Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare
Megan A. Rech, PharmD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, BCCCP
Dr. Rech joined the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Health Care in 2023. After graduating from LECOM School of Pharmacy, she completed residency training at Henry Ford Hospital and critical care residency at Rush University Medical Center/Midwestern University. She also received a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology from Loyola University Chicago. Formerly, she was an emergency medicine clinical pharmacist and research director for the department of emergency medicine at Loyola University Medical Center. She is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Clinical Pharmacists. She is chair-elect of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacology Section. She is a founding planning committee member of the Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy with Resuscitation (EMPoweRx) Conference, the first emergency medicine pharmacist conference, held in conjunction with the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting. She has broad research interests pertaining to pharmacotherapy in critically and emergently ill patients, which she hopes to apply to enhance the care of veterans needing emergency medicine services. She has served as primary investigator on large, multi-center, prospective observations studies and senior investigator on a prospective randomized controlled trial. Additionally, she co-founded the Emergency Medicine PHARMacotherapy research NETwork (EMPHARM-NET), whose goal is to pursue high quality research pertaining to emergency medicine pharmacotherapy nationally.
Contact: Megan.Rech@va.gov
