Beth DeJongh
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Pharmacotherapy Specialist and Psychiatric Pharmacist
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Beth DeJongh, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP is a graduate from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. She completed a PGY-1 Behavioral Health Pharmacy Residency at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview in Minneapolis, MN and a PGY-2 Cardiology Pharmacy Residency at the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Florida. After completing her residencies, she became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist. She works as an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Concordia University Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. Her teaching focus includes coordination of a pharmacotherapy course that includes the mental health and neurology units as well as coordination of a mental health elective. Her practice site is at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center where she runs a metabolic syndrome monitoring clinic and a clozapine clinic in outpatient mental health. Beth stays active in the mental health field by serving on committees in the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists, participating in an interdisciplinary mental health court, and providing education on psychotropic medications to police officers through Crisis Intervention Trainings.