The CPNP Foundation enjoys recognizing donors who exemplify the values of the Foundation through their dedication and commitment to meeting the needs of patients living with psychiatric and neurologic disorders and their families. We are honored to feature CPNP Foundation Legacy Partner Rex Lott, PharmD, BCPP in this edition of the Kaleidoscope and to learn more about his career.
Dr. Rex Lott has been an active member of CPNP since 2004 and has served CPNP and the Foundation in many roles, including Foundation Board Member (2016-present), CPNP President (2012-13), BCPP Program Director (2016-present), and CPNP Board Member (2011-2014). He was part of the CPNP Foundation’s Founding Circle that launched the CPNP Foundation and continues to be a dedicated supporter of the Foundation’s initiatives.
From the beginning…
Dr. Lott was led to pursue psychiatric pharmacy during his PharmD training at University of the Minnesota, an add-on degree after first earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1972. He participated in a clinical rotation at Anoka State Hospital (where he would later work) and fell in love with the patients and with the team-based approach used in developing their treatment.
…to Today
In 2016, Dr. Lott retired from Idaho State University College of Pharmacy as a Professor Emeritus after 19 years of service. During his career, he practiced as a consultant pharmacist for long-term care facilities, was responsible for extensive didactic instruction and for providing Introductory and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences for pharmacy students, while providing didactic and clinical instruction of PGY-3 & PGY-4 Psychiatry Residents. Dr. Lott published extensively in the area of neuropsychiatric pharmacotherapy, co-authored the Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders Chapter in Koda-Kimble & Young’s Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs from 1980 to 2012, co-authored several peer-reviewed papers concerning antiepileptic drugs and psychotropic medications, and most recently, he was the co-editor and author for a NAPLEX review book, Capstone Pharmacy Review.
Why makes the CPNP Foundation Special?
“With my continued involvement with CPNP and the Foundation, I’ve seen the vision and mission for the Foundation mature and develop. That continues to motivate my wish to donate to the foundation. Psychiatric pharmacy has given me a tremendously rewarding career. I see my donations to the Foundation as a way to pay back psychiatric pharmacy and pay forward for psychiatric pharmacists of the future.”
Dr. Lott is invigorated by the Foundation’s initiatives and believes they will “improve the care available to people with mental illnesses… make caregivers’ jobs easier, and help make life a little less complex for people with mental illnesses.”
The CPNP Foundation Board of Directors sincerely thanks Dr. Rex Lott for his ongoing commitment to the Foundation’s mission. To join Dr. Lott as a CPNP Foundation donor, visit cpnpf.org/pledge.