The AAPP membership has elected three officers to serve on the 2024-2026 Board of Directors. Assuming their offices effective July 1, 2024, will be Drs. Jolene Bostwick, Julie Cunningham and Jennifer Dress. These 3 new members will join Drs. Michelle Geier, Kristina Reinstatler, Amy Werremeyer, and Andy Williams on the Board for 2024-2025.
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Incoming President-Elect Jolene R. Bostwick, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS
Dr. Bostwick graduated in 2004 from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and completed a specialty residency in psychiatric pharmacy with Kaiser Permanente in Denver, CO. She subsequently practiced as a “front line” psychiatric pharmacist for 15 years, developing pharmacy services in inpatient and outpatient psychiatry before transitioning into her current administrative role in February 2020. For the past three and half years, she has served as the Assistant Dean for Co-Curriculum and Professional Development at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy where she chairs the Committee on Academic Standing, ensures the academic success of all students, provides leadership to the study group program, and supports students who are struggling personally or academically. She oversees all 17 College of Pharmacy student organizations. Additionally, she leads the college’s well-being efforts, serving as Chair of the Well-being Committee and as an ambassador and exemplar for University of Michigan's health science collaborative given the pharmacy school's successes with well-being efforts.
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Incoming Member-at-Large Julie L. Cunningham, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Cunningham received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Iowa and later went on to complete her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Creighton University. She has worked in inpatient psychiatric units, ambulatory care, and an outpatient chronic pain rehabilitation program. In 2005 she pivoted into a blended supervisor/direct patient care role and then into her current position as the associate chief pharmacy officer in 2021 where she is responsible for all clinical pharmacy and pharmacy-based research programs. In this work she develops comprehensive inpatient and outpatient clinical pharmacy programs that incorporate best practices and emphasize the safety and optimized outcomes of patients. She additionally supports a pharmacy-based research program, serves as the pharmacy administrative partner for the opioid stewardship program, and has consultative responsibilities for provider referred challenging controlled substance cases through the Controlled Substance Advisory Group. |
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Incoming Member-at-Large Jennifer Dress, PharmD, BCPP Dr. Dress earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wilkes University School of Pharmacy in 2010. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Chillicothe VAMC in Chillicothe, Ohio and a PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Dress has been working for the Wilkes-Barre VAMC for the past 10 years in various health care settings throughout the hospital. She has provided direct patient care in acute inpatient psychiatry units, outpatient mental health clinics, substance use treatment programs, acute and critical care units, and skilled nursing care units. She is presently a Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner (MH CPP), Clinical Pharmacy Supervisor, and Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior (PMDB) training coordinator. She provides comprehensive medication management to clients seen in the mental health clinic and those admitted to the inpatient acute psychiatry unit and serves as a clinical pharmacy supervisor. As PMDB training coordinator she ensures focus on the prevention and management of various ranges of workplace violence and coordinates and teaches monthly PMDB training classes for staff. |
AAPP extends a thank you to the nominating committee which consisted of Clayton English, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, BCGP, Cindy Gutierrez, PharmD, MS, BCPP, Robert Haight, PharmD, BCPP, Jonathan Lacro, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, FASHP, and Tawny Smith, PharmD, BCPP.