Michael D. Kraft, PharmD, BCNSP, is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in Ann Arbor. Dr. Kraft's practice site is at the University of Michigan Health-System, where he serves as Clinical Coordinator and Clinical Pharmacist in Surgery and Nutrition. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, and then completed a specialty residency in critical care and nutrition support at the University of Tennessee at Memphis before returning to his alma mater as a faculty member.

At the college, Dr. Kraft provides didactic lectures and sessions on several topics, including fluids and electrolyte pathophysiology, acid-base pathophysiology, and parenteral nutrition support. His research interests include nutrition support, drug-nutrient interactions, infectious diseases in surgical and critically ill patients, drug and nutrition therapy during continuous renal replacement therapy, adverse drug events, gastrointestinal dysfunction in critically ill patients, and postoperative ileus. Dr. Kraft has authored several articles and book chapters, and his writings have appeared in Pharmacotherapy, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Chemical Research in Toxicology. He regularly presents at local, regional, and national conferences on topics that include postoperative ileus, perioperative nutrition support, nutrition support in surgical and critically ill patients, sepsis, treatment of nosocomial pneumonia, and appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy. Dr. Kraft is a Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist.

Dr. Kraft is an active member of several professional associations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.), Michigan Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (MSPEN), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and Michigan Pharmacists Association (MPA). He currently serves as the Past-President of MSPEN, Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Section of A.S.P.E.N., and member of the Professional Affairs Committee of MPA.