Clinical Pharmacy

When Shawna Kraft, PharmD ’06, began her career as a clinical pharmacist specializing in cancer treatments, a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma meant very limited survival. Today, with advances in immunotherapy, she sees patients live with the disease for a decade or more. 
But that usually requires years of treatment, careful management of side effects and still […]

After 20 years as a clinical pharmacist specializing in bone marrow transplantation, David Frame, PharmD, is an expert in dialing down the body’s immune response. That’s essential in therapies where you are basically replacing the patient’s immune system. Unchecked, the transplanted cells will attack not only the disease, but the host. 
Frame, a Clinical Associate Professor […]

As ongoing research reveals more genetic differences in drug responses, Dr. Pasternak’s efforts to share this knowledge and build it into health information systems is vital.

Dr. Stringer’s work on the leading edge of drug discovery may give us new approaches to halt common critical illnesses that have, until now, eluded treatment.

The program embeds pharmacists as a part of the healthcare team in Michigan Medicine primary care clinics and community pharmacies to help monitor and control blood pressure in patients.

A pharmacy specialist in anesthesiology, Dr. Wagner focuses her time on ensuring quality assurance for patients in the operating room.

Working with kidney and liver transplant patients of all ages, Park plays an integral role from the time the patient is being evaluated for transplant eligibility to post-operation.

YesRx allows patients to donate unused cancer drugs which are then repurposed by pharmacists for patients with cancer who are often uninsured or underinsured and in need of that medication.

Removing erroneous labels can potentially translate into improved outcomes and lower costs of care for thousands of patients each year.

Patients with a Spanish language preference can ask for medication fact sheets and health information in the language of their choice at pharmacies and health centers, and they should get them. That’s the law. But will that information be clear and conveyed in a culturally relevant context? Maybe not.