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Call for Nominations
Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way! How Would You Like to Run for an ICHP Office?

Feature Article

by Scott A. Meyers, Executive Vice President

Have you ever observed a group with a purpose? Every effective group has a leader or two, a bunch of people ready to do whatever is needed and a few people who stand around and watch what happens. Every year, ICHP elects new members to its Board of Directors – the Leaders. Those are the folks we will begin searching for over the next couple of months.

Don’t get me wrong, we need a lot of those group members who are ready to do whatever the group has as a goal and in ICHP’s case that goal or mission is “Advancing Excellence in Pharmacy!” We recruit these folks all year long! We’ll call them Followers. Oh, and the Watchers, most often eventually become the Followers, ready to work on the goals and well, you can see where I’m headed.

So, every year the ICHP Committee on Nominations sifts through the Followers searching for new Leaders to step up to carry on the business of the Council and who are already dedicated to “Advancing Excellence in Pharmacy!”

This year is no exception. With Charlene Hope completing her term as Immediate Past President, ICHP will need someone to enter the top leader rotation as President-elect, which leads to President and eventually Immediate Past President over three years. In addition, Board Members Kathryn Schultz, Chris Crank, Mary Lee, Karin Terry, Elise Wozniak, and Amy Boblitt have a year left on their current terms and can run for another term for their respective offices if they choose. And even if they do decide to run again, the Committee on Nominations will be seeking a second candidate to make the ballot complete. Lynn Fromm will complete her second term as Southern Region Director next year so we will need both candidates for that position. And every year we need two energetic New Practitioners to step up and run for the New Practitioners Network Chair-elect. By the way, since 2003 when we formed the New Practitioners Network, several of the NPN Chairs have gone on to serve in a variety of offices within ICHP and other state societies!

Below is the complete list of the offices open for election in the fall of 2018. All the elected candidates will take office at the 2019 Annual Meeting in September with the exception of the President-elect, who assumes office immediately. So each new leader will have almost a year to train for their new jobs and be coached by our current Board Members. You don’t have to start leading right away!

President-elect

Treasurer-elect

Director-elect of Division of Government Affairs

Director-elect of the Division of Organizational Affairs

Director-elect of Division of Professional Affairs

Northern Region Director-elect

Central Region Director-elect

Southern Region Director-elect

NPN Chair-elect

If you are interested in running for an office or you would like to know more about an office before committing to run, you may contact Committee on Nominations Chair, Charlene Hope at chope@macneal.com or Scott Meyers at scottm@ichpnet.org. We hope you are ready to become an ICHP and Pharmacy Leader!