Kirby Lee, PharmD

Associate Professor

Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Kaz Tsuruta

[email protected]

Phone: +1 415 502-8182

Fax: +1 415 502-0792

Links

UCSF Profiles

Educational programs

PharmD Degree Program

UCSF Interprofessional Education Curriculum Development working group

UCSF centers, institutes, and research programs

Preceptor, Interdisciplinary Team Training Course in Geriatrics

UCSF Medical Center Complex Care Support Team and Discharge Call-Back Program

What I do

I provide clinical services consulting for patients and providers on medication-related issues that arise at home and during transitions in care for the Complex Care Support Team and Discharge Call-Back Program at UCSF Medical Center. My research focuses on the use of patient-centered health information technology to improve medication safety and health outcomes through evidence-based health care. I teach geriatric pharmacotherapy and I am developing practical and applied teaching methods for simulating real world clinical practice to advance students’ problem solving skills and interprofessional teamwork for pharmacy, medical, nursing, dental, and physical therapy students in the classroom and clinic.

Departmental research area

clinical research

education research

My research expertise

chronic disease medication safety during transitions in care, understanding medication compliance barriers through quantitative and qualitative research, designing innovative health services through web-based platforms, management tools, mobile applications

Clinical expertise

geriatric pharmacotherapy, medication management of chronic diseases

Degrees

MAS, Clinical Research, University of California, San Francisco, 2009

PharmD, University of California, San Francisco, 2002

MA, Pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine, 1997

BS, Biopsychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

Biography

Kirby Lee, PharmD, MA, MAS is Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at UC San Francisco. Dr. Lee specializes in optimizing pharmacotherapy in older adults, particularly with cognitive impairment, memory and behavioral changes. He works at the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF where he served as the clinical pharmacist and Director of the Medication Care Protocol for the Care Ecosystem (CE) to screen for and address medication related problems. Dr. Lee conducts research on interventions to improve pharmacotherapy outcomes among persons with dementia.

Licensure and certifications

Licentiate in Pharmacy, California, 2002

News

Publications

Bernstein A, Merrilees J, Dulaney S, Harrison KL, Chiong W, Ong P, Heunis J, Choi J, Walker R, Feuer JE, Lee K, Dohan D, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL. Using care navigation to address caregiver burden in dementia: A qualitative case study analysis. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2020; 6(1):e12010.

Possin KL, Merrilees JJ, Dulaney S, Bonasera SJ, Chiong W, Lee K, Hooper SM, Allen IE, Braley T, Bernstein A, Rosa TD, Harrison K, Begert-Hellings H, Kornak J, Kahn JG, Naasan G, Lanata S, Clark AM, Chodos A, Gearhart R, Ritchie C, Miller BL. Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 12 01; 179(12):1658-1667.

Nicosia FM, Spar MJ, Stebbins M, Sudore RL, Ritchie CS, Lee KP, Rodondi K, Steinman MA. What Is a Medication-Related Problem? A Qualitative Study of Older Adults and Primary Care Clinicians. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 03; 35(3):724-731.

Guterman EL, Allen IE, Josephson SA, Merrilees JJ, Dulaney S, Chiong W, Lee K, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL. Association Between Caregiver Depression and Emergency Department Use Among Patients With Dementia. JAMA Neurol. 2019 Oct 01; 76(10):1166-1173.

Rosa TD, Possin KL, Bernstein A, Merrilees J, Dulaney S, Matuoka J, Lee KP, Chiong W, Bonasera SJ, Harrison KL, Kahn JG. Variations in Costs of a Collaborative Care Model for Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 12; 67(12):2628-2633.

Chen Y, Wilson L, Kornak J, Dudley RA, Merrilees J, Bonasera SJ, Byrne CM, Lee K, Chiong W, Miller BL, Possin KL. The costs of dementia subtypes to California Medicare fee-for-service, 2015. Alzheimers Dement. 2019 07; 15(7):899-906.

