PharmD Degree Program

Most recent School of Pharmacy primary faculty hires, by department

Tue Dec 9, 2014
Altschuler and Wu
Elisabeth Fall

Steven Altschuler, PhD and Lani Wu, PhD are a husband-and-wife research team who recently moved their joint lab to UCSF. They are faculty members in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The most recently hired faculty members to join the UCSF School of Pharmacy have research interests that range from the treatment of blood clots to mapping biological networks in cancer cells to understanding the molecular workings of ion channels in cell membranes. But they all share the common...

Study finds depression in pregnancy, postpartum is overlooked and undertreated

Mon Dec 1, 2014
About 10 to 20 percent of women suffer from new-onset depression during pregnancy or after giving birth. Untreated, the impact of such illness can be profound, ranging from substance abuse, poor prenatal care, and miscarriages to impaired infant bonding and developmental delays.

Desai Lab develops nanodevices to aid artery repair

Tue Nov 25, 2014
Lance
Kathleen Masterson

Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.

Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.

Class of 2018 student pharmacists put on their white coats

Thu Nov 13, 2014
White Coat
Susan Merrell

Student pharmacist Emmeline Academia receives her white coat from alumni Robert Duey, PharmD '64, at the White Coat Ceremony.

The students of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s incoming class—whose countries of origin range from Rwanda to Iran and who hold degrees in subjects from biology to biochemistry and from psychology to accounting—put on their white coats for the first time on October 10, 2014, in an afternoon ceremony...

Burchard study finds Latino asthma risk varies with genetic ancestry

Tue Oct 7, 2014
Asthma

Percentage prevalence of asthma in U.S. children

A new analysis of nearly 5,500 Latino children with and without asthma led by School scientists has found that variations in their genetic ancestry can partially explain major differences in their risk of developing the disease.

Burchard commentary calls for more diversity in biomedical research

Thu Sep 18, 2014
Burchard
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Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Authoring the lead commentary in the current special issue of Nature devoted to diversity, School faculty member Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, asserts that the clinical and biomedical research infrastructure “needs to be retooled” to include more diverse patient populations in studies.

Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2014

Thu Sep 18, 2014
Guglielmo
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Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco

Strategic planning, research funding: Savic, Fischbach, Huang; recent publications: Wells, Giacomini, Savic, Desai; patient care: OneUCSF Pharmacy: Wandres, formulary review: Brodowy, Tsourounis, VanOsdol; MedList Clinic: Stebbins, Cocohoba, Kroon, Lee, Rodondi, Youmans; automated system: Stebbins...

White Coat Ceremony

Mon Aug 18, 2014
The White Coat Ceremony is a wonderful and meaningful tradition in which the School welcomes first-year students as colleagues dedicated to patient care. During this event, pharmacy alumni present entering students with a white coat, the symbol of clinical service and care. The students take, in...

Commencement

Mon Aug 18, 2014
Commencement celebrates a pharmacy student’s completion of the PharmD degree program, providing a special moment in the presence of family and friends to reflect upon their previous years and look ahead to their future careers.

Desai named chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Tue Jul 22, 2014
Desai
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Tejal Desai, PhD

Tejal Desai, PhD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS), a joint department of the UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine. Her appointment is effective August 1, 2014.

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