Appointments

• Professor of Pharmacy Practice
• Section Lead, Specialty Care, Department of Pharmacy Practice
• Director of Workforce Development, Office of Student Success, College of Pharmacy
• Director of Professional Development, Office of Education, College of Pharmacy

Bio

At NEOMED, I serve as the section lead for Specialty Care, the director of Workforce Development, the director of Professional Development for the College of Pharmacy. I am also a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice.

Previously, I served as:

• the clinical pharmacy specialist – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (2010-2023) and PGY1 Pharmacy Residency program director (2013-2023) at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio, and
• the clinical pharmacy specialist – Pediatric Surgery/Intestinal Failure (2005-2010) at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Educational Background

• PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005.
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2004.
• PharmD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Pharmacy in Memphis, Tennessee, 2003.
• B.S., Biochemistry, Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, 1999.

Area of Expertise/Research Interests

My expertise is in neonatal-pediatric pharmacotherapy, nutrition support therapy, ethanol lock therapy, and management of patients with intestinal failure.

Courses

• Pharmacotherapy: OTC/Self-Care (Fall P2)
• Pharmacotherapy: Gastroenterology/Nutrition (Fall P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Infectious Diseases (Fall P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Critical Care (Spring P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Special Population (Spring P3)
• Global Health Elective (Fall P3)
• Advanced Pediatric Pharmacy Elective (Maymester P3)
• Pharmacy Skills 5 (Fall P3)
• Pharmacy Skills 6 (Spring P3)

Academic & Professional Activities

Pediatric Pharmacy Association: President-Elect (2023-present), Board of Directors, Director at Large (2020-2023); Education Chair (2019-2020); Northeast Ohio Medical University Student Chapter, Faculty Advisor (2013-present); Webinar Committee Co-Chair (2017-2019)

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Chair of the ASPEN24 Planning Committee (2023-present), Chair-Elect of the Parenteral Nutrition Safety Committee (2022-present), Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Section (2018-2020); Chair of the Clinical Practice Committee (2014-2016)

Ohio Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Treasurer (2014-present)

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists: Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Pediatrics (Secretary, 2022-2023; Member, 2020-present); Network Session Facilitator – Pediatrics/Neonatal (2014-2016)

Awards

• 2021 NEOMED Liebelt-Wheeler Award for Faculty Excellence
• 2021 NEOMED College of Pharmacy Excellence in Scholarship Award
• 2021 American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Stanley Serlick Award
• 2020 American College of Clinical Pharmacists Pediatrics PRN Outstanding Practitioner Award
  2016 Ohio Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Member of the Year

Distinctions

• Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP)
• Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS)
• Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (FASPEN)
• Certified American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Well-Being Ambassador

Presentations

5/23 Helping Out Patients and Students: Education Regarding Social Determinants of Health and Implicit Bias in Pediatric Patients; Invited Lecturer, Pediatric Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas

4/23 Making the GRADE: Methodology and Recommendations from ASPEN’s New Guidelines for Prescribing Parenteral Nutrition to Preterm Infants; Invited Co-Lecturer; ASPEN 2023 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada

4/23 Parenteral Nutrition Product Shortages: From Best Practices to Crisis Management, Episode II: Attack of the Shortages: Managing Parenteral Nutrition Product Shortages for Our Smallest Patients; Invited Lecturer; ASPEN 2023 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada

5/22 FDA Workshop on The Role of Phytosterols in PNALD/IFALD; Invited Panelist, US Food and Drug Administration, Virtual Webinar

5/22 Starved from the womb: Recognition, risk, prevention, and management of neonatal refeeding syndrome; Invited Co-Lecturer; Pediatric Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting, Norfolk, Virginia

Select Publications

• Robinson DT, Calkins KL, Chen Y, Cober MP, Falciglia GH, Church DD, Mey J, McKeever L, Sentongo T. Guidelines for parenteral nutrition in preterm infants: the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2023; 47: 830-858. doi:10.1002/jpen.2550. PMID: 37610837

  Mays A, Ayers P, Monczka J, Cober MP. Safety in parenteral nutrition compounding [published online ahead of print, 2023 Aug 16]. Nutr Clin Pract. 2023;10.1002/ncp.11064. doi:10.1002/ncp.11064. PMID: 37584457

• Cober MP, Gura KM, Mirtallo JM, Ayers P, Boullata J, Anderson CR, Plogsted S; ASPEN Parenteral Nutrition Safety Committee. ASPEN lipid injectable emulsion safety recommendations part 2: Neonate and pediatric considerations. Nutr Clin Pract. 2021 Dec;36(6):1106-1125. doi: 10.1002/ncp.10778. Epub 2021 Oct 27. PMID: 34705289
• da Silva JSV, Seres DS, Sabino K, Adams SC, Berdahl GJ, Citty SW, Cober MP, Evans DC, Greaves JR, Gura KM, Michalski A, Plogsted S, Sacks GS, Tucker AM, Worthington P, Walker RN, Ayers P; Parenteral Nutrition Safety and Clinical Practice Committees, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. ASPEN Consensus Recommendations for Refeeding Syndrome. Nutr Clin Pract. 2020 Apr;35(2):178-195. doi: 10.1002/ncp.10474. Epub 2020 Mar 2. Erratum in: Nutr Clin Pract. 2020 Jun;35(3):584-585. PMID: 32115791
• Cober MP, Killu G, Brattain A, Welch KB, Kunisaki SM, Teitelbaum DH. Intravenous fat emulsions reduction for patients with parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease. J Pediatr. 2012 Mar;160(3):421-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.08.047. Epub 2011 Oct 6. PMID: 21982303

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