Faculty Profile
Kevin W. Garey
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Robert L. Boblitt Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery
Department Chair
Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research
Office:
探花视频 College of Pharmacy
Health 2, Room 4039
4349 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Houston, TX 77204-5039
Contact: KGarey@uh.edu - 832-842-8386
Research:
Dr. Garey's research interests are centered on clinical and translational research in healthcare associated infections including healthcare-related infections, candidemia, and Clostridium difficile infection.
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, 1991-95, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Doctorate of Pharmacy, 1995-97, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
- M.S. in Biometry, 2007, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX
- KW Garey, M Rege, MP Pai, DE. Mingo, KJ Suda, RS Turpin, and DT Bearden. Time until initiation of fluconazole therapy impacts mortality in patients with candidemia: A multi-institutional study. Clin Infect Dis 2006;43 (1 July):25-31 PMID: 16758414
- KW Garey, ZD Jiang, S Ghantoji, VH Tam, V Arora, and HL DuPont. A Common Polymorphism in the Interleukin-8 Gene Promoter is Associated with Increased Risk for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection. Clin Infect Dis 2010;51(12):1406-1410 PMID: 21058913
- KW Garey, S Ghantoji, DN Shah, M Habib, V Arora, ZD Jiang, and HL DuPont. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study to assess the effect of rifaximin to prevent recurrent diarrhea in patients with Clostridium difficile infection. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011;66(12):2850-5 PMID: 21948965
- ND Beyda, J John, A Kilic, MJ Alam, TM Lasco, KW Garey. FKS mutant Candida glabrata; risk factors and outcomes in patients with candidemia. Clin Infect Dis 2014:15;59(6):819-25. PMID: 24879785
- E Basseres, BT Endres, M Khaleduzzaman, F Miraftabi, MJ Alam, RJ Vickers, KW Garey. Impact on toxin production and cell morphology in Clostridium difficile by ridinilazole (SMT19969), a novel treatment for C. difficile infection. J Antimicrob Chemother 2016;71(5):1245-51. PMID: 26895772
- BT Endres, E Bassères, M Khaleduzzan1, MJ Alam, L Chesnel, and KW Garey. Evaluating the Effects of Surotomycin Treatment on C. difficile Toxin A and B Production, Immune Response, and Morphologic Changes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2016 May 23;60(6):3519-23. PMID: 27021314
- KW Garey, SL Aitken, L Gschwind, S Goddu, Y Xie, C Duff, F Barbut, DN Shah, and HL DuPont. Development and Validation of a Clostridium difficile Health-related Quality of Life Questionnaire. J Clin Gastro 2016 Sep;50(8):631-7. PMID 26796081
- MJ Alam, ST Walk, BT Endres, E Basseres, M Khaleduzzaman, J Amadio, WL Musick, JL Christensen, J Kuo, RL Atmar, and KW Garey. Community environmental contamination of toxigenic Clostridium difficile. Open Forum Infect Dis 2017 Feb 10;4(1):ofx018. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofx018. eCollection 2017 Winter PMID: 28480289
- LC McDonald, DN Gerding, S Johnson, JS. Bakken, KC Carroll, SE Coffin, ER Dubberke, KW Garey, CV Gould, C Kelly, Loo, JS Sammons, TJ Sandora, MH Wilcox. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Clin Infect Dis. 2018;66(7):987-94. PMID: 29462280
- KR Reveles, KM Dotson, A Gonzales-Luna, D Surati, BT Endres, MJ Alam, KW Garey. Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection during hospitalization increases the likelihood of non-home patient discharge. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 May 17;68(11):1887-1893. PMID:30204878
- TJ Carlson, BT Endres, JL Pham, AJ Gonzales-Luna, FS Alnezary, K Nebo, J Miranda, C Lancaster, E Bassères, K Begum, MJ Alam, KR Reveles, KW Garey. Eosinopenia and binary toxin increases mortality in hospitalized patients with Clostridioides difficile infection. Open Forum Infect Dis 2020 Jan 4;7(1):ofz552. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz552. PMID: 31993458;
- AJ Gonzales-Luna, TJ Carlson, KM Dotson, K Poblete, G Costa, J Miranda, C Lancaster, S Walk, S Tupy, K Begum, MJ Alam, KW Garey. PCR ribotypes of Clostridioides difficile Across Texas from 2011-2018 including Emergence of Ribotype 255. Emerg Microbes Infect 2020; 9(1):341-347. PMID 32037964
- Garey KW, Begum K, Lancaster C, Gonzales-Luna AJ; Bui D, Mercier J, Corinne, SY, Ducharme MP, Hu M, Vince B, Silverman MH, Alam MJ, Kankam M. Randomized, Double blind, Placebo controlled, Single and Multiple Ascending Dose Phase 1 Study to Determine the Safety, Pharmacokinetics, Food, and Fecal Microbiome Effects of Ibezapolstat Administered Orally to Healthy Subjects. J Antimicrob Chemother 2020 Sep 6:dkaa364. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa364. PMID: 32892222
- AJ Gonzales-Luna, AO Olaitan, WJ Shen, A Deshpande, TJ Carlson, KM Dotson, C Lancaster, K Begum, MJ Alam, JG Hurdle, KW Garey. Reduced susceptibility to metronidazole is associated with initial clinical failure in Clostridioides difficile infection. Open Forum Infect Dis, 2021 July 8; ofab365. Doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab365 PMID: 34381844
- S Johnson, V Lavergne, AM Skinner, AJ Gonzales-Luna, KW Garey, CP Kelly, MH Wilcox. Clinical Practice Guideline by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): 2021 Focused Update Guidelines on Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection in Adults. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jun 24:ciab549. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab549..PMID: 34164674
Awards & Honors
- Research Fellowship Award, University of Illinois at Chicago 2000
- SIDP Pharmacists Research Award, 2000
- ACCP ID-PRN Resident/Fellow Research Award, 2000
- Rho Chi member, 2003
- Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 2003
- 探花视频 College of Pharmacy Rho Chi Teacher Excellence Award, 2003
- 探花视频 College of Pharmacy Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2003
- Finalist, 探花视频 Faculty Teaching Award, 2004
- 探花视频 College of Pharmacy Rho Chi Teacher Excellence Award, 2005
- 探花视频 College of Pharmacy Faculty Preceptor Award, 2005
- Selected Best Papers in Mycology ICAAC 2006, San Francisco, CA, 2006
- 探花视频 College of Pharmacy Faculty Research Excellence Award, 2007
- SIDP Impact Paper in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Award, 2007
- ASHP Drug Therapy Research Award, 2007
- Best Review Paper of 2009, Journal of Hospital Infection, 2009
- ASHP Best Practices Award in Health-System Pharmacy, 2010
- Fellow, American Society of Health-System Pharmacy, 2012
- SIDP Impact Paper in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Award, 2012
- 探花视频 PLS Faculty Leadership Award, 2013
- Top 10 Papers in Mycology, ICAAC 2014, Washington, DC, 2014
- Rho Chi Bergy Lecture Recipient, West Virginia University Morgantown, WV, 2017
- IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, 2020
- IDSA Fellow, 2020
- ACCP Fellow, 2021
- ACCP Russell R. Miller Award, 2022
- Innovator Award, Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. Diff Education & Advocacy, 2023