Medication Talk

Sorting Through Penicillin Allergies

TRC Healthcare Season 2 Episode 4

Special guest Deanna L. McDanel, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Ambulatory Care and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Iowa Healthcare and College of Pharmacy joins us to talk about penicillin allergies.

Listen in as they discuss how to identify the risk of a true penicillin allergy...and when to worry about cross-reactivity.

You’ll also hear practical advice from panelists on TRC’s Editorial Advisory Board:

  • Stephen Carek, MD, CAQSM, DipABLM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Prisma Health/USC-SOMG Family Medicine Residency Program at the USC School of Medicine Greenville
  • Anthony A. Donato, Jr., MD, MHPE, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine from the Reading Health System, and Professor of Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
  • Douglas S. Paauw, MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Craig D. Williams, PharmD, FNLA, BCPS, Clinical Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Oregon Health and Science University

None of the speakers have anything to disclose. 

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