Joseph D. Ma, PharmD

Dr. Ma co-teaches a course in Clinical Trial Development for the UC San Diego MS in Drug Development and Product Management. Dr. Ma is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in UC San Diego’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree from UC Irvine, his Pharmacy Doctorate from UC San Francisco, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY.  His current research interests are evaluating in vivo drug metabolizing enzyme activity and opioid pharmacokinetic variability. His current clinical practice is at the Doris A. Howell Pain and Palliative Care Service at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, where he specializes in symptom management. Prior to joining UC San Diego Dr. Ma worked at Amgen in early clinical trial development where he was responsible to help develop drugs to IND and manage proof of concept clinical trials.