Kirsten Balano, PharmD
Associate Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
Kirsten Balano, Pharm D has contributed her clinical HIV pharmacist expertise in a variety of clinical, educational, and program development settings. Dr. Balano has been involved in the clinical care of patients since 1991 through work at San Francisco General Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient HIV programs.
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Currently, she directs the client-centered adherence program for the Vista Community Health Center’s HIV Network in Sonoma County. Dr. Balano received her PharmD degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1991 and since that time has focused her career on training and education of HIV/AIDS providers. She has created training curriculum and programs for HIV consultation, HIV clinical pharmacy; additionally she has contributed to and edited clinical manuals for the AIDS Education and Training Centers locally and nationally. Her primary clinical, educational, and research interests are in the areas of motivational interviewing, interactive training modalities, interprofessional learning environments, adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy, drug interactions, medication errors, and adverse effects. Dr. Balano is the Program Director for the North Bay Advanced Pharmaceutical Program Experiences (APPE) for 4th-year UCSF pharmacy students. In this role, she actively mentors student pharmacists in their APPE year, precepts them in their ambulatory care clinics and HIV electives, and creates preceptor development programs for the preceptors working with UCSF student pharmacists in the North Bay.
Education & Training
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- Pharm.D. Pharmacy University of California, San Francisco 1991
Interests
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- adherence
- experiential learning
- interprofessional education
- HIV
- drug-drug interactions
- adult learning theory
- medication errors
- adverse effects of medications
- motivational interviewing
Websites
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- Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (paetc.org)
- UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy Profile (clinicalpharmacy.ucsf.edu)
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Publications (13)
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Professional RoleCromolyn SodiumMuscle Relaxants, CentralAdvanced Practice NursingGuidelines as TopicPatient Care TeamPneumonia, PneumocystisPentamidineAntifungal AgentsEducation, PharmacyOccupational ExposureAdverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsMusculoskeletal DiseasesInterprofessional RelationsAIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
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Promoting Role Clarity for Health Professional Students Participating in an Interprofessional Behavior Change Counseling Workshop.
Journal of allied health 2017 Saxe JM, Balano K, Wamsley M, Nakajima M, Brock T -
Basic HIV Pharmacology Workshop
Basic HIV Pharmacology Workshop 2012 Balano, KB, Garner, Kala -
Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care, Adverse Reactions to HIV Medications
Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care, Adverse Reactions to HIV Medications 2011 Balano, KB -
Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care, Drug-Drug Interactions with HIV-Related Medications
Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care, Drug-Drug Interactions with HIV-Related Medications 2011 Balano, KB -
Developing Regional Approaches to Training Community Pharmacists - An AETC Program Coordinator's Guide
Developing Regional Approaches to Training Community Pharmacists - An AETC Program Coordinator's Guide 2008 David Rosen, MSW, LCSW, C-ASWCM; Jean Lee, PharmD, BCPS; Kirsten Balano, PharmD; Supriya Modey, MPH, MBBS; Whitney Buckley, PharmD
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Controversies: the role of HIV specialists.
JAMA 1998 Legg JJ, Balano KB, Goldschmidt RH -
Individualized strategies in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy.
The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 1998 Goldschmidt RH, Balano KB, Legg JJ, Dong BJ -
Symptom management in HIV-infected patients.
Primary care 1997 Legg JJ, Balano KB -
A 5-year retrospective review of adverse drug reactions and their risk factors in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients who were receiving intravenous pentamidine therapy for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1997 O'Brien JG, Dong BJ, Coleman RL, Gee L, Balano KB -
Occupational exposure to HIV: new recommendations for treating health care workers.
The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 1996 Goldschmidt RH, Legg JJ, Balano KB -
Anti-inflammatory drugs and myorelaxants. Pharmacology and clinical use in musculoskeletal disease.
Primary care 1996 Balano KB -
Cromolyn use in young children.
The Annals of pharmacotherapy 1994 Schweitzer M, Balano KB -
Educating primary care providers about HIV disease: multidisciplinary interactive mechanisms.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 1994 Macher A, Goosby E, Barker L, Volberding P, Goldschmidt R, Balano KB, Williams A, Hoenig L, Gould B, Daniels E