Associate Clinical Professor
School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Chronic disease management, immunizations, public health, health outcomes, asthma, diabetes

California Immunization Coalition Natalie J. Smith MD, MPH Immunization Champion Award (April 2025)

Designated Fellow of the California Pharmacists Association (April 2024)

Dr Hurley has been a pharmacy educator since 2014 and has worked with PharmD students and residents at all levels of didactic and clinical education. Academic areas of interest are ambulatory care-based topics such as immunizations, asthma/COPD, diabetes and self-care. Additionally, Dr. Hurley has taught public health related courses for pharmacy students.

Dr. Hurley practices as a clinical pharmacist in primary care at a Federally Qualified Health Center and serves as president for the Immunization Coalition of LA County. She is board certified in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP) and holds a California Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner (APh) license.

Dr. Hurley's research focuses on chronic disease and immunization health outcomes, as well as public health, pharmacy practice models and other primary care/chronic disease-based topics.

Sohail S, Wang J, Ng DQ, Hurley-Kim K. Effect of chronic disease rates and diagnoses on young adult pneumococcal vaccination status in the All of Us database. Vaccine: X. 2025;100741.

Sepassi A, Wang J,Yankowski S, Enkoji A, Okenwa M, Morello CM, Hurley-Kim K. Associations between long-term metformin use, the risk of vitamin B12 deficiency, and neuropathy: an All of Us Research Program study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2025;112424.

Hurley-Kim K, Bach C. Asthma and COPD. In: Patient Assessment in Pharmacy (McGraw Hill). Jan 2025.

Hurley-Kim K*, Vu CH, Dao NM, Tran LC, McBane S, Lee J, Sepassi A*. Effect of Metformin Use on Vitamin B12 Deficiency Over Time (EMBER): A Real-World Evidence Database Study. Endocrine Practice. 2023;29(11)862-67. (*Co-PI)

Goyal J, Ng DQ, Zhang K, Chan A, He L, Hurley-Kim K, Lee J, McBane S, Nguyen L, Nguyen MH, Zheng K, Cadiz CL. Using Machine Learning to Develop a Clinical Prediction Model for SSRI-associated bleeding: an All of Us study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2023;23,105.

Hurley-Kim K*, Keyvani A, Ahmed R, Wong HW, McBane S. Pharmacist-managed refill service impacts on clinician workload and medication interventions in a Federally Qualified Health Center. J Prim Care Community Health. 2023;14:1-7. (*Corresponding author, Co-PI)

Ng DQ, Jia S, Chan A, Nguyen L, McBane S, Nguyen M, Cadiz C, Lee J, Wisseh C, Hurley-Kim, K. Sociodemographic characteristics differ across routine adult vaccine cohorts: An All of Us descriptive study. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2023;63(2),582-591.

Ng DQ, Jia S, Chan A, Nguyen L, McBane S, Nguyen M, Cadiz C, Lee J, Wisseh C, Hurley-Kim, K. Sociodemographic characteristics differ across routine adult vaccine cohorts: An All of Us descriptive study. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2023;63(2),582-591.

Hurley-Kim K, Babish K, Chen E, Diaz A, Hahn N, Evans D, Seed S, Hess K. Community Pharmacists’ Roles in Travel Health Services in the COVID-19 Era. Pharmacy. 2022;10,134.

Ozaki AF, Cadiz CL, Hurley-Kim K, Wisseh C, Knox ED, Lee JY, Wang A, Patel SG, Chan A. Worldwide characteristics and trends of pharmacist interventions contributed to minimize health disparities. J Am Coll Clin Pharm. 2022;5(8)853-64.

Hurley-Kim K*, Unonu J*, Wisseh C*, Cadiz C, Knox E, Ozaki A, Chan A. Health Disparities in Pharmacy Practice within the Community: Let’s Brainstorm for Solutions. Front Public Health. 2022;10:847696. (*Co-first authors)

Ha DR, Hurley-Kim K, Hess KM. Implementing and expanding vaccination services: An updated review for routine vaccinations. America’s Pharmacist. 2019;Sept 2019. 49-70.

Hurley-Kim K, Goad J, Seed S, Hess K. Pharmacy-Based Travel Health Services in the United States. Pharmacy. 2019;7,5.

Hurley-Kim K. Tackling vaccine hesitancy unrelated to medical exemptions. Pharmacy Times. 2019.

Hurley-Kim K, Snead R, Hess K. Pharmacists’ scope of practice in travel health: a review of state laws and regulations. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2018;58(2), 163-167.

Equils O, Kellogg C, Berger W, Hurley-Kim K, Rubinstein E, Kominisky G; UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Health Policy Brief: Proposal to Reduce Adult Immunization Barriers in California. http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/2018/immunizationbarriers-brief-aug2018.pdf. Published August 2018.

Hurley-Kim K. Immunization Update. J Contemporary Pharm Prac. 2017;64(2), 24-27.

Gregorian T, Bach A, Hess K, Hurley K, Mirzaian E, Goad J. Implementing Pharmacy Based Travel Health Services: Insight and Guidance from Front Line Practitioners. California Pharmacist. 2017;64(1), 23-29.

American Pharmacists Association

California Pharmacists Association

Rho Chi

Phi Lambda Sigma

Community Pharmacy Practice PGY1 Residency
Western University of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy 2013—2014

Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP)

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Last updated
11/19/2025