Clinical Pharmacy

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.

Coe’s clinical research dives into understanding which medications a patient is taking and how it’s tracked to ensure patient safety.

Some cancer patients carry a genetic variant that can lead to a dangerous, sometimes fatally toxic response to a common chemotherapy drug.

Knowing that patient education is at the core of a pharmacist’s role, Dr. Choe and her team created a new pharmacist-centric care model to try to improve patients’ control of their blood pressure.

Mike Dorsch, PharmD, MS, is keenly interested in understanding how to encourage compliance with a common prescription that is not a drug at all — diet and exercise.