Earnest Alexander, Jr., Pharm.D.

is the Board Liaison to the ABHP Council on Educational Affairs. Dr. Alexander is the Clinical Manager for Tampa General Hospital’s Department of Pharmacy Services.  Dr. Alexander also holds faculty appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor with the Florida A & M University College of Pharmacy and the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.  

Subsequent to obtaining his doctorate in Pharmacy from Howard University in Washington, DC, he completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.  He later went on to complete a Specialty Residency in Critical Care/Nutrition Support with the University of Tennessee College of Clinical Pharmacy and the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee and served as Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Specialist at Tampa General Hospital for a number of years before transitioning to his current position.

His current responsibilities involve coordinating the pharmaceutical care of Tampa General Hospital’s adult critically ill patients along with shaping the clinical service goals and direction of the pharmacy department.  As a clinical manager specializing in critical care he is involved in direct patient care as well as the training of critical care clinical pharmacists, pharmacy practice and specialty pharmacy residents.  Dr. Alexander has also improved the care of critically ill patients and positively impacted the hospital and pharmacy department’s budget through the development of a number of drug therapy related protocols/guidelines.  As a clinical researcher, Dr. Alexander also contributes to medical literature through active publication.   His areas of research focus include drug disposition in critically ill patients including drug removal in continuous renal replacement therapy, nutrition support of critically ill patients, infectious diseases and sedation/analgesia in the ICU.