Our SNPhA chapter’s national conference experience celebrated a year of academic achievement, professional development, leadership, community service, and opportunities for our members to grow and succeed together.

By Christianna McCausland, as published in Capsule, Spring 2026 Cynthia J. Boyle, PharmD ’96, FAPhA, FNAP, FASCP, remembers the early days of pharmacy preceptor training in the late 1990s. “Our national organization had four videotapes on how to be a preceptor,” she recalls. “Some of the information is probably still valid today, but it wasn’t[…]

By Gwen Farris Newman, as published in Capsule, Spring 2026 Janet Edwards, BSP, MS ’21, is a talker — by her own admission — and loves people. These traits have served her well both personally and professionally. Edwards, an alumna of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy’s (UMSOP) Master of Science (MS) in Regulatory[…]

By Meredith Lidard Kleeman, as published in Capsule, Spring 2026 Yogitha Pazhani, PharmD ’19, a clinical pharmacy specialist at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (MGSH) and a preceptor for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP), is an innovative problem-solver. She sharpened those skills as a student at UMSOP. In her first year of pharmacy[…]