Professor and Associate Dean
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Shirley Tsunoda is a Professor and Associate Dean for Pharmacy Education at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD. She received her BS in Psychobiology from UCLA, her Doctorate of Pharmacy from UCSF, completed a PGY1 in Acute Care at UCSF and a post-doctoral fellowship in drug metabolism/pharmacokinetics in the laboratory of Leslie Z. Benet at UCSF. She was on the faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and was a transplant clinician at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA prior to joining the faculty at UCSD. Dr. Tsunoda maintains a clinical practice in liver transplant at UCSD and conducts research in transplant patients as well as in pharmacomicrobiomics – the intersection of drugs with the gut microbiome. She is currently one of the Principle Investigators of the UCSD Center of Excellence in Therapeutics for MPRINT (Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics) Hub where she is investigating the impact of antibiotic exposure through breastfeeding on the infant microbiome, metabolome, and development.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM