Shane Winstead - Pharm.D.

Dr. Winstead received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Arkansas College of Pharmacy in 1991. She completed a hospital pharmacy residency at University Hospital of Arkansas. She then earned her Pharm.D. degree at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Winstead has worked as a critical care pharmacist at UK Hospital since 1994. She works with a team of pharmacists to provide comprehensive pharmacy services to all of the Intensive Care units. She is involved with the multidisciplinary protocol/pathway development process with many of the ICU services. She also serves on several hospital committees, including the ICU Committee. Additionally, she provides education on medication issues to the nurses in the units as well as the medical residents and fellows.

Her primary practice area is pulmonary and critical care medicine. She serves as preceptor for Pharm.D. students for the critical care medicine (MICU) rotation. She is also the preceptor for the Pharmacy Practice and Critical Care specialty residents in this area. In addition, Dr. Winstead serves as the program director for the Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Residency at UK. Her specific areas of emphasis include sepsis, ICU sedation/analgesia/neuromuscular blockade, anemia of critical illness, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and continuous renal replacement therapies.

Selected Publications/Presentations

• "TFAD: Time to first antibiotic dose" Invited speaker for Race to Improve Outcomes Seminar sponsored by University of Kentucky and Cerner Corporation. Lexington, KY, April 2007.
• Short M, Winstead PS "Delirium Dilemma" Orthopedics, 2007 Apr;30(4):273-6.
• Toma MB, Winstead PS, Smith KM, Lewis DA, Clifford TM Pharmacy Resident Participation in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Events Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2007; 64:747-53.
• Mieure KD, Smith KM, Winstead PS Supplemental Glucocorticoid Therapy Orthopedics. 2007 Feb;30(2):116-9
• Contributing author. The Injectable Drug Reference. 2nd edition. Martin SJ, Olsen KM, Susla GM, et al, eds. Des Plaines, IL: Society of Critical Care Medicine;2006
• Lee J, Winstead PS, Cook AM Pharmacokinetic alterations in obesity Orthopedics 2006 Nov;29(11):984-8
• Miller AD; Smith KM, Winstead PS, Martin CA Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea: A Review and Update on Changes in Disease Virulence and Treatment Response P&T September 2006; 91 (9).
• Hemodynamic monitoring: Interactive Session Kentucky Society of Health-system Pharmacists (KSHP) Critical Care Workshop, Louisville, KY, September, 2006.
• Weant, K; Armitstead, JA; Sterling, E; Winstead PS; Boggs, R Establishing a Pharmacy Presence in the ED Amer J Emerg Med 2006 Jul;24(4):514-5.
• Papadopoulos, S; Ball, AM; Liewer, S ; Winstead PS; Martin, CM; Murphy, BS Rhabdomyolysis during Daptomycin Therapy Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jun 15;42(12):e108-10. Epub 2006 May 10
• Bernard AC, Winstead PS, Mentzer, RM Changing the Paradigm for Transfusing the Anemic Patient in an Acute Care Environment Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association 2005; 103 (3).
• Akers WS, Flynn JD, Davis GA, Green A, Winstead PS, Strobel G. Prolonged cardiac repolarization following tacrolimus and haloperidol administration in the critically ill patient. Pharmacotherapy 2004; 24(3) 404-408.
• Current Controversies in Critical Care: Debating the Issues American College of Clinical Pharmacists, Dallas TX, October 2004.