Aaron Cook, PharmD, BCCCP, FKSHP, FCCP, FNCS

Associate Professor

Dr. Cook received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and subsequently completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice and PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center (now UKHealthCare). After more than a decade of success as the UKHealthCare Clinical Coordinator in Neuroscience-Pulmonary/Critical Care and PGY1 Residency Program Director, he transitioned to the UK College of Pharmacy faculty as a full-time special title series Associate Professor.

Dr. Cook is the course coordinator for PHR 927 Integrated Drugs and Disease: Gastrointestinal Diseases and Nutrition and PPS 972 Introduction to Residency Training. His practice is focused on caring for patients in the neurocritical care area, particularly those with stroke and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Cook is active in neurocritical care nationally, having served as the previous chair of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) guidelines committee, the NCS pharmacy section, and the NCS pharmacy research committee. Dr. Cook is productive in research and scholarship, with a particular interest in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes in response to neurological critical illness, as well as the scholarship and conduct of residency training. He has over 110 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 regional or national platform presentations, many of which are focused on original research and scholarship in his clinical practice and pharmacy residency training.

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