Certifications

• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist
• Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner

Bio

Jena Ivey Burkhart received her doctor of pharmacy in 2004 from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2005 completed a one-year geriatric specialty residency with the School and UNC Hospitals. She is currently a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and clinical assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the UNC School of Medicine.

Burkhart teaches in both the didactic and experiential settings at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her clinical practice includes working in the UNC Division of Geriatric Medicine’s Interdisciplinary Geriatric Specialty Clinic, in a local continuing-care retirement community, and in the community where she offers medication management services to older adults in their home and at a local senior center. Ivey is actively involved in research and  has served as the lead study pharmacist on various federally-funded grants to improve the quality of medication use in older adults. Her other academic interests include interdisciplinary training and teamwork building among members of the health-care team.

• Medication use in older adults
• Interprofessional learning and training
• Innovative geriatric pharmacy practice models