Research at the Forefront

The AAPP Foundation Board of Directors is proud to have research as one of the three core pillars in our mission: “As the philanthropic arm of AAPP, our mission is to advance the psychiatric pharmacy profession by supporting research, scholarship, and practitioner development.” In 2024, we extended our commitment.

Partnering with AAPP, our parent organization, we supported the first Outcomes Research Grant. AAPP is working hard to standardize and improve clinical research and provided just under $250,000 to support a multi-site study intended to demonstrate the impact of psychiatric pharmacists. The goal of the Outcomes Research Grant program is to generate high-quality large sample size (n) data sets that evaluate the impact of integrating psychiatric pharmacists into team-based mental health care in studies with multiple research sites and investigators.

We extend our congratulations to Esti Iturralde, PhD, Anne Rosenthal, MD, and Hannah Van Ochten, PharmD from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, the 2024 recipients of the AAPP Outcomes Initiative Grant. This team’s project is titled, “Psychiatric pharmacist management of cardiometabolic risk for adults with serious mental illness in outpatient safety-net mental health clinics in San Francisco,” and project outcomes will be shared in 2026.

In addition to the Outcomes grant, the AAPP Foundation has been providing research grants to trainees for years through the Defining the Future Research Grant program and the Collegiate Chapter Impact Grant program. We are proud to support research projects in all scopes and sizes that advance psychiatric pharmacy. We hope these foundational grant programs serve as a catalyst for continued research through the recipients’ careers.

We thank you for helping to advance the AAPP Foundation in 2024 and we look forward to continuing our commitment to research, scholarship, and practitioner development in 2025!

Mary C. Borovicka, PharmD, BCPP 2024-2025 AAPP Foundation President

2024 Impact

Foundation Awards Record Number of Collegiate Chapter Impact Grants

For the first time since the program’s inception, four student investigators were awarded Collegiate Chapter Impact grants! The AAPP Foundation's Collegiate Chapter Impact Grant Program is designed to support AAPP collegiate chapters at schools of pharmacy across the nation, and the AAPP Foundation Board of Directors was thrilled to have such high quality applications. 

Grant recipients are from VCU, UNC, Incarnate Word, and Rutgers Collegiate Chapters, and the investigators are diligently working on their projects. AAPP 2025 attendees have an awesome opportunity to see the progress of these projects in Salt Lake City! Each grant recipient will give a 10-minute presentation about their project during the Collegiate Chapter Meeting on Sunday, April 27, 2025, and all are welcome to attend! Additionally, find grant posters at the scientific poster session on Monday, April 28, 2025.

If you’re attending the AAPP Annual Meeting, please consider visiting these posters to congratulate grant recipients and encourage them in their career as they work to become psychiatric pharmacists! 

• Project: Education on Proper Administration of Transmucosal Buprenorphine to Improve Dental Adverse Outcomes in Patients with OUD
  Collegiate Chapter & Primary Author: Virginia Commonwealth University AAPP Collegiate Chapter, Christian Moon
  Grant Amount: $4200
• Project: Assessing the feasibility and impact of a naloxone training on a School community's knowledge, attitudes, and confidence towards opioid overdose and naloxone administration
  Collegiate Chapter & Primary Author: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Eshelman School of Pharmacy AAPP Collegiate Chapter, Paul Barlow
  Grant Amount: $2388
• Project: Quantifying the State of Mental Health of those Utilizing Needle Exchange Services via Vaccine Outreach
  Collegiate Chapter & Primary Author: Incarnate Word Feik School of Pharmacy (FSOP) AAPP Collegiate Chapter, Madison Brotze
  Grant Amount: $1665
• Project: Measuring the Perceptions of Psychiatric Care and Recovery amongst Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
  Collegiate Chapter & Primary Author: Rutgers University AAPP Collegiate Chapter, Nora Abdelfattah
  Grant Amount: $1150

Financial Forward Mission

AAPP Foundation continues its progress in advancing our core mission areas of research, scholarship, and practitioner development through the distribution of grants and project/initiative sponsorships.

Living Their Values Out Loud

As long-time friends of the AAPP Foundation, Patrick and Carla Cobb are the epitome of generosity and are living their values “out loud” by supporting the AAPP Foundation on a regular basis and becoming Legacy Partners, which will extend their impact beyond their time on earth. We caught up with AAPP Past President (2008-2009) Carla Cobb, PharmD, BCPP, about her commitment to advancing psychiatric pharmacy by supporting the AAPP Foundation.

1. Which AAPP Foundation-supported grants, activities, or initiatives excite you the most?

“I am excited about the recent addition of the impact grants. As a longtime member and past chair of the Government Affairs Committee, I see the need for more solid evidence that supports the contribution that psychiatric pharmacists make to the team approach to care to improve patient outcomes. There is still a great need for medication optimization for people living with psychiatric disorders and we need to show policy makers that our work is valuable.”

2. What prompted you to become Legacy Partners, and what motivates you to be a consistent supporter of the Foundation?

“I believe that the Foundation is well established with responsible leadership, so I trust my contributions are well spent on something that I feel passionate about.”

Dr. Cobb hopes that every member of AAPP will support the Foundation with even a small donation, equivalent to perhaps one meal out a month. This would help the Foundation continue to fund its established grant programs and support new initiatives that advance psychiatric pharmacy.

Will you join Patrick and Carla Cobb in supporting research, scholarship, and practitioner development?

Through kind gifts like yours, the AAPP Foundation can continue to advance psychiatric pharmacy, and ultimately, the care of those living with mental illness.

 

Donations can be made online at aappf.org/pledge or by mail to AAPP Foundation, 8055 O Street, Ste. S113, Lincoln, NE 68510

Recognizing Our 2024 Donors

The following individuals and organizations made gifts to support the AAPP Foundation’s mission between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024:

2024 Board of Directors

We thank the 2024 AAPP Foundation Board of Directors for their service.

	Mary C. Borovicka, PharmD, BCPP President Clinical Pharmacist-Dept of Psychiatry MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland, OH
	Christopher Thomas, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP Past President Clinical Pharmacist in Psychiatry Chillicothe VAMC Chillicothe, OH
	Brenda K. Schimenti Secretary AAPP Foundation Lincoln, NE
	Steven C. Stoner, PharmD, BCPP Treasurer Associate Dean for Student Affairs Clinical Professor University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Pharmacy Kansas City, MO
	Amy Werremeyer, PharmD, BCPP AAPP Liaison Professor & Chair, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice Clinical Specialist in Psychiatry North Dakota State University Fargo, ND
	Toya Bowles, PharmD, MS, BCPP Principal Medical Science Liaison Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson Miami, FL
	Clayton English, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, BCGP Assistant Professor University of Washington School of Pharmacy Seattle, WA
	Phillip Lai, PharmD, BCPP Senior Medical Science Liaison Axsome Therapeutics Austin, TX
	Monica Mathys, PharmD, BCPP Associate Professor Texas Tech Health Sciences Dallas, TX
	Michael McGuire, PharmD, BCPP Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Belmont University Nashville, TN
	Susie H. Park, PharmD, BCPP Clinical Pharmacist Behavioral Health Riverside University Health System Riverside, CA
	Chris Paxos, PharmD, BCPP, BCPS, BCGP Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Northeast Ohio Medical University Rootstown, OH
	Paul L. Price, PharmD, BCPP Senior Associate Dean; Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice; Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Psychiatry Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Omaha, NE
	Jill Reynoldson, PharmD, BCPP Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Dwight D Eisenhower VA Medical Center  Leavenworth, KS