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Pharmacy Practice & Science Dept.
Location
Lee T. Todd, Jr. Bldg, Room 273
Phone
859-562-2637
Email
gavin.howington@uky.edu

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 transitioned into his faculty role 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.

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Expertise

  • Vaccines

  • COVID19

  • Infectious Disease

  • Pharmacy Practice

  • Emergency Medicine (rapid sequence intubation, diabetic ketoacidosis, sexually transmitted infections, etc.)

  • Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke

  • Thrombolytics

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