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Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases & Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
University of Kentucky
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Ryan Mynatt, Clinical Pharmacist, Infectious Diseases & Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
Ryan P. Mynatt, PharmD received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Chemistry from Morehead State University, in Morehead, Kentucky. He later received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He subsequently completed both his Post-Graduate Year One Pharmacy Practice Residency and Post-Graduate Year Two Infectious Diseases Residency at the University of Kentucky HealthCare, Chandler Medical Center, in Lexington, Kentucky. Upon graduation he served as a Clinical Pharmacist in Infectious Diseases & Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Detroit Receiving Hospital, part of the Detroit Medical Center for nine years. During this time, he served as the residency program director for their PGY-2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency program. He returned to the University of Kentucky in 2019 and has been championing the creation and expansion of the adult, outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy program for the Enterprise. He currently serves as a clinical pharmacist in Infectious Diseases and Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy at the University of Kentucky. He is a current member of ASHP and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists and is board certified in pharmacotherapy. Dr. Mynatt’s current research interests include the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics evaluation of antimicrobial therapies prescribed in OPAT, risk factors for treatment success or failure in patients receiving OPAT, as well as antimicrobial stewardship related initiatives both within his health system and surrounding region.