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Dr. Brookie Best is an assistant clinical professor of pharmacy and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) and the department of pediatrics, School of Medicine (SOM). She is also an assistant clinical professor of pharmacy, non-salaried for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy. Dr. Best completed a Bachelor of Science degree at UCSD in chemistry with an emphasis in chemical education. She received her Pharm.D. degree from UCSF, and did her residency in pharmacy practice at the UCSD Medical Center in 2000. Dr. Best was an NICHD/NIH fellowship recipient in pediatric clinical pharmacology research from 2001 to 2004, and completed a Masters of Advanced Studies (MAS.) in clinical research at UCSD in 2007.

Dr. Best specializes in pharmacokinetics, which includes the processes by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized and eliminated by the body, and pediatric clinical pharmacology research. Her research efforts have focused on studying anti-HIV drugs in pregnant women, children and non-pregnant adults. She also studies drugs used to treat Kawasaki disease, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children.

Dr. Best teaches and organizes core pharmacy practice courses that provide a knowledge base of self-care diseases and over-the-counter medications to first-year student pharmacists at SSPPS. She also leads workshops for students in the biopharmaceutics courses. She mentors students, residents and fellows in pediatric clinical pharmacology research projects in the division of pharmacology and drug discovery in the SOM Pediatrics Department. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, and presented over 60 abstracts at scientific meetings related to her research program.

Dr. Best received a Young Investigator award in 2004-2005 to fund research on how genes affect the effectiveness of anti-HIV drugs. She was a National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine Scholar and Co-Valedictorian in 2006, and was honored as a young civic leader by the San Diego Metropolitan Uptown Examiner and Daily Business Report as one of their "Forty Under 40" Honorees.