
Management of metabolic crisis in children with an inborn error of metabolism (IEM)
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Aaron Harthan, PharmD, BCPPS
CCB, HIE, ILE, NO, MDOAC, WBI: Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup of Calcium Channel Blocker and Beta Blocker Overdoses
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Frank P Paloucek, BS, PharmD, FASHP, FAACT
PICU Pearls and Controversies
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through: September 19, 2024
Faculty:Elizabeth Beckman, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, BCCCP
Dogma-lysis: Dispelling Myths of the Intensive Care Unit
Monday, May 8, 2023
Available through:September 19, 2024
Faculty:Patrick Costello, PharmD, BCCCP, Marc McDowell, PharmD, BCPS, and Poorvi Shah, PharmD, BCCCP

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Revamp Your Sepsis Bundle – Controversies with Vasopressors in Septic Shock
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Available through: September 25, 2025
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In the Arrest, Who You Gonna Call? Clot Busters?
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Research and Simulation Training in Pediatrics
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Use of Novel Antimicrobial Agents: Evidence in Treating Pediatric and Neonatal Patients
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Pediatric Trauma
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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NICU Potpourri of Pearls
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Acute kidney injury in neonates and children
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Here’s What’s Bugging Us: Multi-Drug Resistance and Beta-Lactam Pharmacokinetics
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Fear is Not a Factor for You! Practical Approaches to Blood and Factors in the Intensive Care Unit
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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The Goldilocks Principle: Optimal Antithrombotic Strategies in the Cardiac ICU
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Available through: September 25, 2025
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Transplantation of Geriatrics
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Available through: October 16, 2025
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A New Frontier: Heart Transplantation From Donation After Cardiac Death
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Available through: October 16, 2025
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Significance of Non-HLA Antibodies in Transplantation
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Available through: October 16, 2025
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Xenotransplantation
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Available through: October 16, 2025
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Medicare Part B-ID
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Available through: October 16, 2025
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