Shalini Lynch, PharmD

Clinical Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Lynch
Marco Sanchez, UCSF
[email protected]
Phone: +1 415 476-2352

Links

UCSF Profiles

Affiliations

Education programs

PharmD Degree Program

UCSF centers, institutes, and research programs

Faculty member, Medication Outcomes Center

External affiliations

Preceptor, Senior Medication PRICE Clinic
Member, Pharmacy Utilization Department, Mercy Medical Group
Member, California Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP)
Member, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
Member, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

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
  • Inappropriate Prescribing
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Drug Prescriptions
  • Physicians, Primary Care
  • Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
  • Pain, Intractable
  • Injections, Spinal
  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors
  • omega-Conotoxins
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Drugs, Generic
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Contraceptives, Oral
1. Update from the Dean: Putting plans in action
2. UCSF’s Care Ecosystem reduces dangerous medication use in dementia patients
1. Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Board of Pharmacy Specialties, 2014
2. Pharmacist of the Year, CSHP - Sacramento Valley Chapter, 2007

Publications

Liu AK, Possin KL, Cook KM, Lynch S, Dulaney S, Merrilees JJ, Braley T, Kiekhofer RE, Bonasera SJ, Allen IE, Chiong W, Clark AM, Feuer J, Ewalt J, Guterman EL, Gearhart R, Miller BL, Lee KP. Effect of collaborative dementia care on potentially inappropriate medication use: Outcomes from the Care Ecosystem randomized clinical trial. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 05; 19(5):1865-1875.
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.