Faculty Collaboration

Through our affiliations with the UCSF Center for Consumer Self-care, we are an academic research collaboration of faculty in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco - the top ranked pharmacy school in the nation. We have a commitment to meeting the challenges of health care through approaches that empower patients to take a more active role in their own health care. Our key areas of interest as faculty partners of the Center are research, education, pharmacy practice, and health policy.

Consumer Self-care Stakeholders

We seek active relationships with stakeholders in self-care, to further research, education, practice, and policy objectives for better consumer health. These stakeholders include:

• Leaders in pharmacy and the self-care industry whose decisions determine many of the self-care products and services offered to consumers
• Health care organizations offering self-care education and products to their members
• Consumer advocacy groups, which champion consumer rights in self-care
• Scientists whose research sheds light and evidence on self-care issues
• National, state and local government agencies who are entrusted with safeguarding the public's well-being, and
• Media leaders who influence news and feature coverage of self-care topics.
• Pharmacists and other health care providers who seek continual education on new findings and approaches to self-care

What We Do

By applying our experience in medicines, dietary supplements, in-home diagnostic devices, and lifestyle practices, we:

• Engage national, state, and local stakeholders on significant health policy issues and initiatives affecting access to, as well as the cost, quality and behavioral outcomes of, self-care;
• Conduct policy-relevant research to advance the knowledge and practice of self-care;
• Share with consumers and health professionals relevant, reliable, evidence-based information on responsible self-care;
• Educate health practitioners and students about the theory and practice of self-care.

Center Faculty Members

Dave Adler, PharmD
Brain Alldredge, PharmD
Judith Alsop, PharmD
Peter Ambrose, PharmD
Mitra Assemi, PharmD
Francesca Aweeka, PharmD
Lisa Bero, PhD
Christine Cheng, PharmD
Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD
Robin Corelli, PharmD
Robert Day, PharmD
Cathi Dennehy, PharmD
Betty Dong, PharmD
Shareen El-Ibiary, PharmD
Patrick Finley, PharmD
Ronald Finley, BSPharm
B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
Stuart Heard, PharmD
Robert Ignoffo, PharmD
Steven Kayser, PharmD
Thomas Kearney, PharmD
Donald Kishi, PharmD
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD
Sharon Kotabe, PharmD
Lisa Kroon, PharmD
Andrew Leeds, PharmD
Susan Levings, MS
Helene Levens Lipton, PhD
James Lightwood, PhD
Clifton Louie, RPh, DPA
Shalini Lynch, PharmD
Kathryn Phillips, PhD, MPA
Lori Reisner-Keller, PharmD
Lorie Rice, MPH
Barbara Sauer, PharmD
R. William Soller, Ph.D.
Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD
Candy Tsourounis, PharmD
Robert Weibert, PharmD
Leslie Wilson, PhD
Michael Winter, PharmD
Kathy Yang, PharmD, MPH
Glen Yokoyama, PharmD
Sharon Youmans, PharmD