Research Health Scientist
Edward Hines Jr Veterans Affairs Hospital
Megan A Rech, PharmD, MS, BCCCP, FCCM, FCCP is a research health scientist at the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Health Care in the Hines Veterans Health Administration. After graduating from LECOM School of Pharmacy, she completed residency training at Henry Ford Hospital and critical care residency at Rush University Medical Center/Midwestern University. She also received a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology from Loyola University Chicago. Formerly, she was an emergency medicine clinical pharmacist and research director for the department of emergency medicine at Loyola University Medical Center. She is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Clinical Pharmacists. She is chair-elect of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacology Section. She has broad research interests pertaining to pharmacotherapy in critically and emergently ill patients. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications and co-founded the Emergency Medicine PHARMacotherapy research NETwork (EMPHARM-NET), whose goal is to pursue high quality research pertaining to emergency medicine
pharmacotherapy nationally.