#PharmacyFutureLeaders

Building to a Career in Pharmacy Associations

Guest: Allie Jo Shipman

P4 at Mercer University College of Pharmacy

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Today we're going to be talking with Allie Jo Shipman who is a final year student pharmacist at Mercer University College of Pharmacy. She is currently in the Mercer PharmD/MBA dual degree program and will graduate in May. She has been involved in pharmacy associations throughout pharmacy school, and she is currently chair of the APhA-ASP Member Engagement Standing Committee and Secretary General for the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation. She plans to go into association management upon graduation.

1. Everyone’s leadership road is a little different; tell us a little bit about your road to pharmacy school and what made you decide on pharmacy as a profession.

1. You are at Mercer University in Georgia, which is outside your home state of South Carolina, what made you make the move?

1. When did you decide that a PharmD/MBA was something you wanted to do and tell me a little bit about how the two degrees work in tandem at Mercer. 

1. You’re heavily involved in Association Management, but first tell us the difference between an association and a board of pharmacy and their scopes of practice.

1. You got to experience a pharmacy association in a 5-week APPE rotation, tell us what you did on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis.

1. How does the GPhA set priorities for the legislative session?

1. Tell me a little bit about how attending regional and national meetings impacts your role as a leader in a pharmacy school especially with APhA-ASP.

1. I know a little bit about the APhA-ASP Summer Leadership Institute, but tell me about how you would be selected, what you do there and why you would go multiple times.

1. You’re graduating soon; tell me about APhA’s New Practitioner’s Network and how that fits into your future.
2. You’ve been tagged as a leader by the Georgia Pharmacy Association’s CEO, what do you think made you stand out? 

1. What blanket advice do you have?

Allie Jo Shipman

email: alliejoshipman@gmail.com

P4 at Mercer University College of Pharmacy