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Vaccines
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COVID19
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Infectious Disease
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Pharmacy Practice
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Emergency Medicine (rapid sequence intubation, diabetic ketoacidosis, sexually transmitted infections, etc.)
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Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis
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Acute Ischemic Stroke
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Thrombolytics
Gavin T. Howington, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS
Assistant Professor
Dr. Howington received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 2014. He attained board certification in critical care and pharmacotherapy in 2018 and recently transitioned into his current role as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2019. Additionally, Dr. Howington practices as an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at UK HealthCare. Prior to beginning his clinical specialist role, he was an operations manager at UK HealthCare and a Clinical Staff Pharmacist. His current research interests include rabies post-exposure prophylaxis, sub-dissociative ketamine as an alternative to opioids for analgesia, and management of neonatal sepsis specifically focusing on the safety of ceftriaxone in neonates. Dr. Howington is also a member of the Emergency Medicine PHARMacotherapy research NETwork (EMPHARM-NET) which has afforded him the opportunity to work with emergency medicine pharmacy specialists across the nation.
Expertise
Positions
- College Faculty
- Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, UK Healthcare
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Morehead State University
- Doctor of Pharmacy, University Of Kentucky
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.