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Erica Davis, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP Dr. Davis received her BS in Physiology and PharmD from the University of Arizona. She completed a PGY1 residency with Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY and a PGY2 residency with the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and practices as a Clinical Psychiatric Pharmacist at Springfield Hospital Center, a state psychiatric hospital in Sykesville, MD. Dr. Davis is board certified in both pharmacotherapy and psychiatric pharmacy. She has been an active CPNP member since 2009 and is currently on the Mental Health Clinician editorial board. Her interests include schizophrenia, forensic psychiatry, and clozapine. |
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Amber Douglass, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP Current Chair of the Resident and New Practitioner Committee. Dr. Douglss graduated pharmacy school from the University of Iowa in 2010 and completed a PGY1 residency with an emphasis in psychiatry in Louisville, KY. From 2011-2016, she served as an Assistant Professor at Sullivan University College of Pharmacy in Louisville, KY and had practice sites at a state hospital, military base and university hospital. In early 2016, Dr. Douglass moved to Nashville, TN and currently works in the VA system. |
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Traci Dutton, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS Traci Dutton, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS currently works as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist on the Acute Psychiatry Units at the Alvin C. York VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Her VA career started with PGY-1 and PGY-2 residencies at the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center where she then stayed on after residency to help the facility expand mental health pharmacy services to have a clinical pharmacy specialist dedicated to the acute psychiatry units. She became board certified in psychiatric pharmacy in 2012 and board certified in pharmacotherapy in 2013. In 2014, Traci had the opportunity to move to Vermont to work for the VA National Center for PTSD as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and Academic Detailer to provide education to clinicians and patients about evidence-based PTSD treatment. Traci moved to the Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System in August 2015 to return to her love of working with Veterans and interdisciplinary teams on inpatient Acute Psychiatry Units and to have opportunities to precept students and residents. She is an active member of CPNP and serves on the BCPP Recertification Editorial Board. Traci has worked in the VA system for 8 years and greatly enjoys being a VA Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. |
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William Ellis, MS, RPh
Executive Director
Board of Pharmacy Specialties
Washington, DC
William M. Ellis MS, RPh was named Executive Director of BPS in 2011. From 1997-2011, Mr. Ellis served as CEO and Executive Director of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation. He was the Executive Vice President for the Pennsylvania Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists from 1986-1997. He received his pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and earned his Master of Science Degree in Health Education from Saint Joseph’s University. In 2014, Mr. Ellis was appointed a commissioner to the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) and has served as the Chairman since 2016. The NCCA, an administratively independent resource recognized as the authority on accreditation standards for professional certification programs, helps to ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the public through the accreditation of a variety of individual certification programs that assess professional competency. |
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Rene Endow-Eyer, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Endow-Eyer is currently working as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Mental Health and is the PGY-1 Residency Program Director at the Roseburg VA Medical Center. She received a Bachelor of Education degree in Secondary Mathematics from the University of Hawaii and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California and completed a specialty residency in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the University of Southern California and a fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy with an Emphasis in Substance Abuse at Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Teaching and Education (CESATE) at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle, Washington. She is a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP). She is a preceptor for APPE Pharm.D. candidates from Pacific University and Oregon State University as well as PGY-1 pharmacy practice residents. She is involved in various professional affiliations including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Oregon Society of Health-System Pharmacists (OSHP) and the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP). |
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Kristen Gardner, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Kristen Gardner completed undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University with one-year at the University of Pittsburgh studying neuroscience. She attended the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy for pharmacy school education. Dr. Gardner completed her general PGY-1 residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and her specialty training in the Western Missouri Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Program affiliated with UMKC in Kansas City, MO. She started her career as a new practitioner in July 2015 at Kaiser Permanente Colorado as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Behavioral Health at the Highline Behavioral Health Clinic in Denver, Colorado where she has continued to practice. |
