CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Your Patients, Your Shoppers, Your Business

Get ready to learn, share and collaborate with pharmacy, nutrition, technology, and manufacturing professionals to identify opportunities across the store to connect with your patients and shoppers and grow your business. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your supermarket’s role as a community health and wellness destination and contribute to your own professional development.

Explore best practices for developing health and wellness initiatives and improving existing programs.
Stay current on need-to-know pharmacy and healthcare legislative updates and ground-breaking research.
Share fresh ideas for merchandising health and wellness solutions.
Discover emerging trends and technologies.
Pharmacists and Dietitians: Earn CPE Credits. New for 2012: Print your certificates onsite! Download important information about CPE credits

FMI’s Health and Wellness Conference is the only event that brings together retail pharmacy, nutrition, and marketing and merchandising professionals in a single forum to share information and insights on how stores can provide a one-stop shopping experience for today’s health-conscious shoppers.

Who Should Attend:

Pharmacy Executives
Corporate Dietitians/ Nutritionists
Marketing/Merchandising/Communications Executives
Store Operations and GM/HBC Executives
HR Professionals Focusing on Health and Wellness
Pharmacy/Health and Wellness Suppliers (CPG companies, technology, OTC, diagnostics)

In addition to a robust education program, benefit from the following networking and business development activities:

Wellness Expo: A hands-on opportunity to explore new trends, technologies, products, and services in the nutrition and pharmacy fields.
Business Exchange Appointments: 8 hours of strategic B2B dialogue (24 individual 20-minute sessions) on new business opportunities, products and services.
Field Trip Factory's 4th Annual Dietician Summit (free to all conference attendees)
Pharmacy Summit: Best Practices in Improving Patient Care and Medication Safety (a continuing series hosted by PQA and FMI) (free to all conference attendees)
FMI/Drug Store News Roundtable

FMI/Drug Store New Roundtable

Drug Store News editor in chief Rob Eder will moderate an exclusive panel discussion live at the FMI Health & Wellness Conference, Sunday, March 18, 2012. Anchored by retail panelists from the FMI Health & Wellness Council, the roundtable will focus on the opportunities for retailers and suppliers to work together to improve the overall "wellness experience" for the supermarket customers.

The panel will discuss:

How brands fit in to the consumer's changing definition of health and wellness.
How in-store pharmacists and dietitians can become more accessible to customers, as not just an influencer of purchasing decisions, but an agent.
How are supermarket pharmacy operators and their suppliers working together to provide simple solutions and help shoppers navigate the abundance of information.
How can brands be leveraged to create a better wellness solution for supermarket shoppers in OTC and HBA as well as food and beverages.

MEETING ATTIRE

The dress code for all events during the conference is business casual.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION

Pharmacy: LearnSomething, Inc. is accredited by the Accrediation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Activities during this conference are eligible for ACPE credit; download the final CPE activity announcement for specific details.

Dietetics: FMI is seeking Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education (CADE) prior approval for activities during this conference. Please see the final activity announcement for specific details.

New in 2012: Print your certificate onsite! Together with our strategic partner, LearnSomething, the leading provider of custome eLearning solutions for the food, drug and healthcare industries, FMI will provide attendees the ability to view, print and track statements of credit online.

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