The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) membership has elected three officers to serve on the 2017-2019 Board of Directors. Assuming their offices effective July 1, 2017, will be Drs. Benjamin Chavez, Megan Ehret, and Amy Werremeyer.

Newly elected Board members will fill the following roles on the Board:

  • Benjamin Chavez, PharmD, BCPP, BCACP, Treasurer, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Aurora, CO
  • Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, Incoming President-Elect, Behavioral Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Department of Defense, Fort Belvoir, VA
  • Amy Werremeyer, PharmD, BCPP, Member-at-Large, Associate Professor of Practice, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice; Clinical Specialist in Psychiatry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Drs. Chavez, Ehret, and Werremeyer join current board members as follows:

  • Christopher Thomas, PharmD, BCPP, President, Clinical Pharmacist in Psychiatry, Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH
  • Ray Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, Past President (term concludes June 2017), Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • Deanna Kelly, PharmD, BCPP, President-Elect, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
  • Robert Haight, PharmD, BCPP, Treasurer (term concludes June 2017), Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Leigh Anne Nelson, PharmD, BCPP, Secretary, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
  • Marshall Cates, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, FCCP, Member-at-Large, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Birmingham, AL
  • Sara Dugan, PharmD, BCPP, Member-at-Large (term concludes June 2017), Associate Professor, Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Pharmacy and Medicine, Rootstown, OH
  • Ann Richards, PharmD, BCPP, Past President Advisory Appointee (term concludes June 2017), Pharmacy Director, San Antonio State Hospital & Texas Department of State Health Services, San Antonio, TX