Minnesota Pharmacy Student Alliance

The Minnesota Pharmacy Student Alliance is the professional student organization for students at the University Of Minnesota College of Pharmacy in Minneapolis and Duluth. This organization was created as an alliance of ten professional pharmacy associations offering student membership:
• The University of Minnesota American Pharmacists Association - Academy of Student Pharmacists Chapter (APhA-AS

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• The Minnesota Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP)
• The Minnesota Pharmacists Association (MPhA)
• The International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation (IPSF)
• The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
• The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)
• The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
• The Industry Pharmacists Association (IPhO)

MPSA fosters an umbrella type organization for all of these organizations to connect and be recognized within the pharmacy community. MPSA offers growth and learning opportunities for student pharmacists by encouraging attendance at professional meetings of state and of national organizations and helps better prepare students for networking with other professionals and for future practice. MPSA also helps advance student pharmacists and our community through education and service opportunities. MPSA has student-run patient care projects that work to better the health of the members of our local communities by providing blood pressure and cholesterol checks, immunizations, information to improve health, and much more. These patient care activities and projects include:
• Operation Heart
• Operation Diabetes
• Operation Immunization
• Operation Substance Use Disorder
• Operation Reproductive Health
• Pediatric Health Initiative Group
• Over the Counter Medication Safety