UNC Kidney Center's Donna Harward recently published an article in the the Winter 2009 edition of the North Carolina Pharmacist:

"Important Ingredient in Prescription to Reduce North Carolina's Chronic Kidney Disease Burden"

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Links of Interest:

American College of Clinical Pharmacy

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) is a professional and scientific society that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources enabling clinical pharmacists to achieve excellence in practice and research.
ACCP's membership is composed of practitioners, scientists, educators, administrators, students, residents, fellows, and others committed to excellence in clinical pharmacy and patient pharmacotherapy. The ACCP has a Nephrology & Research Network.

American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) was founded in 1900, and consists of over 1,900 professionals whose primary interest is to promote and advance the science of human pharmacology and therapeutics. The Society is the largest scientific and professional organization serving the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology. ASCPT fosters the recognition of clinical pharmacology as a discipline at the forefront of the discovery, development, regulation and use of safe and effective medicines. The ASCPT has a CardioRenal Listserv.

American Society for Health System Pharmacists

The American Society for Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) is the 30,000-member national professional association that represents pharmacists who practice in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of health care systems. ASHP, which has a long history of medication-error prevention efforts, believes that the mission of pharmacists is to help people make the best use of medicines. Assisting pharmacists in fulfilling this mission is ASHP's primary objective.

Nephrology Pharmacy Associates

Nephrology Pharmacy Associates strives to improve outcomes associated with medication use in patients with kidney disease and related complications. They are committed to applying our nephrology pharmacy expertise to the improvement of the quality and delivery of health care to renal patients.