Paul Szumita

Paul M. Szumita PharmD, BCPS is a Director of Clinical Pharmacy and Program Director of the postgraduate year two critical care pharmacy residency at Brigham and Women¹s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Paul earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Northeastern University in Boston and he is dual board certified in pharmacotherapy and critical care pharmacy. He 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 managing clinical programs aimed at optimizing pharmacotherapy and improving patient outcomes. As a practicing clinical pharmacist in critical care, Paul has an active role in bedside education, clinical research, and guideline development/implementation with a focus inpatient glucose management, ICU pain, agitation and delirium, and hemodynamics in shock states. Paul is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacy at three colleges and helps coordinate 15 clinical rotations, training more than 100 students each year. He has more than 65 peer-reviewed publications, and he serves on several committees focused on improving clinical practice at the local and national level, including the program advisory board for the ASHP Critical Care Pharmacy Specialty 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 Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients.