Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacy
University of California San Diego
Joseph D. Ma, PharmD, FCP is Professor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego. He is also the faculty director of the Drug Development and Product Management Master’s Program at UC San Diego. He received pharmacy degree from the UC San Francisco and completed a clinical pharmacology fellowship at Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY. His research interests are evaluating in vivo drug metabolizing enzyme activity and opioid pharmacokinetic variability. His current clinical practice is the Doris A. Howell Pain and Palliative Care Service at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. Under a collaborative practice agreement he is able to initiate, stop, and/or adjust therapy for the management of pain and other physical symptoms associated with cancer and/or chemotherapy.