Lisa Kroon, PharmD

Co-Vice Dean of Clinical Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Thomas A. Oliver Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Research, Education, and Clinical Services, UCSF Health
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Phone: +1 415 476-1687
Fax: +1 415 476-6632
521 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 3615
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States

Affiliations

What I do

I am the chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (details: Administration) 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 of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Co-Vice Dean of Clinical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California in San Francisco. In 2020, she was appointed the Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Clinical Innovation, Education, and Research in the UCSF Health Pharmacy Enterprise, where she oversees ambulatory pharmacy practice. 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. 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

  • Patient Education as Topic
  • 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
  • tobacco cessation
  • pharmacies