COVID-19 Care Grants Awarded

The CPNP Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of three recipients for COVID-19 Care Grant Awards that totaled $11,700. The CPNP Foundation Board of Directors was encouraged by all of the submissions focused on improving the quality of or access to psychiatric pharmacy care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you to everyone who applied and congratulations to the three principle investigators!

The following projects were selected to receive grants (in alphabetical order):

• Enhancing Psychiatric Care in the COVID Era through Pharmacy-Based Long-Acting Injectable Delivery
  • Principle Investigator: Samantha Vogel, PharmD, BCPP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Behavioral Health Pharmacist, UT Austin College of Pharmacy
  • Grant Amount: $5,000
• Implementation of a Psychiatric Pharmacist driven Mental Health COVID-19 Continuation of Care Clinic
  • Principle Investigator: Andrew Michael Williams, PharmD BCPP BCGP, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Behavioral Health Pharmacies, Riverside University Health System
  • Grant Amount: $3,000
• Increasing Access to Psychiatric Care During a Global Pandemic through Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Telehealth Services
  • Principle Investigator: P. Brittany Vickery, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, Associate Professor Wingate University School of Pharmacy, The Free Clinics
  • Grant Amount: $3,700

COVID-19 Care Grants are the result of generous gift from donor Joni Fowler, PharmD, BCPP. The goal of the grant program is to fund research that will help define the future of psychiatric pharmacy practice and improve the care of patients with psychiatric and neurologic disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant recipients will present their findings during the 2022 College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) Annual Meeting that will take place April 24-27, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. Project posters will be posted online at cpnpf.org/grants/covid when they become available.