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2013 News
Thu Dec 19, 2013
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has entered into a five-year collaborative education and research agreement with Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing, China.
The agreement will establish a joint Tsinghua School of Medicine-UCSF School of Pharmacy program for pharmacology and...
Tue Nov 12, 2013
Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD
A bill signed into law last month by California Governor Jerry Brown and taking effect on January 1, 2014 could be an important first step toward changing how pharmacists practice, especially in community settings.
The new law, pending California State Board of Pharmacy protocols, authorizes all...
Fri Nov 1, 2013
Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
Dear UCSF School of Pharmacy Family and Friends:
Observations and actions: First 100 days
Transformation of health sciences research, education, and patient care is taking place at lightning speed. We could easily be pulled along by the current, but that has never been this School’s style....
Mon Sep 30, 2013
Zev Gartner, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2013 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, which will provide his lab with up to $1.5 million in research funding over the next five years.
Gartner, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of...
Mon Aug 19, 2013
Bret Brodowy, PharmD
Bret Brodowy, PharmD, a leader in hospital pharmacy practice and management, has been named the new director of the Medication Outcomes Center in the School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy. The appointment was effective August 12, 2013.
Established in 2007, the Medication Outcomes...
Wed Aug 14, 2013
Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH
Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, a pharmacist and educator with a deep commitment to pharmacy education and public health, has been appointed vice dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy. Her appointment was effective July 1, 2013.
Youmans is a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical...
Tue Aug 13, 2013
Research led by UCSF scientists has provided fresh insight into the operation of DNA sequences in the genome that regulate gene expression.
The new study looked at the effects of inserting nearly 5,000 synthetic regulatory element sequences into mice as well as human liver cells. Specifically,...
Tue Jul 16, 2013
The UCSF School of Pharmacy and the Purdue University College of Pharmacy have become the first U.S. pharmacy schools to adopt a broadly worded new professional practice recommendation aimed at reducing tobacco’s public health burden.
“This was born out of our position against tobacco sales in...
Wed Jun 26, 2013
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers led by UCSF scientists found that infants in minority populations who are exposed to motor vehicle air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide (NO2), are more likely to develop asthma later in childhood.
The study’s lead author, Katherine...
Tue Jun 18, 2013
Susan Merrell
Lisa Kroon, PharmD
Lisa Kroon, PharmD, a pharmacist and educator as well as a clinical researcher in the fields of diabetes and tobacco cessation, has been named the new chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy within the UCSF School of Pharmacy. The appointment will be effective July 1, 2013.
Kroon has served...
Wed May 22, 2013
Rifkind award winners (clockwise from upper left) Tony Huynh, PharmD; Alan Chuang, PharmD; Jaekyu Shin, PharmD; Michelle Shen, PharmD.
Studies of whether patients are taking a blood thinner as prescribed, whether antibiotic treatment of cancer patients’ fevers matches guidelines, and whether one form of a leading cardiovascular drug increases the risk for a serious side effect took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...
Fri Apr 26, 2013
The San Francisco Chronicle and the Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune, have published feature articles this week focused on The Kidney Project, an effort to develop the first implantable bioartificial kidney to treat end-stage renal disease.
The...
Thu Apr 4, 2013
A new video produced by the American Museum of Natural History features the work of Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, and members of his laboratory.
“Genes and Health: Moving Beyond Race,” shows how Burchard’s lab is using differences in the ancestry of asthma patients to help find genetic variations...
Thu Mar 21, 2013
B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, an honored UCSF professor and mentor as well as a leading pharmacist and clinical scientist specializing in antimicrobial therapies, will be the new dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
His appointment, officially announced today by UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-...
Mon Mar 11, 2013
Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Improving technologies are rapidly cutting the cost of whole genome sequencing, a process that reveals the complete library of a patient’s genetic information. Indeed, the era of the $1,000 genome—a catchphrase for the test’s relative affordability—appears imminent.
But will the wider application...
Fri Feb 15, 2013
Ryan Hernandez, PhD
Ryan Hernandez, PhD, whose lab studies patterns of genetic variation from populations around the world, using detailed computer modeling to learn more about human evolutionary processes and to discover regions of the genome vital to function and underlying disease, has been named a 2013 Alfred P....
Fri Feb 15, 2013
James Lightwood, PhD
California tobacco control efforts that cost $2.4 billion over nearly two decades reduced health care costs during that same period by $134 billion, according to a new study co-authored by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member James Lightwood, PhD.
“These health care cost savings began to appear...
Wed Feb 13, 2013
Faculty of the UCSF School of Pharmacy will train Safeway supermarket pharmacists to help their customers quit smoking, using a curriculum originally developed at the School.
The new partnership with Safeway Inc. marks the first time a smoking cessation intervention has been applied systematically...
Tue Feb 12, 2013
During his illustrious half-century career, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Leslie Benet, PhD, has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, many helping to define the field of pharmacokinetics—how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes medications—or as he once...
Mon Feb 11, 2013
How well do states’ policies address possible conflicts of interest of committee members who decide which drugs get Medicaid reimbursement? The question looms especially large as impending federal health care reform increases the number of patients covered by the state-run drug formularies.
A new...
Fri Feb 1, 2013
Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
Dear UCSF School of Pharmacy Family and Friends:
In the pages that follow I share just a few School highlights since I wrote to you last as interim dean, choosing instead to spend the majority of this Update reporting on the School's success to date in implementing our 2007-2012 strategic plan....
Tue Jan 29, 2013
Research at the UCSF School of Pharmacy to develop the first implantable bioartificial kidney recently received exceptional private support: $1 million from the family of the late philanthropists Harry and Diana Hind, and $50,000 from the Patterson Barclay Memorial Foundation.
Both gifts provide...