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2018

Distinguished Scholar and Fellows have an exemplary career of ten years or more, and are committed to interprofessional practice and accessible, affordable healthcare for all. Fellows are judged by distinguished peers to have made significant and ongoing contributions in their profession.

Distinguished Scholar and Fellows have made notable academic achievements such as significant and enduring educational and/or research contribution to practice.

Distinguished Scholar and Fellow National Academies of Practice in Pharmacy (NAP)

2019

The GTMRx Distinguished Fellows program celebrates the exceptional contributions of those advancing our ability to enhance life by ensuring appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies.

Distinguished Fellows drive innovation, policy, and work alongside like-minded national leaders to advance evidence, best practices, and ideas to accelerate the transformation to a team-based, person-centered approach to comprehensive medication management.

Distinguished Fellow of Get the Medications Right Institute (GTMRx)

Excellence in Teaching Award

2002

University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy

Distinguished Alumni Award

American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA)

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)

California Pharmacists Association (CPhA)

National Academies of Practice (NAP)

Applied Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Forum

Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute

National survey of physicians’ perspectives on pharmacogenetic testing in solid organ transplantation.  Clinical Transplantation.

Local pharmacies can reduce the dual risks of COVID19 and influenza this fall.  Now is the time to prepare.

PaCIR: A Tool to Enhance Pharmacist Patient Care Intervention Reporting

Patterns of Stress, Coping and Health-Related Quality of Life in Doctor of Pharmacy Students

Improved glycemic control outcomes regardless of mental health disorders in a pharmacist-endocrinologist diabetes intense medical management (DIMM) “tune up” clinic.

Advancing Pharmacist Collaborative Care within Academic Health Systems

Evaluation of a Short, Interactive Diabetes Self-Management Program by Pharmacists for Type 2 Diabetes

Federal and Patient Spending on Ten Most Expensive Medications in Medicare Part D from 2011 to 2015

Estimated Cost-Effectiveness, Cost Benefit, and Risk Reduction Associated with an Endocrinologist-Pharmacist Diabetes Intense Medical Management “Tune-Up” Clinic

Cost of Prescription Drug-Related Morbidity and Mortality

Economic Impact of and Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes

Estimated Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Benefit, and Risk Reduction Associated with a Pharmacist-Endocrinologist Diabetes Intense Medical Management “Tune Up” Clinic.

Strategies for Addressing the Cost of Nonadherence in Diabetes

Student Pharmacists' Perceptions of Immunizations

Clinical Outcomes Associated With a Collaborative Pharmacist-Endocrinologist Diabetes Intense Medical Management “Tune Up” Clinic in Complex Patients

Primary Care–based, Pharmacist–physician Collaborative Medication-therapy Management of Hypertension: A Randomized, Pragmatic Trial

Changes in medication regimen complexity and the risk for 90-day hospital readmission and/or emergency department visits in U.S. Veterans with heart failure

Validation of a Patient‐Level Medication Regimen Complexity Index as a Possible Tool to Identify Patients for Medication Therapy Management Intervention

A Composite Endpoint Measure to Consolidate Multidimensional Impact of Treatment on Gouty Arthritis

Efficacy of Canakinumab vs. triamcinolone acetonide according to multiple gouty arthritis‐related health outcomes measures

Navigating complex patients using an innovative tool: The MTM Spider Web

Patient-level medication regimen complexity in older adults with depression

Development of a Pharmacist-Psychiatrist Collaborative Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Clinic

Documenting and Describing the Value of Medication Therapy Management Services (MTMS) and  Outcomes in Community Pharmacy: Methods and Case Study

Patient-Level Medication Regimen Complexity Across Populations with Chronic Disease

Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, Medication Use, and Health Care Costs During 3 Years of a Community  Pharmacy Medication Therapy Management Program for Medi-Cal Beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS

Minimally Important Differences of the Gout Impact Scale in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Health Care Utilization in Patients with Gout.

Impact of Gout on Health Related Quality of Life and the Relationship to Gout Characteristics

Medication Therapy Management Services in Community Pharmacy: A Pilot Program in HIV Specialty Pharmacies

Pharmacists as Immunizers: A California Survey

Predictors of Doctor-Rated and Patient-Rated Gout Severity: Gout Impact Scales Improve Assessment

Comparison of Pharmacists and Primary Care Providers as Immunizers

Students’ Health-Related Quality of Life Across the Preclinical Pharmacy Curriculum

Evaluation of an Instrument Assessing Gout Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life

Evaluation of the first year of a pilot program in community pharmacy: HIV/AIDS medication therapy management for Medi-Cal beneficiaries

