Megan May, PharmD
Assistant Professor
Dr. May received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Georgia, and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy in Birmingham, Alabama. She then completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center and a Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist.
Dr. May provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients at Baptist Health Lexington’s Cancer Center as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacy Specialist. Teaching activities include precepting students and residents on an ambulatory oncology rotation, and participating in the therapeutics curriculum. She was awarded University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy’s Preceptor of the Year award in 2020. Dr. May also has received the Kentucky Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ New Practitioner of the Year 2015 award, the 2019 New Practitioner of the Year award from the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association, and the honor of being named one of the “40 under 40 in Cancer Care”. Her research interests include oncology supportive care, oral chemotherapy specialty pharmacy, patient medication adherence, patient outcomes, and residency training.
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.