Kendall Gross, PharmD

Pharmacy Specialist, Clinical Informatics & Outcomes
Department of Pharmaceutical Services
+1 415 514-6155

Kendall Gross is a Critical Care Pharmacist practicing in the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Units at the UCSF Medical Center. She is also an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Pharmacy at UCSF and works in the Medication Outcomes Center conducting research and improvement work.

Her interests in patient outcomes, implementation science, and interdisciplinary collaboration have led her to complete numerous quality- and safety-based research projects in areas such as pain, sedation, delirium and sleep management, sepsis, and renal replacement therapy. She is especially interested in using the electronic health record (EHR) to enhance safe and appropriate medication therapy and the role of data in informing optimal medication use. Much of her work centers on how we can use the EHR to increase the adoption of best practices, and she collaborates with others in the medical center to operationalize new medication therapies and decision support. She is also engaged in training pharmacy residents and students, including as an advisor to the resident research certificate program.

Kendall received her PharmD from the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She completed residencies in Pharmacy Practice and Critical Care at the University of Kentucky before joining UCSF in 2010. Kendall holds dual Board Certifications in Pharmacotherapy and Critical Care.

Publications: 

The Development and Implementation of the Fast-Pace Assessment Framework and Tiered Analgesic Orders for Opioid Optimization.

Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

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

Incidence of Hemodynamic Changes Following Intravenous Acetaminophen Administration in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients.

The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG

Lee J, Ng A, Schell-Chaple H, Wong E, Essakow J, Gross K

Perioperative Prescribing Practices of Extended-Release Opioids in Noncancer Surgical Patients, 2015-2018.

Anesthesia and analgesia

Rodriguez-Monguio R, Naveed M, Croci R, Gross K, Langnas E, Chen CL, Seoane-Vazquez E

Position Paper on Critical Care Pharmacy Services (Executive Summary): 2020 Update.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

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.

Critical care medicine

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.

Critical care medicine

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

Effectiveness of Melatonin for the Prevention of Intensive Care Unit Delirium.

Pharmacotherapy

Baumgartner L, Lam K, Lai J, Barnett M, Thompson A, Gross K, Morris A

Interprofessional Care and Teamwork in the ICU.

Critical care medicine

Donovan AL, Aldrich JM, Gross AK, Barchas DM, Thornton KC, Schell-Chaple HM, Gropper MA, Lipshutz AKM

Preventing Harm in the ICU-Building a Culture of Safety and Engaging Patients and Families.

Critical care medicine

Thornton KC, Schwarz JJ, Gross AK, Anderson WG, Liu KD, Romig MC, Schell-Chaple H, Pronovost PJ, Sapirstein A, Gropper MA, Lipshutz AKM

Effect of an electronic medical record alert for severe sepsis among ED patients.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Narayanan N, Gross AK, Pintens M, Fee C, MacDougall C

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.

Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis

Gross AK, Dunn SP, Feola DJ, Martin CA, Charnigo R, Li Z, Abdel-Latif A, Smyth SS

The development and implementation of a bundled quality improvement initiative to reduce inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis

ICU director

de Leon N, Sharpton S, Gross K, Thompson A, Kobayashi R, VanOsdol SJ, Tsourounis C, Tasaka C, Garwood C, Bekeart L, Rennke S.

Value of pharmacy residency training: a survey of the academic medical center perspective.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Fuller PD, Smith KM, Hinman RK, Gross AK, Hillebrand K, Pettit NN, Phelps PK

Applying national critical care pharmacy recommendations to practice

ICU director

Horner D, Li F, Loffler C, Thompson A, Gross K.

Survey of critical care education in US colleges of pharmacy

Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning

Cook AM, Weant KA, Gross K, Ashton JN, Lemon SJ, Winstead P.

Platelets as immune mediators: their role in host defense responses and sepsis.

Thrombosis research

Li Z, Yang F, Dunn S, Gross AK, Smyth SS

Contemporary pharmacologic issues in the management of traumatic brain injury.

Journal of pharmacy practice

Gross AK, Norman J, Cook AM