Jolene Bostwick, PharmD, BCPP – AAPP President
Coming home from our Annual Meeting 2026 in Seattle, I feel grateful and energized. Each year, this meeting reminds me why AAPP is such a special professional home. We come for the education, but we leave with something equally important: connection, belonging, and renewed commitment to our patients and our profession.
Seattle was filled with meaningful moments. We boasted the largest in-person and student attendance since returning to live meetings in 2022. It was a joy to reconnect with longtime colleagues and friends, to see former trainees thriving in new roles, and to meet new members who are bringing fresh perspectives to psychiatric pharmacy. Whether your conversations happened in sessions, at posters, in committee meetings, or in the hallway between events, they mattered. These are the moments that sustain us.
I am also grateful to our speakers and presenters. Thank you for sharing your expertise so thoughtfully and for delivering content that was timely, practical, and grounded in patient care. Your scholarship and preparation elevated the meeting.
Our Annual Meeting was also a time for celebration. Recognizing excellence, innovation, and service helps us stay connected to what we value as an organization. Congratulations again to everyone who was recognized during the meeting – including our award winners, AAPP fellows, and our staff celebrating milestones including Brenda Schimenti (25 years), Vanessa Wasser (15 years) and Katie Brase (10 years). You all reflect the best of AAPP and our specialty.
To our sponsors, thank you for your partnership. Your support helps make this meeting possible and strengthens AAPP’s ability to deliver high quality education and meaningful opportunities for connection. We are grateful for your continued investment in psychiatric pharmacy.
I want to recognize our volunteers, who give their time and talent year-round. We celebrated our programming committees at AAPP 2026 and all others during Volunteer Week in April, and I want to share that gratitude again here. Committee members, speakers, mentors, reviewers, and leaders make this organization incredible. Thank you for showing up and helping AAPP thrive.
The Annual Meeting offers the one in-person event where we can update members on the work of AAPP and dialogue around our collective future. If you weren’t able to join our Forum on our Future business meeting in Seattle, please take the time to listen into the recording.
In the end, I left the Emerald City/Seattle feeling welcomed, supported, and inspired (and maybe a bit tired!). I hope you felt the same. I look forward to continuing the momentum and hope to see many of you at AAPP 2027 in Louisville, April 4-7, 2027.
