The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) membership has elected three officers to serve on the 2015-2017 Board of Directors. Assuming their offices effective July 1, 2015, will be Drs. Sara Dugan, Robert Haight, and Christopher Thomas.
Newly elected Board members will fill the following roles on the Board:
- Sara Dugan, PharmD, BCPP, Member at Large, Associate Professor, Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy and Medicine, Rootstown, OH
- Robert Haight, PharmD, BCPP, Treasurer, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Christopher Thomas, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, President-Elect, Clinical Pharmacist in Psychiatry, Chillicothe VAMC, Chillicothe, OH
Drs. Dugan, Haight, and Thomas join current board members as follows:
- Julie Dopheide, PharmD, BCPP, Past President (term concludes June 2015), Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Steve Burghart, DPh, MBA, BCPP, President, Director of Pharmacy, Rolling Hills Hospital, Franklin, TN
- Ray Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, Incoming President, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
- Jennifer L. Zacher, PharmD, BCPP, Secretary, Assistant Chief Consultant, VA Pharmacy Benefits Management Service, Hines, IL
- Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, Member at Large (term concludes June 2015), Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Jonathan Lacro, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, FASHP, Member at Large, Director Pharmacy Education & Training, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
- Cherry Jackson, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, Past President Advisory Appointee, Professor of Pharmacy, Auburn University, Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, University of Alabama-Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
About CPNP
We at CPNP envision a world where every individual with a psychiatric or neurologic disorder has a care team that includes a neuropsychiatric pharmacist accountable for optimal medication therapy. As the voice of the specialty, our mission is to advance the reach and practice of neuropsychiatric pharmacists. The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) is a professional association of over 1600 members who work directly with patients and caregivers to apply specialized clinical knowledge and skills, educate and train healthcare professionals and develop new knowledge in order to improve health outcomes for those individuals with psychiatric and neurologic disorders. Members apply evidence-based, cost-efficient best practices as a member of a treatment team to achieve patient recovery and improved quality of life.
