AAPP is pleased to provide a suggested reading list as a service and as a forum for member discussion. If you shop with AAPP by following the links below to Amazon, a small commission will be paid to AAPP which helps to financially support our mission to improve the minds and lives of individuals with psychiatric disorders.
Congress should take action on permanent telehealth reform. Remove restrictions on medicare beneficiary access to mental and behavioral health services provided via telehealth. Remove restrictions on the location of the patient and provider. Allow telephonic (audio-only) services for mental health and substance use disorder services. Continue payment parity for telehealth services.
Psychiatric pharmacists are highly trained, advanced practice clinical pharmacists accessible in many practice settings. They improve patient outcomes by delivering comprehensive medication management.
Psychiatric pharmacists improve access to care, optimize medication outcomes and reduce health care costs. There are approximately 1500 Board-certified Psychiatric Pharmacists in the US. Leveraging 340B savings is an important means to sustain and expand access to high quality psychiatric pharmacy patient care services, including comprehensive medication management.
The 2025 Summit will be held virtually October 2-3, 2025 and includes two reserved slots for industry symposia. The Summit will offer a robust, online experience and welcomes past and new partners to consider offering an industry symposium with ACPE credit.
In 2011, a group of pharmacists from the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) supported the launch of the CPNP Foundation. Known as the Founding Circle, this group paved the way for numerous grants, research activities, and support provided by the Foundation. This year in 2021, we are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the CPNP Foundation!
Well over 1,100 students join AAPP each year to learn more about the profession and how to advance their careers. From networking and mentoring to education and toolkits, AAPP works to promote the development of the next generation of psychiatric pharmacists.
AAPP is pleased to provide a suggested reading list as a service and as a forum for member discussion. If you shop with AAPP by following the links below to Amazon, a small commission will be paid to AAPP which helps to financially support our mission to improve the minds and lives of individuals with psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Seth Gomez is a psychiatric pharmacist working for Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services. Find out how his work supporting primary care physicians in providing Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (MOUD) services has brought patient care to another level.
Dr. Bridget Bradley teaches at Pacific University School of Pharmacy and practices as a pharmacist at one of Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center’s primary care clinics in Hillsboro, Oregon. Learn how Dr. Bradley, as the only psychiatric pharmacist within the health center’s five clinics, is essential to the success of the entire mental health team.
Dr. Dana Chiulli is a psychiatric pharmacist at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs (VA) Outpatient Clinic in Savannah, Georgia, a satellite of the VA Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Learn how Dr. Chiulli improves access to care for Veterans with a wide variety of locations and needs.
Dr. Jeffrey Gold is a psychiatric pharmacist and the psychiatric pharmacy residency director at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Rocky Mountain Regional Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. Find out how he has become an integral part of the treatment team and extended its reach via telehealth.
Dr. Rosana Steavenson is a psychiatric pharmacist and the program manager of the Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Program at the South Texas Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System. Learn how Dr. Steavenson impacts treatment at her practice site and throughout the country.
This toolkit provides a resource for recognizing, understanding, and managing episodes of agitation and forms of aggression encountered in clinical practice.
AAPP's pharmacist toolkit on Xylazine is intended to highlight both the evidence base available as well as strategies of clinical decision making used by expert clinicians.
The existance of the CPNP Foundation is a direct reflection of the selfless dedication of you as CPNP members. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to our $40,000 year-end fundraising goal! We are thrilled to continue this important, ongoing work. Donate Now and Make Your Pledge for 2020.
This free list of treatment guidelines includes anxiety and related disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, medication-induced movement disorders, schizophrenia, seizure disorders, sleep-wake disorders, and substance use disorders.
The treatment of cannabis use disorder, special populations and co-occurring disorders as well as harm reduction strategies are also addressed in the toolkit.
This free medication database provides a list of generic and brand name medications.
Toolkit on harm reduction provides tips and guideline summaries in the following areas: consequences of injection drug use, harm reduction services, activities, policies, stigma, potential barriers, professional/policy support, resources, and data sources.
The AAPP Residents and New Practitioners Committee is pleased to provide a suggested reading list of the top references as a service and as a forum for member discussion. Consider these resources as a foundation for your reference library.
This free Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) guide provides webinars introducing CMM and helpful tools for implementing CMM.
These free articles are intended to provide advice from experts for students, residents, and new practitioners.
Improve your peer review skills! Discover the components to evaluate, the role of the peer reviewer, the skills necessary to critically evaluate a manuscript, and how to provide feedback to authors and journal editors.
Psychiatric pharmacists are advanced practice clinical pharmacists committed to being part of an interdisciplinary team treating substance use disorders often in combination with serious mental illness. AAPP members have authored numerous substance use disorder toolkits, documents, and educational activities to further the knowledge of pharmacists and other health care professionals.