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A call for pharmacists to step up
By UCSF School of Pharmacy Editorial Staff / Tue Sep 28, 2010
Helene Levens Lipton, PhD
Pharmacists have a unique opportunity to define their roles under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which became US law in March 2010, according to Helene Levens Lipton, PhD, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy. Her views are explored within the context of 5 provisions of the law in the October 2010 edition of Pharmacotherapy.
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