The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP) Committees, Editorial Boards, and Task Forces are the lifeblood of the organization linking the association with the attitudes and real world of its members. AAPP Committees ensure group participation in problem solving and provide a forum for the many interests within AAPP.
You can review information on current Committee Charges and activities through the links provided below or by downloading the PDF version.
Ad Hoc Volunteer Opportunities: Throughout the year, the AAPP committees, leadership and membership identify issues of immediate need beyond the scope of our existing committee structure. Calls for ad hoc volunteers are issued related to specific initiatives such as white paper development and task force work with a specific goal and timeline.
Abstracts and Awards Council: The Abstracts and Awards Council oversees the scientific poster sessions and the Research and Practice Awards at the AAPP Annual Meeting each year. The poster sessions provide a unique opportunity for networking, the promotion of scholarly activity, and the dissemination of the latest psychiatric pharmacotherapeutic research findings. The council leads the abstract peer review process and works to continually improve the poster session experience. (Meets: Virtually 2 hours per year and in-person at the Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: ~25 h/y, mostly in Jan/Feb)
Commission on Innovation and Advancement: The Commission on Innovation and Advancement (CIA) works to identify how the practice of psychiatric pharmacy is evolving. By casting a vision of where the specialty is headed, the Commission focuses resources on the most urgent practice innovations and advancements. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 4 hours per month and 50 hours over course of the year)
Community Leaders Council: The Community Leaders Council consists of the members who have been identified as leaders within each existing AAPP Community. The council exists to formalize the role of the community leader, to provide consistency between the communities, to share ideas between leaders, and to promote commitment to the goals of the community initiative.
DEI Committee: Within AAPP, DEI is seen as a key driver for the organization and the profession. The DEI Committee is charged with providing guidance and direction to the association in the area of DEI. They develop education recommendations and create or cultivate resources to aid in the delivery of high quality patient care and organization inclusivity and accessibilty. Lastly, they evaluate the demographic make-up of the membership and recommend products and services to benefit the members and ultimately the patients members serve. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 3 hours per month and 35 hours over course of the year)
Fellowship Committee: This committee is responsible for the review and validity of Fellowship criteria in support of the FAAPP credential. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly from June-December. Heaviest work is during application review during October-December. Average of 35 hours during six months of the year.)
Government Affairs Committee: This committee is responsible for providing advice and supporting justifications on policy activities as broad representatives of the membership. The committee will work to recommend organizational policy positions that benefit members and to ensure advocacy efforts do not disadvantage or harm any particular subgroups in the membership. The committee will evaluate priorities for the upcoming year and create a policy agenda that will be put forward for board approval and will work with government affairs consultants to evaluate opportunities to influence the policymaking process ensuring activities are reflective of and benefitting the membership. (Meets: Virtually monthly and occasionally in-person at Annual Meeting, Participates In: Annual virtual Hill visits as available, Time Commitment: Average of 2 hours per month and 30-35 hours over course of the year)
Interprofessional Advisory Council: The Interprofessional Advisory Council helps to identify opportunities for and obstacles to the integration of psychiatric pharmacists to provide comprehensive medication management as part of the treatment team. Members of IAC are from other health care disciplines and are invited to participate by the Board of Directors. Members are encouraged to recommend champions of psychiatric pharmacy for appointment to the IAC.
Medication Fact Sheet Editorial Board: The Medication Fact Sheet Editorial Board authors and revises the medication fact sheets that appear on the NAMI website. (Meets: Virtually As Needed but Infrequently, Monthly Commitment: Varies)
Mental Health Clinician Editorial Board: The Mental Health Clinician Editorial Board creates and promotes the Mental Health Clinician. The MHC is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed electronic journal focused on presenting timely and relevant information for mental health care professionals.(Meets: Virtually once per year and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 3 hours per month and 35 hours over course of the year)
Nominations Council: The Board appoints a Nominating Council to nominate candidates for vacating officer positions on the AAPP Board of Directors and for the Judith J. Saklad Memorial Award. The Nominating Committee consists of the two most immediate past presidents and three senior members of AAPP as approved by the Board of Directors. (Meets: Virtually monthly between July-September, Time Commitment: 20-25 hours)
Outcomes Research Committee: The Outcomes Research Committee will work to expand standardized research into the impact of psychiatric pharmacist integration into the mental health care team.
Past Presidents Advisory Board: Consisting of Past Presidents of AAPP, this council is intended to provide counsel to the AAPP on strategic initiatives.
