Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

The PharmD graduate of the future

Wed Jun 17, 2015
We are rapidly moving forward to develop a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum that will prepare pharmacists to excel in a changing health care marketplace. A recent interview with Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, our vice dean, lays out our plans. What will be the impact of the new curriculum?

PharmD curriculum transformation

Wed Jun 17, 2015
Jacobson and Youmans
The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s top-ranked doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum is in the initial stages of its most significant transformation in two decades. Named the UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, the effort is led by Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and is currently...

History event highlights School innovations in research, practice, education

Wed Jun 17, 2015
Rice
Elisabeth Fall

19th century School instructor Josephine Barbat (aka former associate dean Lorie Rice) leads the event’s closing cheer as Dean Guglielmo looks on.

Concluding a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of UC San Francisco, the School of Pharmacy presented its own “Making History” event in Byers Auditorium on the Mission Bay campus on May 30, 2015.

Computer-designed Rocker is Protein World’s First to Biomimic Ion Transport

Fri Jun 12, 2015

California Women Can Soon Skip the Doctor to Get Their Birth Control

Thu Jun 11, 2015

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

Wed May 20, 2015
winners

Rifkind Award winners (left to right) An-Chi Tseng, PharmD; Anh Doan, PharmD; and Lily Xia, PharmD; Clara Mikhaeil, PharmD; Heidemarie MacMaster, PharmD.

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...

UCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates commencement 2015

Tue May 12, 2015
Schweitzer with banner
Cindy Chew

Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD '87, leads the procession of graduates into the hall

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.

Yee and Sali receive winter 2015 Apple Teaching Award

Tue May 12, 2015
Sook Wah Yee and Andrej Sali have been bestowed with the honor of receiving the Winter 2015 Apple Teaching Award. This recognition is awarded to those faculty members whose student evaluations for the Winter Quarter rank 4.5/5 or higher. Yee has received this honor four times previously, which...

Honoring student achievements

Wed May 6, 2015
Salvadora, Dow, Lee
Richard Trujillo, UCSF

Gordon Dow, PharmD ’65, with two of the three Roger G. Ketchum scholarship winners, Kathyrn Salvadora and Thomas Lee (both Class of 2016).

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.

Making History: UCSF School of Pharmacy

Thu Apr 2, 2015
class of 1900

Pharmacy Class of 1900

In celebration of UCSF’s 150th anniversary and Alumni Weekend 2015, don’t miss this unique program that opens a window to the School of Pharmacy’s colorful, pioneering past and how that past is shaping the School’s future.

The Making History program and reception are open to the UCSF community at...

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