Patient request for pharmacist counseling and satisfaction: Automated prescription delivery system vs. regular pick-up counter

Gout disease-specific quality of life and the association with gout characteristics

Evaluation of an Instrument Assessing Influence of Gout on Health-Related Quality of Life

Dr. Jan D. Hirsch is Founding Dean of the University of California Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and also Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. She is a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Pharmacy, and Distinguished Fellow of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute, and joined UC Irvine in January of 2019.
Previously she was Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Chair of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of California, San Diego. She was also Executive Director of an outreach program of the school providing medication therapy management services in the community. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacy Administration from the University of South Carolina, College of Pharmacy. Prior to returning to academia, she spent 14 years in the pharmaceutical and managed care industries where she was responsible for establishing and managing outcomes research departments for two pharmaceutical companies (Glaxo Group Research in Greenford (UK) and Allergan (US)) and a pharmacy benefit management company (Prescription Solutions (US)).

Dr. Hirsch's research interests are focused in the areas of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. Specifically, i) assessing the full value (economic, clinical and humanistic) of pharmacy services and pharmaceuticals and ii) integrating patient reported outcomes (PRO's) [e.g. Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL)] into pharmaceutical and medical practice to improve patient management.

She has served as PI or Co-PI for many studies evaluating the clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes for patients receiving novel pharmacy services for diabetes, hypertension, mental health, and HIV/AIDS. This research has been recognized by state and federal agencies, professional pharmacy organizations and the interdisciplinary National Academies of Practice. Dr. Hirsch has also been the PI for studies creating and/or validating four HRQOL instruments [Functional Living Index Emesis (FLIE), Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), Gout Impact Scale (GIS), Heart Transplant Treatment Burden Questionnaire (HTBQ)] and a method for measuring medication regimen complexity (MRCI). Each of these has been an important contribution to clinical practice and research as evidenced by their uptake by other researchers and inclusion in more than 100 clinical trials.

Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM)

Medication Therapy Management

Clinical Pharmacy

Pharmacoeconomics

Drug Development

Gout Impact Scale

Pharmaeutical Services

Disease-specific Instruments

Health Related Quality of Life

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Should Kids Take Ozempic, Wegovy? The Idea Has Some Experts Worried

Pharmacists in Nontraditional Roles Are Not Included in Bureau of Labor Statistics Count of Working Pharmacists

UC Irvine welcomes inaugural class of pharmacy school with white coat ceremony

UCI to welcome inaugural Pharm.D. class with white coat ceremony

Gaps Feared if Hospitals, Pharmacies Sole Covid Vaccine Source

New faculty faces

Assessment of Stakeholder Perspectives of the Clinical Utility of Pharmacogenomics in Solid Organ Transplantation

Reducing Hospital Utilization (Readmissions and ED) Community Pharmacist Medication Reconciliation Program

Multidimensional Efficacy of Canukinumab vs. Triamcinolone for Gouty Arthritis Treatment

Medication Regimen Complexity Methods and Measurement in Defined Clinical Populations

Pilot Project for Medication Therapy Management (MTM) – PharmD/MD Collaborative Practice in Primary Care.

A pilot study of a pharmacist-led Medication Therapy Management Services (MTMS) in Mental Health Clinic

Validation of the Gout Assessment Questionnaire (GAQ) in a non-clinical trial population.

Gout Impact (GI of GAQ2.0) Responsiveness and Minimal Important Difference Evaluation

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Founding Dean, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Master of Science degree in Drug Development & Product Management focuses on building the managerial, regulatory, and pharmacoeconomic skills and insight to equip graduates to effectively lead the complex facets of the drug development process from discovery-to-patient. Apply now at http://go.ucsd.edu/2jiGilW

The program represents a collaborative effort between UC San Diego Extension,  and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS).

Drug Development &amp; Product Management I Jan D. Hirsch I Williams Ettouati I UC San Diego

UCI envisions a Brilliant Future of growth, which includes the planned School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The planned School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will be the first public pharmacy school in Orange County.

UCI Pharmaceutical Sciences Planned School of Pharmacy &amp; Pharmaceutical Sciences

Information session includes presentation and Q&A (50 minute run time)

The Master of Science degree in Drug Development & Product Management focuses on building the managerial, regulatory, and pharmacoeconomic skills and insight to equip graduates to effectively lead the complex facets of the drug development process from discovery-to-patient. Apply now at http://go.ucsd.edu/2jiGilW

The program represents a collaborative effort between UC San Diego Extension, and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS).

Information Session: MS in Drug Development &amp; Product Management I Jan D. Hirsch I Williams Ettouati

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