December 2015

Youmans elected AACP Council of Deans Secretary

Wed Dec 23, 2015

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and UCSF School of Pharmacy vice dean, is the newly elected Council of Deans Secretary, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

The council includes a select number of the nation’s leaders in academic pharmacy. Council activities focus on educational policies, professional program administration within academic institutions, and the ties between academic pharmacy and the community.

Ahituv, Kaiser Permanente study identifies genetic susceptibility for hernia

Tue Dec 22, 2015

Research in the lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, PhD, in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and others, has identified variations at four locations in the genome underlying risk for the most common type of abdominal hernia.

Diversity in medical research is a long way off, study shows

Tue Dec 15, 2015

Despite Congressional mandates aimed at diversifying clinical research, little has changed in the last 30 years in both the numbers of studies that include minorities and the diversity of scientists being funded, according to a new analysis by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Hernandez welcomes second baby

Fri Dec 11, 2015

Dear friends,

Dara and I are happy to announce that our second daughter Lyra Dahlia Hernandez (first name sounds like "lyric") was born on Friday, November 27 at 9:18 am. She was born just over 8 weeks early. Lyra weighed in at 2 lbs 8.6 oz. and stretched 15.75 inches long. She will be in the NICU for a while, but is doing well. Mom is recuperating quickly, and will likely go home on Tuesday.

All our best,

Ryan Hernandez

The right dose: how pharmacy researchers are making medicine more precise

Tue Dec 8, 2015

Reprinted courtesy of UCSF Magazine.

In the pediatric bone marrow transplant clinic, pharmacist Janel Boyle’s past and present collide.

She drifts past young patients—many of them infants and toddlers—and notes their beaming smiles and balding heads. Her gaze shifts to the parents, their expressions tense but hopeful.