Research in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy focuses on the precise, personalized relationship between patients and their medications. It also examines broader relationships between patients and the health care and public policy environments that influence factors such as medication cost and access, health disparities, and pharmacy practice models.
Department researchers seek to determine the safest, most effective use of medications for a given patient or population and disease state.
Department researchers determine, develop, and implement the most effective means of teaching how to deliver pharmacy care.
Department researchers study broad medication-related factors that ultimately affect the health of patients and populations.
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The UCSF School of Pharmacy is the oldest pharmacy school in the West, advancing education, patient care and research for more than a century.
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Operated by the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, the California Poison Control System is a critical safety net that responds to numerous calls about potential poison exposures every day.
Department of Clinical Pharmacy pharmacist faculty members care for the medication needs of patients in many health care settings. In addition, they innovate and evaluate new models of pharmacy care. And because the department’s practicing pharmacists are academicians, their patient care and research responsibilities go hand in hand.
These clinicians draw on their patient care expertise to develop better ways of delivering care, while rigorously and routinely evaluating the effectiveness of new approaches. The ultimate goal is to promote improved, evidence-based ways of caring for the medication needs of patients.
Department faculty pharmacists practice in acute care hospitals and ambulatory care settings with UCSF Health as well as in hospitals, clinics, community pharmacies, and physician group practices throughout California.
The department’s faculty pharmacists also practice in unique settings, often with the goal of studying new models of efficient, effective patient care.
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At the UCSF School of Pharmacy, innovation in patient care often starts beyond clinic walls. Through programs like Cut Hypertension, Director of Community-Based Practice Innovation, Crystal Zhou, PharmD, is closing gaps in access to care and improving health outcomes while shaping the next generation of pharmacists.
Dean Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm, received her flu shot from a second-year PharmD student, calling attention to the pharmacist’s role in safeguarding public health and kicking off American Pharmacists Month.
On World Pharmacists Day, UCSF Health celebrates the one-year anniversary of two new outpatient pharmacies that show how pharmacists advance patient-centered care through innovation, integration, and education.