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Seth Gomez, PharmD Dr. Gomez received his PharmD from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. He also completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency in Acute Care with emphasis in Psychiatry and a PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Psychiatry with the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy. Dr. Gomez has an outpatient clinical practice site in an integrated medical home and provides pharmacological consultative services to providers across Alameda County’s behavioral health systems of care. |
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Misty Gonzalez, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Gonzalez currently practices in adult inpatient psychiatry at Barnes-Jewish Hospital partnered with Washington University Saint Louis School of Medicine physicians. She is the first and currently the only psychiatric pharmacist at this 1100 bed (100 psychiatry) teaching and research institution. She precepts SIUE pharmacy students and Barnes-Jewish Hospital pharmacy residents as a regular part of her practice. She participates in multidisciplinary teaching rounds and facilitates hospital policy to optimize care for psychiatric patients. By integrating didactic coursework with case-based teaching, Dr. Gonzalez fosters critical thinking, facilitates the acquisition of life-long learning skills, and assists in the development of problem-solving strategies to navigate through the psychotropic-related situations pharmacists may encounter in their careers. Her clinical practice includes modeling the ideology of maintaining hope for recovery and for the reduction of stigma against individuals challenged with mental illness. |
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Jessa M. Koch, PharmD Dr. Koch joined LLUSP as a faculty member in July 2016. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 2014. She completed her first year of residency training at the Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio from 2014-2015, and then completed a PGY2 residency in psychiatry at the same facility from 2015-2016. Dr. Koch is the course coordinator and lecturer for the psychiatry and neurology courses at the school of pharmacy. Dr. Koch practices in the outpatient setting within an academic medical center. She is the psychiatric pharmacist on the Integrated Care team at the Social Action Community Health System (SACHS) clinic in San Bernardino, California. In this multidisciplinary setting, she helps manage behavioral health conditions. Her other practice site is in the Movement Disorders Clinic where she collaborates with a neurologist to provide care to patients with movement disorders with the primary disease state being Parkinson’s Disease. |
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Rex Lott, PharmD, BCPP Rex practiced and taught psychiatric and neurologic pharmacy for almost 40 years. After earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1972, he became an Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy there. He earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota in 1977; during that training, his interest in psychiatric and neurologic clinical practice blossomed. Since that time he has served in several different practice roles including Consultant Clinical Pharmacist for a state hospital system, Clinical Pharmacist/Pharmacy Director in two different institutions for developmentally disabled adults, long-term care Consultant Pharmacist, and private practice pharmacotherapy consultant. From 1997 until 2016 he was a full-time faculty member with Idaho State University with a practice in psychiatric pharmacy at the Boise, Idaho VA Medical Center. His practice focused on inpatient and outpatient adult psychiatry. Rex retired from teaching and active practice in 2016. Rex taught students from Idaho State University’s College of Pharmacy in both didactic course work and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences in mental health. From 2008 - 2016, he taught 3rd and 4th year residents in the University of Washington’s Idaho Track Psychiatry Residency Program. He also established a psychiatric pharmacy residency at the Boise VAMC which was re-established as a PGY-2 residency in 2016. He has completed several clinical research projects. In 2016, Rex became BCPP Director for CPNP. In that position he coordinates development of CPNP’s recertification products (Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Review Course, Clinical Application Series, Literature Analysis, From Theory to Practice Case Series, & Psychopharmacology Pearls) through 4 editorial boards. |
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Melissa Mitchell, PharmD, BCGP, BCPP, BCPS Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin for her bachelors, as well as of University of the Pacific Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for her PharmD. She completed here PGY1 at New York Harbor VA Medical Center and her PGY-2 at VA San Diego. Following residency, she joined faculty of Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She now practices at Riverside University Health System Medical Center as a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, overseeing both the mental health inpatient and outpatient pharmacies, as well as an offsite outpatient pharmacy. She precepts students from a variety of colleges, as well as PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents. Additionally, she is the Residency Program Director for the PGY-2 in psychiatric pharmacy. |
