College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

Networking Opportunities

Networking Roundtables*

Sunday, May 1
5:30-6:30 p.m.

Set aside an hour of your day to network with your peers as you participate in special interest group meetings or hot topic discussions.
Roundtables offered include:

• Canadian Pharmacists
  Monica Zolezzi, BPharm, MSc, ACPR and Deborah Thompson, PharmD, BCPP, BS

  Proposed Items for Discussion

  1. Psychiatric residency programs in Canada
  2. The Canadian Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists Annual Report
  3. Postgraduate training and continuing education opportunities in psychiatric pharmacy
  4. Mental health research in Canada
• Med-Psych Issues for the Psychiatric Pharmacist
  Andrew Muzyk, PharmD

  The purpose of our Medicine-Psychiatry roundtable is to allow interested clinicians to exchange thoughts and experiences from our respective Med-Psych services. We also want to encourage networking and develop collaborations to share clinical practice and research ideas. Lastly, we will discuss ways pharmacy students/residents can train to be a Med-Psych pharmacist as well as ways for current pharmacists to be more involved in caring for this patient population.

• Pursuing a Career in Academia
  Kelly Gable, PharmD, BCPP; Gary Levin, PharmD, BCPP, FCCP
  

  The first half of this roundtable discussion will focus on developing qualities necessary to become successful as a new or junior faculty member. Discussion will involve balancing time between scholarship, teaching, and service in an effort to successfully move up the promotion and/or tenure track. As time allows, other topics may include preparing for annual and midpoint evaluations as well as how to begin a scholarly program. The second half of this roundtable is recommended for junior or senior faculty with an interest in pursuing an academic administrative position either soon or in the future. Discussion topics will include how to prepare for an administrative position early in your career, professional organizational involvement, and qualities necessary to become a successful academic administrator. The facilitators will be prepared to modify discussion to best meet the needs of the roundtable audience.

• Starting Medication Therapy Management Services for Outpatients

  Mark Schneiderhan, PharmD, BCPP

  The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of MTMS in the ambulatory care and outpatient psychiatry settings from clinical and business perspectives. Topics include: Describe the practice/practitioners; Identify stakeholders including high risk patients with unmet pharmaceutical care needs; Selection of MTMS data management systems; Discuss lessons learned in the area of overhead costs, marketing, credentialing and reimbursements. The workshop will be a forum for interested clinicians to exchange thoughts, experiences, and to encourage networking and future collaborations in practice and research. Co-Facilitators: Carla Cobb, Mark Peterson, Mark Schneiderhan

• State Hospital Pharmacists
  Ann Richards, PharmD, BCPP
  

  The State Hospital Round Table will discuss issues that State Hospitals have in common.  These topics include budget both drug and personnel, Joint Commission, staffing, drug distribution, etc.  Through these discussion it is hoped that we can assist each other in developing strategies to resolved our common problems.

• Strategies for Successful Medical Record Review, Drug Utilization Research, and QA/QI Research-Related Projects
  Christian Teter, PharmD, BCPP

  This roundtable will provide the attendee with useful advice that will assists them in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing retrospective medical record review and drug utilization research. It will also provide information necessary to determine if Quality Assurance/Improvement projects are appropriate for research-related activities and how to address challenges that arise when translating clinical projects to research studies. There will be a discussion on the methodological and regulatory considerations with respect to medical record review, drug utilization research and QA/QI research-related projects.

• Students and Residents
  Troy Moore, PharmD, BCPP
  Co-Facilitators: Sarah Grady, PharmD, BCPP and Carol Ott, PharmD, BCPP
  

  The goal of this roundtable is to discuss important issues to students and residents interested in psychiatric pharmacy, such as obtainment of residencies and employment in psychiatric pharmacy; becoming BCPP certified; mentorship; and student/resident-specific programming. This roundtable will also provide students and residents a forum to share their wants and needs from their CPNP membership.

• Veterans Affairs Pharmacists
  Co-Facilitators:
  Ben Dishman, PharmD, BCPP
  Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry
  VA San Diego Healthcare System
  
  Jonathan P. Lacro, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP
  Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry
  Director, Pharmacy Education & Training
  VA San Diego Healthcare System
  

  This roundtable is designed to provide a forum to discuss topics unique to pharmacists working within the Department of Veterans Affairs. We will be discussing a wide range of topics both administrative and clinical that can impact your practice site. This will be an opportunity learn how other VISN's and individual hospitals handle policy issues in regard to patient care, formulary, regulatory, university affiliation and continuing education issues.

  Potential Discussion Topics:

  1. Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment Program (MHRRTP).
     1. Pharmacy interpretation of safe medication management
     2. Role of pharmacist
     3. Issues associated with medication dispensing units for controlled substances
     4. Management of personal medications (VA, non-VA, and OTC)
  2. Treatment and Policy Guidelines
     1. Laboratory monitoring policies for psychotropic medications
     2. Access and Utilization of Clozapine
  3. Optimizing Role of Pharmacy and Pharmacists for PTSD/TBI Patients
  4. Collaborative Research Opportunities
  5. PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Training
• What’s New in Legislative Activities
  Dan Justino, PharmD, BCPP; Raymond Love, PharmD, BCPP

  A discussion on the status of providing MTM services by psychiatric pharmacists in the current healthcare environment, along with some possible opportunities to define MTM services, as they may pertain to the psychiatric pharmacist and the CPNP membership. Develop the top five MTM issues for CPNP to focus on in the future.

  Those planning on attending should bring their top five MTM issues, concerning MTM services that we are currently or could be providing. These issues should be those best addressed at a national organizational level, to help prioritize CPNP’s focus, on what MTM issues are important to our membership and to help develop a plan to address these issues . Please come prepared to discuss our future.

Scientific Poster Session*

Monday, May 2
7:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Research and networking with colleagues takes center stage on Monday when 130+ research and practice posters will be displayed. Take advantage of the 3 total hours of uninterrupted viewing time with poster authors to further explore presented research, innovative practices and case management. The Outgoing President’s Reception honoring Steve Stoner, PharmD, BCPP, is held in conjunction with the final 1.5 hour poster viewing session offering the double benefit of networking with colleagues and poster authors simultaneously. Award finalists will provide platform presentations during Monday afternoon’s concurrent track with winners announced Tuesday morning.

CPNP Walks for NAMI*

Wednesday, May 4
6:45-7:45 a.m.

Join CPNP in the fourth annual 5K run/walk bright and early on Wednesday morning. Your entrance fee is donated directly to NAMI and matched by CPNP. Run, walk or bypass the walk and sleep in, but donate any amount to this wonderful event benefiting NAMI. A t-shirt is provided to the first 150 participants and donors.