Department of Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Nana Entsuah In the Media Headshot
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)
Erin Knox Headshot
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)
Alexandre Chan In the Media Headshot
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)
Mahtab Jafari In the Media Headshot
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)
Joyce Lee In the Media Headshot
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)
Jonathan Watanabe In the Media Headshot
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)