Track II: Pearls
Being a Successful Resident: Tips from RPDs (target audience: students and PGY1)

Dr. Kelly Lee is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Associate Dean for Assessment and Accreditation at the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is also the Director of the PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency at UCSD Health. She is Board-Certified in Psychiatric Pharmacy and serves on the BPS Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy. Dr. Lee received her Pharm.D. from UCSF and Master of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research at UCSD. She completed a pharmacy practice residency and a 2-year fellowship in behavioral health sciences at UCSF. Her research interests involve optimization of drug therapy in patients with psychiatric disorders at individual and health system levels. Dr. Lee has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is currently an editor of the Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice textbook. She is also involved in professional organizations such as College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and she is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

 

Monica Mathys, PharmD, BCPP

Associate Professor

Texas Tech Health Sciences

Dallas, TX

 

Dr. Monica Mathys earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. After graduation, she completed a Geriatric Pharmacy Specialty Residency with the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. Since completing her residency, Dr. Mathys has continued to work in academia and has held faculty positions at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Midwestern University – Glendale, and currently with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Her primary area of interest and research is geriatric psychiatry.

 

In addition to her teaching responsibilities with TTUHSC, Dr. Mathys serves as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Mental Health at the VA North Texas Healthcare System (VANTHCS). She provides clinical services to both the geriatric and general psychiatric inpatient teams and is a provider within the Geriatric Mental Health clinic. Dr. Mathys is also the director for the VANTHCS/TTUHSC PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency.

 

Dr. Amy VandenBerg received her Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Michigan in 1999, then completed ASHP accredited residencies in both Pharmacy Practice and Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. VandenBerg has been Board Certified in Psychiatric Pharmacy since 2002. From 2002-2016, she served a variety of roles at MUSC and the affiliated South Carolina College of Pharmacy including Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy & Outcomes Sciences; Coordinator of Pharmacy Services for the MUSC Institute of Psychiatry; and Residency Program Director for PGY1 with emphasis in Psychiatry and PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice Residencies. 

 

In 2016, Dr. VandenBerg returned to the University of Michigan where she practices as an inpatient clinical specialist in psychiatry and neurology. Her primary focus is adult inpatient psychiatry, however she also provides clinical consultation to other psychiatry services and has an interest in quality improvement research. In addition to clinical service, Dr. VandenBerg continued her career-long passion for residency training and started a PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice Residency at Michigan Medicine in 2017.