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Elizabeth S. Dodds Ashley, PharmD, is currently the Associate Director for Clinical Pharmacy Services and an Infectious Diseases pharmacist at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY. In addition, she has appointments as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and International Health at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC and Instructor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Dr. Dodds Ashley received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Bouvé College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts in 1998. She subsequently completed her pharmacy practice residency at Duke University Health System and a specialty residency in adult internal medicine/infectious disease with Duke University Health System and Campbell University before joining the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in 2000. While at Duke, she served as the clinical pharmacist for the Infectious Diseases Transplant Consult Service and Co-Chair of the Antibiotic Evaluation Team as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Campbell University School of Pharmacy. Additionally, she completed her Masters in Health Science in Clinical Research at Duke University School of Medicine in 2006. In April 2008, Dr. Dodds Ashley joined the University of Rochester Medical Center as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases until transitioning to her current role in September 2009.
Her clinical, teaching, and research activities focus on antimicrobial stewardship and infectious diseases in the transplant population. Recent areas of research include pharmacokinetics of antifungal agents and preventative strategies for invasive fungal infections in solid-organ and bone marrow transplant recipients.. Dr Dodds Ashley has coauthored abstracts, book chapters, and journal articles, and she has given presentations at seminars, grand rounds, and regional and national professional meetings. Among the journals her articles have appeared in are Journal of Microbiology, Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapies, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Pharmacotherapy, and Current Opinion in Pharmacotherapy. Her professional affiliations include American College of Clinical Pharmacy where she served as the 2009-2010 Chair of the Infectious Diseases Practice and Research Network and the Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists, participating on the strategic planning committee in 2007-2008.