A University of Michigan (U-M)initiative that integrated specially trained community pharmacists into hypertension treatment teams has been adopted by the CDC as a model for its expanded blood pressure control efforts in the Southeast and eventually other U.S. regions.
Hae Mi Choe, PharmD, an associate dean at the U-M College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor, said she was “really excited” that the CDC had selected the university’s Hypertension Pharmacists Program (HPP)