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Linda Awdishu, Pharm.D., MAS
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Linda Awdishu, Pharm.D., MAS

Source: https://pharmacy.ucsd.edu/faculty/awdishu Parent: https://pharmacy.ucsd.edu/admissions/career-opportunities

Department Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pronouns: She|Her|Hers

Email

lawdishu@health.ucsd.edu

Phone

(858) 534-3919

Research Summary

My research program is centered around the pharmacokinetics and dosing of drugs in kidney diseases, estimation of kidney function and drug dosing implications, and the clinical phenotyping, epidemiology, and biomarkers of drug-induced kidney injury.  As an academic pharmacist specialized and practicing in nephrology, my aim is to enhance the scientific research around drug exposure and toxicity as it relates to kidney diseases. I am a co-investigator in Core A (Resource for Clinical Studies of AKI) of the NIH-funded UAB-UCSD O’Brien Center for Acute Kidney Injury Research. In this role, I have developed registry studies of acute kidney injury (AKI), conducted research on novel biomarkers of AKI in various sub-populations and developed an international consortium of collaborators investigating the pharmacogenomics of drug-induced kidney injury (DIRECT Study).

Academic Achievements

Education: B.S. in Pharmacy (1999) University of Toronto; Pharm.D. (2008) University of Colorado; Masters of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research (2007) University of California, San Diego. San Diego. Healthcare Leadership Academy (2017) University of California, San Diego

Awards and Honors: UCSD Health Sciences Department/Division Excellence in Mentoring Award Honoree: “Division of Clinical Pharmacy”, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Linda Awdishu (Division Head), Jennifer Le, Joseph Ma, Candis Morello, Shirley Tsunoda – Faculty Mentor Training Directors. (2024); Preceptor of the Year Award, UCSD Pharmacy Practice Residency Program (2024); Excellence in Clinical Services, UCSD SSPPS (2024); Preceptor Excellence Award, UCSD SSPPS (2023); UCSD Inclusive Excellence Award Recipient for Academic Affairs (2023); Teacher of the Year, UC San Diego School of Pharmacy (2022); Fellow of American Society of Nephrology (2022); Elected as Nephrology Board Member, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2019-2022; Invited to serve on American Society of Nephrology Programming Committee, 2018-2020; Teacher of the Year, UC San Diego School of Pharmacy (2016); Award for Excellence in Medication Use Safety, American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists Foundation (2014); Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award, UC San Diego Academic Senate (2015); Teacher of the Year, UC San Diego School of Pharmacy (2012); Apples for Preceptors Award, UCSF School of Pharmacy (2008); Preceptor of the Year Award, UCSD Pharmacy Practice Residency Program (2007); San Diego Preceptor of the Year Award, UCSF School of Pharmacy (2006); Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacy National Schering Award for Pharmacokinetics (2003); Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacy, Ontario Branch Douglas J Stewart Award for Hospital Administrators (2002).

Leadership Experience: Division Head, Clinical Pharmacy

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