Department of Clinical Pharmacy Practice – UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

UCI Health Affairs, May 15, 2025

Empowering Future Pharmacists with Mental Health First Aid Skills

"Mental Health First Aid equips individuals with invaluable skills that are applicable both personally and professionally, fostering resilience and support in everyday life, clinical settings and workplaces." (Farah Khorassani)

UCI Health Affairs, April 1, 2025

UC Irvine’s Interprofessional Community Health Action Project

"I am proud of our students for coming together in a collaborative, interprofessional manner to tackle the root causes of social issues that significantly impact healthcare access and outcomes. By leveraging their diverse perspectives and expertise, these students created practical, community-centered solutions which move beyond conventional approaches." (Nana Entsuah)

UCI News, March 24, 2025

Pharmacists of the future

"The benefit [of experiential education] is you get experience talking to patients, providing consults, and administering medicine and vaccines to real patients. You can’t only learn in a controlled environment. You have to introduce all these very uncontrollable variables in real-life settings because you get better by doing." (Erin Knox)

Specialty Pharmacy Continuum, March 17, 2025

Pharmacists a Critical Supplement to Safe CAM Use

"I see breast cancer patients and survivors in the clinic, and lots of patients talk to me about managing their side effects of chemotherapy with the various IO modalities." (Alexandre Chan)

New York Times, November 19, 2024

Do You Need to Take Magnesium Supplements?

"Magnesium supplements may interfere with some medications, including certain antibiotics or osteoporosis drugs, and higher doses can be unsafe if your kidneys aren’t functioning properly. It’s good practice to check with your doctor before taking magnesium (or any) supplements." (Mahtab Jafari)

UCI News, October 4, 2024

Farah Khorassani shares expert insights at Laguna Beach town hall on fentanyl

"As the brain adapts to repeated usage, higher doses are needed to achieve that same feeling. The dangers are in illicit forms, usually pressed into counterfeit pills. Only small amounts can lead to a fatality." (Farah Khorassani)

Healthcare IT News, September 11, 2024

UC Irvine electronic patient-reported outcome tool reduces cancer care disparities

"Early recognition of health issues by pharmacists often is impeded by patients' limited health literacy or poor communication due to language barriers, issues that are highly prevalent among REM." (Alexandre Chan)

UCI News, August 22, 2024

Preventing prediabetes

"If you have prediabetes, you don’t typically have any symptoms, and people may not take their nutrition that seriously, especially if they are active and busy and not feeling sick or exhausted. A lot of times, they just carry on with their lifestyle until it’s too late. Maybe there’s a better way to meet their needs without having them losing half a day in the clinic just to be told that they need to be healthier." (Joyce Lee)

Orange County Business Journal, August 12, 2024

Questionnaire by UCI helps non-English speakers explain cancer issues

"We have a lot of ethnic minorities in Orange County. With this platform, physicians and pharmacists can act on symptoms immediately and intervene." (Alexandre Chan)

UCI News, August 7, 2024

National Academies progress report: health disparities

"The goal of my paper is to empower efforts on multiple levels to enhance the representation of women, minorities and older adults to improve their health outcomes. It serves as a valuable resource of actionable suggestions and reports on the progress that’s been made through coordinated national policy efforts and collaboration from various stakeholders, including research institutions, funding bodies and medical journals." (Jonathan Watanabe)