Georgia Pharmacy Association, Inc. Jobs in and around Atlanta, GA

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Georgia Pharmacy Association, Inc.
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Location(s):

50 Lenox Pointe NE
Atlanta, GA
30324
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Phone:

(404) 231-5074

Fax:

(404) 364-5021

Industry:

Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals / Medical

Size:

11-19

Company Overview

History
In the summer of 1875, a concerned group of Georgia pharmacists sent a notice to all the pharmacists of the state, requesting them to assemble in Macon on October 20, 1875:

"to consider the organization of a pharmaceutical association, binding each other with closer ties of friendship and to promote interest in the junior members of the fraternity and exciting the spirit of emulation and ambition; the interchange and dissemination of scientific researches; the framing of laws to be enacted that will result not only in the protection of the profession but the public in general."

Georgia's newspapers published the notice at no charge and the railroads agreed to provide reduced rates from any point in the state to Macon for anyone who wished to attend the meeting.

At least twenty pharmacists were present in Macon at Freeman's Hall at eight o'clock on the evening of October 20, 1875. The meeting included brief presentations by a member of the State Board of Health and three physicians from the Macon Medical Society, all of whom assured cooperation and support from their organizations. Following these presentations, the delegation of pharmacists adopted a constitution with an objective to bring together all the "reputable druggists" of the state in an association in the interests of the profession at large, specifying that every druggist and apothecary of good moral and professional standing whether in business, or in retirement from business, or employed by another, and the teachers of pharmacy, chemistry, materia medica, and botany, who may be professors in any college of pharmacy, should constitute the membership of the association. Thus, the Georgia Pharmaceutical Association was established.

Since that autumn evening, the association's name has been changed, the headquarters relocated to Atlanta, and the Georgia Pharmacy Association has become a nationally recognized and respected organization comprising more than two thousand members.

Mission

The mission of the Georgia Pharmacy Association shall be to promote and enhance the profession of pharmacy and the practice standards of its practitioners. Further, the Association shall endeavor to heighten the public’s perception of the profession of pharmacy and pharmacists, and to promote the value of pharmacy services to the health and welfare of the general public.