Dr. Jeffry Lansman is Professor Emeritus of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He is a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Weill Institute of Neuroscience, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF. He received a PhD in Physiology at UCLA School of Medicine and completed postdoctoral training at the Yale Medical School and the Physiological Laboratory at Cambridge University.

Dr. Lansman works with legal counsel in cases involving all aspects of medical pharmacology. He consults in cases where there is cause to believe medications have been given in error or where medications have produced adverse effects contributing to disability or death. Dr. Lansman’s expertise includes drug mechanisms of action, adverse effects, interaction with other drugs, contraindications in the context of a patient’s medical history, and time course of metabolism and elimination from the body. He determines the scientific and medical basis for understanding how and why medical treatment often leads to a bad outcome. He consults in anesthesia errors, medication problems in neuropsychiatric cases, and cases involving alcohol and drugs of abuse.

Dr. Lansman also has expertise in medications and a patient’s ability to give “informed consent.” He wins cases based on solid scientific analysis of the patient’s prior history of disease and treatment, genetic and physiological vulnerabilities, and symptoms and adverse outcomes.

Education:

Memberships: 

• Biophysical Society
• Society of General Physiologists

Honors and Awards:

• 1980 Sigma Xi, Tufts University |
• 1985 NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University National Science Foundation
• 1986 Syntex Scholars Achievement in Cardiovascular Research Syntex Corporation
• 1987 Basil O’Connor Scholar Award March of Dimes Foundation
• 1991 Dunaway-Burnam Visiting Professor of Physiology Dartmouth Medical School
• 2002 Long Prize “Teacher of the Year” UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2004 joseph M. Long Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• 2004 Joseph M. Long Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2006 Joseph M. Long Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2008 Long Prize “Teacher of the Year”, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2007 Long Prize “Teacher of the Year”, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2009 AACP Teacher of the Year, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• 2009 Joseph M. Long Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2010 AACP Teacher of the Year, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• 2010 Joseph M. Long Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2011 Long Prize “Teacher of the Year”, UCSF School of Pharmacy
• 2013 Joseph M. Long Foundation Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Pharmacy
  

Certificate Courses: 

• 1975 Course in Neurobiology Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
• 1976 Course in Invertebrate Physiology Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
• 1977 Course in Synaptic Structure and Function Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 1979 Invertebrate Embryology Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
• 1980 Course in Invertebrate Ecology Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• 1988 Course in Biological Imaging Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole