Education

Student speaker Ana Cruz shares her path to pharmacy and activism

Thu Oct 19, 2017

Ana Cruz, Class of 2018

Ana Cruz knew, when she was very young, exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up, she told the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021 at their White Coat ceremony.

She wanted the same job as the woman in white.

Class of ’21 joins ranks of pharmacy at White Coat Ceremony

Wed Oct 18, 2017

Elisabeth Fall

First-year student Carmen Leung receives her white coat from Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH.

For the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021, October 13 was the day they officially entered the profession. In a ceremony on the Parnassus campus, each student donned a white coat, a symbol of health care professionals for more than 100 years.

Alumni give PharmD Class of 2021 a warm welcome, and some advice

Tue Oct 3, 2017

Barbara Ries

Gregory Smith, PharmD ’92, talks with incoming students (left to right) Harini Bhat, Thalia McCann, and Christy Khouderchah. Smith is an area pharmacy director for Kaiser Permanente.

Somewhere between the pleasant September evening in San Francisco, the lively conversation about the profession of pharmacy, and the excellent wine, there were potential long-term professional connections in the making.

School of Pharmacy welcomes Class of 2021

Mon Sep 25, 2017

Elisabeth Fall

New PharmD students at Orientation Week: left to right, Nathan Koreic, Marylynn Trinh, and Anjali Patel.

The newest UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) class gathered for the first time on Wednesday, September 20, in San Francisco’s foggy Golden Gate Park. Although it was their first time meeting in person, class members have been getting to know each other online for months.

Update from the Dean - September 2017

Wed Sep 20, 2017

Strategic plan progress report. Research: Driving the development of innovative and precise drugs, medical devices, and diagnostic tests. Flu treatments; Tackling antimalarial resistance; Attacking hard targets; Plotting cell maps; Safer opioid pain killer; Cellular construction; New products...

Gruenberg connects sustainability and clinical pharmacy

Thu Aug 17, 2017

UCSF

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS, who was recently appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has received the 2017 Sustainability Award

Meet BTS Alum Adam Mendelsohn

Mon Aug 14, 2017

Adam Mendelsohn, PhD

The startup cofounder and CEO shares his company’s goal of developing dermal implants to deliver medicine for diabetes and more.

Meet Ren Dodge, our newest intern

Thu Jul 27, 2017

Ren Dodge hiking in the great outdoors

The Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences welcomes Ren Dodge as an intern in the Desai Lab.

Rocket science? For these kids, pressure is fun

Fri Jul 7, 2017

Javier Chavez, left, and Sebastian Mederos, fifth grade, work together to design their bottle rocket.

Every good scientific exploration starts with questions, and at UCSF’s 2017 Summer Science Camp, the recent “bottle rocket engineering and launch day” was no different.

Camp founder continues quest to bring science to kids

Thu Jun 29, 2017

Cindy Chew

Heather Hertema, PharmD ’10, founder of UCSF Summer Science Camp, returned for the camp’s 10th anniversary.

As a first-year UCSF PharmD student, Heather Hertema, PharmD ’10, had a big idea: a free summer camp for kids who might not otherwise be exposed to the creative problem-solving and making-things-explode fun of science.

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