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AAPP Communities Week is a 3-day virtual event, exclusively for AAPP members! This event will feature webinars from 10 AAPP communities, committees, and taskforces. Communities Week sessions are designed by your peers to focus on relevant, current issues in practice with intention to foster open discussion and information sharing. Please see the schedule below for more information.
Communities Week is free for AAPP members and no advanced registration is needed. AAPP members may attend as many sessions as desired, and webinars can be added to your calendar at the bottom of this page. Presentation slides will be posted closer to the event!
ACPE credit is not offered during AAPP Communities Week.
All times are listed in the Central Time Zone and are 1 hour in length. The schedule is subject to change.
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Speaker: Kristin Waters PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy
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Summary: The Geriatric Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of medications recently approved or in the pipeline for indications relevant to geriatric psychiatry. During the webinar we will be focusing on medications used for conditions such as depressive disorders, psychosis related to Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or dementia, and agitation related to probable or actual Alzheimer’s disease. Speaker Kristin Waters, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP is a faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and works with the geriatric psychiatry population at her practice site, Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Speaker: Megan Maroney, PharmD, BCPP (she/her/hers), Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacist, Monmouth Medical Center, Clinical Associate Professor, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Summary: The Patient Care Practice Management Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of stimulant medication shortages. During the webinar we will be focusing on identifying alternative stimulant options for patients when one or more stimulant products become unavailable, and discussing real-world examples of converting between product formulations. Our speaker is Dr. Megan Maroney, who works as a psychiatric clinical pharmacist at Monmouth Medical Center and as a clinical associate professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Maroney also practices under a Collaborative Practice Agreement in an outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry clinic.
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Speaker: Lynn Kassel, PharmD, BCPS (she/her), Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Acute Care Pharmacist, MercyOne West Des Moines Medical Center
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Summary: During this DEI Community-led webinar, we will be focusing on integration of social determinants of health into both didactic and experiential teaching in pharmacy education. Speaker Lynn Kassel (she/her) works on issues related to inclusive and equitable teaching in her research and teaching at Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa. This webinar is intended for any pharmacy personnel who interact with students in the classroom or in experiential education. She has no relevant disclosures for this presentation.
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Summary: The Professional Affairs Committee is hosting a webinar about the AAPP Ambassador Program. During the webinar, we will focus on how to submit a proposal to national interdisciplinary conferences and how AAPP is working to support you with feedback and financial stipends. Dr. Preinitz will introduce the program, and Drs. Lee and Moore are experienced national speakers who can help to answer questions that you might have as a new speaker. Everyone interested in the program is encouraged to attend, including both new and experienced speakers.
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Speaker: Samantha Schulte, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Behavioral Health, Riverside Methodist Hospital – OhioHealth
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Summary: The RPD Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of resident well-being. During the webinar, we will focus on how different residency programs across the nation have implemented or started to implement programming geared toward resident well-being and resilience. For example, Dr. Samantha Schulte is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Behavioral Health who has collaborated with team members at Riverside Methodist Hospital – OhioHealth over the past few years to create a robust well-being program for PGY1 pharmacy residents. The program includes didactic components, one-to-one goal setting, mentorship, and out of office activities. We will be sharing best practices from Dr. Schulte’s PGY1 program as well as discussing efforts being made in other PGY2 psychiatric pharmacy residency programs nationally, including implementation of a quarterly resident development day at a Veterans Affairs facility in Portland, Oregon. This development day is hosted by a different facility RPD each quarter throughout the residency year and incorporates a combination of collaborative discussion, team building, and self-reflection activities. We also plan to review potential strategies and barriers for implementing well-being programs at other residency sites as well as ways to customize a program to specific site/residency needs. Lastly, there will be space for an informal collaborative discussion where webinar participants will be invited to share successful practices for promoting resident well-being that have been implemented at their respective facilities.
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Speaker: Julie A. Dopheide, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, USC Alfred E Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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Summary: The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Community is hosting a webinar on the “Clozapine in Youth”. During the webinar we will be focusing on literature supporting the safe and effective use of clozapine in youth, strategies to effectively support child and adolescent psychiatrists to prescribe clozapine, and clinical pearls regarding its use in this unique patient population. Dr. Julie Dopheide is a psychiatric pharmacist with extensive experience and expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Dopheide’s experience at LA General medical center hospitals and clinic working with adults and youth prescribed clozapine gives her perspective on the unique challenges and benefits of clozapine treatment for youth.
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Summary: The Substance Use Disorders Strategies (SUDS) Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of lessons learned in MOUD clinics. During the webinar we will be focusing on mistakes and errors that can occur based on real patient stories.
Speaker Zachary Hill works on issues related to buprenorphine and cross reactivity with naltrexone LAI in his practice setting at Salt Lake City Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center. Zachary Hill, PharmD, BCPP,MA works as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in an outpatient co-occurring mental heal and substance use disorder clinic – Services for Outpatient Addiction Recovery (SOAR). Among other responsibilities include precepting residents and teaching adjunctively on medication used in substance use disorders with the University of Utah.
Speaker Daniel Greer works as a clinical assistant professor and practices in outpatient/inpatient psychiatry and at an MOUD clinic. Daniel Greer teaches a class and simulation on opioid-related disorders.
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Summary: The Resident and New Practitioner Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of utilizing telehealth modalities to provide psychiatric care. During the webinar we will be focusing on telehealth practice pearls, such as tools for clinicians to optimize their telehealth visits and opportunities for patients to incorporate telehealth into their care. Our speakers include Dr. Jennifer Bean, Dr. Caitlin McCarthy, and Dr. Jill Nofziger. Dr. Bean works as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in geriatric mental health at the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. McCarthy works as a clinical pharmacist at Henry J. Austin Health Center and as a clinical associate professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Nofziger works as an ambulatory care supervisor at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center. Our speakers will also discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their individual telehealth practices.
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Speaker: Aaron Salwan, PharmD, MPH, BCPP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Nyack, NY
Summary: The Patient Medication Education Group Community is hosting a webinar on the topic of self-disclosure during group psychoeducation sessions. During the webinar, we will focus on the potential risks and benefits associated with sharing personal experiences, review the available literature on therapist self-disclosure, and discuss potential changes to the therapeutic relationship resulting from self-disclosure. The speaker, Aaron Salwan, is a clinical psychiatric pharmacist at Montefiore Nyack Hospital who conducts groups in both inpatient behavioral health and inpatient substance use units. The webinar's objective is to provide psychiatric pharmacists with guidance on using their lived experiences therapeutically in a group setting. Additionally, the speaker will encourage attendees to share their own experiences of disclosure during group sessions.
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Speaker: M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, FCCP, DABCP, BCPP, Dean Emeritus & Behrens Centennial Professor of Pharmacy Emeritus. College of Pharmacy, Professor of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
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Summary: The Teaching Community is hosting a webinar on student pharmacist well-being. The webinar will focus on teaching methodologies and skills to improve student well-being in the didactic and experiential setting. Speaker Dr. M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, FCCP, DABCP, BCPP works on issues related to health-care provider well-being, resilience and burnout in his practice setting at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr Crismon served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus group that produced the book, Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. Dr Crismon serves as a lecturer and coach in the ASHP Well-being Ambassadors Program and is a consultant for REACH Institute, a nonprofit for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Dr Crismon has no known conflicts of interest related to this presentation.
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Communities Week offers many member-driven activities intended to facilitate dialogue among psychiatric pharmacy professionals. While presenters are encouraged to disclose any conflicts and to use the best evidence available, presentations are not peer reviewed and attendees should accordingly verify details prior to making significant practice changes.