Christie Robinson, PharmD
Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy

Dr. Christie Robinson is a clinical pharmacist with experience in a variety of settings, including academia, inpatient care, ambulatory care, and at drug database/compendia companies as a drug and clinical content writer. She has provided clinical care in a pulmonary clinic, travel medicine clinic, general medicine clinic, and at UCSF and SFGH on the General Medicine inpatient services.

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She is currently working at the # 1 medical app at the point-of-care, epocrates, as a Lead Drug & Clinical Content Manager. She creates and edits ACURE (accurate, current, unbiased, relevant, essential) drug and clinical content. In addition, Dr. Robinson collaborate on interprofessional teams with inspiring people to bring new content to our app. She precepts UCSF student pharmacists participating in the epocrates APPE and provides hands-on experience in evidence-based medicine practice.

During her seven years as a UCSF faculty member, 2007-2013, her clinical service was as a clinical pharmacist (w/ prescriptive authority) in the Asthma & COPD clinic at St Anthony Medical Clinic, a medicines information pharmacist in the Blue Shield of California Ask the Pharmacist Service, a clinical pharmacist in the UCSF Travel Medicine and Immunizations clinic, a clinical pharmacist (w/ prescriptive authority) in the UCSF Freson MTM clinic, and a clinical pharmacist on the inpatient General Medicines service at UCSF as well as at SFGH (WOS faculty). Dr. Robinson’s research interests include supporting the role of the pharmacist in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, assessing outcomes in underserved patients with chronic respiratory conditions through educational and clinical interventions, and pulmonary inhaler devices.

Awards

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• Long Prize for Excellence in Teaching for First-Year Class, UCSF, School of Pharmacy, 2012-2013
• Advisor of the Year, APhA-ASP UCSF, 2010-2011
• Preceptor of the Year, APhA-ASP UCSF, 2008-2009
• Preceptor of the Year, APhA-ASP UCSF, 2007-2008

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsAdrenergic beta-AgonistsNitrofurantoinMedication ErrorsPharmaciesAmbulatory Care FacilitiesAdrenal Cortex HormonesAnti-Asthmatic AgentsMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedHIV SeropositivityMetered Dose InhalersHealth LiteracyAnti-Infective Agents, UrinaryPatient Education as TopicCryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia

• Inhaled corticosteroid metered-dose inhalers: how do variations in technique for solutions versus suspensions affect drug distribution?
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2013 Robinson CA, Tsourounis C
• Implementation of vital signs skills programme at a US school of pharmacy: a mechanism to assess competency for first-year student pharmacists
  Pharmacy Education 2012 Chung S, Robinson C, Brock T, MacDougall C
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  Inpatient Antiretroviral Prescribing for HIV-Positive Patients: Analysis of Error Rate and Associated Factors 2011 Robinson C, Lin G, Shih J, Wang H, MacDougall C
• Perceived Internet health literacy of HIV-positive people through the provision of a computer and Internet health education intervention.
  Health information and libraries journal 2010 Robinson C, Graham J
• FDA's recommendations on the use of long-acting {beta}2 agonists in the management of asthma.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2010 Robinson CA
• Probable nitrofurantoin-induced bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2009 Robinson C, Nyi PP
• Discordance between ambulatory care clinic and community pharmacy medication databases for HIV-positive patients.
  Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA 2007 Robinson CA, Cocohoba J, MacDougall C, John MD, Guglielmo BJ