The board of directors for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties voted to not approve a proposed specialty certification for pharmacy administration and leadership, the organization said Nov. 21.
An offshoot of the American Pharmacists Association, the Board of Pharmacy Specialties is a certification agency that recognizes 15 pharmacy specialties. In July, the board opened public comment on a petition to add pharmacy administration and leadership as a specialty certification.
It voted down the certification “after thoughtful consideration of the petition, public comments and petitioner responses,” according to a news release.
BPS Board of Directors Chair Gary Yee, PharmD, said pharmacy administration and leadership is important and the decision does not limit the opportunity for another petition.
The agency’s 15 approved certifications are ambulatory care, cardiology, compounded sterile preparations, critical care, emergency medicine, geriatric, infectious diseases, nuclear, nutrition support, oncology, pain management, pediatric, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric and solid organ transplantation.
