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Pharmacy professor to head international group Cherry Wyant Jackson, Pharm.D.,  has assumed the office of president of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. She will lead the organization as president until July 2002, and as past president until July 2003. This international organization, with more than 400 members, has as its goal the promotion of excellence in pharmacy practice, education, and research in order to optimize the treatment and health of individuals affected by psychiatric and neurologic disorders. Jackson is associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at MUSC where she is residency coordinator for psychiatric pharmacy and a clinical pharmacist at MUSC’s Institute of Psychiatry. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  Her primary clinical and research interest is in the areas of schizophrenia, affective disorders and neurology. Jackson serves in editorial positions for Pharmacotherapy and the Annals of Pharmacotherapy.  She was named Professor of the Year by Psychiatry Interns in 1999 and Professor of the Year and Roche Preceptor of the Year by the MUSC Pharm.D. Classes of 2000 and 2001. In addition she serves as facilitator of psychiatry and neurology for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and is pharmacist-in-charge at the Interfaith Crisis Ministry in Charleston.