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Dr. Randall Tackett received his BS from Jacksonville University in 1975. He then received an MS degree in pharmacology and toxicology from Auburn University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Georgia in 1979.  Following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, he returned to the University of Georgia as an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

He is currently Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy.  He is also Director of the Clinical Trials Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Georgia in the Department of Regulatory Affairs. He has Adjunct Faculty appointments at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Alliant International University.  Dr. Tackett has extensive experience regarding drugs that are abused, including marijuana.  

Dr. Tackett has been recognized as an expert in pharmacology, toxicology, and regulatory affairs and has given presentations to various groups, including health care professionals, judges, and attorneys.

Alex Papp, MD, ABPN, is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist who is an adjunct faculty at the Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology. He has co-taught psychopharmacology of depression and PTSD since 2017 (adding OCD in 2025). Dr. Papp is also an Assistant Clinical Faculty member at UCSD, where he volunteers at the student-run free clinic.

Dr. Papp offers psychiatric care and ketamine for depression, bipolar, PTSD, suicidality, anxiety, ADD, OCD, & other serious mental health conditions, collaborating closely with Julie Myers, PsyD, MSCP at the Point Loma Clinic.

Together with Dr Myers, Dr. Papp has given several talks about the use of ketamine in psychiatry and had a poster presentation at the International Ketamine Conference at Oxford, UK.  He published the first two peer-reviewed articles specifically focusing on "brain zaps", an antidepressant discontinuation symptom.  

Julie Myers, PsyD, MSCP, is an adjunct faculty at the Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology, and has co-taught psychopharmacology of depression and PTSD since 2017 (adding OCD in 2025).

In addition to psychology, Dr. Myers has a background in the sciences and economics and has published work on traumatic grief, addiction, and oyster aquaculture. Her passion for the RxP movement led to years of advocacy with the California Psychological Association Division V. 

Dr. Myers’ clinical specialties include treatment-resistant depression, trauma, OCD, bipolar disorder, alcohol use disorders, and biofeedback. She works closely with Alexander Papp, MD, using ketamine for mental health conditions and has given several talks on the subject. She is licensed in CA, NY, WI, and NM (inactive) and co-owns the Point Loma Clinic in San Diego, CA.

Dr. Alice Davis is a certified Nurse Practitioner who has cared for patients as an independent practitioner and prescriber across the lifespan in rural primary care and urban acute care settings for over 30 years. She has developed and implemented graduate nursing programs (master's and doctoral level) in acute care and primary care.

She is currently the Graduate Program Coordinator at New Mexico Highlands University, where she is responsible for program implementation while also teaching graduate nurse practitioner courses.

Dr. Davis has over 50 publications in journals and textbooks in neuroscience, trauma, and critical care nursing. She has served on national nursing boards (American Association of Critical Care Nurses and American Association of Neuroscience Nurses), editorial boards, and review boards for trauma and critical care nursing journals. She has received funding from NIH and various universities and nursing organizations for her work in brain injury and critical care.

George M. Kapalka holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and MS in Clinical Psychopharmacology. He is board certified in clinical psychology and psychopharmacology, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. For over 20 years he led a private mental health clinic in New Jersey that primarily focused on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with learning and emotional disorders. As a certified school psychologist he also led a state-listed independent Child Study Team that provided assessment and consultation services for various school districts in New Jersey. Trained in psychopharmacology since the early 2000’s, Dr. Kapalka frequently consulted with pediatricians about the use of medications in the treatment of children and adolescents, and he was a member of medical staff at a primary care hospital. Since moving to New Mexico and becoming a prescribing psychologist, Dr. Kapalka is based at the Children’s Treatment Center in Albuquerque.

Dr. Kapalka has been teaching at the graduate level for over three decades. He spearheaded the development Master’s programs at the New York Institute of Technology, and then led Master’s programs and served as Department Chair at Monmouth University. He retired at the rank of Professor, but returned to academia as Distinguished Professor at Alliant International University’s California School of Professional Psychology, where he is the Program Director of the MS in Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Dr. Kapalka has authored six books and dozens of publications and research presentations. His book “Parenting Your Out-of-Control Child” (New Harbinger, 2007) has been translated into ten foreign languages. His research has focused on the psychological, pharmacological and combined treatments of pediatric disorders (particularly ADHD), collaborating with primary care (particularly pediatricians), behavior management training for parents and teachers, and nutritional and herbal interventions for children/adolescents. Dr. Kapalka is active in professional and community education and has held dozens of workshops for medical and mental health professionals, teachers, and parents. He has been interviewed in newspapers, Internet publications, and on television. 

Dr. Carter has over 15 years of experience in higher education and 8 years in B2B international sales, particularly in Southeast Asia-Pacific Region. Applying his education and his rich industry background, Dr. Carter teaches in a diverse array of institutions from American, Asian, and European colleges and universities, specializing curriculum in marketing, management, human resource management, research methods, etc.

Dr. Al Ajrawi earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of San Diego and San Diego State University (JDP), San Diego in March 2021, after receiving her M.S. from the New York Institute Technology University in 2009. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 2005 from the University of Technology. She had full Fellowship (SDSU/UCSD/NSF) in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 2016 for five years.

She has been an editor and reviewer at many IEEE Transaction journals and she has published many research papers in BCI field. Her research interest lies in Brain Computer Interface Application includes Wireless Network Communication, Artificial Intelligent, Advanced Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Cybersecurity.

Dr. Al Ajrawi holds many teaching positions over the last 15 years, from being lead and core faculty at Coleman university and an adjunct faculty at San Diego State university, University of California San Diego, University of San Diego, University of North Texas, CMU, MiraCosta college, Grossmont, and Miramar college.

Dr. Steinman served as Director of the CSPP-Alliant International University Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP) Program from 2017-2022. She currently is the chair of the APA Division 55 Training Director Council and the Legislative and Social Action Committee. She is a Past-President of Division 55 and a main author of the division’s Specialty Application to APA

She served as a faculty member at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and coordinated the MSCP program from 2010-2016. She received her PhD in Psychobiology from Rutgers University in 1982. Her research was in the field of neuroscience and her specialty was in spinal cord and brain control of behavior. Dr. Steinman conducted postdoctoral research at Dartmouth Medical School in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology as well as at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She performed extensive research in the fields of behavioral reproduction, aging, analgesia processing and neural control of feeding. In the early 1990s, Dr. Steinman served as the Managing Editor of the journal, Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience.

Lissa H. Parker, PhD, is an assistant professor with the California School of Forensic Studies at Alliant International University, where she also serves as Program Director for the Master of Science in Forensic Behavioral Science program and the Master of Science in Forensic Administration and Leadership program.

She, along with Dr. Diana Concannon, heads the Targeted Attacks Research Project through Alliant International University’s Violence & Safety Institute.

Dr. Parker holds certificates, serves as a subject matter expert, and consults with law enforcement in numerous areas related to violence and its investigation and prevention, with an emphasis on intimate partner violence, threat assessment and management, investigative and criminal psychology, workplace and school violence, and program development and evaluation.

Diana M. Concannon, PsyD, is Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at Alliant International University, Associate Professor at the California School of Forensic Psychology, and Director of the APA-Accredited California Psychology Internship Consortium. To each of these positions, she brings more than 25 years of executive leadership experience to support the development and delivery of quality, practical, and accessible education in various mental health disciplines.

She complements this work with a forensic assessment practice, and a threat assessment and management consultancy.

She is a forensic psychologist, licensed to practice in California, New York, Utah, and Washington D.C., a Professional Certified Investigator by the American Society for Industrial Security, a Rape Escape Instructor, and a Loyola Law School-trained Mediator.

She is the author of Kidnapping: An Investigator's Guide, and the forthcoming Neurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications.