Joy Vongspanich Dray
Contact:
jdray@ucdavis.edu

Current Titles:

  • Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Solid Organ Transplant
  • PGY1 Residency Program Director
  • Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF School of Pharmacy

At UC Davis Medical Center since: 2010

Program Director since: 2017

Education:
University of California, San Francisco
School of Pharmacy

Post-graduate Training:
University of California, Davis
PGY-1 in HIV Ambulatory Care

Research Interests:
Renal transplant, HIV, HCV, Infectious Disease

Practice Philosophy:
Empowering patients to reach their health goals with medication education and adherence.

Rotations Precepted:
Ambulatory Care: Transplant Specialty Pharmacy, Cares

Bio:
Dr. Joy Vongspanich Dray is a Senior Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist at UC Davis Health. She completed her PGY1 Ambulatory Care/HIV residency here at UC Davis in 2011 and went on to work as a clinical pharmacist practicing in solid organ transplant. There she helped to develop the clinical services of the solid organ transplant specialty pharmacy. In 2013 she returned to her first passion, serving the HIV population at the Center for AIDS Research and Education Services (CARES). Since then, Dr Dray has continued to practice in both areas of clinical specialties expanding the role of clinical pharmacists in both specialty clinics. Dr Dray has a special interest in volunteering abroad, having served in India, Thailand, Kenya and Uganda. She hopes to continue to pursue her love of international service and spread awareness to future residents by co-precepting an elective rotation in rural Uganda.

Dr Dray is board certified in Ambulatory Care and credentialed by the American Academy of HIV medicine as a practicing HIV Pharmacist. In addition, she holds a volunteer faculty position with the UCSF School of Pharmacy and has earned various pharmacy awards, most notably Preceptor of the Year, 2016-2017.

Selected Publications
Yu M, Dray J, Nguyen J. Analysis of Clinical Outcomes Associated with Generic to Generic Interchange of Tacrolimus in Renal Transplantation. Presented at ACCP 2019.

Asmuth DM, Chen AY, Utay NS, Torok N, Poole PL, Vongspanich J, Haight KR, Sumasunderam AD, Byambaa E, Li X-D, Cohen ST, Berglund L, Holodniy M, Michalak TI. Impact of Occult HCV Infection (OCI) on Systemic Immune Activation after DAA Therapy. In Abstracts for the 25rd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Boston MA, USA, March 4-7, 2018. Abstract 636.

Mitchell Y, Volpendesta J, Wilson M, Dray J. Evaluation of efficiency and patient perception of transplant medication education after pharmacist created education video. Presented at Healthcare Con and American Transplant Congress 2018.

Hluhanich R, Vongspanich J, Poole P, Wilson M. Management of Hypertensive HIV-positive Patients in a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Presented at IDSA and ACCP 2014.

Created “Transplant medication education” videos. Available on UC Davis Health CCTV and websites