Medication Safety

Dr. Downing’s professional interests include designing meaningful learning experiences that enhance a learner’s health and well-being. In the classroom, she evaluates the impact of using evidence-based instructional strategies during the course design process on college student well-being measures, such as safe medication practice behaviors and healthcare self-efficacy. Outside the classroom, Dr. Downing supports the design and development of prevention education resources that help teach safe medication practices across the lifespan.

Dr. Casey Combs May, an Associate Professor – Clinical at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, is a multifaceted professional excelling in practice, teaching, research, and professional leadership. Practicing as a neurocritical care pharmacist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, she delivers innovative patient-centered care, specializing in neurologic injuries. Dr. May actively contributes to the academic realm by co-coordinating a key pharmacotherapy course, leading a Critical Care Elective, and engaging in scholarship related to teaching clinicians. Additionally, she holds leadership roles in professional organizations, advocating for pharmacist integration and contributing to committees shaping critical care guidelines. Her research pursuits focus on anticoagulation reversal, optimizing pharmacotherapy, and evaluating pharmacokinetic variations in neurocritically ill patients.

Dr. Nguyen is a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist practicing in outpatient general internal medicine under collaborative practice agreements. She is passionate about educating the future generations of pharmacists in both didactic and experiential settings and introducing the pharmacy profession to underrepresented students. Her scholarship interests include pharmacy practice advancement and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Dr. Pickworth is a clinical pharmacist at the Ross Heart Hospital on The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center campus with over 35 years of experience. Besides an active clinical practice in heart failure, her research endeavors focus in the areas of general cardiology or heart failure. She is passionate about educating the next generation of pharmacists and highly engaged in training pharmacy residents. As an active member of many professional societies, she has served at the Chair of the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP) Commission on Credentialing and is the current Chair of the Pharmacy Committee for the Heart Failure Society of America.

Dr. Wei's area of research expertise is in geriatric pharmacoepidemiology, with specific focus areas on drug safety, drug effectiveness, and quality of medication prescribing in older adults, especially those with pain, neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia [ADRD]), and nursing home stays.