Kendall Gross, PharmD

Critical Care Pharmacist
Pharmacy Informatics
Gross
Marco Sanchez
[email protected]
Phone: +1 415 514-6155
521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 3515
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States

Links

UCSF Profiles

Affiliations

UCSF centers, institutes, and research programs

Medication Outcomes Center

What I do

I am the Manager for the Informatics and Automation Teams at UCSF Health. I received my PharmD from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy in 2008 and completed residencies in Pharmacy and Critical Care at the University of Kentucky before joining UCSF in 2010, where I practiced as a Critical Care Pharmacist for ten years. Through improvement work and research as a clinician, I discovered an interest in using the electronic health record to drive high value care and transitioned to a role in clinical informatics. My current leadership role focuses on developing optimal medication-use systems by leveraging technology, analytics and automation.

Professional background

Degrees

PharmD, University of Georgia, 2008

Postgraduate training

PGY2, Critical Care Pharmacy Residency, University of Kentucky, 2010
PGY1, Pharmacy Practice Residency, University of Kentucky, 2009

Licensure and certifications

Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Specialist, Board Certified, 2015
Pharmacotherapy Specialist, Board Certified, 2011
Licentiate in Pharmacy, California State Board of Pharmacy, 2010

Biography

Kendall Gross, PharmD, BCPS, DPLA is the Manager of the Pharmacy Informatics & Automation Teams at UCSF Health. She received her PharmD from the University of Georgia and completed residency training in Pharmacy and Critical Care at the University of Kentucky before joining UCSF. Through improvement work as a clinician, she developed an interest in using technology to drive high value care and established a new Clinical Informatics role. She now leads the Pharmacy Informatics Team focused on optimizing medication-use systems by leveraging informatics, analytics and automation. She also serves as an adjunct Associate Professor at UCSF School of Pharmacy and is a Diplomate of the ASHP Pharmacy Leadership Academy.

Research keywords

  • patient safety
  • usability
  • Health IT
  • clinical informatics
  • Sedation and analgesia
  • pharmacy informatics
  • delirium
  • Clinical decision support
  • Data Analysis
  • artificial intelligence
  • data visualization
  • Medical Informatics
  • health information interoperability
  • electronic health records (EHR)
  • user-centered design
  • big data
  • pneumonia
  • patient safety
  • Blood Coagulation
  • Professional Role
  • Critical Care
  • Ticlopidine
  • Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
  • intensive care units
  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Adrenal Insufficiency
  • Renal Replacement Therapy
  • Fluid Therapy
  • Critical Illness
  • Pharmacy Service, Hospital
  • Quality of Health Care

