Psychiatric and Neurologic Medication Pipeline

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Activity Date: 04/30/2025

Session Time and Location

Date: Wednesday, 04/30/2025

Time: 11:00 AM (view in the schedule)

Room: TBD

Target Audience

If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, or other health care professional involved in the comprehensive medication management of individuals living with mental health and/or substance use disorders, we invite you to participate in this online course.

Session Summary

As medication management experts, pharmacists must remain up-to-date by understanding newly marketed medications and those in the clinical development pipeline. To fulfill this role, pharmacists must master essential clinically relevant knowledge about each new medication’s efficacy for the tested indication, tolerability, and safety. This information includes the pharmacodynamic mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, drug interactions, and pharmacoeconomics. Armed with this knowledge, pharmacists will be well-positioned to advocate for the use of the most beneficial medication by educating patients and other key stakeholders, including other prescribers. In this session, participants will learn about therapeutic advances in new and emerging psychiatric and neurologic medications and how these agents fit into current clinical practice.

Faculty Information

Stephen R. Saklad, PharmD, BCPP

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Stephen R. Saklad, PharmD, BCPP
Clinical Professor (Retired)
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacotherapy & Translational Science
San Antonio, TX

Dr. Saklad received his baccalaureate degree in Bacteriology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Southern California in 1978. He then completed a National Institute of Mental Health training fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy supervised by Jim Wilson, Pharm.D., BCPP at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute of the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha in 1979. In 1979 he joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy and the clinical staff at San Antonio State Hospital (SASH). He has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1979. He is married and the father of triplet sons.

Dr. Saklad initiated and developed the first websites for the UT Austin College of Pharmacy in 1994, the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP; now the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists, AAPP) in 1997, and the CPNP Foundation in 2015. He was a founding member of CPNP as well as the CPNP Foundation. He has been on the Board of Directors, Communications Committee, was the Founding Senior Editor of the Mental Health Clinician, Treasurer of the CPNP Foundation, and member of the CPNP Business Development Committee. He helped to create and has chaired The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy’s Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Update since 2007.

Dr. Saklad is widely published and presents to many groups around the country on a variety of pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, and mental health-related topics. He has been a principal or co-investigator for studies of the efficacy and adverse effects of Phase II, III, and IV psychotropic agents in schizophrenia, mood disorders, depression, and other serious and persistent mental illness, as well as their pharmacokinetics and interactions.

Learning Objectives

Describe the efficacy and safety data of the emerging and recently approved psychiatric and neurologic medication pipeline.
Explain appropriate monitoring requirements, patient education points, and provider education for these agents.
Discuss clinical use of new and emerging medications and where these agents fit into current clinical practice.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/30/2025
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-25-023-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for ANCC Certification Renewal and AANPCB advanced practice provider content. For specific questions related to your organization's acceptance of ACPE continuing education units, please contact your organization directly.

ACPE The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

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Off-Label Use: This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA (see faculty information). The opinions expressed in the educational activity do not necessarily represent the views of AAPP and any educational partners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

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