Director, Quality, Population Health | Pharmacist, Critical Care
Yale New Haven Health
Kent A. Owusu, PharmD, a critical care pharmacist and the director of quality & population health at Sturdy Health. Prior to his transition to Sturdy Health he led teams within Surgical Services to uncover unnecessary clinical practice variation and harness best evidence-based practices and system clinical consensus into the development of Clinical Pathways at Yale New Haven Health. After obtaining a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Biochemistry from Florida State University, Dr. Owusu received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree with honors from Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. He subsequently completed his Pharmacy Practice Residency and a Critical Care Pharmacy Residency at Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, CT in 2015, and transitioned into the role of neurocritical care pharmacist. Dr. Owusu is dual board certified in Pharmacotherapy and in Critical Care. He is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), Neurocritical Care Society (NCS), American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and the American Epilepsy Society. Dr. Owusu is a fellow of the SCCM and NCS. He has served on the Editorial Board for NCS Neurocritical Care ON CALL and leads the Research and Funding Database charge for the SCCM Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology section. He is the past chair of the Pharmacotherapy of Neurocritical Care Series (PONS) education product committee. He has been an active member of the SCCM Neurosciences section for the previous 5 years and is currently on the executive committee as a Member at Large of the Neurosciences Section of SCCM. Dr. Owusu previously served as the residency program director for the YNHHS emergency medicine pharmacy residency program. His research interests include healthcare equity, management of epilepsy, and clinical decision support.