Publications

Bazinski M, Lau C, Clemons B, Purser L, Kangwankij A, Ngo L, Lang M, Besen B, Gross K, Borucki A, Behrends M, Miaskowski C, Schell-Chaple H. The Development and Implementation of the Fast-Pace Assessment Framework and Tiered Analgesic Orders for Opioid Optimization. Pain Manag Nurs. 2024 Mar 23.
Lee J, Ng A, Schell-Chaple H, Wong E, Essakow J, Gross K. Incidence of Hemodynamic Changes Following Intravenous Acetaminophen Administration in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2023; 28(1):78-83.
Rodriguez-Monguio R, Naveed M, Croci R, Gross K, Langnas E, Chen CL, Seoane-Vazquez E. Perioperative Prescribing Practices of Extended-Release Opioids in Noncancer Surgical Patients, 2015-2018. Anesth Analg. 2020 10; 131(4):1249-1259.
Lat I, Paciullo C, Daley MJ, MacLaren R, Bolesta S, McCann J, Stollings JL, Gross K, Foos SA, Roberts RJ, Acquisto NM, Taylor S, Bentley M, Jacobi J, Meyer TA. Position Paper on Critical Care Pharmacy Services (Executive Summary): 2020 Update. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2020 Sep 18; 77(19):1619-1624.
Lat I, Paciullo C, Daley MJ, MacLaren R, Bolesta S, McCann J, Stollings JL, Gross K, Foos SA, Roberts RJ, Acquisto NM, Taylor S, Bentley M, Jacobi J, Meyer TA. Position Paper on Critical Care Pharmacy Services (Executive Summary): 2020 Update. Crit Care Med. 2020 Sep; 48(9):1375-1382.
Lat I, Paciullo C, Daley MJ, MacLaren R, Bolesta S, McCann J, Stollings JL, Gross K, Foos SA, Roberts RJ, Acquisto NM, Taylor S, Bentley M, Jacobi J, Meyer TA. Position Paper on Critical Care Pharmacy Services: 2020 Update. Crit Care Med. 2020 Sep; 48(9):e813-e834.
Baumgartner L, Lam K, Lai J, Barnett M, Thompson A, Gross K, Morris A. Effectiveness of Melatonin for the Prevention of Intensive Care Unit Delirium. Pharmacotherapy. 2019 03; 39(3):280-287.
Donovan AL, Aldrich JM, Gross AK, Barchas DM, Thornton KC, Schell-Chaple HM, Gropper MA, Lipshutz AKM, University of California, San Francisco Critical Care Innovations Group. Interprofessional Care and Teamwork in the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2018 06; 46(6):980-990.
Thornton KC, Schwarz JJ, Gross AK, Anderson WG, Liu KD, Romig MC, Schell-Chaple H, Pronovost PJ, Sapirstein A, Gropper MA, Lipshutz AKM, Project Emerge Collaborators. Preventing Harm in the ICU-Building a Culture of Safety and Engaging Patients and Families. Crit Care Med. 2017 09; 45(9):1531-1537.
Thompson A, Li F, Gross AK. Considerations for Medication Management and Anticoagulation During Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy. AACN Adv Crit Care. 2017; 28(1):51-63.
Narayanan N, Gross AK, Pintens M, Fee C, MacDougall C. Effect of an electronic medical record alert for severe sepsis among ED patients. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Feb; 34(2):185-8.
Gross AK, Dunn SP, Feola DJ, Martin CA, Charnigo R, Li Z, Abdel-Latif A, Smyth SS. Clopidogrel treatment and the incidence and severity of community acquired pneumonia in a cohort study and meta-analysis of antiplatelet therapy in pneumonia and critical illness. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2013 Feb; 35(2):147-54.
de Leon N, Sharpton S, Gross K, Thompson A, Kobayashi R, VanOsdol SJ, Tsourounis C, Tasaka C, Garwood C, Bekeart L, Rennke S.. The development and implementation of a bundled quality improvement initiative to reduce inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis. ICU director. 2013; 5(4):322-5.
Fuller PD, Smith KM, Hinman RK, Gross AK, Hillebrand K, Pettit NN, Phelps PK. Value of pharmacy residency training: a survey of the academic medical center perspective. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012 Jan 15; 69(2):158-65.
Horner D, Li F, Loffler C, Thompson A, Gross K. . Applying national critical care pharmacy recommendations to practice. ICU director. 2012; 4(3):189-193.
Cook AM, Weant KA, Gross K, Ashton JN, Lemon SJ, Winstead P. . Survey of critical care education in US colleges of pharmacy. Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning. 2011; 4(3):290-298.
Li Z, Yang F, Dunn S, Gross AK, Smyth SS. Platelets as immune mediators: their role in host defense responses and sepsis. Thromb Res. 2011 Mar; 127(3):184-8.
Gross AK, Norman J, Cook AM. Contemporary pharmacologic issues in the management of traumatic brain injury. J Pharm Pract. 2010 Oct; 23(5):425-40.
Gross AK, Winstead PS. Current controversies in critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency and glucocorticoid supplementation. Orthopedics. 2009 Sep; 32(9).