community pharmacy

From haircuts to high blood pressure management

Thu Feb 17, 2022

Two pharmacists walking past two barbers and their clients in a barbershop

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, carrying a box of COVID-19 vaccines, walks into the Chicago 2 Barbershop alongside Sarah Chong, PharmD. The two pharmacists are collaborating with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide health care services free of charge to barbershop clients.

Crystal Zhou, PharmD, teams up with the Cut Hypertension Program to provide medication management and COVID vaccines in Black-owned barbershops.

PharmD students organize PPE drives for hospitals to fight COVID-19

Thu Apr 9, 2020

PharmD students and pharmacy staff in front of pharmacy

UCSF PharmD students partnered with TIN Rx, a pharmacy in the Castro District of San Francisco, to collect PPE during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place. From the right: Adriana Gardner, Class of 2022; Leena Dolle, Class of 2021; Marianne Duran, Class of 2022; and three employees of TIN Rx.

Student pharmacists collect protective gear for front-line health care providers during the pandemic.

Pharmacy alumna provides lifeline to displaced residents in aftermath of fire

Thu Nov 7, 2019

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...

Retreat kicks off major revision of School curriculum

Thu Jun 26, 2014

The UCSF School of Pharmacy, a leader in pharmacy education worldwide, jump-started a transformation of its Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum at a Schoolwide meeting on June 18, 2014 at the Presidio of San Francisco.

Label warnings, antibiotic measurements, cancer therapies, and smoking interventions take top honors at annual seminar

Thu May 22, 2014

Rifkind Award Winners (clockwise from upper left) Tien Ho, PharmD; Bao Dao, PharmD, MBA; Robin Corelli, PharmD; Alicia Harvey, PharmD.

Studies of improved over-the-counter acetaminophen warning labels, more accurate measurements of antibiotics in hospitalized patients, therapies for metastatic breast cancer, and methods for training pharmacy personnel to help smokers quit took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s...

A MedList clinic: perspectives of a pharmacist and a student pharmacist

Tue Mar 4, 2014

Elisabeth Fall

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, oversees student pharmacists Greg Balani and Patricia Kuang during MedList Clinic

UCSF, Walgreens open pharmacy to jointly explore new models of care

Tue Feb 25, 2014

Elisabeth Fall

Left to right: Daniel Wandres, UCSF Medical Center; Meen Kang, Walgreens; Bill Hose, Walgreens; Mark Laret, UCSF Medical Center; Susan Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF; B. Joseph Guglielmo, UCSF School of Pharmacy; Myra Pascua, Walgreens; Joel Wright, Walgreens.

A unique new pharmacy developed to explore more effective models of medication management and pharmacist-based patient care, improving drug safety and efficacy by reducing medication errors and lapses, officially opened with a ribbon cutting on the Parnassus campus on Tuesday.

Guglielmo notes steps needed for community pharmacists to expand access to health care

Wed Oct 20, 2010

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

In an invited commentary in the October 11, 2010, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, entitled A Prescription for Improved Chronic Disease Management, B.

Health care providers to receive smoking cessation training

Thu Aug 29, 2002

Pharmacy school faculties across the United States will be trained to teach a tobacco cessation curriculum to Doctor of Pharmacy students, and community pharmacists and physicians will be trained to work as a close-knit team when it comes to helping their patients quit smoking because of two...

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