Categories: Education

Class of 2022 gets their white coats and takes the Oath of a Pharmacist

Fri Sep 6, 2019
Dickinson and Diaz receive their coats.
Susan Merrell

Class of 2022 students Drew Dickinson and Ricardo Diaz donned symbolic white coats, marking their passage into the profession of pharmacy.

Members of the UC San Francisco doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2022 took a formal step into their new careers on August 30, symbolically donning the white coat of health care professionals and taking the Oath of a Pharmacist at a ceremony in Cole Hall on the UCSF Parnassus campus.

School of Pharmacy welcomes the Class of 2022

Fri Aug 2, 2019
Guglielmo speaks to an auditorium behind a screen that reads 'Welcome Class of 2022!'
Levi Gadye

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, addresses the latest PharmD class.

The Class of 2022 is the School of Pharmacy’s second cohort to embark on a newly revamped curriculum.

Impact of Curriculum Transformation Awards given for assessing new PharmD curriculum

Mon Jun 24, 2019
Students chat on their first day of class
Elisabeth Fall

A new PharmD curriculum was introduced in 2018.

Impact Awards support new ways of determining how the new PharmD curriculum is working, according to Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans.

UCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates Commencement 2019

Tue May 14, 2019
graduate and Guglielmo dressed in regalia
Elisabeth Fall

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, congratulates Peter Nguyen, PharmD, Class of 2019.

On May 3, in front of a crowd of more than one thousand gathered at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the 122 members of the UCSF School of Pharmacy graduating class of 2019 received their doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degrees.

Studies on adolescent drug abuse, anti­de­pres­sants in the ER, and complications from heart pumps take top honors at annual seminar

Tue May 14, 2019
Rifkind and wife

Joyce Rifkind (left) and Gary Rifkind, PharmD ’60

Research on topics ranging from drug abuse to heart pump complications took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s 21st annual Spring Research Seminar.

MacDougall named Divine Family Endowed Chair in Clinical Pharmacy

Thu May 2, 2019
MacDougall
Elisabeth Fall

Conan MacDougall, PharmD

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, has been selected as the new holder of the Divine Family Endowed Chair in Clinical Pharmacy. The chair was created in 2003 by Philmore G.

2019 Koda-Kimble Seed Award supports School of Pharmacy’s boldest ideas

Tue Mar 12, 2019
Koda-Kimble
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Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, former dean of the School of Pharmacy

The 2019 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will fund nine bold research projects, ranging from studies of the molecular underpinnings of cancer to focus groups designed to prepare PharmD students for experiential learning.

Medical and pharmacy students jointly tackle health care’s most pressing dilemmas

Fri Feb 22, 2019
Student in discussion with Rodriguez-Monguio
Levi Gadye

Pharmacy student Shafat Selim (right) discusses the complexities of the orphan drug market with School of Pharmacy faculty member Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, PhD, (left) during a mini-course session.

A two-week course brought first-year UCSF medical and pharmacy students together, for the first time, to grapple with controversies and challenges in health care using scientific evidence and faculty-led discussion.

Tamraz is featured PGRN Investigator

Tue Feb 5, 2019
Bani Tamraz, PharmD, PhD, is the featured Pharmacogenomics Research Network Investigator (PGRN) for February 2019. An article on the group’s website described his overall goal to build a patient-oriented program of pharmacogenetics research, teaching, and clinical practice that utilizes genetics...

Clinard, Tran, and Thompson-Quan discuss beneficial collaboration between School of Pharmacy and Medical Center

Mon Dec 10, 2018
Clinard, Tran, Thompson-Quan
Left to right: Valerie Clinard, PharmD; Judie Tran, PharmD; Ashley Thompson-Quan, PharmD
Valerie Clinard, PharmD, Judie Tran, PharmD, and Ashley Thompson-Quan, PharmD, recently collaborated in writing an article for the Journal of Pharmacy Practice about the implementation of a large-scale coordinated introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) program at UCSF.

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