Shawn Whitehead, PharmD, is based at Rhode Island Hospital with direct oversight of all acute care clinical pharmacy specialists, and with indirect oversight of clinical pharmacy specialists at The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital. His responsibilities include bringing the clinical program to the next level through more autonomous and progressive pharmacist-driven services, optimizing the clinical pharmacy practice model, leading service line teams to accelerate clinical guideline development and cost reduction strategies, enhancing the electronic medical record to be as efficient and safe as possible, optimizing on-boarding and training, training front-line team members, and overseeing recruitment, retention, and performance enhancement.
Education: Northeastern University (PharmD, 2012)
Residency: PGY-1 Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center (2013)
Practice/Research Interests: Treatment of ICU delirium, increasing safe EMR use through appropriate alerts, order sets, and embedded calculators, and clinical pharmacy practice models
Select publications:
Fowler ML, Mendez L, Whitehead S, et al. Implementation of Enhanced Recovery in Gynecologic Surgery to Improve Outcomes at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital. J Clin Gynecol Obstet. 2020;9(3):43-52.
Sucher A, Whitehead S, Knutsen S. Updated IDSA/ATS Guidelines on Management of Adults with HAP and VAP. US Pharm. 2017;42(7)HS-12-HS-26.
Al-Qadheeb NS, Balk EM, Fraser GL, Skrobik Y, Riker RR, Kress JP, Whitehead SM, Devlin JW. "A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Randomized, Controlled ICU Trials with Interventions Hypothesized to Reduce Delirium: the Relationship between Duration of Delirium and Hospital Mortality” Critical Care Medicine. 2012, 40 (12), doi: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000424605.01296.80.