Raymond C. Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy with a secondary appointment as a professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also served as director of the School of Pharmacy’s Mental Health Program and vice chair, collaborative initiatives, Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research.
About Dr. Love
Raymond C. Love is a graduate of the first doctor of pharmacy class of the University of Maryland (UM) School of Pharmacy. Dr. Love oversees pharmacy services for the Behavioral Health Administration, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of Maryland, directs the state’s Clozapine Authorization and Monitoring Program and is the principal investigator for the Peer Review Program for Mental Health Drugs in Children and Adolescents for the Maryland Medicaid Pharmacy Program. He is also a co-investigator on an NIH funded R01 entitled Biomarker and Safety Study of Clozapine in Benign Ethnic Neutropenia.
Dr. Love has an extensive service and research record in psychiatric pharmacotherapy with numerous publications and presentations. As principal or co-principal investigator, he is the recipient of over $90 million in grants and contracts. His past professional service includes Chair of the Mental Health Workgroup for the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, membership on the first Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) Specialty Council on Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice, Commissioner of the Maryland Board of Pharmacy and Chair of the Board’s Pharmacy Practice Committee, member of the National Quality Forum’s Depression/Behavioral Health Technical Advisory Panel, and Chair of the Ethics Special Interest Group, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). He has practiced psychiatric pharmacy in community mental health centers, inpatient psychiatric hospitals and research settings.
Dr. Love currently serves the profession and the public as the President of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP), Chair of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Expert Panel on Drug Allergy and Intolerance and as a member of the USP Expert Committee for Health Care Quality Standards.
Dr. Love is a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist, Fellow of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists and Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow, National Academies of Practice. He is a recipient of the W. Arthur Purdum Award, the highest recognition of the Maryland Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, the Elan Award for Innovative Pharmacy Practice, the Alma Troccoli Award for Excellence in Advocating for the Mental Health Needs of Young Children and Families and CPNP’s Judith Saklad Award.
Contact Information
Raymond C. Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP
20 N. Pine Street, Room PH S431
Baltimore, MD 21201
Office: 410-706-1768
Research Office: 410-402-6416
Assistant: 410-706-6790
Facsimile: 410-706-0319
Email: rlove@rx.umaryland.edu