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Cardiff By The Sea, CA, 92007

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March 09, 2010

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Susan E. Zimmerer, Pharm.D.

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Cardiff, CA 92007

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EDUCATION

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University of California, San Diego Medical Center

San Diego, California

1999. ASHP Accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency

University of California, San Diego Medical Center

San Diego, California

1998. Doctor of Pharmacy

University of California, San Francisco

School of Pharmacy

San Francisco, California

1993. Bachelor of Science in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience

University of California

John Muir College

San Diego, California

PROFESSIONAL LICENCES/CERTIFICATIONS

1998-present California Registered Pharmacist

1998 Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

2007-present Basic Life Support (BLS)

EMPLOYMENT

2008-2009 Infectious Disease Clinical Research Pharmacist

Naval Medical Center San Diego

Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military

Medicine

Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program

Responsible for drug accountability for research studies,

answering drug information

questions, compounding drug for studies, dispensing study drug,

updating database

of HIV patients' medication history and labs, and delivering

HIV Pharmacology

Presentation.

2007 Clinical Pharmacist

Rady Children's Hospital

Responsibilities included processing physician's orders,

answering drug information questions, checking IV and oral

medications, processing TPNs, checking narcotics, and checking

compounded medications.

2005-2006 Pharmacist Specialist

UCSD Medical Center

Responsibilities included performing order validation, checking

IV medications, checking oral syringes, entering new

physician orders, processing TPNs, performing Pyxis checks,

acting as resident advisor for first year pharmacy practice

residents, and lecturing at SKAGGS School of Pharmaceutical

Sciences.

2003-2005 Abdominal Organ Transplant Pharmacist

UCSD Medical Center

Please see responsibilities below

2000-2003 Abdominal Organ Transplant Pharmacist/Clinical Transplant

Research Coordinator

UCSD Medical Center

Performed the role of transplant pharmacist in the inpatient and

outpatient settings. Responsibilities included participation in

daily team rounds, managing patient-specific drug therapy,

monitoring for drug-related problems, medication cost

containment, providing inservice education, performing patient

and family education, counseling patients regarding medication

therapy and compliance, evaluating patient satisfaction of

hospital and clinic pharmacy services, precepting pharmacy

residents and students, protocol development, transplant service

cost analysis, development of cost reduction strategies, and

participation in Patient Selection Committee, Transplant QA,

Transplant CQI Pharmacy Subgroup, Journal Club, and Clinical

Resource Management Taskforce meetings.

Also, performed the role of Clinical Transplant Research

Coordinator in designing, implementing, and conducting clinical

trials. Responsibilities included protocol development, IRB

submissions, coordinating trials with Investigational Drug

Services, Clinical Laboratories, Radiology, Nursing, and Study

Sponsors, monitoring patients throughout the clinical trial,

documenting patient specific information using Case Report Forms

and Source Documents, creating study budgets for submission to

the Clinical Trials Office, and writing grants for funding site

initiated projects.

1999-2000 Abdominal Organ Transplant Pharmacy Fellow

UCSD Medical Center

Performed the role of transplant pharmacist in the inpatient and

outpatient settings. Responsibilities included participation in

daily team rounds, managing patient-specific drug therapy,

monitoring for drug-related problems, medication cost

containment, providing inservice education, performing patient

and family education, counseling patients regarding medication

therapy and compliance, precepting pharmacy residents and

students, protocol development, retrospective transplant service

cost analysis, development of cost reduction strategies, and

participation in Patient Selection Committee, Transplant QA,

Transplant CQI Pharmacy Subgroup, Journal Club, and Clinical

Resource Management Taskforce meetings.

1998-1999 Pharmacy Practice Resident

UCSD Medical Center

Completed rotations in the following practice settings:

Transplant Surgery, Pharmacokinetics, Pediatrics, Drug

Information, Pharmacy Home Infusion, Infectious Diseases,

Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Anticoagulation Clinic, HIV

Clinic, Cardiomyopathy Clinic, and Renal Transplant Clinic.

