The Board of Trustees of the American Pharmacists Association announced today that Ilisa Bernstein, PharmD, JD, FAPhA, has been named Interim CEO, effective immediately. Bernstein’s appointment follows the departure of Scott Knoer, PharmD, MS, as Executive Vice-President and CEO.

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) today hailed the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. Senate that would give tens of millions of Medicare patients in medically underserved communities access to critically needed primary health care services delivered by pharmacists.