Faculty & Staff Details
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Name: | Kristen Hesch, Pharm.D., BCPS |
| Position: | Assistant Professor, Adult Medicine Division, Dallas VA | |
| Email: | kristen.hesch@ttuhsc.edu | |
| Bio | Kristen Hesch, Pharm.D., BCPS, is an Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy on the Dallas/Fort Worth campus. Her primary practice site is serving as an Advanced Practice Clinical Pharmacist in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Cardiology medical teaching services at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Texas at Austin in cooperation with the University of Texas Health Sciences Centers in San Antonio in May of 2006. Dr. Hesch has since completed both an ASHP Accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency followed by an ASHP Accredited PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Specialty Residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She also became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist in 2008. Dr. Hesch is an active member of Society of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Cardiology, American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and American Society of Health System Pharmacists. Additionally, she is active in the state chapter of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists, DFW chapter of ACCP and the Texas SCCM chapter affiliates. She currently serves on the Membership Committee of the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section of SCCM. She has participated in TSHP’s Annual Seminar to coordinate educational track and serve as a presenter in critical care topics. Dr. Hesch’s practice interests include sedation and delirium in ICU patients, advanced cardiac life support and precepting students and residents |
Education:
• June 2008 : ASHP Accredited PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Practice Residency, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• June 2007: ASHP Accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• May 2006: Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Texas College of Pharmacy in cooperation with University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, Austin, Texas
Licensures:
• Texas Registered Pharmacist, #44283, 07/2006 – Present
• Texas Pharmacist Preceptor, 12/2006 – Present
Certifications:
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist, Credential # 308011317, 12/2008
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider, American Heart Association, 08/2007 – Present
Publications:
• Mohebbi LM, Hesch KA. Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the intensive care unit. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2009;22(4):373-6.
• Hesch KA. Agents for the treatment of over-active bladder: a therapeutic class review. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2007;20(3):307-14.
Abstracts:
• Zeiler MA, Hesch KA, Foreman MW. Incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in adult critically ill patients using probiotics. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada; December 2009.
• Patel KK, Hesch KA, Sloan LM. Vancomycin pharmacokinetics in obese critically ill adult patients. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada; December 2009.
• Ladd NL, Hesch KA, Greer ND. Detection of acute kidney injury with vancomycin-piperacillin-tazobctam versus comparator antibiotics in critically ill adult patients. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Orlando, Florida; December 2008.
• Soun JS, Hesch KA, Sloan LM. Evaluation of extended infusion piperacillin-tazobactam for gram-negative infections in adult critically ill patients. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Orlando, Florida; December 2008.
• Hesch KA, Veach MV, Portinari RJ, Masica AM, Baird, RW. Detection of ICU delirium: a quality improvement pilot project. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada; December 2007.
• Hesch KA, Roth JM, Baird RW. Revision and implementation of an ICU alcohol withdrawal protocol. American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Anaheim, California; December 2006.