David

Butler

Education  

• Infectious Diseases Research Fellowship – University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL 
• Pharmacy Practice Residency (PGY1) – Mann-Grandstaff Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Spokane, WA
• Doctor of Pharmacy – Washington State University, Spokane, WA 
• Bachelor of Science, Biology – Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 

Research Interests  

• Infectious Diseases 
• Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics 
• Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance 
• Rapid diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship 
• Interprofessional Education 

Certifications  

• Board Certified Infectious Diseases Specialist (BCIDP) 
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) 

Select Presentations 

• Post-Graduate Training and Why Do a Pharmacy Residency. 8th Annual ACPHS Residency and Fellowship Symposium. Albany, NY. September 2024. 
• Refining Combination Therapy for Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. 2023 Fall Symposium, Eastern New York Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Albany, NY. September 2023. 
• Butler DA. Drug-Resistant STIs—Oh My! Current Prevention & Management of STIs. ACPHS Office of CE, Albany, NY. March 2023. 
• COVID-19 Information Escape: What You Missed but the Virus Didn’t. ACPHS Office of CE, Albany, NY. February 2022. 
• Evolving Evidence in the Treatment of COVID-19: Light on the Horizon? ACPHS Office of CE, Albany, NY. September 2020. 
• Current Evidence and Treatment of COVID-19: Effective until Proven Deadly. ACPHS Office of CE, Albany, NY. Jun 2020. 
• Butler DA. Burden of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales Infections. Vizient Analyst Certificate Program. Chicago, IL. May 2019. 

Select Publications 

• Butler DA, Moolick K. Physical compatibility of omadacycline with intravenous agents used in the treatment of Mycobacteroides abscessus. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. Published online November 12, 2025:zxaf299. doi:10.1093/ajhp/zxaf299 
• Butler DA, Patel N, O’Donnell JN, Lodise, TP. Combination therapy with IV fosfomycin for adult patients with serious Gram-negative infections: a review of the literature. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Published online August 31, 2024. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkae25 
• Wenzler E, Butler DA, Tan X, Katsube T, Wajima T. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and dose optimization of cefiderocol during continuous renal replacement therapy. Clinical Pharmacokinetics 2022;61(4):539-552. DOI: 10.1007/s40262-021-01086-y 
• Butler DA, Biagi, M. Low-risk Community-Acquired Intra-abdominal Infections. In: Dodds Ashley E, Gross A, eds. Infectious Diseases Self-Assessment Program, 2022 Book 1. Abdominopelvic Cavity Infections and Antimicrobial Toxicities. Lenexa, KS: American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2022:65-99. 
• ​​​​​​​Biagi M, Butler DA. High-risk Community- and Hospital-Acquired Intraabdominal Infections. In: Dodds Ashley E, Gross A, eds. Infectious Diseases Self-Assessment Program, 2022 Book 1. Abdominopelvic Cavity Infections and Antimicrobial Toxicities. Lenexa, KS: American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2022:101-149. 
• Butler DA, Lopez FK, Rana A, Hauser AR, Bulman ZP. Optimizing aminoglycoside selection for KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae with the aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AME) gene aac(6')-Ib. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2021 Feb 11;76(3):671-679. DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa480 
• Butler DA, Biagi MJ, Wieczorkiewicz S, Gupta V, Young L, Patel U, Naegele S, Santarossa M, Harrington A, Postelnick M, Mira Suseno, Christensen A, Giddens J, Murrey T, Hanson A, Sam S, Pettit N, Danziger LH, Wenzler E. Development of a 51-hospital Chicagoland regional antibiogram and comparison to local hospital and national surveillance data. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2020 Dec;41(12):1409-1418. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.334 
• Butler DA, Biagi MJ, Tan X, Qasmieh S, Bulman ZP, Wenzler E. Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: Resistance by Any Other Name Would Still be Hard to Treat. Current Infectious Disease Reports. 2019 Nov 16;21(12):46. DOI: 10.1007/s11908-019-0706-5 

Professional Affiliations and Membership 

• American College of Clinical Pharmacy 
• Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacy 
• ​​​​​​​Rho Chi Honor Society