Categories: Patient Care

Residencies open the door for diverse careers in pharmacy

Fri Mar 4, 2022
Burbige and Alcala

Eugene Burbige, PharmD, left, and Francesca Alcala, PharmD, both pursued specialties in pharmacy via UCSF residencies.

Newly-minted pharmacists gain specialized skills through residencies.

From haircuts to high blood pressure management

Thu Feb 17, 2022
Two pharmacists walking past two barbers and their clients in a barbershop
Elisabeth Fall

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, carrying a box of COVID-19 vaccines, walks into the Chicago 2 Barbershop alongside Sarah Chong, PharmD. The two pharmacists are collaborating with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide health care services free of charge to barbershop clients.

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, teams up with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide medication management and COVID vaccines in Black-owned barbershops.

UCSF researchers develop a new drug regimen to combat malaria in children

Thu Dec 16, 2021
Child sitting on a bed surrounded by a bed net
UK Department for International Development

A child sits on a bed surrounded by a bed net intended to prevent mosquito bites that could transmit malaria, Kenya. A new drug regimen developed at UCSF offers children improved protection against the disease.

Study shows that monthly doses of two common anti-malarial drugs for the first few years of life can provide 95 percent protection against the disease.

UCSF pharmacy students vaccinate Dean Guglielmo against the influenza virus

Mon Nov 8, 2021
Guglielmo
Sarah de Jesus and Kera Jewett

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) student Lynna Davis, Class of 2023, administers the flu vaccine to Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD.

PharmD students organized the annual Vaccinate the Dean event and administered the influenza vaccine to Dean Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD.

New Alzheimer’s drug is for those with mild cognitive impairment. But who has that disorder?

Fri Oct 8, 2021

Data-driven drug dosing speeds tuberculosis treatment to four months

Mon Aug 30, 2021
bacterial cells
NIAID/NIH

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis

A large trial of a new drug regimen for tuberculosis, designed in part by School researchers, leads to a new WHO recommendation for treating the disease.

An animal dewormer to treat COVID? Poison control centers see uptick in calls; stores sell out

Fri Aug 27, 2021

PharmD students assess furnishing of HIV medication at local pharmacies

Wed Aug 25, 2021
PharmD students assess pharmacist furnishing of HIV medications under California's SB-159

Answering your questions about the COVID-19 vaccines

Wed Jun 2, 2021
Lejano receives shot
Susan Merrell
Information on the safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines, who should get them, and more.

School trains more pharmacists to deliver critical vaccinations

Mon Apr 26, 2021
Clayton injects Go with a saline shot.

Nicola Clayton, PharmD ’14, left, practices giving a shot to James Go, PharmD ’17, as part of a recent immunization training for pharmacists that was organized by faculty members in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Faculty members in the School organized a free immunization training for California pharmacists.

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