Contact Information

301 College of Pharmacy
725 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40536

phone: 859-257-4778
fax: 859-323-0069

Contact by email

Positions

• Associate Dean for Educational Advancement
  Office of Education
• Associate Professor
  Pharmacy Practice and Science Department
• Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies (Joint Appointment)
  Division of Clinical Sciences, College of Allied Health

Education

• B.S. Pharmacy
  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 1994
• Doctor of Pharmacy
  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 1996
• Pharmacy Practice Residency
  University of Kentucky Medical Center, 1997
• Specialty Residency in Critical Care
  University of Kentucky Medical Center, 1998
• Chief Resident in Pharmacy
  University of Kentucky Medical Center, 1998
• MPH
  University of Kentucky, 2006

Licensure

• Pharmacist
  State of Connecticut, 1994
• Pharmacist
  Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1995
• Pharmacist
  Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1996

Specialty Certification

• 2000 Pharmacotherapy BCPS

Scholarly/Research Interests

• HIV/AIDS Pharmacotherapeutics
• HIV/AIDS and Recreational Drug Abuse
• Pharmacy Education and Curriculum Development

Frank Romanelli - Pharm.D., MPH, BCPS

Selected Honors

• UK Provosts Award for Outstanding Teaching – Tenured Faculty (2008)
• UK College of Pharmacy Senior Class Outstanding Faculty Member Award (2008)
• Fellow, American Pharmacist Association (2009)

Teaching Activities

• Coordinator, Pharmacy Seminar (PPS 953)
• Coordinator, RX Files (PPS 896)

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Romanelli F, Smith KM, Murphy BS. Does HIV infection alter the incidence and pathology of H. pylori infection? Aids Patient Care and STDs 2007;21:908-919.
• Kent ME, Romanelli F. Rediscovering syphilis: An update on epidemiology and clinical management. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2008;42:226-36.
• Romanelli F. Instructing the Intangibles: A contemporary seminar series for pharmacy studetns. American Journal of Pharmacy Education 2008;72:1-4.
• Romanelli F, Whisman T, Fink JL. Issues surrounding lethal injection as a means of capital punishment. Pharmacotherapy 2008;28:1429-36.
• Romanelli F, Bird EB, Ryan M. Learning styles: A review of therapy, application, and best practices. American Journal of Pharmacy Education 2009;73:1-5.
• Hunt J, Romanelli F. Maraviroc: blockage of HIV-1 entry via co-receptor antagonism. Pharmacotherapy 2009;29:295-304.
• Romanelli F, Smith KM. Dextromethorphan abuse: clinical effects and management. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 2009;49;e20-7.
• Venugopalan V, Thornton AC, Steinke DT, Rapp RP, Romanelli F, Feola DJ. Trimethorpim-sulfamethoxazole exposure alters ex vivo function of B lymphocytes isolated from HIV-infected subjects receiving zidovudine. Pharmacotherapy 2009;29:373-82.

Selected Book Chapters

• Romanelli F, Pomeroy C. Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Chapter 5) in Management of Antimicrobials in Infectious Diseases. Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ 2008;85-100.