Timothy Cutler, PharmD
Clinical Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy

Dr. Cutler joined the UCSF faculty in 2004 and is currently a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and is the Divine Family Endowed Chair in Clinical Pharmacy. In this role he works as a clinical pharmacist in collaboration with the UC Davis Medical Center and is the Director of the Sacramento Experiential Program. There, he devotes much of his time to the fourth year pharmacy students placed at the UC Davis Medical Center and throughout Sacramento and is evaluating the roles of pharmacists in ambulatroy care throughout the UC medical centers.

He is currently working in a Medication Therapy Management Clinic with the UC Davis Medical Center where he works with seniors to improve their medication therapy and reduce out of pocket prescription drug costs. Dr. Cutler’s current research and practice foci are on geriatric pharmacy, medication therapy management, Medicare outreach and the development of new pharmacy curriculum. Most recently he was a visiting Professor at Kobe Gakuin Pharmaceutical University in Kobe, Japan.

Dr. Cutler was a co-investigator on a grant called “Partners in D,” funded by the Amgen Foundation, where he and colleagues develop Medicare Part D curricular innovations for dissemination to seven schools of pharmacy in California. He is certified by the Commission on Geriatric Pharmacy, is a graduate of the faculty scholar’s program in the Northern California Geriatric Education Center, and serves on the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing Graduate Group. He has lectured at state and national conferences to audiences of physicians, pharmacists and nurses. He received the Albert Prescott Leadership Award from the Pharmacy Leadership and Education Institute in 2011.

• A retrospective descriptive analysis of patient adherence to dabigatran at a large academic medical center.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2014 Cutler TW, Chuang A, Huynh TD, Witt RG, Branch J, Pon T, White R
• Practical pearls for a successful residency project.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2013 Berry AJ, Heintz BH, Cutler TW
• Pharmacy students teaching prescribers strategies to lower prescription drug costs for underserved patients.
  Journal of managed care pharmacy : JMCP 2013 Stebbins MR, Frear ME, Cutler TW, Lightwood JM, Fingado AR, Lai CJ, Lipton HL
• Promoting interprofessional collaboration: pharmacy students teaching current and future prescribers about Medicare Part D.
  Journal of managed care pharmacy : JMCP 2011 Lai CJ, Smith AR, Stebbins MR, Cutler TW, Lipton HL
• The pharmacy profession and health care reform: opportunities and challenges during the next decade.
  Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA 2011 Cutler TW
• Promoting access and reducing expected out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries: a pharmacist-directed model.
  Medical care 2011 Cutler TW, Stebbins MR, Smith AR, Patel RA, Lipton HL
• Prescriber Compliance with a New Computerized Insulin Guideline for Noncritically Ill Adults.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2011 Clemens E, Cutler T, Canaria J, Pandya K, Parker P
• Peer-to-peer interprofessional health policy education for Medicare part D.
  American journal of pharmaceutical education 2010 Lipton HL, Lai CJ, Cutler TW, Smith AR, Stebbins MR
• Cost minimization of medicare part D prescription drug plan expenditures.
  The American journal of managed care 2009 Patel RA, Lipton HL, Cutler TW, Smith AR, Tsunoda SM, Stebbins MR
• Medicare part D community outreach train-the-trainer program for pharmacy faculty.
  American journal of pharmaceutical education 2009 Stebbins MR, Cutler TW, Corelli RL, Smith AR, Lipton HL
• Problem-based learning using the online Medicare Part D Plan Finder tool.
  American journal of pharmaceutical education 2008 Cutler TW, Stebbins MR, Lai E, Smith AR, Lipton HL
• Evaluation of the relationship between a chronic disease care management program and california pay-for-performance diabetes care cholesterol measures in one medical group.
  Journal of managed care pharmacy : JMCP 2007 Cutler TW, Palmieri J, Khalsa M, Stebbins M