Inpatient responsibilities included participation in team

rounds, patient medication profile review, recommending changes

in drug therapy and monitoring, identification of drug-related

problems and interactions, and performing pharmacokinetic

calculations for relevant medications. Outpatient

responsibilities included interviewing patients regarding drug

therapy, assessing compliance, assessing the efficacy and safety

of drug therapy, recommending changes in medication regimens,

and patient counseling. Additional responsibilities included

precepting UCSF pharmacy students, answering drug information

questions, providing inservices, and weekend staffing in various

clinical settings. Obtained Hospital-based certifications in

pediatrics, geriatrics, total parenteral nutrition, and code

blue.

July/Aug 97 Pharmacy Intern

UCSD Medical Center Inpatient Pharmacy

San Diego, California

Supervisor: Jo Anna Lamott, RPh

Summer 96/ Pharmacy Intern

Winter 97 UCSD Home Infusion Center Pharmacy

San Diego, California

Supervisor: Susan Dreier, PharmD

Summer 95/ Pharmacy Intern

Winter 96 MedRX Retail Pharmacy

La Mesa, California

Supervisor: Randy Skirvin, RPh

May 1993 - Senior Research Associate

Sept 1994 Department of Pharmacology

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

San Diego, California

Supervisor: Marco Gottardis, PhD

June 1986 - Animal Health Technician

Dec 1992 Academy Animal Hospital

Solana Beach, California

Supervisor: Charles Sodikoff, DVM

HONORS AND AWARDS

1997 -1998 Regents Scholarship

University of California, San Francisco

1997 Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society Inauguration

University of California, San Francisco

1994 - 1997 Dean's List

University of California, San Francisco

1988 - 1993 Provost's Honor List

University of California, San Diego

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

2000-2005 Recombinant Factor VIIa for Bleeding Prophylaxis in Liver

Disease Patients Undergoing

Surgical Procedures

1999-2005 Abdominal Organ Transplant Service Medication Cost Analysis

2004 Novation Medication Usage Evaluation: Organizational Survey of

Recombinant

Activated Factor VII (rFVIIa) Utilization for Off Label

Indications

2003. Human Pancreatic Islet Cell Isolation

1998-1999 Standardization of Chemotherapy Orders and Selection of

Oncology Software

Residency Project

1998-1999 Inpatient Meperidine Use

Medication Usage Evaluation

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

California Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Oct 2005 University of Utah International Congress on Immunosuppression

(San Diego, CA)

Dec 2004 The Third International Conference on Immunosuppression (San

Diego, CA)

May 2003 American Transplant Congress (Washington, DC)

May 2002 American College of Clinical Pharmacists: New Advances in

Hemostasis Management (Savannah, GA)

May 2002 American Transplant Congress (Washington, DC)

Dec 2001 The Second International Congress on Immunosuppression (San

Diego, CA)

Sept 2001 VitaGen Investigators Meeting (San Diego, CA)

June 2001 Transplant Pharmacist Regional Consultancy Meeting (Pasadena,

CA)

Feb 2001 AST Winter Symposium (Kona, HI)

Jan 2001 Maximizing the Pharmacist's Role in Transplant Patient

Management (Marco Island, FL)

May 2000 ASTS Transplant 2000 (Chicago, IL)

April 2000 Transplant Advisory Meeting (Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada)

March 2000 Clinical Transplant Pharmacist Advisory Board (Dana Point, CA)

Feb 2000 Clinical Transplant Pharmacist Advisory Board (Tucson, AZ)

Dec 1998 ASHP Midyear Meeting (Las Vegas, NV)

Oct 1998 CSHP Seminar (Anaheim, California)

Oct 1997 CSHP Seminar (San Jose, California)

PRESENTATIONS

2009 HIV Medication Overview

NMCSD Pharmacology Presentation

Feb 2009 Hypertension

NMCSD Inservice Presentation

Nov 2005 Acute and Chronic Renal Failure