College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

Annual Meeting Registration Options

Pre-Meeting Workshop Registration Includes

• Workshop content and seven contact hours of ACPE or CME credit.
• Continental breakfast and morning and afternoon refreshment service.

The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) evolved from a group of psychiatric and neurologic specialists known as the “Conference of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists” that met at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Annual Meetings. These meetings served as a once a year opportunity for networking, recruitment of residency and fellowship candidates, and a venue to brainstorm and problem solve. The discussions eventually turned towards establishing an organization for those pharmacists with the common interest of serving as advocates for the treatment and medication therapy management of those with mental illness and neurologic complications.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy recently released the Obama Administration's action plan to address the national prescription drug abuse epidemic and announced new Federal requirements aimed at educating the medical community about proper prescribing practices. The 2011-2012 CPNP Recertification Committee recognized a need to provide evidence-based education to pharmacists and other health care providers to encourage our professions to be agents of change in providing solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic and has developed programming to be presented at the 2011 ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting and 2012 CPNP Annual Meeting.