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Lisa Kroon, PharmD
Department Chair and Professor
Thomas A. Oliver Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Research, Education, and Clinical Services, UCSF Health
What I do
I am the Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and am responsible for setting the strategic direction, priorities, and goals for the department. Since 2020, I am the Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Research, Education, and Clinical Services for the UCSF Health Pharmacy Enterprise. I continue to teach in the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. My research and practice efforts focus on evaluating the impact of pharmacist provider status and expanded scope of practice, diabetes therapeutics, tobacco cessation, and innovative practice models in the ambulatory and community pharmacy setting.
Departmental research area
My research expertise
testing innovative pharmacist care programs in the ambulatory and community pharmacy setting, evaluating the impact of pharmacists’ expanded scope of practice and provider status, diabetes therapeutics, pharmacy-based smoking cessation services and interventions
Clinical expertise
adult diabetes, tobacco and smoking cessation
Professional background
Biography
Dr. Lisa Kroon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Kroon received her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan and then completed two years of residency at UCSF in pharmacy practice and hospital pharmacy administration. She has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1996. In 2020, she was appointed the Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Research, Education, and Clinical Services in the UCSF Health Pharmacy Enterprise. She practices in the UCSF Medical Center’s Adult Diabetes Clinic and Diabetes Teaching Center, where she cares for people with diabetes and chronic illnesses. She co-directs the Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center (www.ucsfhealth.org/tobaccotreatment). Her current research interests include evaluating the impact of pharmacist provider status and expanded scope of practice, diabetes therapeutics, tobacco cessation, and innovative practice models in the community pharmacy setting.
Research keywords
- drug interactions
- Cultural Characteristics
- Hypoglycemic Agents
- smoking cessation
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Glucagon-Like Peptide 1
- Drug Prescriptions
- drug delivery systems
- Community Pharmacy Services
- Occult Blood
- Immunization Programs
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Education, Pharmacy
- tobacco cessation
- pharmacies