Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

Associate Dean of Integrated Core Curriculum
Professor
MacDougall
Chip Dizard
Phone: +1 415 502-9573
521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 3232
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States

Affiliations

What I do

I oversee the PharmD program’s organizational units, didactic and experiential instruction, and assessments and help manage curriculum development, faculty workload, and accreditation compliance.

As a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, I teach health professions trainees and practitioners about how to best use antibiotics, and I consult in the care of patients with complex infections. I study how clinicians and hospitals use antibiotics as well as the effectiveness of instructional strategies for infectious diseases education.

Departmental research area

My research expertise

epidemiology, pharmacy practice, pharmacoepidemiology, antimicrobial use and resistance, infections in immunocompromised hosts, instructional strategies

Clinical expertise

antibiotic management, Infectious diseases

Professional background

Biography

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS, BCIDP is Associate Dean for Integrated Core Curriculum and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. MacDougall teaches pharmacy, medical, and nursing trainees at UCSF, for which he has twice received the Academic Senate Campus Award for Distinction in Teaching. A member of the School of Medicine’s Academy of Medical Educators, he has been recognized as an Emerging Teaching Scholar by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and received the Albert B. Prescott Pharmacy Leadership Award from the Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute.

Dr. MacDougall provides clinical service to the Infectious Diseases Consult Service at UCSF Medical Center. His research interests include new approaches for interactive learning around appropriate antimicrobial use and the pharmacoepidemiology of antimicrobial use in hospitals. He is co-author of Antibiotics Simplified, Antimicrobial Section Editor for Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, and a chapter author in Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Poisoning and Drug Overdose, and Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases.

Dr. MacDougall's original research and reviews have been published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Archives of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, and Pharmacotherapy. He currently serves as Chair of the Specialty Council on Infectious Diseases for the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties and is an active member of the Medical Education Community of Practice of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Research keywords

  • antimicrobial therapy
  • interprofessional education
  • pharmacy education
  • digital learning
  • antimicrobial stewardship
  • Schools, Pharmacy
  • Students, Pharmacy
  • Pharmacology, Clinical
  • Education, Pharmacy
  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Veterans Health
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Drug Utilization
  • Rifamycins
  • pharmacy
  • curriculum
  • Problem-Based Learning
  • pharmacy residencies
  • Communicable Diseases