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Fellows work with research and clinical faculty members at UCSF—a world-renowned institution exclusively focused on health sciences.
- Nadav Ahituv, PhD
- Fran T. Aweeka, PharmD
- Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD
- Leslie Z. Benet, PhD
- Neal L. Benowitz, MD
- Lisa Bero, PhD
- Kristen Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD
- Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH
- Atul Butte, MD, PhD
- Michael Cabana, MD, MPH
- Grant Dorsey, MD
- Timur Durrani, MD, MPH
- Leslie C. Floren, PharmD
- Kathleen M. Giacomini, PhD
- Ronald Krauss, MD
- Deanna L. Kroetz, PhD
- Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD
- Pamela N. Munster, MD
- Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD
- Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, MPA
- Jennifer M. Puck, MD
- Philip Rosenthal, MD
- Nancy C. Sambol, PharmD
- Rada Savic, PhD
- Janice B. Schwartz, MD
- Marina Sirota, PhD
- Eric Small, MD
- Bani Tamraz, PharmD, PhD
- John S. Witte, PhD
- Alan H. Wu, PhD
- Elad Ziv, MD
Current postdoctoral scholars and fellows
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Folagbayi Arowolo, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Precision medicine and optimization of drug dosing regimens using mass spectrometry |
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Isaac Cohen PharmD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Population PK modeling of antibiotics, retrospective analysis of postoperative pain management, and advising psychiatric drug development |
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Briana Fitch, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow [email protected] |
Therapeutic drug monitoring of anticoagulants, clinical applications of mass spectrometry, and prognostic value of inflammatory markers in infectious disease and cancer. |
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Amy Liu, PharmD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Geriatric pharmacotherapy and medication management |
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Yasmine White, MD Clinical Fellow, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Pharmaceuticals for birth asphyxia, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling in neonates |
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Jonathan Witonsky, MD Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Genetic and epigenetic factors in the development of asthma, pulmonary function testing in admixed populations, and health disparities in clinical research |
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Eric Wohlford, MD, PhD Clinical Fellow, Pediatrics Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Genetic and microbial factors associated with immune-mediated diseases including asthma in children. Interests include improving disparities in research and clinical care for minority populations, with an aim to make personalized medicine available to all populations. |
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Yu “Jada” Zhang, MD, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow |
Former fellows
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Who, Years mentored |
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Amelia Deitchman PharmD, PhD |
Assistant Professor, UCSF Clinical Pharmacy | clinical and translational pharmacology and pharmacometrics to understand drug action and variability to improve patient outcomes and streamline drug development in the setting of infectious disease, specifically tuberculosis, HIV, and malariar |
| Elizabeth Ennis, PhD | Pharmacologist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
genetic determinants of metformin pharmacokinetics, and drug-transporter interactions |
| Priya Jayachandran, PharmD, MSE July 2017- June 2020 |
Pharmacometrician at Pfizer |
pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic modeling of drug response, infectious diseases, pediatrics, study design, global health |
| Eunice Lee, PhD | Fellow, National Institutes of Health |
environmental and molecular epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, biomarkers of exposure to air pollution, drug response |
| Lesly-Anne Samedy, PharmD, PhD, MS July 2017-June 2020 |
Program Officer, National Institutes of Health (NICHD) |
pharmacogenetics and epigenetic factors in the development of asthma in admixed populations; pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and drug response; genetic variant associations; health disparities |
| Erika Wallender, MD, MPH |
Assistant Professor, UCSF Clinical Pharmacy |
pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling to optimize antimalarial use for malaria treatment and prevention in children in Uganda |