Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Youmans among honorees at Office of Diversity and Outreach anniversary celebration

Fri Jan 15, 2016

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH (left) and Renée Navarro, MD, PharmD

The UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach (ODO) celebrated its five-year anniversary on Friday, January 15, 2016 with a ceremony at the Millberry Union Event & Meeting Center on the Parnassus campus, honoring six campus leaders who were instrumental in the development of the office.

Youmans elected AACP Council of Deans Secretary

Wed Dec 23, 2015

UCSF School of Pharmacy

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and UCSF School of Pharmacy vice dean, is the newly elected Council of Deans Secretary, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

MacDougall study finds severe sepsis alert speeds drug delivery

Tue Dec 22, 2015

Elisabeth Fall

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

Sepsis occurs when the body responds to an infection with a mix of tissue-damaging inflammation and anti-inflammatory responses. This biological storm can lead to acute organ dysfunction (severe sepsis) and dropping blood pressure that does not respond to intravenous fluids (septic shock).

The right dose: how pharmacy researchers are making medicine more precise

Tue Dec 8, 2015

Steve Babuljak

Healing Hands: Pharmacist Janel Boyle, PharmD, PhD (far left), who is developing dosing models tailored for children, comforts a young patient with her mother in the infusion clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.

Reprinted courtesy of UCSF Magazine.

In the pediatric bone marrow transplant clinic, pharmacist Janel Boyle’s past and present collide.

She drifts past young patients—many of them infants and toddlers—and notes their beaming smiles and balding heads. Her gaze shifts to the parents, their...

8 Questions To Ask Your Pharmacist

Mon Nov 30, 2015

Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2015

Tue Nov 3, 2015

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco

Strategic planning; Recently received research funding: cancer, Alzheimer's, HIV, type 2 diabetes (Kroetz, Keiser, Gross, Roy); Recent faculty publications: fibrosis, biofilms, gout (DeGrado, Yang, Giacomini); Collaborations and partnerships; Patient care: SB 493, scope of practice for California...

Yang study demonstrates simulator to study antibiotic dosing against biofilms

Thu Oct 29, 2015

Katherine Yang

In these multiple images of P. aeruginosa biofilm a bacterial community that takes the form of mushroom-like structures. The main, upper left image looks down at the biofilm, the lower, right-hand images show cross-sections. This biofilm was cultured from the airways of a patient with cystic fibrosis.

Nearly every human bacterial infection—including some of the most serious, life threatening, and costly to treat—can take the form of a biofilm, in which bacteria aggregate into structured communities that enclose themselves within a secreted slime.

Desai elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Tue Oct 20, 2015

Cindy Chew

Tejal Desai, PhD

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Tejal Desai, PhD, has been newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly known as the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

Brilliant 10: Zev Gartner Builds Tissues That Snap Together Like Legos

Wed Sep 30, 2015

UCSF-Amgen Symposium

Tue Sep 15, 2015

The UCSF School of Pharmacy Industry Outreach Program presents a UCSF-Amgen Symposium.

This event will comprise two sessions:

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