Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center
Michael Semanco is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist for Critical Care and Trauma Services at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center in Central Florida. He graduated with his PharmD from Duquesne University in 2002 and completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UPMC Mercy and a PGY2 Critical Care Residency at WellSpan York Hospital. Dr. Semanco has been at his current position since 2006 and his practice includes caring for patients in the medical, surgical, trauma, and neurocritical care ICUs. He is the current Chair of the Resuscitation (Code 99) Committee and a member of the ECMO Steering Committee which focused on developing and implementing a new ECMO service line. He is a preceptor for multiple pharmacy residency programs and has served as the Director of both the PGY1 Pharmacy and PGY2 Critical Care Residency Programs. Dr. Semanco has been a member of SCCM since 2003 and was a founding member of the Florida Chapter of SCCM serving as the inaugural Secretary for five years. He has been actively involved in the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology (CPP) section throughout his career including participating in the Pharmacotherapy Literature Update (CPP PLU) Charge since 2016. His current areas of interest include resuscitation; pain, agitation, and delirium; and sepsis management.