I have a private consulting practice, Talia Puzantian: Clinical Psychopharmacology Consultation. My website is www.taliapuzantian.com My website is a living thing as I find myself updating it as my practice grows and changes.
In my practice, I provide a number of clinical psychiatric pharmacy services. The majority of my time is spent providing clinical consultion to psychiatrists who are in private practice. Many of these clients provide their patients psychotherapy and/or psychoanalysis in addition to pharmacotherapy. I also provide consultation to health care systems in the form of formulary management, therapeutic guideline development and staff education in the area of psychotherapeutics. I also spend some time writing, most recently for the Carlat Psychiatry Report. From time to time, I also provide consultation directly to patients.
By Paul Price, PharmD, BCPP
After graduating with a PharmD degree from South Dakota State University, College of Pharmacy in 1999, Anne Morstad began her career at Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She became involved in Psychiatry when Paul Price, who had been the hospital’s psychiatric pharmacist, moved to Nebraska. She became the lead pharmacist when Avera McKennan built a free standing Behavioral Health Center, and after becoming a board certified psychiatric pharmacist (BCPP), she was promoted to a Clinical Specialist in Psychiatry.
By Joshua Caballero, PharmD, BCPP
Dr. Marino obtained her PharmD at Bouve Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She also completed a Pharmacy Specialty Residency in Psychiatric Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Later, she became a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) and is currently an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy. She has reviewed and published in Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, and Hospital Pharmacy. Presently, her research interests include combination treatment in patients with schizophrenia and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), women’s health issues and psychiatry, clinical outcomes in psychiatric hospitals, and evaluation of teaching innovations in pharmacy courses.
Interviewed by: Dean Najarian, PharmD, BCPP
Maria Ogrodowski, RPh, BCPP is currently the Pharmacy Manager at New York Presbyterian Hospital in White Plains, NY - part of the Cornell and Columbia University Hospital System. She currently supervises 9 pharmacists and 6 pharmacy technicians in this full-service, 250-bed acute care mental health hospital. Earlier in her career, Maria was a critical care pharmacist at the sister hospital. After an opportunity opened up at the psychiatric hospital, Maria reluctantly made a career change. However, she soon found the new experience to be “fascinating” and realized “so much needed to be done to help patients with mental illness.”
By Rick Silvia, PharmD, BCPP
Dr. Jack J. Chen is an Associate Professor at Loma Linda University in southern California. He has been actively engaged in neurology research for over ten years as part of his academic and clinical appointments, and was kind enough to share some of his time and insight into pharmacist research.
Sarah Whipple, PharmD, BCPP, is a Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist at the VA Central Iowa Health Care System in Des Moines, Iowa.
Sarah feels strongly that psychiatric patients are often misunderstood and made psychiatric pharmacy a career to make a difference in the care that they receive. Read on to learn how Sarah works to serve this population as she tries to improve their quality of life.
Amy Werremeyer, PharmD, is an Assistant Professor in the Pharmacy Practice Department at North Dakota State University where she teaches the neuro-psych therapeutics course and works on an inpatient psychiatry unit of a non-profit general hospital.
Troy A. Moore, PharmD, MSPharm, BCPP, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Following his Doctor of Pharmacy training, Dr. Moore completed two years of residency training at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, specializing in Psychiatry. He earned his Master of Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
Ericka L. Breden, PharmD, BCPP, CGP, FASCP, is a clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry and clinical assistant professor with both the Departments of Pharmacy and Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, VA. She also is the Director of a PGY-2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency program. Dr. Breden began her career at VCUHS after completion of both a geriatric residency and a psychiatric residency. Her current position entails rounding primarily with the geropsychiatry and the medical psychiatry teams. Her role is to ensure medication safety, educate patients and family members, and educate psychiatrists-in-training on the safe use of medications. She feels the greatest impact she makes in her practice is ensuring patients and families have access to and can afford their medications and helping them to understand the importance of taking their medications.
Theresa Pigue & Elisa Burton work at the Central Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg, VA for the mentally disabled and can be seen in this video explaining their work as members of an interdisciplinary team treating skilled nursing patients and intellectually or neurologically impaired patients. The video also emphasizes the importance of the pharmacist's role in this healthcare system.
