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Dr. Christie Robinson is a WOS Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is currently a practicing medicines information pharmacist at Epocrates, an athenahealth service. She precept UCSF final-year student pharmacists on the Epocrates APPE, where she imparts skills in evidence-based medicine practices and the systematic approach to answering clinical inquiries from prescribers. She provides the UCSF CP 125A Applied Drug Information didactic lecture and in-class skills experience on drug interactions and compatibility, 2005-2016.

During her seven years as a UCSF faculty member, 2007-2013, her clinical service was as a clinical pharmacist (w/ prescriptive authority) in the Asthma & COPD clinic at St Anthony Medical Clinic, a medicines information pharmacist in the Blue Shield of California Ask the Pharmacist Service, a clinical pharmacist in the UCSF Travel Medicine and Immunizations clinic, a clinical pharmacist (w/ prescriptive authority) in the UCSF Freson MTM clinic, and a clinical pharmacist on the inpatient General Medicines service at UCSF as well as at SFGH (WOS faculty). Dr. Robinson’s research interests include supporting the role of the pharmacist in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, assessing outcomes in underserved patients with chronic respiratory conditions through educational and clinical interventions, and pulmonary inhaler devices.

As a full time UCSF faculty member, Dr. Robinson coordinated the Clinical Pharmacy (CP) 112 and 113 courses in various years at UCSF as well as co-coordinated Nursing (N) 232.01 and N232.02 Advanced Clinical Pharmacology with Dr. Heather Leutwyler, 2012-2016. In addition, she coordinated multiple school of pharmacy clinical workshops/laboratories and provides in-class sessions on skills in immunizations and physical assessment. Her other teaching responsibilities included lecturing in CP 120 Therapeutics on asthma management.