Appointments

• Professor of Pharmacy Practice
• Director of Workforce Development, Office of Student Success, College of Pharmacy
• Director of Professional Development, Office of Education, College of Pharmacy

Bio

At NEOMED, I serve as the section lead for Specialty Care, the director of Workforce Development, the director of Professional Development for the College of Pharmacy. I am also a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice.

Previously, I served as:

• the clinical pharmacy specialist – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (2010-2023) and PGY1 Pharmacy Residency program director (2013-2023) at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio, and
• the clinical pharmacy specialist – Pediatric Surgery/Intestinal Failure (2005-2010) at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Education

• M.Ed., Health Professions Education, Cleveland State University/Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, 2025.
• PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005.
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2004.
• Pharm.D., University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Pharmacy in Memphis, Tennessee, 2003.
• B.S., Biochemistry, Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, 1999.

Area of Expertise/Research Interests

My expertise is in neonatal-pediatric pharmacotherapy, nutrition support therapy, ethanol lock therapy, and management of patients with intestinal failure.

Courses

• Pharmacy Skills 1 (Fall P1)
• Pharmacy Calculations (Fall P1)
• Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 1 (Fall P1)
• Pharmacy Skills 2 (Spring P1)
• Profession Ready (May Intercession P1)
• Pharmacotherapy: OTC/Self-Care (Fall P2)
• Parenterals (Spring P2)
• Pharmacotherapy: Gastroenterology/Nutrition (Fall P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Infectious Diseases (Fall P3)
• Global Health Elective (Fall P3)
• Pharmacy Skills 5 (Fall P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Critical Care (Spring P3)
• Pharmacotherapy: Special Population (Spring P3)
• Pharmacy Skills 6 (Spring P3)
• Advanced Pediatric Pharmacy Elective (May Intercession P3)
• Personal and Professional Development for Pharmacy 7 (Fall P4)
• Academic & Professional Activities

Academic & Professional Activities

• Pediatric Pharmacy Association: Immediate Past President (2025-present), President (2024-2025), President-Elect (2023-present), Board of Directors, Director at Large (2020-2023); Education Chair (2019-2020); Northeast Ohio Medical University Student Chapter, Faculty Advisor (2013-present); Webinar Committee Co-Chair (2017-2019)
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Chair of the Parenteral Nutrition Committee (2025-present), Vice Chair of the Parenteral Nutrition Committee (2022-2025), Chair of the ASPEN24 Planning Committee (2023-2024), Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Section (2018-2020); Chair of the Clinical Practice Committee (2014-2016)
• Ohio Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Treasurer (2014-present)
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists: Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Pediatrics (Secretary, 2022-2023; Member, 2020-present); Network Session Facilitator – Pediatrics/Neonatal (2014-2016)

Awards

• 2024 Distinguished Nutrition Support Pharmacy Service Award (American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition)
• 2022 NEOMED Transformational Leader
• 2021 NEOMED Liebelt-Wheeler Award for Faculty Excellence
• 2021 American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Stanley Serlick Award
• 2020 American College of Clinical Pharmacists Pediatrics PRN Outstanding Practitioner Award

Distinctions

• Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (FASPEN)
• Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS)
• Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP)
• Certified American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Well-Being Ambassador
• Graduate of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Leadership and Management Certification Program (2023)

Presentations

• 3/25 Optimization and Complications of Parenteral Nutrition in Preterm Infants: Challenges of Calcium, Phosphorus, and Lipid Injectable Emulsion Provision, Invited Lecturer, ASPEN 2025 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, Columbus, Ohio
• 11/24 Nonprescription Analgesic/Antipyretic Drug Development in Children 2 to Less Than 12 Years of Age, Invited Lecturer, Food and Drug Administration – University of Maryland Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, Virtual Conference
• 5/24 Parenteral Nutrition in Pediatric and Neonatal Patients: Issues and Answers, Invited Co-Lecturer, Pediatric Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 3/24 To co-infuse, or not to co-infuse: that is the compatibility question, Invited Lecturer, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, ASPEN 2024 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference, Tampa, Florida
• 2/24 Patient Centric Pediatric Product Development: A Caregiver Perspective, Invited Lecturer, Product Quality Research Institute, Food and Drug Administration, Virtual Conference

Select Publications

• Wolff J, Cober MP, Huff KA. Essential fatty acid deficiency in parenteral nutrition: Historical perspective and modern solutions, a narrative review. Nutr Clin Pract. 2025; 40: 350-367.
  doi:10.1002/ncp.11278. PMID: 39961748
• Girotto JE, Klein KC, Cober MP, Cavness AA, Hagemann TM, Warminski S, Hernandez T. Pharmacists as Partners in Pediatric Immunizations: A White Paper From the Pediatric Pharmacy Association. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2024;29(6):660-666. doi:10.5863/1551-6776-29.6.660. PMID: 39659850
• Robinson DT, Calkins KL, Chen Y, Cober MP, Falciglia GH, Church DD, Mey J, McKeever L, Sentongo T. Guidelines for parenteral nutrition in preterm infants: the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2023; 47: 830-858. doi:10.1002/jpen.2550. PMID: 37610837
• Cober MP, Gura KM, Mirtallo JM, Ayers P, Boullata J, Anderson CR, Plogsted S; ASPEN Parenteral Nutrition Safety Committee. ASPEN lipid injectable emulsion safety recommendations part 2: Neonate and pediatric considerations. Nutr Clin Pract. 2021 Dec;36(6):1106-1125. doi: 10.1002/ncp.10778. PMID: 34705289
• da Silva JSV, Seres DS, Sabino K, Adams SC, Berdahl GJ, Citty SW, Cober MP, Evans DC, Greaves JR, Gura KM, Michalski A, Plogsted S, Sacks GS, Tucker AM, Worthington P, Walker RN, Ayers P; Parenteral Nutrition Safety and Clinical Practice Committees, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. ASPEN Consensus Recommendations for Refeeding Syndrome. Nutr Clin Pract. 2020 Apr;35(2):178-195. doi: 10.1002/ncp.10474. Epub 2020 Mar 2. Erratum in: Nutr Clin Pract. 2020 Jun;35(3):584-585. doi:10.1002/ncp.10474. PMID: 32115791

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