- Pharmacy Practice
- Critical Care
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
Komal Pandya, PharmD, BCCCP
Associate Professor
Originally from California, Dr. Pandya received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and subsequently completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY2 Critical Care Specialty Residency at the University of Kentucky HealthCare. Dr. Pandya’s current responsibilities include providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients in the cardiothoracic surgery intensive care unit. She is also active in precepting pharmacy residents, pharmacy students, multiple types of PGY2 specialty residents, and interdisciplinary students while on rotation with cardiothoracic surgery. Areas of interest include mechanical cardiac support, hyperglycemia management, hemostasis following cardiac surgery, perioperative arrhythmias as well as sedation in the ICU.
Expertise
Positions
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Adjunct Faculty
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Clinical Pharmacist, UK Healthcare Chandler Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit
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Program Director, PGY2 Pharmacy Practice Residency in Critical Care, UK Healthcare
Education
- Bachelors of Science in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine
- Doctor of Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco
- PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, UK Healthcare
- PGY2 Pharmacy Practice Residency in Critical Care, UK Healthcare
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.