College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

M. Lynn Crismon, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP
Dean, James T. Doluisio Regents Chair, and Behrens Centennial Professor
The University of Texas College of Pharmacy
Austin, TX

Dr. Crismon is the Dean, James T. Doluisio Regents Chair, and Behrens Centennial Professor at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy. He holds faculty appointments in the Divisions of Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacy Administration, Pharmacotherapy, and the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Studies. He coordinates the clinical psychopharmacology course for the Psychiatry Residency Program and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, UT Southwestern – Austin Psychiatry Program. He has co-leaded the development of the UT Dell Pediatric Research Institute which opened in 2010.

Dr. Crismon received his BS degree in Pharmacy from The University of Oklahoma and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from a joint program of The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He completed residencies in pharmacy practice at the USPHS Gallup Indian Medical Center and in psychiatric pharmacy practice at The University of Texas and San Antonio State Hospital, and completed a National Endowment for the Humanities–funded summer fellowship in biomedical ethics, with a focus in cross cultural ethics, at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University. He served as a visiting professor for the Institute of Mental Health, National Health Group, Singapore, and for the pharmacy program at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. He is board certified in psychiatric pharmacy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties, and he is a Diplomat of the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology.

His research, scholarship, and practice focus on the development and evaluation of strategies to improve the pharmacotherapy, pharmacoeconomics, and health outcomes of adults and children with severe mental disorders. Dr. Crismon served as Co-Director of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project and as Director of the Children’s Medication Algorithm Project. He has received research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, several nonprofit foundations, and numerous pharmaceutical companies. In addition to serving as dean, he still carves out time for scholarly activity. He is a collaborator with the Center for Health Policy at Rutgers University, on their AHRQ funded mental health Center for Effectiveness Research and Therapeutics (CERT). He recently co-chaired revisions and updates of the Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Parameters for the treatment of foster children with mental disorders for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, and he is a member of the steering committee for the Mini-Fellowship in Primary Pediatric Psychopharmacology sponsored by the REACH Institute, NYC, NY. In addition to 243 articles, chapters, or handbooks to his credit, he has over 200 abstracts in print or in press, and has delivered more than 400 invited lectures or presentations. He served as associate editor of the APhA Drug Treatment Protocols, 2nd edition, and he is a member of the editorial advisory boards for The Annals of Pharmacotherapy and the APhA DrugInfoLine, and is a reviewer for numerous journals.

Prior to becoming dean, Dr. Crismon developed a nationally recognized training program in psychiatric pharmacotherapy and mental health outcomes. He supervised 39 post Pharm.D. psychiatric pharmacy residents, research fellows, or graduate students. He served as preceptor for the ASHP Foundation Psychiatric Drug Therapy Research Fellowship (twice), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Psychopharmacy Research Fellowship, U.S. Pharmacopoeia Fellowship, and the NIMH F 32 post professional doctorate research training award. Seven of his research trainees have been awarded New Investigator Awards by the NIMH at the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit Meeting.

Dr. Crismon served as a member of the ACCP Board of Regents, he serves as a member of the ACCP Research Institute Board of Trustees, and he is an ACCP fellow. A past chair of the ASHP Specialty Practice Group on Psychopharmacy and the task force to recognize psychiatric pharmacy as a specialty by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS), he was the first chair of the BPS Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice. He is a recipient of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Robert G. Leonard Memorial Lecture Award, the Philip C. and Ethyl F. Ashby Endowed Lecture Award, the Judith K. Saklad Lecture Award, and he is the 2010 Teacher of the Year for the UT Southwestern Medical Center - Austin Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program.