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Professor
Nesbitt College of Pharmacy at Wilkes University
Dr. Bolesta is a tenured Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University. He has over 20 years of experience in acute care pharmacy practice in critical care and internal medicine. He has a critical care clinical practice associated with his academic appointment at Commonwealth Health’s Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Dr. Bolesta completed a PGY 1 residency at the University of Arizona Medical Center and a PGY 2 critical care residency at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. He is a Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist and is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Bolesta is a former Chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Research Section and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s Critical Care Practice Based Research Network. His research interests include iatrogenic withdrawal and cardiovascular science, specifically the prevalence, assessment, and prevention of iatrogenic withdrawal in critically ill patients and postoperative atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery patients.