Selected by students to deliver UCSF’s 14th annual Sumner and Hermine Marshall Endowed Last Lecture, Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD ’01, MAS, professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, reflected on how the meaning of time evolves over the course of a career, and offered a message about the power of connection.

Delivered April 15 in Cole Hall at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus, the annual event invites a faculty member, selected by students from UCSF’s graduate and professional schools, to answer a simple question: If you had one lecture left to give, what would you say?

Drawing on experiences from her training, her decades-long relationships with patients, and her role as a mentor and community health advocate, Cocohoba, who has spent much of her career working in HIV care, cautioned against a “checklist mindset” with career milestones.

While time in health care is often tightly managed for efficiency, Cocohoba said, the willingness to give it generously — to listen, to teach, to connect — can leave a lasting impact in ways that aren’t always immediately visible.

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