2012 Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, April 29-May 2
Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Constructing a Comprehensive and Competent Criminal Justice/Mental Health Treatment System
The deinstitutionalization of psychiatric facilities has been a major factor that has led to the current crisis of the criminalization of the mentally ill. Judge Steven Leifman, a Miami-Dade County Judge who has also served as Special Advisor on Criminal Justice and Mental Health for the Supreme Court of Florida, is responsible for chairing the Court’s Mental Health Subcommittee. He and his group authored a ground-breaking report entitled, Transforming Florida’s Mental Health System.
During his presentation, Judge Leifman will discuss new and effective strategies that are being developed and employed to transform the mental health system. He will address ways that providers can assist those with mental health disorders to maneuver the criminal justice system to minimize burden. Additionally, he will discuss how pharmacists and other health care professionals can get involved in a legislative manner to help transform the mental health system.
CPNP President 2003-2004
Glen L. Stimmel, PharmD, BCPP
Professor Clinical Pharmacy & Psychiatry
University of Southern California School of Pharmacy
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Stimmel is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Psychiatry at the University of Southern California Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine in Los Angeles. He is a board certified psychiatric pharmacist (BCPP). He received a PharmD from the University of California San Francisco in 1972, and completed a one-year residency at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco.
He is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. He is a founding member, elected fellow, and Past President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and an original member and past Chair of the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties’ Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Stimmel has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and as Vice-chair of ASHP’s Commission on Therapeutics.
Dr. Stimmel has authored over 180 articles and textbook chapters in the areas of clinical psychopharmacology, expanded scope of practice for pharmacists, and pharmacoeconomics of psychotropic drugs. He pioneered efforts in developing psychiatric pharmacy practice, education and residency programs, as well as investigating and securing prescriptive authority for pharmacists. Dr. Stimmel has conducted, presented, and published pharmacoeconomic studies of psychotropic medication since 1990. He recently completed a sabbatical leave conducting studies to improve psychiatric medication use in primary care settings.
He received the ACCP Clinical Practice Award in 1991 and the first Judith Saklad Memorial Lecture Award from CPNP in 1998. Dr. Stimmel maintains an active clinical practice at LAC/USC Primary Care Clinics (geriatrics and rheumatology), providing psychopharmacology consultation services, and teaches clinical psychopharmacology in the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine.