Kelan Thomas, PharmD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences at Touro University California College of Pharmacy and a board-certified psychiatric pharmacist (BCPP) with an outpatient psychiatric practice at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System. He completed a chemistry with pharmacology BS at Duke University, a pharmaceutical sciences PharmD at UC San Francisco, and a clinical research MS at University of Michigan. During his education he also conducted research related to psychopharmacology and psychiatric pharmacogenomics.
He has completed clinical pharmacy residencies at University of Michigan for postgraduate year one in pharmacotherapy and at University of Southern California for postgraduate year two in psychiatric care. Between residencies he also practiced as a psychiatric clinical pharmacist in Singapore at the Institute of Mental Health. In 2017, he completed the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research (CPTR) and MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy training programs, while starting collaborations with psychedelic clinical researchers at UC San Francisco. He is now a trainer for Fluence offering courses in psychedelic psychopharmacology and psilocybin-assisted therapy. His current research and scholarship are related to psychedelic psychopharmacology, adverse drug reactions and drug-drug interactions with the goal of optimizing psychiatric pharmacotherapy for clients.