Paul M. Szumita, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, FASHP, FCCM (he/him/his)

Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Paul M. Szumita is the Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services and Program Director of the postgraduate year 2 critical care pharmacy residency at Brigham and Women¹s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul is a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy. Paul has helped develop and is responsible for directing clinical programs aimed at optimizing pharmacotherapy and improving patient outcomes. He has an active role in clinical practice, education, clinical research, and guideline development/implementation with a focus on inpatient glucose management, ICU pain, agitation and delirium, and hemodynamics in shock states. He has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, and he has served on/currently serves on several committees focused on improving clinical practice at the local, regional, and national level, including the program advisory board for the ASHP Critical Care Pharmacy Specialty Board Examination Review Course, guideline writing committee for the 2018 Society of Critical Care Medicine guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, delirium, immobility and sleep disruption, and serves on the task force to revise the ASHP/SCCM Guidelines stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients.

Presentation(s):

• Simply the Best — Updates in Best Practices for Managing Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the Critically Ill

  Thursday, December 7, 2023
  9:45 AM – 11:15 AM