The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear 2023 Clinical Meeting & Exhibition takes place from Sunday, December 3, 2023, to Thursday, December 7, 2023, in Anaheim, California.

ASHP Midyear 2023 is a career-driving, skill-building, confidence-boosting experience like no other in the world of pharmacy. And this year will be a big, celebratory reunion. Attendees’ time in Anaheim will be filled with more than 175 hours of education, networking, residency showcase, ASHP’s personnel placement service, posters and roundtables, innovation and exhibits, board certification, special programming, and world-class speakers.

More than 20,000 pharmacy professionals and students from all over the globe will come together to exchange pharmacy expertise, ideas, and innovation. The meeting features hundreds of educational activities, with over 150 clinical and professional development sessions presented by expert faculty.

Attendees can learn from more pharmacy innovation than anywhere else, perusing the latest product developments and technological advancements from more than 350 exhibiting companies, both domestic and international. They can compare products, attend demonstrations and product theatres, and have their questions answered.

Featured programming at the ASHP Midyear 2023 Clinical Meeting & Exhibition includes diversity, equity, and inclusion; innovation; Integrated Informatics Institute; opioid-associated education; practitioner health and wellness; sterile compounding; and workforce development.

Examples include Advancing Health Equity: A Trauma-Informed Lens for Pharmacists, Emerging Science Considerations for Pharmacists: Nanomedicines and Biosimilars, No Pain, No Gain: Updates in Opioid Prescribing and Non-Opioid Pain Management, Occupational Burnout and Moral Injury: The Most UNhappiest Places on Earth, 2023 Sterile Compounding Updates from The Joint Commission, and Educating for the Future: Bringing Academia to Pharmacy Technicians.

Another featured programming relevant to today’s pharmacy practice is Spotlights on Science. ASHP will offer three featured sessions on cutting-edge technology that will influence future practice scheduled for Wednesday, December 6, at 10:00 a.m. These include:

• AI and Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Putting Oncology into Practice: Modern Treatment Approaches in Women’s Health
• The New Age of Phage Therapy: Utilizing Viruses to Treat Antimicrobial Resistant Infections.

The ASHP Informatics Institute content reflects the connections between technological advances, pharmacy specialties, and facets of attendees’ pharmacy practice and personal lives. The 2023 Midyear Clinical Meeting will feature Integrated Informatics Institute sessions providing informatics- and technology-focused education. Selected topics include:

• 2023 Health Technology and Patient Safety Hazards: Are You Playing at the TOP of Your Game?
• Informatics Gems 2023: Resident & New Practitioner Bytes of Informatics
• Informatics Pearls 2023: Gigabytes of Informatics
• Predictive Modeling to Advance Practice
• Putting Data to Work: Deploying Key Performance Indicators to Optimize Operations and Automation.

The Midyear meeting’s sessions and events will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center.