What World Bipolar Day Means To Me Featuring Dr. Saklad

Stephen Saklad, PharmD is a Clinical Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Adjoint Professor, School of Medicine, and Director, Psychiatric Pharmacy Program at the University of Texas, and a Clinical Pharmacologist for the San Antonio State Hospital, Texas Department of State Health Services. He received the UT Austin College of Pharmacy’s Teaching Award from the Class of 2014. He authored and successfully discussed with members of the Texas Legislature the creation of a clinical research unit at SASH that was funded by the Texas Legislature and jointly governed by the UT Austin College of Pharmacy, UT Health Science Center San Antonio Department of Psychiatry and SASH. Dr. Saklad initiated and developed the first websites for the UT Austin College of Pharmacy in 1994, the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP; now the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists, AAPP) in 1997, and the CPNP Foundation in 2015. He helped to design, organize, and was a founding member of CPNP when it incorporated in 1998 as well as the CPNP Foundation in 2012. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the CPNP for a two-year term. He has served as a member or officer of the CPNP Communications Committee, was the Founding Senior Editor of the Mental Health Clinician, CPNP’s Open Access journal, Treasurer of the CPNP Foundation, and a member of the CPNP Business Development Committee. He is the Director of The University of Texas Psychiatric Pharmacy Program