College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists Announces Election of 2010-2012 Officers

The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) membership has elected three new officers to serve on the 2010-2012 Board of Directors. Assuming their offices effective July 1, 2010 will be Dr. Jerry McKee, Dr. Carol Ott and Dr. Rex Lott.

Drs. McKee, Ott and Lott join current and “retiring” board members:

• Carla Cobb, PharmD, BCPP, CPNP Past President, (term concludes June 2010) Psychiatric Pharmacist, RiverStone Health, Billings MT
• Ann Richards, PharmD, BCPP, CPNP President, Pharmacy Director, Texas Department of State Health Services, San Antonio, TX
• Steve Stoner, PharmD, BCPP, CPNP President-Elect, Clinical Professor and Chair, University of Missouri at Kansas City, St. Joseph, MO
• Vicki Ellingrod, PharmD, BCPP, FCCP, (term concludes June 2010) Associate Professor, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor, MI
• Jerry Overman, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
• Mary Borovicka, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Toledo, Brecksville, OH

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Jerry McKee Pharm.D., M.S. BCPP, Psychiatric Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
University of Texas Medical Branch, Correctional Managed Care, Huntsville, Texas

Dr. McKee’s 28 year career has been spent within the public mental health sector in North Carolina, most recently serving six years as Director of Pharmacy Services at a regional state inpatient psychiatric facility (Broughton Hospital), as well as 12 years as the Pharmacy Director and Assistant Medical Director at a facility for persons with severe to profound intellectual disabilities. He maintained a leadership position within the North Carolina public mental health pharmacy system, serving as chairperson of the group for four years and as Medicare Part D pharmacy liaison to the state Division of Mental Health. He served as a Clinical Assistant Professor and preceptor for Doctor of Pharmacy interns from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy, and as a preceptor for Campbell University and Wingate Schools of Pharmacy. Mentoring of students and younger clinicians is a critical aspect of what he does as a pharmacy practitioner and educator. 

He retired from his career in North Carolina to pursue a career with the University of Texas Medical Branch as the psychiatric clinical pharmacy specialist for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. His new practice is focused on supporting and improving the psychiatric care of acutely and chronically mentally ill adults in a large corrections environment.

SECRETARY
Carol Ott, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Ott received her BS in Pharmacy in 1989 and her Pharm.D. degree in 1996 from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.  She obtained board-certification in psychiatric pharmacy in 2002 and moved to a clinical faculty position in pharmacy practice at Purdue University in 2004.  She was given the opportunity to establish clinical psychiatric pharmacy services at Wishard Health Services and Midtown Community Mental Health in Indianapolis and, in 2007, to develop and initiate a PGY2 psychiatric pharmacy residency for Purdue and Wishard for which she is currently the Program Director. 

She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Purdue University and a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Psychiatry at Wishard/Midtown. At Purdue, she’s been able to develop introductory and advanced psychiatric pharmacy elective courses that have seen tremendous growth in enrollment in the past 3 years.  She also serves on the Mental Health Quality Advisory Committee to Indiana Medicaid, which oversees the current legislative requirement for open access to mental health drugs in the state. She is a member of the Executive Committee (as Secretary) and the Board of Directors of Mental Health America in Indiana.

MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Rex S. Lott, Pharm.D., BCPP, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Idaho State University;
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine;
Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist, Boise VA Medical Center, Boise, Idaho

Dr. Lott has practiced and taught psychiatric and neurologic pharmacy for over 35 years. 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 also taught 3rd and 4th year psychiatry residents from the University of Washington in the Idaho Track Residency Program. He also established a psychopharmacy residency at the Boise VAMC. 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 he has served as President of that non-profit organization’s Board of Directors.