As executive vice president and CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association, Bruce Roberts presides over an association that has reinvented itself, effecting a membership turnaround and launching for-profit subsidiaries that have freed the group from reliance on funding from the pharmaceutical industry. The founder and owner of three pharmacies and a home health care company in suburban Washington, D.C., Roberts is an unabashed booster of the pivotal role that pharmacists can play in patient care and the health care system. As the health care overhaul debate raged across the Potomac, he spoke with CEO Update about his own entry into the association landscape,… Read More