Wendy Cox received her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998. She then completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1999 and a primary care specialty residency affiliated with Campbell University in 2000. Wendy worked as an AHEC faculty member until 2005, serving as the coordinator of pharmacy education at the Northwest AHEC and then as the director of pharmacotherapy services at the Wake AHEC with a clinical practice in primary care. She now serves as the director of student services at UNC School of Pharmacy.