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

Wed May 20, 2015

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

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.

Honoring student achievements

Wed May 6, 2015

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.

Wells elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wed Apr 22, 2015

Elisabeth Fall

James Wells, PhD

James Wells, PhD, chair of the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been elected as a member of the 2015 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Burchard named to expert panel for Obama’s precision medicine plan

Wed Apr 1, 2015

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

School faculty member Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, has been appointed to an expert panel advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on how to develop President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative.

Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2015

Tue Mar 31, 2015

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

Strategic planning; Top NIH funding; Recently received research funding (Craik, Gartner, Abate, Cole, Aweeka); Recent faculty publications (DeGrado, Ahituv, Cutler, Pon, Branch, Chuang, Huynh); Education (Youmans): UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, DRIVE Team; new staff (Nguyen, Miller);...

Battling nightmare infections: U.S. CDC’s plan to beat superbugs

Mon Mar 30, 2015

Ferrone named CPhA Innovative Pharmacist of the Year

Fri Mar 13, 2015

Kaz Tsuruta

Marcus Ferrone, PharmD, JD

Marcus Ferrone, PharmD, JD, a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has been named the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) 2015 Innovative Pharmacist of the Year.

Aweeka co-leads new study of drugs to prevent malaria in young children, pregnant women

Mon Mar 9, 2015

Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear

The plasmodium parasite that causes malaria

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD, a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will co-lead a new five-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address one of the world’s most vexing health problems—preventing malaria, especially in the most...

Lung research survey highlights lack of minority subjects in many biomedical studies

Tue Mar 3, 2015

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