Vanderbilt Center for Human Nutrition

Nutrition Support Pharmacy Specialist

Dr. Kumpf joined the Vanderbilt Center for Human Nutrition team in January 2006 in the position of Nutrition Support Pharmacy Specialist.  She brings an extensive background of nutrition support experience from both the hospital and home care settings working as a clinical pharmacy specialist.  She is board certified in Nutrition Support Pharmacy Practice.

Education

Dr. Kumpf received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1985.  She then completed a 1-year Clinical Pharmacy Residency at Truman Medical Center, University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1986 and a 1-year Nutrition Support Specialty Residency at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in 1987. 

Work and Teaching Experience

Previous to her current position, she worked in the position of Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Nutrishare, Inc. in Elk Grove, California, a home infusion pharmacy providing service to adult and pediatric long term parenteral nutrition patients.  Prior to that, she worked for 10 years in the position of Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Nutrition Support at Methodist Hospital of Indiana in Indianapolis.  Her teaching experience includes lecturing pharmacy students at Purdue and Butler University Colleges of Pharmacy in the area of nutrition support and precepting students on nutrition rotation. 

Professional Activities

She has given many presentations on a national level covering nutrition and pharmacy related topics.  Dr. Kumpf is actively involved in various pharmacy and nutrition professional organizations and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.  Primary areas of interest include issues related to the safe use of parenteral nutrition therapy in the hospital patient and identifying ways to minimize complications and improve quality of life in the home parenteral nutrition patient.

Selected Publications

Kumpf V, Mirtallo J, Petersen C. Parenteral Nutrition Formulations: Preparation and Ordering. In: Merritt R, ed. The A.S.P.E.N. Nutrition Support Practice Manual, 2nd ed. Silver Spring, MD: A.S.P.E.N., 2005; 97-107.

Mirtallo J, Canada T, Johnson D, Kumpf V, Petersen C, Sacks G, Seres D, Guenter P. Safe practices for parenteral nutrition. JPEN 2004;28 (6 suppl):S39-S70.

Kumpf V, Chessman K. Enteral nutrition. In:  DiPiro JT, ed. Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 6th ed. Appleton & Lange; 2615-2634.

Kumpf V. Update on parenteral iron therapy. Nutr Clin Pract 2003;18:318-326.

Kumpf V, Gervasio J. Pharmacotherapeutics. In:  Gottschlich M, ed. The Science and Practice of Nutrition Support: A Case-Based Core Curriculum, 1st ed.  Silver Spring: A.S.P.E.N., Inc., 2001; 287-299.

Kumpf V.  Implementation of safe practices for parenteral nutrition formulations.  Am J Health-Syst Pharm 1999;56:815-817.

National Advisory Group on Standards and Practice Guidelines for Parenteral Nutrition.  Safe practices for parenteral feeding formulations.  JPEN 1998;22(2):49-66.