Category: UNC-ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program
Weeks Promoted to Elizabeth City Assistant Dean Post
January 12, 2012Latasha Weeks, PharmD, has accepted the position of regional assistant dean at Elizabeth City for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Weeks is a clinical assistant professor in the School’s Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education. Weeks will oversee the School’s satellite campus in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, which was created in 2005 in partnership with Elizabeth City State University. She became the ECSU–based director of the UNC/ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program in 2010. She was formerly a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and completed a community pharmacy residency at UNC-Chapel Hill. … Read more
Photos: Family Day 2011
April 12, 2011The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held Family Day at Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City on April 2, 2011. The event gave the students’ families a chance to experience life at the School, including listening to a sample lecture, working in a compounding lab, and receiving free blood pressure screenings. Chapel Hill https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpaa/sets/72157626442941878/show/ https://www.flickr.com//photos/61329699@N02/sets/72157626415632486/show/ https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157626610001541/show/ Elizabeth City https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpaa/sets/72157626318171041/show/
Photos: New ECSU Pharmacy Complex
September 28, 2010Students enrolled in the UNC-Chapel Hill Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership program at Elizabeth City State University officially moved into their new academic home as a new $28 million Pharmacy Complex at the ECSU campus was unveiled on September 27, 2010. The 52,500-square-foot building, whose architecture was inspired by the idea of an apothecary chest, overlooks an artificial pond and contains classrooms and labs organized around a two-story atrium. The first floor contains general science labs, while the second floor houses the IV simulation lab, the compounding lab, a library, and community outreach facilities such as the drug information center. The … Read more
Weeks Named as Partnership Director at Elizabeth City
August 17, 2010Latasha Weeks, PharmD, has been named the new Elizabeth City State University director of the UNC-ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program. Weeks is a former clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and recently completed a community pharmacy residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I very much look forward to working with Latasha,” say Pamela U. Joyner, associate dean of professional education at the School. “The broad scope of her professional experiences, her creativity, her passion for students, and her leadership experience make her a … Read more
Photos: UNC-ECSU Pharmacy College Tour
November 18, 2009The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held the UNC-ECSU Pharmacy College Tour on November 18. About 40 undergraduate students from Elizabeth City State University received a tour of the School, took part in panel discussions, and participated in hands-on sessions where they learned how to take blood pressure and use DermaView machines and inhalers. Photos of the hands-on sessions: https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157623165421205/show/
ECSU Partnership Honored by Distance-Learning Group
May 14, 2007The partnership program between the UNC School of Pharmacy and Elizabeth City State University has received an honorable mention in the 2007 North Carolina Distance Learning Association Program Award. The NCDLA is a nonprofit organization that promotes development and application of distance learning in education and training. Award recipients will be recognized at the North Carolina Distance Learning Alliance Conference on May 25 at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Launched in fall 2005, the Elizabeth City State University Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program enrolls ten to fifteen UNC Pharmacy students each year at ECSU. Admission and curriculum requirements are the same … Read more
NC Legislators Basnight and Owens Visit PharmD Partnership Program at ECSU
February 22, 2006North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight (District 1) and Representative Bill Owens (District 1) visited Elizabeth City State University on Friday, February 24, to see the UNC/ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Program in action. The legislators, along with UNC chancellor James Moeser and ECSU chancellor Mickey Burnim, were given a tour of the innovative video-conferencing technology that links the classrooms of the two campuses. UNC School of Pharmacy dean Bob Blouin explained how everything worked as the group watch both UNC and ECSU students being taught by Ken Bastow, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and natural products, in Chapel Hill. … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill, ECSU Launch Innovative Joint Pharmacy Program
December 14, 2005The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy in collaboration with Elizabeth City State University is pleased to announce the Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program Beginning in Fall 2005, the UNC-Chapel Hill Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program will enroll 10-15 students per year at a satellite campus through a partnership arrangement with Elizabeth City State University (ECSU). This partnership enables the Doctor of Pharmacy program to increase the number of graduates each year and to promote increased numbers of pharmacists working in underserved populations, especially in northeastern North Carolina. Admission and curriculum requirements are the same for … Read more