medication adherence

Finding better ways to reduce serious drug side effects

Wed Aug 9, 2017

Brian Shoichet, PhD

Many of the medicines we depend on to treat disease—and even to save our lives—pose potentially serious risks along with their benefits. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that about 40,000 deaths yearly in the United States may be attributable to the side...

Let pharmacists empower patients and save lives

Fri Apr 28, 2017

Elisabeth Fall

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

How do we give patients ready access to the expertise of pharmacists? How do we empower patients with medication knowledge?

Ling takes policy know-how to the clinic

Tue Mar 21, 2017

Tina Ling was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her parents fled the genocide in Cambodia. Growing up in Southern California in an immigrant-rich community, she saw her parents and many of their neighbors struggle with their new country’s language, culture, and economics—including access to...

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.

Walgreens, UCSF to Help Manage Prescriptions

Tue Feb 25, 2014

Posters tracking beta blocker side effects, antibiotic use, blood thinner adherence take top seminar honors

Wed May 22, 2013

Rifkind award winners (clockwise from upper left) Tony Huynh, PharmD; Alan Chuang, PharmD; Jaekyu Shin, PharmD; Michelle Shen, PharmD.

Studies of whether patients are taking a blood thinner as prescribed, whether antibiotic treatment of cancer patients’ fevers matches guidelines, and whether one form of a leading cardiovascular drug increases the risk for a serious side effect took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, MAS

Wed Mar 6, 2013

Noah Berger

Interim Dept Chair & Professor

As interim chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, I lead the formation of the department’s strategic direction and priorities to ensure the continued growth and development of the department and its faculty. I manage the resources required to support the department’s success and create the...

The HIV pharmacist: helping patients pick and stick with lifesaving drugs

Wed Feb 22, 2012

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD

How do you convince patients who feel fine to take medicines that can have major side effects?

How can you help them stay on their lifesaving daily medications for years to come despite the obstacle course of everyday life?

Communication is key to medication adherence

Wed Aug 23, 2006

Patients benefit best from medications when they take the right medicines at the right dose and at the right time.

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