The Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Candis M. Morello

Dr. Candis Morello is founding faculty and an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. She Chairs a year-long Pharmacy Practice Course and teaches in the third year therapeutics course. She focuses her teaching on diabetes care, communication skills, and tobacco cessation, for which she has received several teaching awards from both students and colleagues. Dr. Morello earned her Pharm.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy in 1996, and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with a Geriatrics Emphasis at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. She is board certified as a Diabetes Educator through the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators.

Dr. Morello is an Ambulatory Care Pharmacist Specialist who helped establish and manage diabetes clinics at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD). She received a letter of commendation from the Commanding Admiral of the NMCSD for these endeavors and most recently she was awarded the ASHP Literature Award for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice describing her diabetes clinic work. Currently, Dr. Morello serves as the Attending Pharmacist for Diabetes Night at the UCSD Student-Run Free Medical Clinic Project in downtown San Diego serving the working poor and homeless population and in the Diabetes Care Clinic at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare-System. Her practice and research have focused on diabetes care and related diseases, endocrinology, anticoagulation and clinical education. She has authored several articles, book chapters and abstracts and serves as a reviewer for prestigious publications and texts.

For the past 12 years, Dr. Morello has held numerous leadership positions within local and state professional pharmacy associations including Board of Director, Secretary, Delegate and Chair or Faculty Liaison for various committees. In 2002, Dr. Morello was honored with the San Diego Society of Health-System Pharmacists “Pharmacist of the Year” award. In addition, in 2003 she was recognized at the California Society of Heath-System Pharmacists Practitioner Recognition Program as a practitioner fellow.

Dr. Morello is actively involved in several community outreach projects related to diabetes and preventative care. For over a decade, she has been a volunteer faculty member for the “Taking Control of Your Diabetes” not- for-profit organization and writes the “From Your Pharmacist” column for its nationally distributed newsletter.

Selected Publications:

Morello CM, Leckband SG, Stoner CP, Moorhouse DF, Sahagian GA. Randomized double-blind study comparing the efficacy of gabapentin with amitriptyline on diabetic peripheral neuropathy pain. Archives Intern Med. 159:1931-1937. (1999)

Morello CM. Empowering patients as a pharmacist certified diabetic educator. California Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.16(2):26-28. (2004)

Singh RF, Morello CM. Current practice issues in tobacco cessation. California Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.16(5):15-22. (2004)

Edelman SV, Morello CM. Letter: Hypoglycemia unawareness and type1 diabetes. Southern Medical Journal. 91(11):1143-1144. (2004)

Edelman SV, Morello CM. Strategies for insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes. Southern Medical Journal. 98(3):363-371 (2005).

Morello CM, Edelman SV. Exenatide: A new approach to treating type 2 diabetes. Practical Diabetology. 25(1):6-18. (2006)

Morello CM, Zadvorny EB, Cording MA, Suemoto RT, Skog J, Harari AE. Development and clinical outcomes of pharmacist-managed diabetes care clinics. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacists. 63:1325-1331. (2006)

Hirsch JD, Morello CM, Singh RF, Robbins SL. Pharmacoeconomics of new medications for common chronic ophthalmic diseases. Survey of Ophthalmology. 52 (5):618-633. (2007)

Morello CM. Etiology and natural history of diabetic retinopathy: an overview. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 64(17 Suppl 12):S3-7. (2007)

Recent Book Sections Authored

1. Morello CM. Drugs Acting on the Bone and Joint Systems: Alendronate. In: Posey LM, ed. Drug Regimen Review: A Process Guide for Pharmacists. 3rd ed. Alexandria, VA: American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, Inc;1998:10B1.1-10B1.5.

2. Assemi M, Morello CM. Diabetes Mellitus (Chapter 47). In: Berardi RR, Kroon LA, McDermott JH, NewtonGD, Oszko MA, Popovich NG, Remington TL, Rollins CJ, Shimp LA, Tietze KJ, eds. Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 15th ed. Washington, DC. American Pharmaceutical Association;2006:955-994.

3. Morello CM, Singh RF, Deftos LJ. Osteoporosis (Chapter 33) In: Linn WD, Wofford MR, Okeefe ME, Posey LM, eds. Pharmacotherapy in Primary Care, 1st ed. New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc;2009:359-369.

4. Morello CM, Suemoto RT. Diabetes. In: Blair MM, Blake EW, Harris IM, eds. ACCP Ambulatory Care New Practitioner Survival Guide/Resource Manual, 2nd ed. Lenexa, KS. American College of Clinical Pharmacy;2008:168-171.

5. Assemi M, Morello CM. Diabetes Mellitus (Chapter 47). In: Berardi RR, Kroon LA, McDermott JH, NewtonGD, Oszko MA, Popovich NG, Remington TL, Rollins CJ, Shimp LA, Tietze KJ, eds. Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care, 16th ed. American Pharmaceutical Association: Washington, DC, [In Press]

Link to Publications in Pub Med