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Showcasing School science and change at Alumni Weekend 2018

Fri Jun 15, 2018
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Levi Gadye

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, addressed Half Century Club Luncheon attendees

For UCSF School of Pharmacy alumni who attended the event, Alumni Weekend 2018 offered a chance to explore how science connects the School’s research, education, and patient care agendas; learn about the lives and professional accomplishments of pharmacy school graduates; and get a glimpse of what’s under way at UCSF beyond the School. The annual campuswide event was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on June 1 and 2.

Update from the Dean – March 2018

Thu Mar 1, 2018
Guglielmo
A new PharmD curriculum; Implementing new practice opportunities for pharmacists; PharmD students shine in state and national clinical pharmacy competitions; A pioneer in pharmacogenomics; The NIH streak lives on; Improving adverse event reporting and medication therapy protocols; Big-data to cut drug discovery time; Computational approaches target dopamine receptors; Researchers expose industry manipulation of science by sugar industry; Women in science; Bioengineering devices to treat glaucoma, diabetes, kidney disease; Campus activism on DACA; A helping hand to Puerto Rico, Basic science scholarship for women in developing nations; A decade of science camp; Honors and awards; 2017 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year; 2018 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation; 2018 Byers Award in Basic Science; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators; New faculty; Remembering C.C. Wang; UCSF fundraising campaign; Alumni Weekend 2018.

Update on PharmD curriculum transformation

Thu Feb 15, 2018
Youmans and Burningham
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Elisabeth Fall
Vice Dean Sharon Youmans shares her perspective on the School’s new PharmD curriculum.

Update from the Dean - March 2017

Wed Mar 15, 2017
Guglielmo
Nation debates possibility of dramatically new directions for health care coverage, science funding, immigration, education; Revealing malaria/HIV drug interactions in children; Decreasing cancer drug toxicity while increasing dose; Engineering safer opioids; Evidence for comprehensive medication management; Medicare Part D as a learning model for pharmacy education—impact 10 years out; New genetic insights into diabetes drug response; Annotating the ‘dark genome’; Epigenetics of ethnicity; New endowed professorships made possible by private support; New Center for Cellular Construction; Major funding for UCSF-Stanford CERSI; 2017 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation; Welcoming the class of 2020; Three generations at the School of Pharmacy; Developing a curriculum for 2018 and beyond; AFPE honors Frank Szoka as Mentor of the Year; 2016 Chancellor Diversity Awards honor Marcus Ferrone and Peace Chukudi; Eddie Way celebrates 100 years; CPhA Hall of Fame honors Brian Komoto, Phillip Oppenheimer, Wilma Wong; $500M gift to campus from Helen Diller Foundation; UC statement on federal executive order restricting travel and entry.

Classroom pharmacogenetics, post-hospital medications, and post-brain-surgery drugs take top honors

Thu May 26, 2016
Gary Rifkind
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Elisabeth Fall

Gary Rifkind, PharmD, Class of 1960.

Studies of pharmacogenetics testing of pharmacy students as a teaching tool, an improved system to resolve medication issues after patients go home from the hospital, and the prophylactic use of an antiseizure drug for brain surgery patients took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy 18th Annual Spring Research Seminar.

National awards recognize pharmacy educators

Mon Apr 18, 2016
Hudmon, Corelli, Schweitzer

At APhA awards ceremony (left to right): Karen Hudmon, DrPH, MS, BSPharm; Robin Corelli, PharmD; Rear Admiral Pamela Schweitzer, USPHS.

Three UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members have received national honors for health sciences education this spring.

Guglielmo comments on pharmacy education

Thu Apr 14, 2016
Guglielmo
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Elisabeth Fall

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Learning how to solve problems and think critically—using course content as the vehicle to apply these skills—is one evolving goal of the UCSF School of Pharmacy doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum, according to the School’s dean, B. Joseph Guglielmo PharmD, in an interview posted April 12, 2016, in Pharmacy Times.

Troy C. Daniels Awards support curricular transformations

Fri Feb 26, 2016
Troy C. Daniels
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UCSF Archives and Special Collections

Troy C. Daniels, PhD

The Troy C. Daniels Curricular Innovation Awards provide funds in 2016 to support the evolution of the UCSF School of Pharmacy doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum to prepare leaders for a changing health care marketplace.

The PharmD graduate of the future

Wed Jun 17, 2015
Guglielmo
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We are rapidly moving forward to develop a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum that will prepare pharmacists to excel in a changing health care marketplace. A recent interview with Sharon Youmans, PharmD, MPH, our vice dean, lays out our plans. What will be the impact of the new curriculum? Most importantly, how will it affect patients?

PharmD curriculum transformation

Wed Jun 17, 2015
Jacobson and Youmans

The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s top-ranked doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum is in the initial stages of its most significant transformation in two decades. Named the UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, the effort is led by Vice Dean Sharon Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and is currently targeted to launch fully with students entering the program in 2017.

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