Meet Our Preceptors - Solid Organ Transplant

she/her

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant/Mechanical Circulatory Support; Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Chicago Medicine; PGY2 Cardiology Specialty Residency, University of Utah Health

Practice Area: Advanced heart failure, heart transplant, mechanical circulatory support

Research Interests: Heart failure, transitions of care

Email: JessiClark@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant 

Education: PharmD, University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, University of Kentucky; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky 

Practice Area: Lung Transplant, Inpatient/Outpatient

Research Interests: Transplant Infectious Diseases, Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction, Academia

Email: rickey.evans@uky.edu

she/her

Titles: Cardiovascular Clinical Coordinator; PGY2 Cardiology Residency Program Director

Education: B.S. Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Kentucky; PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky HealthCare; PGY2 Cardiology Specialty Residency, University of Kentucky HealthCare

Practice Area: General Cardiology, Heart Failure, VAD, and Heart Transplant

Research Interests: Diuretic resistance, ADHF, Pharmacogenomics, and Disparities in Healthcare

Email: Kathleen.Faulkenberg@uky.edu

she/her

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant 

Education: PharmD, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Emory University Hospital; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Specialty Residency, Emory University Hospital

Practice Area: Abdominal Transplant, Inpatient/Outpatient

Research Interests: Post-transplant adherence, transitions of care, belatacept use in kidney transplant recipients; transitions of care

Email: olivia.philippart@uky.edu

Titles: PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency Program Director; Transplant Pharmacist Manager;  Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Education: PharmD, Duquesne University School of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Nebraska Medicine; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency, University of Michigan

Practice Area: Solid Organ Transplant, Inpatient/Outpatient

Research Interests: Rejection management and outcomes; post-transplant metabolic co-morbidities; renal sparing regimens in liver transplant recipients 

Email: trisann.rendulic@uky.edu

she/her

Titles: Transplant Pharmacist, Clinical Float

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Indiana University Health; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency, Indiana University Health

Practice Area: Abdominal Transplant, Lung Transplant, Float Inpatient

Research Interests: Immunology, Pharmacogenomics, Transitions of Care

Email: miley.sawyer@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, Saint Joseph East Hospital; PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency, University of Kentucky

Practice Area: Abdominal Transplant, Outpatient

Research Interests: Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant recipients, clinical impact of ambulatory care pharmacist, transitions of care

Email: margaret.schaefer@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant 

Education: PharmD, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, Intermountain Medical Center; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Residency, University of Michigan

Practice Area: Abdominal Transplant, Inpatient/Outpatient 

Research Interests: Immunosuppression Management, Post-transplant Complications, Transitions of Care

Email: lauren.schumacher@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant; Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Education: PharmD, Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1/2 Pharmacotherapy Residency, Medical University of South Carolina; Transplant Pharmacy Fellowship, University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Practice Area: Abdominal Transplant, Outpatient

Research Interests: Clinical outcomes in kidney, kidney/pancreas, and liver transplant recipients; hepatitis C management in pre- and post-transplant patient populations

Email: ktrobaugh@uky.edu

Titles: Clinical Pharmacist, Transplant 

Education: PharmD, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Training: PGY1 Pharmacy Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago; PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Specialty Residency, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Practice Area: Lung Transplant, Inpatient/Outpatient

Research Interests: Belatacept use in lung transplant recipients; management of CMV resistance in lung transplant recipients

Email: hannah.twist@uky.edu