Senior Pharmacist, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, UCSF
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betsy.althaus@ucsfmedctr.org Box 1712, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1712 |
| EDUCATION | |
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University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honors, 1980 |
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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1980-1983 |
Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Transplant Unit, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN |
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1982-1983 |
Patient Discharge Educator, Transplant Office, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN |
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1983-1986 |
Staff Nurse, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA |
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1983-1986 |
Staff Nurse, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA |
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1986-1987 |
Pharmacy Technician, Home Therapy Services, UCSF, San Francisco, CA |
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1986-1987 |
Pharmacy Intern, ICU Satellite Pharmacy, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA |
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1989-1991 |
Clinical Pharmacist, Department of Pharmaceutical Services, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA |
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1991-1995 |
Pharmacy Service Coordinator, 11th Floor Pharmacy Satellite, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
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1995-1997 |
Oncology Pharmacist, Adult Inpatient Hematology/Oncology Service, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
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1997-2001 |
Oncology Pharmacist for Implanted Infusion Pump Clinic, Hematology/Oncology Clinic, Ambulatory Care Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA |
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2001-present |
Senior Pharmacist, National Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF, The Medical Center at the University of California, San Francisco |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
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1980 |
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society |
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1980 |
Sigma Theta Tau, National Honor Society of Nursing |
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1987 |
Rho Chi, National Honor Society of Pharmacy, Chapter Vice President |
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1987 |
Regents' Scholar, University of California, San Francisco |
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1989 |
Resident Project Award for Excellence |
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1994 |
Preceptor of the Year Award (from UCSF Residents in Clinical Pharmacy) |
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1995 |
Preceptor of the Year Award (from UCSF Residents in Clinical Pharmacy) |
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1995 |
UCSF Medical Center 1995 Outstanding Achievement Award |
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1996 |
Performance Award, UCSF Medical Center |
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1997 |
Resident Preceptor Appreciation Honor |
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1997 |
Performance Award, UCSF Medical Center |
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1997 |
Fellow, California Society of Health System Pharmacists |
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1998 |
Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist |
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2004 |
Frances Valerie Louie Award for Service Excellence (UCSF) |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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Althaus BL, Review of the Chemotherapy of Intermediate and High Grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Highlights in Anti-Neoplastic Drugs. 1994;12:56-64 |
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Lam HH, Althaus BL. Antifungal Prophylaxis in Bone Marrow Transplant, DIAS Rounds, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 1995;29:921-24 |
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Althaus BL, Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation, (with technical editor), 1997;1-12, Pharmaceutical Care in Oncology: Clinical Brief 8, Health Learning Systems Inc. |
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Althaus BL, Management of the Bone Marrow Transplant Patient. In Ignoffo RJ, Viele CS, Damon LE, Venook A: Cancer and Chemotherapy Pocket Guide, Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1998,pp.425-438 |
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Althaus BL, Summary of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Colorectal Cancer, Cancer Connection, 1999;2(3) 6-9 |
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Althaus BL, Chronic Leukemias, Chapter 85, In Herfindal ET, Gourley RR: Textbook of Therapeutics:Drug and Disease Management, ed.7. Baltimore, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2000, pp.1715-1728 |
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Venook AP, Althaus B, Warren RS. Hepatic arterial infusion of chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer (letter). N Engl J Med 2000;342:1524 |
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Althaus BL, Winter ME. Methotrexate, chapter 8, in Winter ME, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, ed.4. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2003. |
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Reviewer for Annals of Pharmacotherapy |
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12/15/04 |
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