Topics and Expertise: Advanced Practice Pharmacist

Pharmacy alumna provides lifeline to displaced residents in aftermath of fire

Thu Nov 7, 2019
Balbutin
Noah Berger

Janet Balbutin, PharmD ’68, pharmacist and owner of Paradise Drug and Chico Pharmacy

When the Camp Fire roared through Paradise, CA, last November, the staff of Paradise Drug, a community pharmacy owned and operated by UCSF School of Pharmacy alumna Janet Balbutin, PharmD ’68, didn’t hesitate: they heroically saved a server containing patient data, and went on to provide pharmacy...

Update from the Dean – March 2018

Thu Mar 1, 2018
Guglielmo.
A new PharmD curriculum; Implementing new practice opportunities for pharmacists; PharmD students shine in state and national clinical pharmacy competitions; A pioneer in pharmacogenomics; The NIH streak lives on; Improving adverse event reporting and medication therapy protocols; Big-data to cut...

Update on PharmD curriculum transformation

Thu Feb 15, 2018
Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans shares her perspective on the School’s new PharmD curriculum.

Advanced practice pharmacists are ready

Thu Nov 9, 2017
Kroon
Elisabeth Fall

Lisa Kroon, PharmD, professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy

Pharmacists are going to be more integral to health care teams in the future.

Alumni give PharmD Class of 2021 a warm welcome, and some advice

Tue Oct 3, 2017
Smith with Bhat, McCann, Khoderchah
Barbara Ries

Gregory Smith, PharmD ’92, talks with incoming students (left to right) Harini Bhat, Thalia McCann, and Christy Khouderchah. Smith is an area pharmacy director for Kaiser Permanente.

Somewhere between the pleasant September evening in San Francisco, the lively conversation about the profession of pharmacy, and the excellent wine, there were potential long-term professional connections in the making.

Pharmacists Are Now Poised To Ease Physician Shortage—If Only They Could Get Paid For It

Wed Sep 20, 2017

Guglielmo comments on pharmacy education

Thu Apr 14, 2016
Guglielmo
Elisabeth Fall

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Learning how to solve problems and think critically—using course content as the vehicle to apply these skills—is one evolving goal of the UCSF School of Pharmacy doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum, according to the School’s dean, B. Joseph Guglielmo PharmD, in an interview posted April 12, 2016...

California’s SB 493 implementation: 
Three, two, one … blast-off!

Wed Jul 8, 2015

A new California law widens the power of pharmacists, allowing them to prescribe contraceptives and other drugs directly to patients

Mon Jun 29, 2015

The PharmD graduate of the future

Wed Jun 17, 2015
We are rapidly moving forward to develop a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum that will prepare pharmacists to excel in a changing health care marketplace. A recent interview with Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, our vice dean, lays out our plans. What will be the impact of the new curriculum?

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