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Warif Kastoun, PharmD
Mon Jun 10, 2024
Nearly a third of the University of California’s Class of 2024 started their higher education journey at California community colleges, including Warif Kastoun, PharmD, whose plans to run her own local pharmacy in Damascus, Syria, were interrupted by civil war.
Wed Apr 4, 2012
Phi Lambda Sigma—Beta Beta chapter cabinet
The UCSF School of Pharmacy student chapter of the national pharmacy leadership society, Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), has won the organization’s 2012 Charles Thomas Leadership Challenge Grant to support a campus project.
Student pharmacist Caroline Lindsay,...
Tue Apr 3, 2012
Computational chemist Brian Shoichet, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, is the new director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UCSF.
QB3, with research facilities at UC campuses in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, has an...
Tue Mar 27, 2012
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, clinical antibiotics expert, and prize-winning teacher Conan MacDougall, PharmD, is the 2012 recipient of the Albert B. Prescott / Glaxo SmithKline Pharmacy Leadership Award.
The national award is given annually to a young pharmacist who has “demonstrated...
Tue Mar 13, 2012
The UCSF School of Pharmacy continues to rank number 1 among Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs in the United States, according to a new, 2012 survey published by U.S. News & World Report.
The survey results appear in the magazine’s 2013 issue of “American Best Graduate Schools,” which appeared online today at the U.S...
Fri Mar 2, 2012
In her latest appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, Nancy Nkansah, PharmD, discussed the dangers of mixing alcohol and certain medications, including prescription anti-anxiety drugs as well as some over-the-counter painkillers, antihistamines, and cough suppressants.
In a segment titled “When Safe Drugs Turn...
Thu Mar 1, 2012
Research: growth over past decade from $17.6 to 43.5 million, Apollonio, Roy, Wells, Center for Quantitative Pharmacology, Quantitative Biosciences Consortium. Faculty: DeGrado, Savic, James, Day, Rice, MacDougall, Fischbach, Huang. Students: Hluhanich, Frear, Gavrilova, Gayle, Tantipinichwong, Vuong, Etemadi. New appointments: Nordberg, Rhode....
Wed Feb 22, 2012
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?
How do you help patients and providers choose the best combination of three or more drugs...
Tue Jan 24, 2012
Following the UCSF website's announcement of School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble's June 30, 2012 retirement came comments from leaders at UCSF and beyond. Koda-Kimble, whose 46 years at UCSF began as a PharmD student, became (in 1998) the first female dean of the top-ranked pharmacy school in the nation and the first...
Fri Jan 20, 2012
Every year U.S. drug regulators approve dozens of new medicines as “safe and effective,” but just how effective are they? How well do they alleviate specific aspects of illness, whether light sensitivity from migraine headaches or itching from eczema?
For answers, many physicians and other health care providers turn to...