Topics and Expertise: White Coat

Student speaker Ana Cruz shares her path to pharmacy and activism

Thu Oct 19, 2017
Cruz
Elisabeth Fall

Ana Cruz, Class of 2018

Ana Cruz knew, when she was very young, exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up, she told the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021 at their White Coat ceremony.

She wanted the same job as the woman in white.

Class of ’21 joins ranks of pharmacy at White Coat Ceremony

Wed Oct 18, 2017
student Leung with vice dean Youmans
Elisabeth Fall

First-year student Carmen Leung receives her white coat from Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH.

For the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021, October 13 was the day they officially entered the profession. In a ceremony on the Parnassus campus, each student donned a white coat, a symbol of health care professionals for more than 100 years.

Update from the Dean - March 2017

Wed Mar 15, 2017
Guglielmo
Nation debates possibility of dramatically new directions for health care coverage, science funding, immigration, education; Revealing malaria/HIV drug interactions in children; Decreasing cancer drug toxicity while increasing dose; Engineering safer opioids; Evidence for comprehensive medication...

Class of 2020 student pharmacists don their white coats

Tue Oct 18, 2016
Kim and King
Cindy Chew

Ailin Kim and Alishia King receive their white coats from Andy Davenport, PharmD and Virginia Chu, PharmD ’98.

The 126 students of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s class of 2020 donned their white coats for the first time on October 14, 2016, in an afternoon ceremony that symbolized their entry into the profession.

Class of 2018 student pharmacists put on their white coats

Thu Nov 13, 2014
White Coat
Susan Merrell

Student pharmacist Emmeline Academia receives her white coat from alumni Robert Duey, PharmD '64, at the White Coat Ceremony.

The students of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s incoming class—whose countries of origin range from Rwanda to Iran and who hold degrees in subjects from biology to biochemistry and from psychology to accounting—put on their white coats for the first time on October 10, 2014, in an afternoon ceremony...