Brian Katcher, PharmD
Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy

I am mostly retired but close to finishing the first draft of a new book that will use a history of science perspective to illuminate two histories: those pharmaceuticals and population health. I began with the idea that this would be a story about the intersection of risk factors (a term coined in the 1960s) and the drugs and public health interventions that affect them.

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It still is, but it is more complicated than I had anticipated. History can’t predict the future, but it is necessary for understanding the present moment.

Awards

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• Excellence in Teaching, School of Pharmacy, 2013
• Public Health Hero, San Francisco Department of Public Health, 2009
• Honored at Commencement for "trailblazing contributions to clinical pharmacy and public health", UCSF School of Pharmacy, 2007
• MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching selected as "Book of the Week", BioMedNet.com, 1999
• Department of Public Health Employee Recognition Award, San Francisco Health Commission, 1999
• First Place Award as one of the editors of Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs, American Medical Writers Association, 1979

Education & Training

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• Post-Doctoral Fellow Alcohol Research Group, University of California, School of Public Health 1993
• Peace Corps 1969
• PharmD Pharmacy University of California 1967

Interests

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• Pharmacy
• History of Health Sciences
• Medical Subject Headings [MeSH]
• Public Health

Websites

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• HealthySF.org (healthysf.org)

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
San FranciscoForecastingHealth Status DisparitiesMortalityCost of IllnessAntihypertensive AgentsTemperanceHealth EducationLife ExpectancyAlcoholic BeveragesGlobal HealthPatient ParticipationAlcoholismCause of DeathHistory, 20th Century

• Estimating alcohol-related premature mortality in San Francisco: use of population-attributable fractions from the global burden of disease study.
  BMC public health 2010 Katcher BS, Reiter RB, Aragón TJ
• Racial disparities in hypertension control: not the provider but still a problem.
  American journal of hypertension 2010 Miller AM, Katcher BS, Kotabe S
• Calculating expected years of life lost for assessing local ethnic disparities in causes of premature death.
  BMC public health 2008 Aragón TJ, Lichtensztajn DY, Katcher BS, Reiter R, Katz MH
• MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces
  MEDLINE: A guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces 2006 Katcher, Brian S.
• The post-repeal eclipse in knowledge about the harmful effects of alcohol.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 1993 Katcher BS
• Benjamin Rush's educational campaign against hard drinking.
  American journal of public health 1993 Katcher BS