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UCSF School of Pharmacy
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School profile

Dean

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Departments

Academic programs

Postdoctoral programs

  • Postdoctoral fellowships
  • Visiting professorships

  • Postdoctoral PharmD residencies as of 2010-2011 in:

    • 1st-year general practice

    • 2nd-year specialties in:

      • Infectious diseases
      • Informatics
      • Oncology
      • Pediatrics
      • Pharmacy practice management
      • Psychiatry
      • Toxicology

Research

Faculty memberships in select, prestigious organizations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow

  • 2011: Charles Craik, PhD

Institute of Medicine, Member

  • 1987: Leslie Benet, PhD
  • 1990: Robert Langridge, PhD
  • 2000: Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD
  • 2006: Kathleen Giacomini, PhD

National Academy of Sciences, Member

  • 1999: James Wells, PhD
  • 1999: William DeGrado, PhD

Instructional facilities

Numbers

as of February 2012

Faculty

 

salaried

105

without salary

738

Students

 

PharmD

486

PhD

353

 

Biophysics

58

 

BMI (BI only)

38

CCB

52

PSPG

43

UCSF/UCB JGGB

162

Postdoctoral

 

fellows

111

residents

25

Staff

305

Academic appointees

111

Alumni (living)

 

PharmD (includes BS)

5,527

MS

103

PhD

1,055

The UCSF School of Pharmacy is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

logo The UCSF School of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, which is the national agency that accredits professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education.

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Science specialties

  • Bioengineering
  • Bioinformatics
  • Bioorganic chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • Chemical biology
  • Computational chemistry and biology
  • Drug delivery systems
  • Drug discovery and design
  • Drug metabolism and transport
  • Gene delivery and therapy
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Molecular targeting
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance
  • Personalized medicines
  • Pharmaceutical technology
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • Pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics
  • Protein engineering
  • Proteomics
  • Structural biology
  • Systems biology
  • Systems pharmacology
  • Synthetic biology
  • Toxicology

Clinical specialties

  • Anticoagulation
  • Cardiology
  • Complimentary and alternative medicine
  • Critical care
  • Diabetes
  • Drug testing and doping control in sports
  • Endocrinology
  • Family practice / primary care
  • Gastroenterology
  • General medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Hematology and oncology
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious diseases
  • Investigational drugs
  • Neurology
  • Pain management
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Surgery
  • Solid organ transplant
  • Tobacco control and cessation
  • Toxicology / poison control
  • Women's health

Pharmacy practice

  • Compounding
  • Consumer self care
  • Disparities in health care
  • Drug safety
  • Food and drug law and regulations
  • Health communications
  • Managed care
  • Models of effective pharmacy practice
  • Patient compliance
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Pharmacy administration
  • Pharmacy informatics
  • Pharmacy law and ethics
  • Prescription drug policies
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and general epidemiology
  • Systems design and organizational change

Clinical pharmacy education

  • Models of pharmacy education—didactic and experiential
  • Cultural competence

Health policy and outcomes

  • Disparities in health care
  • Evidence-based health care
  • Food and drug law and regulations
  • Health economics
  • Drug safety
  • Publication bias
  • Tobacco policy

Medication outcomes

  • Evidence-based use of medications
  • Medication compliance models
  • Pharmacy practice and care
  • Medication therapy management
  • Safe and effective use of medications
  • Applied pharmacoeconomics
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