Shalini Lynch, PharmD

Clinical Professor

Department of Clinical Pharmacy

Marco Sanchez, UCSF

[email protected]

Phone: +1 415 476-2352

Links

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Affiliations

What I do

My practice areas include drug information, utilization management, cost-effective prescribing and geriatrics. I precept student pharmacists and pharmacy residents on the development of medication usage evaluations for the UCSF Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. I also support the School of Pharmacy’s academic partnership with the State of California’s Medi-Cal Drug Use Review (DUR) program. I lecture on various drug information topics, geriatrics and inflammatory bowel disease, and I am a faculty mentor for the Medicare Part D outreach program.

Departmental research area

clinical research

Clinical expertise

ambulatory care, drug information

Professional background

Degrees

PharmD, University of California, San Francisco, 1992

BA, Biochemistry/Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego, 1988

Licensure and certifications

Pharmacists Immunization Certificate, American Pharmacists Association (APhA), 2010

Licentiate in Pharmacy, California State Board of Pharmacy, 1992

Biography

Shalini Lynch, PharmD, BCGP is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at UCSF. She has been a faculty member at the UCSF School of Pharmacy since 2004. Her practice expertise includes drug information, literature evaluation, drug utilization review and management, geriatrics, and pharmaceutical industry. She is experienced in clinical pharmacy ambulatory care, Medicare Part D plan review, and interdisciplinary clinical geriatrics. Dr. Lynch supports the UCSF School of Pharmacy in its role as an academic subcontractor to the State of California’s Medi-Cal Drug Utilization Review program. She is a faculty member in the UCSF Medication Outcomes Center.

Research keywords

drug information
Medication Therapy Management
Managed Care
geriatrics
Macular Degeneration
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
Drug Prescriptions
Physicians, Primary Care
Calcium Channel Blockers
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
Pain, Intractable
Injections, Spinal
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
omega-Conotoxins
Diabetic Retinopathy
Drugs, Generic
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Nurse Practitioners
Contraceptives, Oral

1.	Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Board of Pharmacy Specialties, 2014
2.	Pharmacist of the Year, CSHP - Sacramento Valley Chapter, 2007

Publications

Clinard V, Stebbins M, Lynch S. The Evolution of Drug Information Services to Asynchronous Delivery of Pharmacist eConsults. J Pharm Technol. 2021 Dec; 37(6):316-319.

Thaver A, Chee M, Wroblewski K, Weissman A, Cook M, Zhang J, Samarth A, Moriates C, Wallingford S, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Shah N, Farnan J, Ngooi S, Tracy C, Meltzer DO, Arora VM. Physician and Nurse Practitioner Attitudes on Generic Prescribing of Oral Contraceptive Pills and Antidepressants. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 12; 35(12):3478-3484.

Chee M, Lenti G, Farnan J, Cook M, Weissman A, Wallingford S, Moriates C, Shah N, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Ngooi S, Norenberg A, Millard S, Samarth A, Zhang JX, Meltzer DO, Tracy C, Arora VM. Development and testing of a module to promote generic oral contraceptive prescribing among nurse practitioners. J Am Assoc Nurse Pract. 2020 Jan; 32(1):24-34.

Lenti G, Norenberg A, Farnan JM, Weissman A, Cook M, Shah N, Moriates C, Wallingford S, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Millard S, Samarth A, Zhang JX, Thaver A, Meltzer DO, Oguntimein M, Frost M, Arora VM. Development and testing of a web module to IMPROVE generic prescribing of oral contraceptives among primary care physicians. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2019 Aug; 44(4):579-587.

Lynch S, Javaheri A. Pharmacist Participation on a Geriatrics Interdisciplinary (IDT) Clinic. California Pharmacist. 2015; 2(LXII):12-16.

Lynch SS, Cheng CM. Bevacizumab for neovascular ocular diseases. Ann Pharmacother. 2007 Apr; 41(4):614-25.

Lynch SS, Cheng CM, Yee JL. Intrathecal ziconotide for refractory chronic pain. Ann Pharmacother. 2006 Jul-Aug; 40(7-8):1293-300.