Meet Our Preceptors - Critical Care

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Trauma/Surgical ICU; PGY1 Residency Program Director; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: PharmD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma, Acute Care Surgery

Research Interests: coagulopathy of trauma, parenteral and enteral nutrition support in critical care, surgical infectious diseases, residency training

Email: dina.ali@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Trauma/Surgical; PGY1 Assistant Residency Program Director; Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Education: PharmD, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy 

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Research Interests: traumatic coagulopathies, intraoperative glycemic control, surgical infectious disease

Email: jackie.dempsey@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Coordinator, Neuroscience-Pulmonary/Critical Care; Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Neurosurgery/Neurocritical Care

Research Interests: Acute response to injury; neurotrauma; status epilepticus; residency training; augmented renal clearance; pharmacokinetics

Email: amcook0@uky.edu 

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist

Education: PharmD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Loyola University Medical Center; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, Medical University of South Carolina

Practice Area: Medical Intensive Care Unit/Pulmonary

Research Interests: Benign hematology, decompensated cirrhosis, sepsis, alcohol withdrawal

Email: chris.donaldson@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Surgery; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), UK College of Pharmacy; Assistant Residency Program Director, Critical Care

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago

Practice Area: Colorectal Surgery, Head and Neck/ENT

Research Interests: Surgical critical care, ERAS, ICU sedation and delirium

Email: laura.means@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), UK College of Pharmacy

Education: BS, PharmD

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Unity Health

Practice Area: Medical ICU, Neurosciences

Research Interests: 

Email: slga235@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Vascular Surgery; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), UK College of Pharmacy

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Practice Area: Vascular surgery

Research Interests: anticoagulation, infectious diseases, surgical site infections

Email: zack.haffler@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Trauma/Surgical

Education: PharmD, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy; BS Toxicology Penn State University

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Research Interests: infectious diseases, implementation of ICU guidelines

Email: nicole.hume@uky.edu

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Perioperative Services; Associate Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy; Associate Professor (Adjunct), Anesthesiology, Perioperative, Critical Care & Pain Medicine

Education: Bachelor of Science Pharmacology, University of California Santa Barbara; PharmD, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Research Interests: Trauma coagulopathy, aortic dissection, ERAS, Surgical outcomes

Email: Eric.Johnson@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist

Education: PharmD, University of Minnesota

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Chicago Medicine; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Medical Intensive Care Unit/Pulmonary

Research Interests: Acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, pain and sedation, alcohol withdrawal

Email: clkr225@uky.edu

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Medical Intensive Care Unit/Pulmonary

Education: PharmD, University of Houston

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Medical Intensive Care Unit

Research Interests: Fluid resuscitation in sepsis; invasive candidiasis in medical critically ill patients; pharmacotherapy in advanced cardiovascular life support

Email: melanie.laine@uky.edu

Titles: Nutrition Support Program Coordinator; Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy Practice & Science

Education: Pre-pharmacy, Kentucky Wesleyan College; BS Pharmacy, University of Kentucky; PharmD, University of Kentucky

Training: Clinical Practice Residency, University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Practice Area: Nutrition Support

Research Interests: Parenteral and enteral nutrition support in critical care, drug absorption, drug/nutrient interactions, infections associated with PN

Email: Barbara.Magnuson@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Stroke; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: PharmD, University of Georgia College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Stroke Neurology/Neurocritical Care

Research Interests: stroke quality and outcomes; neurocritical care

Email: melissa.nestor@uky.edu

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Trauma/Surgical ICU

Education: PharmD, University of Georgia

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Research Interests: Surgical critical care, antimicrobial optimization in critically ill patients, pharmacoeconomics

Email: wjol222@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Clinical Float 

Education: PharmD, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Float, variable

Research Interests: PADIS, critical care management of obese patients

Email: morgan.ostinowsky@uky.edu

Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Cardiothoracic Surgery; PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Director; Associate Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: BS Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine; PharmD, University of California San Francisco

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Cardiothoracic Intensive Care

Research Interests: Glycemic control, hemostasis following cardiac surgery, ICU pain / agitation / delirium management

Email: komal.pandya@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Trauma/Surgical ICU; Associate Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Memorial University Medical Center; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Research Interests: Surgical infectious diseases, analgesia in trauma, nutrition support

Email: sara.parli@uky.edu

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Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Emergency Medicine 

Education: PharmD, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis 

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky 

Practice Area: Emergency Medicine 

Research Interests: Neurocritical care, corticosteroids 

Email: blake.robbins@uky.edu

Titles: Director, Office of Pharmacy Value and Analytics

Education: BS Spanish, University of Kentucky; PharmD, University of Kentucky

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Pharmacy Value and Analytics

Research Interests: Medication use strategies and stewardship, data analytics, pharmacy practice models

Email: kmruf2@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist, Medical Intensive Care Unit/Pulmonary; Assistant Residency Program Director, Critical Care

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 and PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Chicago Medicine

Practice Area: Medical Intensive Care Unit

Research Interests: PADIS, septic shock, pharmacotherapy in mechanical circulatory support

Email: kat.spezzano@uky.edu

Titles: Pulmonary Critical Care Pharmacy Specialist; Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Pharmacy

Education: BS Human Psychology, College of Charleston; PharmD, Medical University of South Carolina; PhD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Training: PGY1 and PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, PGY2 Chief Resident, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Medical Intensive Care Unit, Nephrology Critical Care

Research Interests: Augmented renal clearance, AKI, pharmacokinetic monitoring of beta-lactam antibiotics and development of novel AKI prediction models in critically ill septic patients

Email: mlthompson@uky.edu

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Titles: Critical Care Pharmacist; Trauma/Surgical

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Trauma and Emergency General Surgery

Research Interests: Post-ICU care, PADIS, surgical infectious disease

Email:  ali.wiegand@uky.edu