Class Notes
From the spring 2009 issue of Carolina Pharmacy
1950s
W. Seymour Holt (’52 BSPharm) of Indianapolis represented UNC at the inauguration of France A. Cordova as president of Purdue University.
1960s
Vaughn (’60 BSPharm) and Nancy Bryson (’60 BSPharm) received the William Richardson Davie Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees on November 19. The award, the Board's highest honor, recognizes extraordinary service to the University or society.
Brooks Harrell ('69 BSPharm, ’71 MS) and his wife, Brenda, are currently serving as missionaries in Thailand, where they have been since 2000.
1970s
Eric A. Jackson (’71 BSPharm) was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy on October 19, 2008, at the organization’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. Fellowship in the ACCP recognizes and rewards the highest levels of excellence in the practice and science of clinical pharmacy.
Steve Dedrick (’72 BSPharm, ’89 MS) has been named the director of continuing education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Fred Eshelman (’72 BSPharm) of Wilmington has announced that PPD Inc. will expand to a medical office building on the Kannapolis Research Campus, bringing up to 300 jobs to the area.
Henry Smith (’72 BSPharm), owner and president of Carolina Medical Products, spoke to UNC pharmacy students about opportunities in industry at the Pharmaceutical Industry Panel hosted by Kappa Psi on September 4.
Cindy Worsley Hamilton (’75 BSPharm) has been named the president of the American Medical Writers Association, the leading professional association for medical communicators. Hamilton has been the principal of Hamilton House, a medical writing and editing firm in Virginia Beach, Virginia, since 1990.
W. Robert Bizzell (’76 BSPharm) of Kinston, president of Realo Discount Drug Stores Inc., has been appointed to an at-large position on the N.C. Fisheries Commission.
Gary Glisson (’78 BSPharm) has been re-elected board chair of United Drugs for a third term. He is the owner of Ward Drug Co. in Nashville and Healthwise Pharmacy in Greenville.
1980s
Alan Boyd (’82 BSPharm), chief executive officer of CNS Vital Signs, spoke to UNC pharmacy students about opportunities in industry at the Pharmaceutical Industry Panel hosted by Kappa Psi on September 4.
Marty DeBerardinis (’82 PhD) received the 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association. The award was presented on October 23, 2008.
Steve Buckley (’83 BSPharm, ’88 PharmD), director of Drug Safety and Risk Management at GlaxoSmithKline, spoke to UNC pharmacy students about opportunities in industry at the Pharmaceutical Industry Panel hosted by Kappa Psi on September 4.
Sarah Beale Cobb (’84 BSPharm) has been named director of Learning and Resource Planning in the GlaxoSmithKline Response Center. Prior to this appointment, she was director of Training and Quality Assurance.
Susan Alexander (’85 BSPharm) has been elected to the board of the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood in Cary. She works at WakeMed Cary Hospital as a staff pharmacist.
Nicholas Ronald Blanchard (’86 BSPharm) has been named dean of the new School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He previously served as the assistant dean for student affairs and advocacy at the Wegmans School of Pharmacy at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
Whit Moose Jr. (’87 BSPharm) was honored when Moose Pharmacy of Mount Pleasant received the N.C. Family Business of the Year for 2008 from Wake Forest University’s Family Business Center and Business North Carolina Magazine. The pharmacy, established in 1882, received the award in the Century Award category, which recognizes companies that are at least 100 years old.
Karen Overstreet (’87 BSPharm) has been named president-elect of the National Commission for Certification of Continuing Medical Education Professionals. Karen, who is featured on the cover and in the lead article of the December issue of Medical Meetings magazine, is a principal and president of Indicia Medical Education in North Wales, Pennsylvania.
Mark L. Glover (’88 BSPharm, ’94 PharmD) recently published his first novel, Time Gone By, a fiction romance story. The book is available at iuniverse.com and barnesandnoble.com.
Jeff Collins (’89 BSPharm), director of marketing at GlaxoSmithKline, spoke to UNC pharmacy students about opportunities in industry at the Pharmaceutical Industry Panel hosted by Kappa Psi on September 4.
1990s
Pamela Ingram Earnhardt (’91 BSPharm, ’98 PharmD) has been promoted to vice president of Clinical Client Services for the Managed Care/State Government Division of Catalyst Rx.
Ken Phares (’91 MSPhar, ’93 PhD) serves as president of the UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association for the 2008-2009 school year.
Sonia Shaw Everhart (’93 PharmD), who is currently a clinical pharmacy specialist for critical care at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord, NC, passed her BCPS exam this year.
Rodney Gerald Cline (’94 BSPharm) and his wife, Michelle, announce the birth of a son, Tyler William Cline, on June 9, 2008. He joins big brother Tucker.
Jennifer Parker Cook (’94 BSPharm, ’04 PharmD) and her husband, Matt, announce the birth of a son, Benjamin Sampson Cook, on June 5, 2008. He joins big brothers Parker and Hunter.
Lori Cohn Edwards (’94 BSPharm) spoke at a Geriatric Interest Group forum on long term care and the community on February 24 at Kerr Hall. Lori is a CPP with Cornerstone Medical Associates and a Consultant Pharmacist with Neil Medical Group.
Dawn Eberwein Pettus (’95 BSPharm, ’97 PharmD) announces the birth of daughter Rachel Catherine Pettus on December 9, 2008.
William Clyde Griffin III (’96 BSPharm) and Holly Ramsey
Griffin (’96 BSPharm, ’97 PharmD) announce the birth of a daughter, Alice June Griffin, on May 7, 2008. She was welcomed by big sisters, Emily and Annie.
