COSA at UCSF

11/04/2022

Happy Friday everybody! Check out these awesome photos from the recent Health Fair!

09/21/2022

This year's Training Extravaganza was a huge success with almost 100 attendees! COSA Board would like to say thank you to all of our amazing preceptors, project coordinators, and students for coming out and engaging in some amazing presentations and activities in preparation for some really cool volunteering events/opportunities. Check out some photos from a few of our projects!!

08/22/2022

Project Healthy Heart aims to provide healthy heart services, such as blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, to communities in San Francisco. We also provide our community with the resources they need to improve their own health by educating them on how to prevent and manage common heart diseases, as well as on heart healthy habits.

-Christie Lee

08/22/2022

Operation Diabetes/Project Nutrition focuses on helping the general public learn more about their overall health while finding ways to prevent/control chronic diseases such as diabetes. Operation Diabetes is a hands-on screening and awareness project recognized by APhA-ASP and the American Diabetes Association. Our goals consist of identifying populations at risk for diabetes and spreading knowledge to the public about the risk factors, signs, and symptoms of diabetes. Nutrition and health education play a huge role in diabetes and the management of other chronic diseases, therefore providing a route for Project Nutrition to intersect with our goals in Operation Diabetes. We hope to expand awareness by going to our local communities, parents, and schools to spread information on the various food groups and diets while explaining how they are attributable to overall health and conditions.

- Ryan Du

08/18/2022

🚨ATTENTION P1’s and P2’s 🚨

Please join us at this year's Training Extravaganza!

Each year, COSA holds a training event for pharmacy students. In order to volunteer with COSA, attending this event is ⚠️required⚠️. We want to ensure that all volunteers are equipped and united in professionalism and readiness to serve our communities.

The location will be held either in person or on Zoom, at the designated times listed in the flyer posted here!

🌟if you have previously trained with us, you do not need to train again this year! 😎

We cannot wait to see you all there! ✨

⚠️REGISTER on Group Portal

https://ucsf.campusgroups.com/cosa/rsvp_boot?id=1637174

⚠️RSVP via the Google form!

https://forms.gle/6wg3XDS2qAt1e3bTA

08/17/2022

💊Project Brown Bag aims to optimize therapy by evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a patient's medication regimen and to identify potential health and medication issues, to reach out to underserved communities in San Francisco, and to provide clinical experience for pharmacy students.

💊🚮The Safe Medication Disposal Project aims to educate student pharmacists and the public about the importance of bringing unused or expired medications to designated drug take-back locations. Properly discarding medications and removing unused medications from homes reduces pharmaceutical contamination of water, pollution, and the chances of accidental drug overdoses/poisonings by children or family members.

-Sharyse Watanabe

08/09/2022

💫Hello P1s!

We are so excited to start off the 2022-2023 school year with our C.O.S.A Info Session! This session is our way of sharing our mission, some of the projects we've accomplished this past year, as well as things to look out for in the future. Want to know how to get involved? MAKE SURE TO REGISTER for our upcoming info session via Group Portal, as well as the training extravaganza!! Zoom link will be emailed directly to you the day of our event and is also accessible on Group Portal once you register.

2022 C.O.S.A Info Session:
August 10 @ 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all, virtually! 💫

08/05/2022

Project Pediatrics is an informational project dedicated to supporting healthy and happy lifestyles of pediatric patients and families alike. We aim to educate the community about childhood immunizations, medication safety, and healthy lifestyle choices. Our events include the pediatric vaccination clinics, medication safety story times, holiday toy drives, and hands-on projects/fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House and the Koret Family Houses. The Pediatric Pharmacotherapy course elective is also offered each Spring in collaboration with Project Pediatrics. Through these rewarding activities, we hope to expand the scope of pediatric education at UCSF to improve care for our young patients!

Project Asthma strives to educate the general public about asthma and respiratory diseases by providing health information about the condition, triggers, and prevention strategies. As a project, we help people understand the prevalence of asthma and teach lifestyle modifications that can help their conditions. Furthermore, we are able to apply the knowledge gained in our first year of pharmacy school and demonstrate proper techniques of medication usage as well as teach adherence to healthcare providers and patients to improve quality of care.
-Ellie Mehrabani

08/05/2022

The 2022-2023 school year has officially started! 🥳 We at C.O.S.A are gearing up to get tons of amazing projects up and rolling. In the meantime, the 2022 C.O.S.A board members share details about why they joined the team! Check it out! ✨

05/08/2022

05/08/2022

05/08/2022

Happy Sunday everyone! Check out our next few infographics on behalf of Project Geriatrics!!