Dr. Hess Mary M Hess, PharmD, FASHP, FCCM

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901 Walnut Street
Suite 901C
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 503-6448
(215) 503-9052 fax

Education
BS, Pharmacy, University of Missouri -- Kansas City, Missouri, 1987

PharmD, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, Missouri, 1990

Residency
Critical Care Residency, 1990-1991 at the University

University Appointment
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice;

Professional Organizations
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Society of Health System Pharmacists
American College of Clinical Pharmacy
American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Critical Care PRN,
 Infectious Diseases PRN
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Society of Critical Care Medicine, Section of Clinical
Pharmacology & Pharmacy Virginia / Carolina Regional Chapter
Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists

Research/Clinical Interests
Critical Care

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. An opinion paper outlining recommendations for training, credentialing, and documenting and justifying critical care pharmacy services
  2. Rewards and advancements for clinical pharmacists.
  3. ASHP statement on pharmacy services to the emergency department
  4. ASHP therapeutic position statement on the institutional use of 0.9% sodium chloride injection to maintain patency of peripheral indwelling intermittent infusion devices
  5. Designing a hospital-based pneumococcal vaccination program
  6. Increasing pneumococcal vaccination rates among hospitalized patients
  7. Data analyst technician: An innovative role for the pharmacy technician
  8. Dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate, and cortisol concentrations in intensive care unit patients
  9. Implementation of a drug-use and disease-state management program
  10. ASHP therapeutic guidelines on stress ulcer prophylaxis
  11. A perspective on the use of sustained paralytic therapy in critically ill patients
  12. Fluconazole pharmacokinetics in burn patients
  13. Effect of acute phase response on phenytoin metabolism in neurotrauma patients
  14. Pharmacokinetics of aztreonam and imipenem in critically ill patients with pneumonia
  15. Current patterns of prescribing and administering morphine in trauma patients
  16. Superiority of aztreonam/clindamycin compared with gentamicin/clindamycin in patients with penetrating abdominal trauma | SUPERIORIDADE DA ASSOCIACAO AZTREONAM/CLINDAMICINA EM COMPARACAO A GENTAMICINA/CLINDAMICINA EM PACIENTES COM TRAUMA ABDOMINAL PENETRANTE
  17. Superiority of aztreonam/clindamycin compared with gentamicin/clindamycin in patients with penetrating abdominal trauma
  18. Stability of amphotericin B in 5% dextrose injection stored at 4 or 25 °C for 120 hours
  19. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole pharmacokinetics in trauma patients

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