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Pharmacist interventions, formulary conversion tools, and warfarin discharge education take top honors at annual seminar

Wed May 20, 2015

Studies of pharmacist interventions during comprehensive medication reviews, the impact of new tools to aid drug selection from a hospital formulary, and a project ensuring that hospital patients receiving anti-clotting drugs are properly educated upon discharge took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy 17th Annual Spring Research...

UCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates commencement 2015

Tue May 12, 2015

The UCSF School of Pharmacy held its 2015 commencement on May 8 at Louise Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, conferring doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degrees on a 125-member graduating class.

Addressing the large gathering including hundreds of graduates’ friends and family members, School faculty on stage, and specially invited...

Honoring student achievements

Wed May 6, 2015

The annual UCSF School of Pharmacy Student Awards and Recognition Dinner, hosted by Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, and sponsored by Ralph’s Inc., was held on Friday, May 1, 2015, at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.

The event honored dozens of students whose excellence and leadership were recognized at the campus, state, and national levels...

Wells elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wed Apr 22, 2015

James Wells, PhD, chair of the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been elected as a member of the 2015 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Founded in 1780, the Academy is one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. It convenes leaders from the academic, arts,...

Burchard named to expert panel for Obama’s precision medicine plan

Wed Apr 1, 2015

School faculty member Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, has been appointed to an expert panel advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on how to develop President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative.

The $215 million initiative, announced by Obama earlier this year, aims to gather and analyze vast amounts of genetic and...

Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2015

Tue Mar 31, 2015

Strategic planning; Top NIH funding; Recently received research funding (Craik, Gartner, Abate, Cole, Aweeka); Recent faculty publications (DeGrado, Ahituv, Cutler, Pon, Branch, Chuang, Huynh); Education (Youmans): UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, DRIVE Team; new staff (Nguyen, Miller); Honors (Corelli, Dong, Craik, DeGrado, Ferrone, Shin...

Ferrone named CPhA Innovative Pharmacist of the Year

Fri Mar 13, 2015

Marcus Ferrone, PharmD, JD, a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has been named the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) 2015 Innovative Pharmacist of the Year.

The award, from the largest state association representing pharmacists, recognizes a member pharmacist for achievements such as significantly improving...

Aweeka co-leads new study of drugs to prevent malaria in young children, pregnant women

Mon Mar 9, 2015

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD, a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will co-lead a new five-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address one of the world’s most vexing health problems—preventing malaria, especially in the most vulnerable populations, pregnant women and young...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 35th year in a row

Thu Feb 26, 2015

For the 35th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

School researchers were awarded $31.8 million during the 2014 fiscal year, from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014.

“The decades-long success of...