Stew Eckard (’99 PharmD) and Tammy Eckard (’01 PharmD) announce the birth of a son, John “Jay” Alexander Eckard, born July 6, 2008.
Steven Freeman-Muhammad (’99 BSPharm) and Maisha Kelly
Freeman (’02 PharmD) announce the birth of their daughter, Tiye Jaiyana Freeman, on September 15, 2008.
Joel Howard Noped (’99 PharmD) and Jennifer Carroll Noped
(’99 PharmD) welcome the birth of a daughter, Caroline Rebecca Noped, on October 14, 2008. She joins big sister, Katherine Elise.
2000s
Shauna Collier (’00 PharmD) and husband Darrell Brown announce the birth of their son, William Henry Brown, on December 15, 2008. William is welcomed to the family by his older sister, Sarah.
Susan Powers Holder (’00 PharmD) and her husband, Tim, announce the birth of a daughter, Anna Caroline Holder, on April 29, 2008. The family lives in Denver, North Carolina, and Susan works at The Drug Store in Lincolnton.
Macary Weck Marciniak (’00 PharmD) is now a clinical associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Ami Teague (’00 PharmD), an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Samford University’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy, passed the American Academy of HIV Medicine credentialing exam.
Beth Trimberger Benonis (’01 PharmD) graduated from the UNC School of Medicine in 2005 and completed her residency in pediatrics at NC Children's Hospital in June 2008. She and her husband, Jim, have relocated to Charlotte, where she will practice as a general pediatrician at Eastover Pediatrics beginning in August.
Rebecca Tayloe Seegars (’01 PharmD) and her husband, Ben Seegars, of Goldsboro, announce the birth of a son, Gray Tayloe Seegars, on September 24, 2008. He joins his brother, Ben.
Kristin Hinshaw Thornton (’01 PharmD) and her husband, Nick Thornton, of Knoxville, Tennessee, announce the birth of their first child, Lauren Elizabeth Thornton, on October 24, 2007.
Maisha Kelly Freeman (’02 PharmD) has been promoted to director of the Samford University Global Drug Information Service.
Jacob L. Hollar (’02 PharmD) and Amy M. Hollar (’05 PharmD) announce the birth of their daughter, Amelia Jane Hollar, on June 26, 2008.
Ty H. Kiser (’02 PharmD) and Jennifer Justice Kiser (’01 PharmD) welcome the birth of their son, Blake Garret Kiser, on November 13, 2008.
Bernadette Alston (’03 PharmD) was married to Jay McCowan on September 13, 2008. Their new home will be in Moline, Illinois.
Jennifer Askew (’03 PharmD) has been named 2008 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in North Carolina by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. The award is sponsored by Pharmacist Mutual Companies.
Kimberley Brown (’03 PharmD) recently passed the American Academy of HIV Medicine credentialing exam. This year was the first time the exam was offered for PharmDs. Brown is working as a science and research liaison for Tibotec Therapeutics Clinical Affairs, a division of Centocor Ortho Biotech Serrvices, LLC.
Kevin Haynes (’03 PhD) completed a Masters of Science in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a senior research investigator and an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor of pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. His research interest is pharmacoepidemiology.
Ryan Heaton Herrin (’03 PharmD) and her husband Dennis Herrin announce the birth of their son, Franklin Cole Herrin, born December 19, 2008.
Sarah Ford’s (’04 PharmD) research was cited in the new CHEST guidelines for anticoagulation. The research focused on the use of daily low-dose vitamin K with warfarin to stabilize INR.
Becky Parker Hall (’04 PharmD) and her husband, Aron Hall, announce the birth of a son, Samuel Benjamin Hall, on August 23, 2008.
Pinal Shah (’04 PhD) and her husband, Jiger, announce the birth of twins, Sohaan Jiger Shah and Saiyan Jiger Shah, on July 14, 2008.
Greg Williams (’04 PharmD) and Shannon Williams (’04 PharmD) announce the birth of a son, Collin Williams, born August 20, 2008. He joins big brother Carter. Greg is a pharmacist at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and Shannon is professor of pediatrics at Wingate School of Pharmacy.
Jeremy Smart (’05 PharmD) and Brycha Welch (’07 PharmD) were married on November 15, 2008, in Cary, North Carolina. Jeremy is a clinical pharmacist at Eagle Cardiology in Greensboro, and Brycha is with Costco Pharmacy in Greensboro.
Carolina Lowe ('06 PharmD) and her husband, Craven Lowe, announce the birth of a son, Julian Fraser Lowe, born August 8, 2008.
Aaron Bender ('07 PharmD) recently took a position with a Prime Therapeutics, LLC, a pharmacy benefit manager based out of Minnesota. He is the clinical program manager for New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Ted Hancock (’07 PharmD) spoke at a Geriatric Interest Group forum on long term care and the community on February 24 at Kerr Hall. Ted is employed as a long term care consultant pharmacist and software deployment prime for Southern Pharmacy Services.
Russell Moore ('07 PharmD) is doing a PGY2 oncology residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
John Dombach (’08 PharmD) and Kyle Jacobson (’09 PharmD) announce their marriage on November 15, 2008, in Chapel Hill. John is now a pharmacist for the East Carolina University School of Medicine Clinics, while Kyle is a fourth-year student doing clinical rotations at PMCH in Greenville.
Alex Jenkins (’08 PharmD) and Erinn Rowe, both students in the MS program, taught classes for continuing pharmacy education credits at Kerr Hall on February 19.
Heidi Mansour ('08 PhD) has joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.
