This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other health care professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.
Session Summary
Although CPNP members can offer services that address some of the direst challenges in healthcare today, most health system and policy decision makers are not familiar with the role of pharmacists in advanced patient care roles. This presentation will share proven tools, methods, and resources for advancing the implementation and spread of psychiatric pharmacy services through administrators, legislators, and government agencies. Participants will leave with the ability to create a plan for how they can advocate for themselves and CPNP towards reaching their professional goals.
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Steven Chen, PharmD, FASHP, FNAP
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Steven Chen is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the USC School of Pharmacy and the William A. Heeres and Josephine A. Heeres Chair in Community Pharmacy. He received his Pharm.D. from USC and completed a USC-affiliated residency in 1990. Dr. Chen was a quality assurance pharmacist and clinical pharmacy coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs before joining the faculty at USC in 1998.
Dr. Chen has received honorary fellowships from the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the National Association of Practitioners. He is a member of research and practice teams have been awarded the Best Practices Award from ASHP twice (2002 and 2008), the American Pharmacists Association Pinnacle Award (2007), and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Inaugural Community Transformative Award (2009). He received the USC School of Pharmacy Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award and the American Pharmacists Association Pinnacle Award for individual career achievement in 2013. In 2014 Dr. Chen received the Exemplar Innovator Award from the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Center for Care Innovation, in 2015 he received the American Heart Association Multicultural Initiatives Award and the Schweitzer Fellowship Leadership Award and the California Society of Health System Pharmacists Innovator Award. In 2016 Dr. Chen and his colleagues were among 23 innovations in the State of California to be featured at the Department of Health and Human Services Let’s Get Healthy event. He was recognized by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2016 for his collaboration with The Partnership for Public Service that contributed to 87,000 lives saved, 2.1 million fewer patinet harms, and $19.8 billion in cost savings. In 2017 Dr. Chen received a 3rd Pinnacle Award through his partnership with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and in 2018 he received the Pharmacist of the Year Award from the California Society of Health System Pharmacists. Dr. Chen has received multiple teaching awards from USC students and residents and is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Chen is part of a team of USC faculty that has direccted over $15 million in grant-funded research focusing on the integration of comprehensive clinical pharmacy services into medical homes and the impact on healthcare quality, safety, and cost. He is Co-Investigator and the clinical manager of a $12 million CMMI grant that partners USC with the largest private Medicaid provider in the nation, evaluating the impact of 10 clinical pharmacy teams, each consisting of a clinical pharmacist, a pharmacy resident, and a clinical pharmacy technician compared to usual medical care. He is Co-Chair Emeritus of the HRSA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, which has promoted the spread of clinical pharmacy service integration in medical homes across the nation since 2007.
Faculty Disclosures
Speakers Bureau/Educational Services: Otsuka Pharmaceuticals strictly for the PsychU seminar series (comprehensive medication management and common primary care conditions), which is completely nonpromotional / unbranded and does not mention any medications by name, brand nor generic.
Presentation will include discussion of off-label, experimental, and/or investigational use of drugs or devices: None
Affiliation: Otsuka Pharmaceuticals- Speakers Bureau: Strictly for PsychU series, a completely unbranded educational series that prohibits mentioning any medications by name, brand or generic.
All relevant relationships have been mitigated.
Learning Objectives
List the priorities of health care administrators in considering whether to support initiation or expansion of clinical pharmacy services.
Identify metrics and strategies for developing business plans using terminology that health system leaders understand.
Formulate an effective value proposition for psychiatric pharmacy services targeting healthcare administrators and key decision-makers, including legislators and government agencies.
Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures
Activity Dates:05/16/2019 - 04/08/2022 ACPE Contact Hours: 1 ACPE Number: 0284-0000-19-017-H04-P (Knowledge) Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.
The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.
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Off-Label Use: This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA (see faculty information and disclosures). The opinions expressed in the educational activity do not necessarily represent the views of AAPP and any educational partners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer: Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
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The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.