Debra Goff, PharmD

Education

• 1983, Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1982, PharmD, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1980, BS Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago

Honors

• Distinguished International Outreach and Engagement Award, 2019
• Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019
• Pharmacy Times Lifetime Achievement Award finalist 2019
• Ohio Society of Hospital Pharmacy Research Award, 2018
• American College of Clinical Pharmacy Global Health Award, 2017
• OSU International Emerging Outreach and Engagement recipient, 2016
• Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2006
• OSUMC Leadership Council for Clinical Value Enhancement for developing the “Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent Adult Patients” Clinical Practice Guideline, 2002

Publications

• Isolated and Lonely in a Nursing Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Deadly Combination for My Mom, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2024 Apr | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad591.
• Gaps and barriers in the implementation and functioning of antimicrobial stewardship programmes: results from an educational and behavioural mixed-methods needs assessment in France, the United States, Mexico and India—authors’ response, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 2023 Jul | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlad082.
• Surveillance and Stewardship: Where Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Intersect, Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2023 Apr | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad176.
• Gaps and barriers in the implementation and functioning of antimicrobial stewardship programmes: results from an educational and behavioural mixed methods needs assessment in France, the United States, Mexico and India, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 2022 Sep | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlac094.
• Private Practice Dentists Improve Antibiotic Use After Dental Antibiotic Stewardship Education From Infectious Diseases Experts, Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2022 Aug | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac361.
• Global resilience and new strategies needed for antimicrobial stewardship during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond, JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2022 Jul | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1622.
• BSAC Vanguard Series: The future of antibiotic stewardship—managing access and excess, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2022 Mar | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkab423.
• International train the trainer neonatal antibiotic stewardship program for South African pharmacists, JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2021 Dec | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1517.
• Global contributions of pharmacists during the COVID‐19 pandemic, JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2020 Dec | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1329.
• International Train the Trainer antibiotic stewardship program for pharmacists: Implementation, sustainability, and outcomes, JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 2020 Aug | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/jac5.1228.
• Approaches to modifying the behavior of clinicians who are noncompliant with antimicrobial stewardship program guidelines, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw247.
• Comparative Effectiveness of Vancomycin Versus Daptomycin for MRSA Bacteremia with Vancomycin MIC >1 mg/L: A Multicenter Evaluation, Clinical Therapeutics. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2015.09.017.
• Correlation of checkerboard synergy testing with time-kill analysis and clinical outcomes of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii respiratory infections, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00981-16.
• Engaging pharmacy personnel in antimicrobial stewardship using a novel method of teaching, SA Pharmaceutical Journal. 2016 Jan | journal-article. .
• Impact of rapid identification of Acinetobacter Baumannii via matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with antimicrobial stewardship in patients with pneumonia and/or bacteremia, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.09.018.
• Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy and Antimicrobial Stewardship: Implementation of a Structured Approach to Improve Patient Outcomes, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000445.
• The Evolving Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Management of Multidrug Resistant Infections, Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2016.02.012.
• Use of Twitter to Educate and Engage Surgeons in Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2016 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000440.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship with Pharmacist Intervention Improves Timeliness of Antimicrobials Across Thirty-three Hospitals in South Africa, Infectious Diseases and Therapy. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1007/s40121-015-0082-x.
• Global Antimicrobial Stewardship: Challenges and Successes from Frontline Stewards, Infectious Diseases and Therapy. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1007/s40121-015-0088-4.
• Putting your money where your mouth is: Scotland's attack on MRSA pays off, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00347-3.
• Review of twitter for infectious diseases clinicians: Useful or a waste of time?, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ071.
• Social media as a leadership tool for pharmacists, Hospital Pharmacy. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1310/hpj5007-644.
• Twitter: A tool to improve healthcare professionals’ awareness of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship, South African Medical Journal. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.9648.
• When Diagnostic Technology Is Ahead of the Hospital Budget: What Is Antimicrobial Stewardship to Do?, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/civ355.
• An antimicrobial stewardship program's real-world experience with fidaxomicin for treatment of clostridium difficile infection: A case series, Pharmacotherapy. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/phar.1451.
• Antimicrobial salvage therapy for persistent staphylococcal bacteremia using daptomycin plus ceftaroline, Clinical Therapeutics. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2014.05.061.
• Bad bugs need old drugs: A stewardship program's evaluation of minocycline for multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii infections, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu593.
• Clinical outcomes in patients with ceftriaxone-resistant streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000134.
• Improving the management of candidemia through antimicrobial stewardship interventions, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.11.012.
• Is it time for an antibiotic prenuptial agreement?, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70992-2.
• Large retrospective evaluation of the effectiveness and safety of ceftaroline fosamil therapy, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02371-13.
• Minocycline: An old drug for a new bug: Multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu531.
• Review of rapid diagnostic tests used by antimicrobial stewardship programs, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu547.
• Susceptibility of gram-negative aerobic bacilli from intra-abdominal pathogens to antimicrobial agents collected in the United States during 2011, Journal of Infection. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2013.09.001.
• Transformation of antimicrobial stewardship programs through technology and informatics, Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 2014 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2014.01.009.
• A stewardship program's retrospective evaluation of vancomycin auc24/mic and time to microbiological clearance in patients with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and osteomyelitis, Clinical Therapeutics. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2013.05.008.
