Faculty

I am the Assistant Chief Pharmacy Officer for Research, Education, and Clinical Services for the UCSF Health Pharmacy Enterprise. I also 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…

As a clinical pharmacist, I provide patient care, precept students and residents, and develop new pharmacy services. My areas of focus for clinical services include transitions of care, complex care support, asthma, chronic disease state management, medication management and access assistance.

I am a translational scientist with research interests that include pediatric cancer therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, and clinical trial design. The majority of my research is focused around the chemotherapeutic and immunosuppressive agents used in the…

My practice areas include drug information, utilization management, cost-effective prescribing and geriatrics. I precept student pharmacists and pharmacy residents on the development of medication usage evaluations for the UCSF Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. I also support the School of…

As a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, I teach health professions trainees and practitioners about how to best use antibiotics, and I consult in the care of patients with complex infections. I study how clinicians and hospitals use antibiotics as well as the effectiveness of…

I am a physician-scientist interested in understanding how the human body senses and responds to external stimuli. My research focuses on the largest group of drug targets in the human body, the G protein coupled receptors. We aim to understand the most basic principles of these receptors in order…

I serve as the director of pharmacy services for Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, overseeing six pharmacies and clinical pharmacy services in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. I also set the strategic direction for the health system regarding pharmacy services. As associate…

I am a member of the Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS). I am interested in the ways that insurance coverage and health policy shape differential access and uptake of precision medicine. I am particularly interested in applying my research towards efforts…

My career in science has been spent in pursuit of molecules which can have profound and disease- modifying impacts on human health. This goal requires knowledge of chemical synthesis, PK/ADME, screening technologies, and emerging biophysical disciplines that are redefining molecule design. As the…

As a clinical pharmacist for the school and rheumatology/nephrology clinics, I provide clinical services to UCSF Health specialty pharmacy, help direct the applied patient care skills lab and precept students. My focus includes disease management, transitions of care and medication access…

My lab conducts computational research investigating therapies for cardiovascular disease using observational data from electronic health records. I also teach pharmacy students in the Discovery Projects research program including leading the Health Disparities Discovery Group and serving as a…

My work focuses on the translation of new technologies into improved patient outcomes, particularly the translation of personalized/precision medicine—targeting health care interventions to patients based on their genetics—into clinical care and health policy.