Professional Affairs Committee: The Professional Affairs Committee will showcase psychiatric pharmacists' clinical practices in a practice-advancement effort to demonstrate the value of psychiatric pharmacists in team-based healthcare. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 3 hours per month and 35 hours over course of the year)
Program Committee: The Program Committee designs your AAPP Annual Meeting. Their responsibilities include speaker selection and communication, objectives design, review of programming materials, adherence to accreditation standards, and innovative programming implementation and evaluation. (Meets: Virtually 1 time per month June-Jan., 2 times per month Feb.-April, and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 2-4 hours per month and 35 hours over course of the year, heaviest workload is in the months of February through April)
Psychopharmacology Pearls Editorial Board: The Editorial Board is responsible for developing this annual recertification product which consists of up to five clinical review articles focused on single disorders, or on one or more distinct aspects of a single psychiatric, neurologic, or substance use disorder. Monographs are authored by leading experts in the field and hosted in AAPP’s peer-reviewed journal, The Mental Health Clinician (MHC). Editor responsibilities include author and topic selection, author communication, product design, monograph editing, test question review to ensure validity and reliability, and program implementation and evaluation (Meets: Virtually 3-4 times per year, Time Commitment: Average of 1-2 hours per month and 20 hours over course of the year, BCPP required).
Public Education Committee: The Public Education Committee is charged with supporting AAPP's consumer advocacy partnerships. Current ongoing activities include providing education at the NAMI Annual Meeting and providing information and resources for AAPP members to enable involvement in consumer advocacy organizations at the local level. (Meets: Virtually Every Other Month, 1 hour, Monthly Commitment: 2 Hours)
Recertification Editorial Board: The Recertification Editorial Board is responsible for developing and implementing standards for AAPP’s approved BCPP recertification programming via the Clinical Application Series and Summit programming. Their responsibilities include speaker selection and communication, objectives design, curriculum review, test question review to ensure validity and reliability, and programming implementation and evaluation. (Meets: Virtually 3-4 times per year and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 3-4 hours per month and 40 hours over course of the year, BCPP required).
Resident and New Practitioner Committee: The Resident and New Practitioner Committee is responsible for representing and providing service to residents, fellows, new practitioners and residency directors with the goal to increase the visibility of the profession, recruit students into residencies, and provide membership value to residents, fellows, residency directors and new practitioners. Services include development of AAPP's web-based treatment essentials and guidelines tools, What I Wish I Knew columns, and development of educational and networking opportunities. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 2-3 hours per month or 25-30 hours approximately over course of the year)
Review Course Editorial Board: The Review Course Editorial Board is responsible for developing and implementing standards for AAPP's Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Review Course. Their responsibilities include author selection and communication, objectives design, curriculum review, test question review to ensure validity and reliability, and programming implementation and evaluation. (Meets: Virtually 3-4 times per year, Time Commitment: Average of 4 hours per month and 50 hours over the course even-numbered years and 8 hours per month and 100 hours over the course of odd-numbered years, BCPP required).
Student Committee: The Student Committee focuses on recruiting and serving student members of AAPP with the goal of encouraging students to select psychiatric pharmacy as a career. The committee is responsible for student activities at the AAPP Annual Meeting, directing students to online psychiatric pharmacy resources, and overseeing AAPP collegiate chapters. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, assists with student track at Annual Meeting as needed, Time Commitment: Average of 1-2 hours per month or 15-20 hours approximately over course of the year)
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Committee: The Substance Use Disorder Committee is responsible for developing tools and educational resources for pharmacists. Additionally, the Committee assists the Government Affairs Committee when information is needed to support comment letters or issue briefs related to regulatory or legislative actions or possible actions in the area of substance use disorders. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly and in-person at Annual Meeting, Time Commitment: Average of 2-3 hours per month or 25-30 hours approximately over course of the year)
Systematic Literature Review Committee: The Systematic Literature Review Committee will catalogue published psychiatric pharmacy research with patient-level practice outcomes and use that information to support continued research and advocacy. (Meets: Virtually 1-hour monthly as needed, Time Commitment: Average of 4 hours per month and 50 hours over course of the year)
Theory to Practice Case Editorial Board: The Theory to Practice Case Series Editorial Board is responsible for developing this case based BCPP recertification product. Their responsibilities include author/speaker selection and communication, product design, curriculum review, test question review to ensure validity and reliability, and programming implementation and evaluation. (Meets: Virtually 3-4 times per year, Time Commitment: Average of 2 hours per month and 25 hours over course of the year, BCPP required).