• Adherence to the 2009 consensus guidelines for vancomycin dosing and monitoring practices: A cross-sectional survey of U.S. Hospitals, Pharmacotherapy. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/phar.1327.
• An antimicrobial stewardship program's evaluation of the safety and efficacy of continuous infusion of nafcillin in the treatment of methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e318278f539.
• Clinical outcomes in patients with heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00380-137.
• Extended-infusion cefepime reduces mortality in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02365-12.
• Impact of formulary restriction with prior authorization by an antimicrobial stewardship program, Virulence. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.4161/viru.21657.
• Multicenter study of high-dose daptomycin for treatment of enterococcal infections, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00526-13.
• Review of infectious diseases applications for iPhone/iPad and android: From pocket to patient, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/cit455.
• The "epic" challenge of optimizing antimicrobial stewardship: The role of electronic medical records and technology, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/cit318.
• When pharmacodynamics trump costs: An antimicrobial stewardship program's approach to selecting optimal antimicrobial agents, Clinical Therapeutics. 2013 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2013.05.004.
• A stewardship approach to combating multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii infections with minocycline, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e318245d50a.
• Antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist interventions for coagulase- negative staphylococci positive blood cultures using rapid polymerase chain reaction | Intervenciones del farmacéutico responsable a la administración antimicrobiana para hemocultivos positivos de estafilococos coagulasa negativos usando la rápida reacción en cadena de la polimerasa, Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1345/aph.1R439.
• Carbapenem stewardship: Does ertapenem affect Pseudomonas susceptibility to other carbapenems? A review of the evidence, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.08.018.
• Introduction to the special issue on antimicrobial stewardship, Pharmacotherapy. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/j.1875-9114.2012.01182.x.
• Iphones, ipads, and medical applications for antimicrobial stewardship, Pharmacotherapy. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/j.1875-9114.2012.01102.x.
• Is the "low-hanging fruit" worth picking for antimicrobial stewardship programs?, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis494.
• The economics of antimicrobial stewardship: The current state of the art and applying the business case model, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1086/664910.
• Using rapid diagnostic tests to optimize antimicrobial selection in antimicrobial stewardship programs, Pharmacotherapy. 2012 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1002/j.1875-9114.2012.01137.x.
• Antimicrobial stewardship: Bridging the gap between quality care and cost, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 2011 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/01.qco.0000393484.17894.05.
• Challenges of antimicrobial stewardship programs: What's a steward to do?, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2011 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e318236df19.
• Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing bacterial infections in adult solid organ transplant recipients, Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2011 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1345/aph.1P661.
• Letter to the Editor - Pharmacy and laboratory collaboration: Response to the Editor, Hospital Pharmacy. 2011 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1310/hpj4612-920.
• Reply to parta and musher, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2011 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/cid/cir089.
• An antimicrobial stewardship program's impact with rapid polymerase chain reaction methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/S. aureus blood culture test in patients with S. aureus bacteremia, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2010 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1086/656623.
• Peramivir pharmacokinetics in two critically ill adults with 2009 H1N1 influenza A concurrently receiving continuous renal replacement therapy, Pharmacotherapy. 2010 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1592/phco.30.10.1016.
• Doripenem: A new addition to the carbapanem class of antimicrobials, Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery. 2009 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.2174/157489109787236283.
• Ertapenem: No effect on aerobic gram-negative susceptibilities to imipenem, Journal of Infection. 2008 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.06.001.
• Establishing the role of tigecycline in an era of antimicrobial resistance, Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy. 2008 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1586/14787210.6.5.557.
• Early experience with tigecycline for ventilator-associated pneumonia and bacteremia caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Pharmacotherapy. 2007 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1592/phco.27.7.980.
• Prevalence and regional variation in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the USA and comparative in vitro activity of tigecycline, a glycylcycline antimicrobial, Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2007 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.46710-0.
• Shorter-course antibiotic therapy for CARTIs: Is shorter better?, American Journal of Managed Care. 2005 Jan | journal-article. .
• Short-duration therapy for respiratory tract infections, Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2004 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1345/aph.1E219.
• Clinical experience of quinupristin-dalfopristin for the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-positive infections, Pharmacotherapy. 2002 Jan | journal-article. .
• Clinical failures of linezolid and implications for the clinical microbiology laboratory, Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2002 Jan | journal-article. .
• Cost effective approaches to antimicrobial use in oncology patients, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 2002 Jan | journal-article. .
• Temporal assessment of candida risk factors in the surgical intensive care unit, Archives of Surgery. 2001 Jan | journal-article. .
• Software-aided evaluation of antibiotic cost and coverage: Example of empiric therapy for intraperitoneal abscess infections, Formulary. 2000 Jan | journal-article. .
• Determining the cost of antimicrobial therapy: A focus on fluoroquinolones, Formulary. 1998 Jan | journal-article. .
• An interdisciplinary approach to ciprofloxacin streamlining, P and T. 1996 Jan | journal-article. .
• Candida infections in the surgical intensive care unit [6], Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 1996 Jan | journal-article. .
• Cost analysis of candida infection among surgical intensive care unit patients, Clinical Drug Investigation. 1996 Jan | journal-article. .
• Isolationof fluconazole-resistant candida albicans from human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients never treated with azoles, Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1995 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1093/clinids/20.1.77.
• Impact of a clinical pharmacist on antibiotic prescribing. A multicenter trial, Journal of Pharmacy Technology. 1991 Jan | journal-article. .
• Pharmacy-laboratory interactions: A unique method to control antibiotic costs, Hospital Pharmacy. 1989 Jan | journal-article. .
• Absorption characteristics of three phenytoin sodium products after administration of oral loading doses, Clinical Pharmacy. 1984 Jan | journal-article. .
• Development and validation of an instrument to measure physician's attitudes toward the clinical pharmacist's role, Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy. 1984 Jan | journal-article. .