After graduating from the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy Meghan completed a pharmacy practice residency with Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah and a specialty residency in infectious diseases at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She made a quick pit stop in clinical practice before joining the faculty at Roseman University in Nevada. Here she learned to teach and developed a love for innovating infectious diseases education. Now at University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy she continues to teach infectious diseases and clinical problem solving where she regularly uses gamification including escape rooms, puzzles, ID Gin Rummy, and BugOut!. 

Her practice site is the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) where she precepts students and residents on Antimicrobial Stewardship and ID consults rotations. As a member of the UCH Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee her recent projects include development and implementation of “cefazolin for all” surgical site infection prophylaxis, and revision of Gram-positive treatment pathways that liberalized restrictions on linezolid and daptomycin. 

Dr. Jeffres is serious about service to the profession. She has served as a board member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, a current board member of MAD-ID, the Chair of Antimicrobial Stewardship Track at the Spring SHEA Meeting, and co-founder of the Infectious Diseases Educator Network. She is a regular on stage at national and local meeting alike including Colorado Pharmacists Society, CO-ID Symposium, and Bugs & Drugs. Common topics include antibiotic allergies, antibiotic resistance, and active learning/gamification.