Carla White is the director of recruitment development and diversity initiatives at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. White’s leadership, creativity, and passion have become hallmarks of her tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

White oversees program development and recruitment strategies through research, innovative partnerships, and internal and external communications for the pharmacy school.

Under her vision to build innovative programs, world-class marketing capabilities, and business strategies to produce the next generation of pharmacy leaders, White led the production of two recruitment DVDs and a webzine publication. White developed the Carolina Leadership, Excellence, and Development (LEAD) programs, the LEADership Academy, and the pharmacy recruitment ambassadors program. She also implemented the first Carolina Pre-Pharmacy Club and an academic administrative fellowship program.

Before taking her current role, White began her career in academia at Washington State University in 1996, developing a series of courses called the Pharmaceutical Care Labs. A year later, she moved to North Carolina and joined the faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. For seven years, White developed and taught in the Pharmaceutical Care Labs, focused on the professionalization of doctor of pharmacy students through a multifaceted approach emphasizing development of technical and clinical skills. In 2004, White was appointed director of the Pharmaceutical Care Labs. Along with this achievement, White has received numerous teaching, mentoring, and media awards. She also wrote an obesity-management program for Kerr Drug Stores and served as the health-team pharmacist at WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1999-2005.

Outside of instruction, White pioneered efforts to enhance standardization of admissions processes at the School. Her most recent research publication dealing with this subject, titled “The Structured Interview and Interviewer Training in the Admissions Process,” was published in 2007 by The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

White began her career in corporate pharmacy and held a succession of pharmacy management positions. In 1993, she began her own consulting business in Oregon that involved partnering with physician groups to provide clinical services in the areas of women’s health, diabetes, and cholesterol management.

White serves as adviser for the Student National Pharmaceutical Association and the Carolina Pre-Pharmacy Club. She is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and Phi Lambda Sigma.

White holds a BS in pharmacy from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.