Bernstein A, Harrison KL, Dulaney S, Merrilees J, Bowhay A, Heunis J, Choi J, Feuer JE, Clark AM, Chiong W, Lee K, Braley TL, Bonasera SJ, Ritchie CS, Dohan D, Miller BL, Possin KL. The Role of Care Navigators Working with People with Dementia and Their Caregivers. J Alzheimers Dis. 2019; 71(1):45-55.

Merrilees JJ, Bernstein A, Dulaney S, Heunis J, Walker R, Rah E, Choi J, Gawlas K, Carroll S, Ong P, Feuer J, Braley T, Clark AM, Lee K, Chiong W, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL. The Care Ecosystem: Promoting self-efficacy among dementia family caregivers. Dementia (London). 2020 Aug; 19(6):1955-1973.

Possin KL, Merrilees J, Bonasera SJ, Bernstein A, Chiong W, Lee K, Wilson L, Hooper SM, Dulaney S, Braley T, Laohavanich S, Feuer JE, Clark AM, Schaffer MW, Schenk AK, Heunis J, Ong P, Cook KM, Bowhay AD, Gearhart R, Chodos A, Naasan G, Bindman AB, Dohan D, Ritchie C, Miller BL. Development of an adaptive, personalized, and scalable dementia care program: Early findings from the Care Ecosystem. PLoS Med. 2017 03; 14(3):e1002260.

Jennifer Merrilees and Kirby Lee. Mismanagement of Delirium. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online] May 2016. Available at: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/375. 2016.

Siler K, Lee K, Bero L. Reply to Margalida and Colomer: Science should strive to prevent mistakes, not corrections. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 31; 112(13):E1512.

Siler K, Lee K, Bero L. Measuring the effectiveness of scientific gatekeeping. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jan 13; 112(2):360-5.

Lee KP, Hartridge C, Corbett K, Vittinghoff E, Auerbach AD. "Whose job is it, really?" Physicians', nurses', and pharmacists' perspectives on completing inpatient medication reconciliation. J Hosp Med. 2015 Mar; 10(3):184-6.

Lee KP, Nishimura K, Ngu B, Tieu L, Auerbach AD. Predictors of completeness of patients' self-reported personal medication lists and discrepancies with clinic medication lists. Ann Pharmacother. 2014 Feb; 48(2):168-77.

Rasmussen N, Lee K, Bero L. Association of trial registration with the results and conclusions of published trials of new oncology drugs. Trials. 2009 Dec 16; 10:116.

Lee K, Bacchetti P, Sim I. Publication of clinical trials supporting successful new drug applications: a literature analysis. PLoS Med. 2008 Sep 23; 5(9):e191.

Lee K. Has the hunt for conflicts of interest gone too far? No. BMJ. 2008 Mar 01; 336(7642):477.

Bero L, Oostvogel F, Bacchetti P, Lee K. Factors associated with findings of published trials of drug-drug comparisons: why some statins appear more efficacious than others. PLoS Med. 2007 Jun; 4(6):e184.

Lee KP, Boyd EA, Holroyd-Leduc JM, Bacchetti P, Bero LA. Predictors of publication: characteristics of submitted manuscripts associated with acceptance at major biomedical journals. Med J Aust. 2006 Jun 19; 184(12):621-6.

Lee KP, Schotland M, Bacchetti P, Bero LA. Association of journal quality indicators with methodological quality of clinical research articles. JAMA. 2002 Jun 05; 287(21):2805-8.

Knapp CM, Lee K, Foye M, Ciraulo DA, Kornetsky C. Additive effects of intra-accumbens infusion of the cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor, rolipram and cocaine on brain stimulation reward. Life Sci. 2001 Aug 24; 69(14):1673-82.

Moynihan R, Bero L, Ross-Degnan D, Henry D, Lee K, Watkins J, Mah C, Soumerai SB. Coverage by the news media of the benefits and risks of medications. N Engl J Med. 2000 Jun 01; 342(22):1645-50.

Lee K, Kornetsky C. Acute and chronic fluoxetine treatment decreases the sensitivity of rats to rewarding brain stimulation. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1998 Jun; 60(2):539-44.