Shalini Lynch, PharmD
Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy

Shalini Lynch, PharmD, BCGP is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at UCSF. She has been a faculty member at the UCSF School of Pharmacy since 2004. Her practice expertise includes drug information, literature evaluation, drug utilization review and management, geriatrics, and pharmaceutical industry.

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She is experienced in clinical pharmacy ambulatory care, Medicare Part D plan review, and interdisciplinary clinical geriatrics. Dr. Lynch supports the UCSF School of Pharmacy in its role as an academic subcontractor to the State of California’s Medi-Cal Drug Utilization Review program. She is a faculty member in the UCSF Medication Outcomes Center.

Awards

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• Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Board of Pharmacy Specialties, 2014
• Pharmacist of the Year, CSHP - Sacramento Valley Chapter, 2007

Education & Training

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• Specialty Residency in Drug Information University of California, San Francisco 1994
• Pharmacy Practice Residency University of California, San Francisco 1993
• Doctor of Pharmacy University of California, San Francisco 1992

Interests

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• Drug Information
• Medication Therapy Management
• Managed Care
• Geriatrics

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Inappropriate PrescribingMacular DegenerationDrug PrescriptionsPhysicians, Primary CarePotentially Inappropriate Medication ListVascular Endothelial Growth Factor APain, IntractableInjections, SpinalAngiogenesis Inhibitorsomega-ConotoxinsDiabetic RetinopathyDrugs, GenericAntibodies, MonoclonalNurse PractitionersContraceptives, Oral

• Effect of collaborative dementia care on potentially inappropriate medication use: Outcomes from the Care Ecosystem randomized clinical trial.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022 Liu AK, Possin KL, Cook KM, Lynch S, Dulaney S, Merrilees JJ, Braley T, Kiekhofer RE, Bonasera SJ, Allen IE, Chiong W, Clark AM, Feuer J, Ewalt J, Guterman EL, Gearhart R, Miller BL, Lee KP
• The Evolution of Drug Information Services to Asynchronous Delivery of Pharmacist eConsults.
  The Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians 2021 Clinard V, Stebbins M, Lynch S
• Physician and Nurse Practitioner Attitudes on Generic Prescribing of Oral Contraceptive Pills and Antidepressants.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Thaver A, Chee M, Wroblewski K, Weissman A, Cook M, Zhang J, Samarth A, Moriates C, Wallingford S, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Shah N, Farnan J, Ngooi S, Tracy C, Meltzer DO, Arora VM
• Development and testing of a module to promote generic oral contraceptive prescribing among nurse practitioners.
  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners 2020 Chee M, Lenti G, Farnan J, Cook M, Weissman A, Wallingford S, Moriates C, Shah N, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Ngooi S, Norenberg A, Millard S, Samarth A, Zhang JX, Meltzer DO, Tracy C, Arora VM
• Development and testing of a web module to IMPROVE generic prescribing of oral contraceptives among primary care physicians.
  Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics 2019 Lenti G, Norenberg A, Farnan JM, Weissman A, Cook M, Shah N, Moriates C, Wallingford S, Lynch S, Stebbins M, Millard S, Samarth A, Zhang JX, Thaver A, Meltzer DO, Oguntimein M, Frost M, Arora VM
• Pharmacist Participation on a Geriatrics Interdisciplinary (IDT) Clinic
  California Pharmacist 2015 Lynch S, Javaheri A
• Bevacizumab for neovascular ocular diseases.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2007 Lynch SS, Cheng CM
• Intrathecal ziconotide for refractory chronic pain.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2006 Lynch SS, Cheng CM, Yee JL