Carla Cobb, PharmD, BCPP
Searching for Solutions
Every person’s journey to preparing for and achieving the Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) credential is unique. However, hundreds of BCPPs have shared tips and techniques that assisted in their success. Customize the tips below to your background and situation. Good Luck!
Access to specialized mental health and crisis professionals for children and adolescents is severely limited contributing to the growing youth mental health crisis. This issue brief outlines how psychiatric pharmacists are part of the solution to achieve both early intervention and optimization of medications to improve outcomes.
National Council for Mental Wellbeing Co-Occurring SMI and SUD Learning Series: Session 2 on May 15
Member Stephanie Nichols Presents Navigating Pharmacotherapy: Co-occurring Bipolar Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder on May 15: One of the first educational programs hosted in the new SAMHSA SMI Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) will be presented by member Stephanie Nichols, PharmD, MPH, BCPP, BCPS, FCCP, FAAPP. This webinar will focus on evidence-based strategies for navigating drug interactions, managing adverse effects and optimizing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to improve patient care. Executive Director Brenda Schimenti and Past President Ray Love represent psychiatric pharmacy on the SMI TTAC Consultative Monitoring Board.
AM Final Day
It's the final day of #AAPP2025! We have loved hosting nearly 900 attendees in Salt Lake City and virtually. Check out the schedule for our final 3 sessions today.
#psychpharmacy #SLC #ACPE #AnnualMeeting
Pipeline Session
The Psychiatric and Neurologic Medication Pipeline is one of the most anticipated sessions of #AAPP2025! Dr. Saklad is back today at 10:00 AM Mountain to bring us his insights and wisdom.
#SLC #psychpharm
New Formulations Session
The psychotropic medication landscape is constantly evolving. Hear about the unique benefits and limitations of dextromethorphan/bupropion, long-acting injectable risperidone, and serdexmethylphenidate/dexmethylphenidate this afternoon during #AAPP2025.
#psychpharmacy #ACPE #SLC
This Cannabis Use Disordser toolkit provides tips and guideline summaries in the following areas: Screening Diagnosis Cannabis Intoxication Cannabis Withdrawal Treatment Special Populations and Co-occurring Disorders Harm Reduction Strategies Resources References
Clinical Pearls
The ever-popular Clinical Pearls sessions are back today! #AAPP2025 attendees can attend two hours of clinical pearls programming. Congrats to our selected speakers, Jaden Dickinson, PharmD, BCPP; Brianne Mosley, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP; Kimberly Ehrhard, PharmD, BCPP; Alissa Scalise, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP; Roisin Sabol, PharmD; and Zoe Karavolis, PharmD, MPH, BCPP, CPH.
#SLC #psychpharmacy #clinicalpearls
TD Learning Lab
Attendees at #AAPP2025 are loving the Tardive Dyskinesia Learning Lab! This is free to attend and participants get to apply the AIMS assessment for hands-on learning. 2 learning lab sessions remain on Tuesday, April 28!
#psychpharmacy #SLC #TD #learninglab
Meet the Board and AAPP Staff
Come say hello to the AAPP Board of Directors and staff today during the mid-day networking session (12:30 PM Mountain)! There are SO many ways to connect with your psych pharmacy peers during #AAPP2025
#SLC #psychpharmacy
Day 2 Events
#AAPP2025 is off to a great start! Day 2 starts bright and early at 7:15 AM Mountain with an industry symposium with ACPE credit (open to everyone with an aapp.org account!).
#ACPE #psychpharmacy #SLC
This toolkit provides a resource for recognizing, understanding, and managing episodes of agitation and forms of aggression encountered in clinical practice. Various assessment tools and nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic interventions are reviewed as a means to improve outcomes and safety.
Saklad Memorial Award Presentation and AAPP Forum on Our Future
Starting soon (4:45 PM Mountain) is the Saklad Memorial Award presentation and the AAPP Forum on Our Future! This event will be livestreamed and is available to anyone with a login at aapp.org. (If you don't have one, create a free account).
Join us to honor Dr. Deanna Kelly! #AAPP2025 #psychpharmacy #SLC
As a psychiatric pharmacist, you work every day to move things forward-patients, families, colleagues, students, your health care system. You move us forward too—as members, volunteers, mentors, thought leaders, and innovators. Your forward motion inspires ours as we work together at AAPP and AAPP Foundation to move psychiatric pharmacy forward, together in the following ways.
Idea Exchanges at AAPP 2025
Idea exchanges start at 10:00 AM Mountain! Which one are you attending?
Topics include: The Antidepressant Black Box Warning in Youth, Management of Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults, and The Evolving Role of Neurology Clinical Pharmacists
#AAPP2025 #psychpharmacy #saltlakecity
T-Minus 2 Days until AAPP 2025
T-minus 2 days until the first official day of #AAPP2025! Who's getting excited?! #psychpharmacy #saltlakecity
Foundation 2024 Annual Report
The 2024 Annual Report is available! THANK YOU to our 2024 donors! A full listing is available in the report along with the Foundation Board of Directors.
Psychiatric pharmacy continues to grow and look to the future with a focus on helping individuals recover from mental health and substance use disorders. The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP) considers Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) the gold standard credential that all psychiatric pharmacists should attain to demonstrate specialized knowledge and expertise in psychiatry.
Student Registration Grants Awarded for AAPP 2025
Congrats to the PharmD students who received a registration grant to #AAPP2025! #aappfoundation #psychpharmacy
Trauma Informed Care Session Session at AAPP 2025 Supported by Kim Tallian Bequest
Today's #AAPP2025 session on Trauma Informed Care is sponsored by the bequest from late AAPP member, Kim Tallian. #aappfoundation #psychpharmacy