School of Pharmacy

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.

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.

Wells elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wed Apr 22, 2015
Wells
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.

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...

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

Wed Apr 1, 2015
Burchard in lab
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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.

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