Zlatan Coralic, PharmD
Pharmacist
COO
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Dr. Coralic was the founding member of the UCSF Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Program in 2009 and continues to lead as the PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Program Director. His clinical work consists of direct bedside care, advanced pharmacotherapeutic consultations, and serving as a preceptor for pharmacy and medical students and residents.

His research focuses on medication safety, efficacy, and drug-related adverse events. Dr. Coralic is a contributing author and editor of multiple medical textbooks and chapters and has delivered more than 50 invited lectures at national and international forums.

Dr. Coralic is deeply committed to advancing patient safety in high-acuity care settings and promoting interdisciplinary research, education, and collaboration.

• Treatment of Toxin-Related Status Epilepticus With Levetiracetam, Fosphenytoin, or Valproate in Patients Enrolled in the Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2022 Coralic Z, Kapur J, Olson KR, Chamberlain JM, Overbeek D, Silbergleit R
• Haloperidol Versus Ziprasidone With Concomitant Medications and Other Predictors of Physical Restraint Duration in the Emergency Department.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2022 Coralic Z, Rader ES, Vinson DR, Wilson MP
• Intermittent Versus Continuous Infusion Dosing of Intravenous Proton Pump Inhibitors for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2022 Leung T, Kedzior S, Moore K, Bierman J, Coralic Z
• Use of Capsaicin Cream in Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2021 Lee A, Coralic Z
• In the midst of an opioid epidemic: Pharmacists on the frontline of substance use disorder treatment.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2021 Acquisto NM, Coralic Z
• Association Between Methamphetamine Use and Psychiatric Hospitalization, Chemical Restraint, and Emergency Department Length of Stay.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2020 Murphy CE, Wang RC, Coralic Z, Lai AR, Raven M
• Association of Default Electronic Medical Record Settings With Health Care Professional Patterns of Opioid Prescribing in Emergency Departments: A Randomized Quality Improvement Study.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Montoy JCC, Coralic Z, Herring AA, Clattenburg EJ, Raven MC
• Brief Summary of Potential SARS-CoV-2 Prophylactic and Treatment Drugs in the Emergency Department.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2020 Brown C, Noble J, Coralic Z
• Medication reconciliation studies: High quantity, low quality.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2019 Coralic Z
• Evaluation of the Impact of a Multimodel Intervention on Prescribing Patterns of Sedative-Hypnotics in a Behavioral Health System.
  The primary care companion for CNS disorders 2018 Avdagic K, Geier M, Coralic Z, Finley P
• Clinical pharmacy services in the emergency department.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Morgan SR, Acquisto NM, Coralic Z, Basalyga V, Campbell M, Kelly JJ, Langkiet K, Pearson C, Sokn E, Phelan M
• Ketamine procedural sedation in the emergency department of an urban tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2018 Coralic Z, Sawe HR, Mfinanga JA, Cortez A, Koehl J, Siroker H, Reynolds TA
• Effect of a single dose of i.v. ondansetron on QTc interval in emergency department patients.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2018 Li K, Vo K, Lee BK, Addo N, Coralic Z
• Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2017 Coralic Z, Hayes BD
• Root Cause Analysis of Ambulatory Adverse Drug Events That Present to the Emergency Department.
  Journal of patient safety 2016 Gertler SA, Coralic Z, López A, Stein JC, Sarkar U
• Prochlorperazine-Induced Hemidystonia Mimicking Acute Stroke.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2015 Coralic Z, Kim AS, Vinson DR
• Simple text-messaging intervention is associated with improved door-to-needle times for acute ischemic stroke.
  Stroke 2014 Burnett MM, Zimmermann L, Coralic Z, Quon T, Whetstone W, Kim AS
• Staff perceptions of an on-site clinical pharmacist program in an academic emergency department after one year.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2014 Coralic Z, Kanzaria HK, Bero L, Stein J
• Levamisole contaminated cocaine induced cutaneous vasculitis syndrome.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2013 James KT, Detz A, Coralic Z, Kanzaria H
• A 120-hour case of priapism from an over-the-counter herbal supplement.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2013 Coralic Z, Lenhoff T, Kanzaria HK, Gerona R
• Adie's Tonic Pupil.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2012 Kanzaria HK, Farzan N, Coralic Z
• Detection of Acute Pulmonary Embolism by Bedside Ultrasound in a Patient Presenting in PEA Arrest: A Case Report.
  Case reports in emergency medicine 2012 Chung-Esaki H, Knight R, Noble J, Wang R, Coralic Z
• Prediction of vancomycin pharmacodynamics in children with invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: a Monte Carlo simulation.
  Clinical therapeutics 2010 Frymoyer A, Hersh AL, Coralic Z, Benet LZ, Joseph Guglielmo B
• Artificial Intelligence in Prediction of Secondary Protein Structure Using CB513 Database.
  Summit on translational bioinformatics 2009 Avdagic Z, Purisevic E, Omanovic S, Coralic Z