Dinesh Yogaratnam, PharmD
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Dinesh Yogaratnam is a clinical pharmacist at
UMass
Memorial
Medical
Center
. He specializes in adult critical care pharmacotherapy and is a member of the surgical and medical intensive care unit teams at the Memorial Campus. He is an American Heart Association-certified Advanced Cardiac Life Support instructor and an adjunct assistant professor for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. For the UMass Graduate School of Nursing, Dinesh co-coordinates and teaches the Advanced Pharmacotherapy course.
Education
2004 Critical Care Specialty Residency, The
Johns
Hopkins
Hospital
,
Baltimore
,
MD
2003 Pharmacy Practice Residency,
UMass
Memorial
Medical
Center
,
Worcester
,
MA
2002 Doctor of Pharmacy,
University
of
Rhode Island
,
Kingston
,
RI
Publications
Yogaratnam, D, Miller, MA, Smith, BS (2005) The effects of liver and renal dysfunction on the pharmacokinetics of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill patient. Crit Care Nurs Clin N Am, 17, 245-250.
Yogaratnam, D, Smith, BS, Angood, PB, Gandhi, PJ (2004) Antifactor Xa
levels in four patients with burn injuries who received enoxaparin to
prevent venous thromboembolism, Pharmacotherapy, 24, 1793-1799.
Yogaratnam, D, Rowden, AM (2004) Calcium repletion protocol in a medical
intensive care unit: An evaluation of protocol adherence and effectiveness,
CritCareMed
, 32(12) Supplement:A166, 587.