The Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Linda Awdishu

Linda Awdishu is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, non salaried for the University of California San Francisco. She received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto in 1999 and a Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Colorado in 2008. She completed a Masters of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.

Dr. Linda Awdishu is currently an ambulatory care pharmacist specialist in nephrology and transplantation at UCSD Medical Center. She serves as a lecturer in hypertension and kidney disease and as course co -chair for winter quarter of Therapeutics. Dr. Awdishu is a preceptor for ambulatory care rotation for fourth year pharmacy students. She also mentors student and resident research projects. Dr. Awdishu is the recipient of teaching awards from UCSF School of Pharmacy and UCSD Pharmacy Practice Residency Program.

Dr. Awdishu is responsible for the implementation of eGFR reporting in the UCSD clinical laboratories in 2007. She also developed and implemented the UCSD Chronic Kidney Disease Clinic which is a multidisciplinary clinic managing patients with chronic kidney disease stage 3 through 5. She provides care to patients in the clinic and oversees clinic management. She also assisted in developing pharmacy services in kidney transplantation at UCSD Medical Center. Dr. Awdishu is the recipient of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacy National Pharmacokinetics Award and the Ontario Branch Hospital Administrators Award.

Research Interests

Dr. Awdishu's research interests are acute kidney disease and continuous renal replacement therapies, chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation and drug dosing in chronic kidney disease and dialysis.

Selected Publications

Original Research

Yeung SM, Walker SE, Tailor SAN, Awdishu L, Tobe S, Yassa T. Pharmacokinetics of Oral Ciprofloxacin in Non-Infected Patients on Continuous Cycling Peritoneal Dialysis. Peritoneal Dialysis International 2004; 24:5:447-453.

Book Chapters

Awdishu L, Mehta RM. Drug Issues in Renal Replacement Therapies. In: Dunsworth T, Richardson M, Cheng J, et al, eds. Pharmacotherapy Self Assessment Program, 6th ed. Nephrology. Lenexa, KS: American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2007: 91-105.

List of Publications in Pub Med