School
School of Pharmacy
Department
Pharmacy Practice
Office Location
19 Foster 510
Worcester
Office Phone Office Phone: 508.373.5772
About
Dinesh Yogaratnam has been a member of the MCPHS pharmacy practice faculty since 2014. Before joining academia, he served for a decade as a critical care pharmacy specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center in the Memorial Critical Care Unit, where he also held the role of Critical Care (PGY2) Residency Director. He completed his PGY1 residency at UMass Memorial Medical Center in 2003, followed by a Critical Care Specialty Residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2004.
At MCPHS, he co-coordinates the Pharmacotherapeutics Course Series for the School of Pharmacy–Worcester/Manchester and leads a P2 elective in acute and critical care medicine. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Industry Pharmacists Organization (IPhO) and the Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS) leadership society. Additionally, he is a faculty preceptor for the MCPHS/Novartis Early Phase Clinical Development Fellowship.
Education
- PharmD, University of Rhode Island
Research Interests
- Adult Medicine
- Acute Care
- Critical Care
Programs
Education
- PharmD, University of Rhode Island
Research Interests
- Adult Medicine
- Acute Care
- Critical Care
Programs
Publications
- Yogaratnam, D., Carey, K., Coppenrath, V,A., Dawson, A., LaMothe, A.B.W., Lynch, A., Mbelli, B., Trolander, J. (2023) Drugs that act on the respiratory tract. In: Ray SD. Side effects of Drugs Annual: a worldwide yearly survey of new data in adverse drug reactions. Volume 45, 1st ed. Cambridge, MA: Elsevier; 2023:147-160. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Smith, B. S., Yogaratnam, D., Levasseur-Franklin, K. E., Forni, A., & Fong, J. (2012, 05). Introduction to Drug Pharmacokinetics in the Critically III Patient. Chest, 141(5), 1327-1336. doi:10.1378/chest.11-1396 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Cross, J.C., Yogaratnam, D., & Horton, E. (2023, 01). Respiratory Infections. In: Zeind, C.S., Carvalho, M.G., Cheng, J.W.M., Zaiken, K., LaPointe, T., ed. Applied Therapeutics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins