Molly E. Steed


Molly Steed
  • Clinical Associate Professor
  • Department of Pharmacy Practice

Contact Info

Room Wescoe, 6009D
Medical Center, Kansas City
3901 Rainbow Blvd, MS 4047
Kansas City, KS 66160

Biography

Clinical Assistant Professor Molly Steed earned a Pharm.D. in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. She continued her training at the University of Kentucky, where she completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, a PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Certificate Program. She then worked as an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist and adjunct clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  During this time she was in charge of the hospital wide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, precepted pharmacy students and PGY1/PGY2 residents, and taught several Infectious Diseases and Pharmacokinetic topics at the School of Pharmacy before setting off to Wayne State University in Detroit where she completed an Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Research Fellowship in the Anti-Infective Research Laboratory under the tutelage of Dr. Michael Rybak. In addition to her translational laboratory research training, she also taught in the Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy module at the College of Pharmacy and precepted pharmacy students, PGY1 Pharmacy Residents and PGY2 infectious diseases pharmacy residents at The Detroit Medical Center. In 2011, Steed joined the faculty as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. In her clinical practice site at the University of Kansas Medical Center, she is actively involved with the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and rounds with the Infectious Diseases physicians on the consult services.

Courses Taught

  • Pharmacy Practice 648
  • Pharmocotherapy 3
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases Clerkship Elective
  • Research Infectious Diseases Clerkship Elective

Education

PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residency, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy
Pharm.D., University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, 2005

Selected Publications

  • Steed ME, Werth BJ, Ireland CE, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of the novel combination of high-dose daptomycin plus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole against daptomycin-nonsusceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model of simulated endocardial vegetations.  Antimicrob Agents Chemother.  2012;56:5709-14.
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Rybak MJ. Evaluation of telavancin activity vs. vancomycin and daptomycin against daptomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model with simulated endocardial vegetations.  Antimicrob Agents Chemother.  2012;56:955-59.
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Rose WE, Winterfield P, Kaatz G, Rybak MJ.  Characterizing vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium strains with various mechanisms of daptomycin resistance developed in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.  Antimicrob Agents Chemother.  2011;55:4748-4754.
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of ceftaroline activity versus daptomycin against daptomycin non-susceptible methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.  Antimicrob Agents Chemother.  2011;55:3522-3526.
  • Steed ME, Rybak MJCeftaroline: a new cephalosporin with activity against resistant gram-positive pathogens.  Pharmacotherapy.  2010;30:375-389.

Selected Presentations

  • Steed ME.  Systemic triazole antifungal agents.  Invited Presentation at the Missouri Society of Health System Pharmacists & Kansas Council of Health System Pharmacists 2012 Annual Meeting.  Kansas City, MO.  April 2012.
  • Steed ME.  Superbugs! Clinical Controversies in the Management of Multiple-Drug Resistant Bacteria:  MRSA Bacteremia with Elevated Vancomycin MIC’s – Is Daptomycin really Superior?  Invited presentation at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2012 Midyear Clinical Meeting.  Las Vegas, NV.  December 2012.
  • Steed ME, Werth BJ, Ireland CE, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of the novel combination of high dose daptomycin (HD-DAP) plus trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) against daptomycin non-susceptible (DNS) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) model of simulated endocardial vegetations (SEVs).  Poster presented at the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  San Francisco, CA.  September 2012.
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Winterfield P, Biek D, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of ceftaroline’s activity versus ceftriaxone against clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae with varying susceptibilities to cephalosporins in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.  Poster presented at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  Chicago, IL.  September 2011. 
  • Steed ME, Avery L, Woodruff A, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of daptomycin plus trimenthoprim-sulfamethoxazole or rifampin activity in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model against VISA and daptomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from osteomyelitis cases.  Poster presented at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  Chicago, IL.  September 2011. 
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of telavancin activity versus daptomycin and vancomycin against daptomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.  Poster presented at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  Chicago, IL.  September 2011.
  • Steed ME, Vidaillac C, Rybak MJ.  Evaluation of ceftaroline activity vs. daptomycin against daptomycin non-susceptible methiciliin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in an in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model.  Oral presentation at the 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases/ 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy.  Milan, Italy.  May 2011.

Awards & Honors

  • ASM Infectious Diseases Fellow Travel Grant, 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents (September, 2011)
  • ECCMID Fellow Registration Grant, 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (April, 2010)
  • Wyeth ICAAC Infectious Diseases Fellow Grant, 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (September, 2009)

Memberships

  • American College of Clinical Pharmacy
  • National Lipid Association
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
  • American College of Clinical Pharmacy (College of Pharmacy Liaison)