Joseph Dasta, MSc

Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University

Professor Dasta is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He was one of the first pharmacist members of Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and helped establish the role of the pharmacist in this multidisciplinary society. SCCM has honored him by creating the Joseph F. Dasta Critical Care Pharmacy Outcomes Research Grant in 2000. He was recently elected to a three-year term on council, the governing body of SCCM. He serves on the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine and Annals of Pharmacotherapy and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, brief communications, and book chapters. He has given over 250 lectures on various topics related to critical care and health outcomes. His research has focused on clinical response, health economics and patient safety of acute care pharmaceuticals. His specific areas of interest include sedation, sepsis, acute renal failure and acute heart failure, anemia in the ICU, hyponatremia, and hypertensive emergencies.