Stacy Eon, PharmD, BCPS
University North Carolina Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC
CPNP was honored to present the Saklad Memorial Award at the April 2010 CPNP Annual Meeting to Dr. Raymond C. Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP. This award celebrates the life and work of the late Judith J. Saklad. Dr. Saklad was a founding member of CPNP and nationally recognized as an innovator of pharmaceutical care to children and adults with serious mental disorders, developmental disabilities and mental retardation. Dr. Love was selected by his peers as a senior psychiatric pharmacy practitioner who has achieved a level of professional distinction and like Dr. Saklad, demonstrates the qualities and ideals of professional enthusiasm and a passion for optimizing patient care.
Carol Griffith, RPh, BCPP, is the pharmacy supervisor at the Capitol Region Mental Health Center in Hartford, which is part of CT’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). This State facility treats over 1500 adult clients and provides services for young adults, forensics, addiction, general psych, mobile crisis, deaf and hard of hearing, as well as a small inpatient treatment unit.
Judith M. Hyatt, PharmD, BCPP, is a psychiatric clinical pharmacist with the VA Western New York Healthcare System and Director of a PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice residency program. Before she ventured into psychiatric pharmacy practice, her work included infectious diseases and oncology research. Dr. Hyatt’s current position entails inpatient psychiatry where she manages acute manifestations of mental illness and substance abuse, and outpatient psychiatry where she runs a Pharmacist-directed PTSD medication management clinic as well as a weekly antipsychotic depot injection clinic. Dr Hyatt also serves on a Peer Review Committee for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) for PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
Ann Richards, PharmD, BCPP, Pharmacy Director at the San Antonio State Hospital and current president of CPNP, has a unique focus on the administrative aspects of psychiatric pharmacy. Her passion for psychiatric pharmacy developed in pharmacy school during her clinical rotations. Here she discovered the influences that a clinical psychiatric pharmacist could have on the care of patients with mental illness. Dr. Richards characterizes herself as one of those rare persons who at times can not sleep at night because she is so excited about going to work.
Meet CPNP member Jolene Bostwick, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, and get a brief introduction to her work as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and clinical pharmacist in inpatient psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System.
Melody Ryan, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, CGP, FCCP, is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine. During pharmacy school, Dr. Ryan, developed an interest in the treatment of neurological disease states, leading her to pursue postgraduate training in the field of neurology. Currently Dr. Ryan conducts a weekly outpatient clinic, just like physicians and other health-care-providers, at the Veterans Association Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, where she sees approximately 4-7 neurology patients with disorders such as epilepsy, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease.