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Talia Puzantian, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Puzantian is Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences at Keck Graduate Institute School of Pharmacy. She received her BS in Psychobiology from UCLA and her PharmD from the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and completed a psychiatric pharmacy practice residency at LA County/USC. Dr. Puzantian has over 25 years of psychiatric pharmacy experience in academia and clinical practice. She currently practices as an inpatient psychiatric pharmacy specialist at Adventist Health Glendale, providing services to 60 acute psychiatric beds on 3 locked units. She was in the first group of specialists to become a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist and has, in the past, served as the Chair of the Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy for the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. She is an active member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) and co-advisor to the KGI student chapter of CPNP. In addition to teaching and her research interest in the role of community pharmacists in opioid stewardship, she is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor. Dr. Puzantian also serves as Deputy Editor for the Carlat Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry, and Addiction Treatment Reports and is co-author of Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice. |
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Kristina Reinstatler, PharmD, BCPP, MBA Kristina Reinstatler completed her doctorate at the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy and her residency training at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was board certified in psychiatric pharmacy in 2012. Her current position is the clinical pharmacy specialist for psychiatric services at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which encompasses acute psychiatry, psychiatric emergency services, and addiction sciences. In addition, she serves as adjunct faculty at the UC colleges of nursing and pharmacy. |
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Danielle Stutzman, PharmD, BCPP Danielle Stutzman is a psychiatric pharmacist at Children's Hospital Colorado Pediatric Mental Health Institute which consists of three inpatient units, three partial hospitalization programs, consult and liaison psychiatry services, and several outpatient clinics. Danielle is the first psychiatric pharmacist at Children's Hospital Colorado and has been involved in establishing new services hospital-wide. One of Danielle's most unique service areas is the Neuropsychiatric Special Care Unit, which provides care for youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, traumatic brain injuries, and other complex neurologic disorders. |
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Robin Wackernah, PharmD, BCPP Robin Wackernah is Senior Clinical Pharmacist at Craig Hospital in Denver, Colorado. She works on the Traumatic Brain Injury Team and provides pain consults for patients with brain injury and spinal cord injuries. Prior to working at Craig Hospital she was Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Regis University of School of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado. She is a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist and received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, Nevada. She completed an acute care residency at Keck Hospital at the University of Southern California (USC) and a psychiatric pharmacy practice residency the following year at Los Angeles County Hospital. She is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy, and the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. She has given public presentations for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy and the Minnesota Multistate Contracting Alliance for Pharmacy on atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of depression. She also speaks for the National Alliance on Mental Illness providing information on psychiatric medications to patients and their families. Her areas of research interest include drugs of abuse, managing cognitive effects secondary to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and the effects of smoking cessation classes on a psychiatric population. |
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Andrew Williams, PharmD, BCPP, BCGP Dr. Williams is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. He completed his PGY-1 in Acute Care with Psychiatry emphasis at USC, and his PGY-2 in Psychiatric Pharmacy at USC School of Pharmacy. Following completion of his residencies, he joined the faculty at Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy where he taught the Psychiatry, Neurology, and Special Populations curriculum. He now practices as a Clinical Pharmacist at Riverside University Health System’s inpatient psychiatric hospital. He holds faculty appointments with the University of Southern California, Loma Linda University, the University of the Pacific, and Keck Graduate Institute. He serves as a PGY-1 residency preceptor and PGY-2 residency preceptor and coordinator. |
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Gabriela Williams, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP After graduating from Purdue University in 2013, Dr. Williams completed a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL, followed by a PGY-2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency with Eskenazi Health and Purdue University in Indianapolis, IN. She currently works as the inpatient psychiatric clinical pharmacy specialist at Eskenazi Health/Midtown Community Mental Health, which focuses on the treatment of severe and persistent mental illness and addiction in the Indianapolis area. |
