AEMP Leadership
2026 - 2027 AEMP Executive Committee
Megan A. Rech, PharmD, MS, BCCCP
Immediate Past President
Edward Hines Jr VA
Megan A. Rech, PharmD, MS, BCCCP, completed residency training at Henry Ford Hospital and a critical care residency at Rush University Medical Center/Midwestern University. She also earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods and Epidemiology from Loyola University Chicago.
Previously, Dr. Rech served as an emergency medicine clinical pharmacist and research director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center. She is a fellow of both the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Clinical Pharmacists.
She is chair-elect of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacology Section and a founding planning committee member of the Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy with Resuscitation (EMPoweRx) Conference. It was the first conference dedicated to emergency medicine pharmacists—held in conjunction with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting.
Her research focuses on pharmacotherapy in critically and emergently ill patients, with the goal of improving care for veterans requiring emergency medicine services. She has served as a principal investigator on large, multicenter, prospective observational studies and as a senior investigator on a prospective randomized controlled trial. Additionally, she co-founded the Emergency Medicine PHARMacotherapy Research NETwork (EMPHARM-NET), which aims to advance high-quality, multicenter research in emergency medicine pharmacotherapy nationwide.