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Taylor Cason, PharmD, CPP, BCPS, BECMP
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Medical University of South Carolina
PGY1 Residency: Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington, KY
PGY2 Residency in Emergency Medicine: Sarasota Memorial Hospital
About Dr. Carson: Dr. Cason joined the CMC pharmacy team in July 2024. She started her career as an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner at a community hospital before transitioning to her current role as an EM Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. Her professional interests include research, resuscitation, toxicology and emergency preparedness. Dr. Carson was honored as the 2024–2025 Preceptor of the Year at Carolinas Medical Center and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Acute Care Pharmacotherapy.
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Anna Rouse Dulaney, PharmD, DABAT, FAACT
Specialty: Clinical Toxicology
Site: Carolinas Medical Center and Levine Children’s Hospital
Pharmacy School: University of South Carolina (BS Pharmacy), The University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy (PharmD)
About Dr. Dulaney: Dr. Dulaney is a board-certified Clinical Toxicologist with the Division of Medical Toxicology in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is an Adjunct Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and a Clinical Associate Professor with Wingate University School of Pharmacy. She is the Associate Program Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. She reviews for multiple Toxicology and Emergency Medicine journals, is on the Fatality Review Committee of America’s Poison Centers and serves on the Antidote Collective for the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. Her interests are in psychiatric drug toxicity, novel substances of abuse, pediatric toxicology and natural toxins.
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Stormi Gale, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP, FHFSA
Specialty: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Wingate University School of Pharmacy
PGY1 Residency: Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
PGY2 Residency in Cardiology: University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
About Dr. Gale: Dr. Gale joined the CMC pharmacy department in summer of 2024. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and a clinical specialist on the advanced heart failure service at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She later transitioned back to Charlotte as a cardiology clinical specialist and clinical pharmacist practitioner at Novant Health. Dr. Gale is currently a Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and Chair of the American College of Pharmacy Cardiology (ACCP) Practice and Research Network. She was nominated for the ACCP New Educator Award and also named a 2019 HFSA Future Leader in Heart Failure. Her professional interests include heart failure, hemodynamics, diuretic resistance and pulmonary hypertension.
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Alyssa (Mays) Watts, PharmD, BCPS, BCEMP
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: University of Florida College of Pharmacy
PGY1 Residency: CaroMont Regional Medical Center
PGY2 Residency in Emergency Medicine: CaroMont Regional Medical Center
About Dr. May: Dr. May joined the CMC pharmacy department in August 2023. She started her career in Florida as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in the Emergency Department at a community hospital before transitioning to her current role. Her professional interests include diabetic ketoacidosis, optimizing empiric antimicrobial regimens and anticoagulation reversal.
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Nicholas Quinn, PharmD, BCCCP
Specialty: Medical Critical Care
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Northeastern University
PGY1 Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
PGY2 Residency in Cardiology: Cleveland Clinic
About Dr. Qiunn: Dr. Quinn joined the CMC pharmacy department in September of 2022. He worked as the Clinical Pharmacy Manager in Critical Care at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY prior to joining CMC. His research interests include ICU delirium, pharmacokinetics in the critically ill, anticoagulation in the critically ill and infectious diseases.
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Britany Sofio, PharmD, BCEMP
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Wingate University School of Pharmacy
PGY1 Residency: Vidant Medical Center
PGY2 Residency in Emergency Medicine: Medical University of South Carolina
About Dr. Sofio: Sofio joined Atrium Health in 2021 after completion of her residency. Her professional interests include toxicology, medical management of flash pulmonary edema, anticoagulation reversal stewardship and optimization, alcohol withdrawal, DKA and hyperkalemia management in the emergency department.
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Morgan Tobin, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Specialty: Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: Albany College of Pharmacy
PGY1 Residency: Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington, KY
PGY2 Residency in Critical Care: Saint Joseph Hospital, Lexington, KY
About Dr. Tobin: Dr. Tobin joined the CMC pharmacy department in December 2021. She started her career as an Emergency Medicine Clinical Specialist at CaroMont Regional Medical Center prior to starting at Carolinas Medical Center as a Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist. She then transitioned into her current role as the Surgical Trauma Critical Care Pharmacy Specialist in 2024. Dr. Tobin is actively involved within SCCM and sits as the Mentorship Chair of the Carolinas/Virginias Chapter of SCCM. Her professional interests include research, resuscitation, anticoagulation reversal, opioid stewardship and traumatic brain injuries.
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Stephanie Murtha, PharmD, BCCCP
Specialty: Neurocritical Care
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: West Virginia University School of Pharmacy
PGY1 Residency: ECU Health
PGY2 Residency in Critical Care: ECU Health
About Dr. Murtha: Dr. Murtha joined the CMC pharmacy department in August 2022, most recently establishing her role as the Neurocritical Care Clinical Pharmacist. Stephanie currently serves as the Communications Chair for the Carolinas/Virginias Chapter of SCCM. Her professional interests include research and quality improvement, status epilepticus and management of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
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Alyshia McKnight, PharmD, BCCCP
Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgical Critical Care
Site: Carolinas Medical Center
Pharmacy School: University of Florida
PGY 1 Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
PGY 2 Residency in Critical Care: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
About Dr. McKnight: Dr. McKnight joined the department of pharmacy at CMC in October of 2020. She worked as a clinical staff pharmacist in the Emergency Department prior to transitioning to her role as CMC’s first Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. Her clinical interests include cardiopulmonary bypass, mechanical circulatory support devices and hemodynamic management of postoperative patients.
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Kelcee Widdess, PharmD, MBA, BCPPS
Specialty: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Site: Levine Children’s Hospital
Pharmacy School: Texas Tech University
PGY1 Residency: Pediatrics - Children's Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA
PGY2 Residency in Pediatrics: Pediatric Critical Care - Children's Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA
About Dr. Widdess: Dr. Widdess joined the Levine/CMC pharmacy team in 2023 and helped start pediatric emergency medicine pharmacy services at Levine Children’s Hospital. She started her career as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at a stand-alone children’s hospital and Level 1 pediatric trauma center before transitioning to her current role. She currently works to help harmonize pediatric care in emergency departments within the enterprise. Clinical interests include pediatric RSI, pediatric DKA, management of metabolic emergencies in patients with inborn errors of metabolism and pediatric readiness at non-pediatric emergency departments.
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