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Doug Fish, PharmD, serves as Professor Emeritus of Critical Care Pharmacy and Infectious Diseases Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on the Anschutz Medical Campus. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1989, completed a Clinical Pharmacy Residency at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1990, a Specialty Residency in Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1990 to 1991, and a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Critical Care at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1990 to 1992. As Clinical Specialist in Critical Care and Infectious Diseases at University of Colorado Hospital, Fish formerly chaired the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and coordinates the PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency program. His research specializations encompass antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, utilization of antimicrobials and other drugs in critically ill and immunocompromised patients, nosocomial infections, and antimicrobial resistance.
Fish has earned recognition for excellence in teaching and research, including President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013; Third-Year Pharm.D. Students' Award for Excellence in Teaching: Teacher of the Year in 2010, 2011, and 2012; the 2012 Research Award from the Critical Care Practice and Research Network of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy; the 2017 ACCP Education and Training Award; and the 2025 Bowl of Hygeia Award. A Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, he has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 'Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery' (2013), 'ISPD peritonitis recommendations: 2016 update on prevention and treatment' (2016), 'Nosocomial Infections Due to Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Epidemiology and Treatment Options' (2005), and 'The clinical pharmacokinetics of levofloxacin' (1997). Fish has held leadership positions as Past President of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists and the Colorado Pharmacists Society, contributed to international medical brigades in Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Tanzania, taught in Rwanda, and volunteered as a preceptor in student-run free clinics in Denver and Colorado Springs.

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