Meet Our Preceptors - Pain Management and Palliative Care

Stephanie Abel, PharmD, BCPS

Titles: Opioid Stewardship Program Coordinator

Education: PharmD, Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Medical University of South Carolina; PGY2 Pain Management and Palliative Care Residency, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Practice Area: Opioid Stewardship, Pain Management, Palliative Care

Research Interests: Opioid stewardship, pain management, opioid use disorder

Email: stephanie.abel@uky.edu

Marianne Carter, PharmD

she/her

Titles: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Palliative Care and Pain Management

Education: PharmD and Palliative Care Certificate, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy; BS, Purdue University

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, LMH Health; PGY2 Palliative Care and Pain Management Residency, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy; Outpatient Palliative Care Pharmacy Fellowship, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy

Practice Area: Palliative Care, Pain Management

Research Interests: Pain and symptom management in patients with cancer, Scholarship of teaching and learning, equity in healthcare education

Email: marianne.carter@uky.edu

Brandon Kasberg, PharmD

Titles: Pain Management and Palliative Care Pharmacist

Education: PharmD, Ohio Northern University

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, The Johns Hopkins Hospital; PGY2 Pain Management and Palliative Care Specialty Residency, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Practice Area: Acute Pain, Palliative Care

Research Interests: Post-operative Pain, Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Opioid Use Disorder, Palliative Care

Email: brandon.kasberg@uky.edu

Megan Mitchell, PharmD, MS

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Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Pain Management and Palliative Care

Education: PharmD, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy; BS, University of Connecticut; MS Palliative Care, University of Maryland

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, UCONN Health John Dempsey Hospital; Pain Management/Palliative Care Residency, University of Maryland; Fellowship Pain Management/Palliative Care, University of Maryland

Practice Area: Inpatient/Outpatient Palliative Care, Pain Management

Research Interests: Acute and chronic pain management, managing pain in patients with substance use disorder, end-of-life symptom management

Email: meg.mitchell@uky.edu

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.

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