About me.

 My name is Andrea Sikora, and I want to help individuals to pay it forward. I believe in the power of interprofessional healthcare, team science, and mentorship to improve the systems of healthcare delivery, inquiry, and education. Indeed, we are all beneficiaries of gifts we can only pay forward to the next generation.

I am a clinician, scientist, and educator at the University of Georgia. I was trained as a pharmacist specializing in critical care and as a scientist trained in clinical research. In each domain, I am moved by how the systems designed to provide, evaluate, and teach healthcare are necessary to care for our most vulnerable populations (our sickest patients and our students) but moreover those that have dedicated their lives in the care of others:

• I believe that every intensive care unit patient deserves a critical care pharmacist (and the broader corollary, that every patient deserves an interprofessional team designed to care for them).

•  I believe in the power of rigorous questioning and inquiry to effect change.

•  I believe that educators have the power to kindle the fire of those that come after us.

Solving problems excites me, and I love asking questions to find solutions, especially about systems: the system of healthcare delivery, the system of healthcare education, and the system of translating clinically meaningful inquiry between those at the bedside and those in the laboratory, so if you would like to dialogue with me about the challenges facing you, your team, or your institution, I would be honored to be part of your solution.