Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCM, FCCP, is Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She has secondary appointments in the School of Medicine in the Clinical Translational Science Institute, Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
She also serves as Professor for the Center for Critical Care Nephrology and Center for Medical Machine Learning. In addition to her academic appointments. Dr. Kane-Gill is a Critical Care Medication Safety Pharmacist at UPMC in the Department of Pharmacy. Dr. Kane-Gill is a federally funded researcher whose work focuses on effective approaches for the detection, prevention, and management of medication errors and adverse drug events.
She has successfully incorporated health information technology (clinical decision support, telemedicine) in practice to advance healthcare systems in promoting better safety and quality of care for patients. She also applies implementation science strategies to ensure adoption of medication safety practices. Her work has been presented at several professional meetings and she has published over 200 articles and book chapters related to critical care and patient safety.
Dr. Kane-Gill has participated in international consensus conference such as Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) and Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI). She is an editorial board member for Critical Care Medicine and Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Also, she holds an elected office as president-elect (2021) for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.