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Shalini Lynch, PharmD
Associate Professor
Marco Sanchez, UCSF
Phone: +1 415 476-2352
Fax: +1 415 476-6632
533 Parnassus Avenue, Rm 012
UCSF Box 0622
San Francisco, CA 94117
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Educational programs
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
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 expertise
ambulatory care, drug information
Degrees
PharmD, University of California, San Francisco, 1992
BA, Biochemistry/Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego, 1988
Biography
Shalini Lynch, PharmD, BCGP is Health Sciences Associate 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. Her clinical experience includes individual patient consults to minimize out-of-pocket medication expenses, 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 has served as a contributor to the Merck Manual and as a Consulting Editor for Textbook of Therapeutics. She regularly reviews articles for several professional journals.
Research keywords
drug information, Medication Therapy Management, Managed Care, geriatrics, Macular Degeneration, Clinical Trials as Topic, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Physicians, Primary Care, Calcium Channel Blockers, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A, Pain, Intractable, Injections, Spinal, Non-Narcotic Analgesics, Angiogenesis Inhibitors, omega-Conotoxins, Diabetic Retinopathy, Drugs, Generic, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Contraceptives, Oral
Licensure and certifications
Licentiate in Pharmacy, California, 1992
APhA Pharmacists Immunization Certificate, 2010