College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

Rex Lott, PharmD, BCPP
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Idaho State University College of Pharmacy
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist
Boise VA Medical Center
Boise, ID

Rex has practiced and taught psychiatric and neurologic pharmacy for over 35 years. After earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1972, he became an Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy there. He earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota in 1977; during that training, his interest in psychiatric and neurologic clinical practice blossomed.

Since that time he has served in several different roles including Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Director in two different institutions for developmentally disabled adults, as a long-term care Consultant Pharmacist and as a private practice pharmacotherapy consultant. Since 1997 he has been a full-time faculty member with Idaho State University with a practice in psychiatric pharmacy at the Boise, Idaho VA Medical Center. His practice focuses on inpatient and outpatient adult psychiatry.

He precepts students from Idaho State University and, since 2008, has taught 3^rd and 4^th year residents in the University of Washington’s Idaho Track Psychiatry Residency Program. He also established a psychopharmacy residency at the Boise VAMC. He has completed several clinical research projects. He is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the Idaho Society of Health System Pharmacists, and the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP). He served ASHP as a member and chair of the Section of Clinical Specialists’ Programming Committee and as a member of the Commission on Therapeutics. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho, and served as President of that non-profit organization’s Board of Directors.

Christopher Thomas Pharm.D., BCPP, BCPS, CGP, FASCP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry
Residency Program Director of PGY-1 Residency
Chillicothe VAMC
Chillicothe, OH

Dr. Thomas is the clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry and residency program director of the PGY-1 residency at the Chillicothe VAMC. He is also appointed Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Board Certified in Psychiatry, Pharmacotherapy, and Geriatrics, Dr. Thomas completed his Doctor of Pharmacy Degree at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. He completed a specialty pharmacy practice residency in psychopharamology/psychiatric pharmacy practice at the Cleveland VAMC from 2000 to 2001.

He is an active member in the following organizations: College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American College of Clinical Pharmacy. In 2003, he was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.

Dr. Thomas’ research interests and publications involve catatonia and the role of glutamate, the role of norepinephrine and glutamate in agitation, aggression, and anxiety disorders, and the metabolic adverse events with the second-generation antipsychotics.