The nonpharmacologic basis of therapeutics: to get to the next level in interprofessional patient care, pharmacists need to recognize the social and interpersonal aspects of medical decision making.

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I'd like to start off by saying I'm very honored to receive the Albert B. Prescott award tor this year. To be recognized among the other distinguished recipients is very humbling. I've given a lot of presentations, but never an award acceptance speech like this. So I tried to apply the principles I've learned in giving other presentations.First, know your audience. What do they know? What are they expecting coming into the talk? What level of knowledge do they already possess? It's much harder to pin down this group than, say, third-year student pharmacists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) or even clinicians attending an infectious diseases conference. But I can imagine that you're going to want to hear about leadership, or education, or both, since this award is given by the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute. Second, be prepared. So I read all of the Prescott acceptance speeches for the last few years. There were many visionary speeches about the future of pharmacy or what it takes to be a leader.