June 1, 2007
Two professors from the UNC School of Pharmacy—Amanda Corbett and Angela Kashuba—have received the Pam Herriott Award from the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases and the UNC Center for AIDS Research in recognition of their contributions in the fight against AIDS.
“They have been devoted partners to our HIV team,” says Charles van der Horst, a professor in the UNC School of Medicine who is a member of the CFID and the director of the Developmental Core at the UNC CFAR.
“They always say yes when e-mailed or called, no matter what time or day, always stepping up to the plate. They exemplify the best of the Carolina tradition—working for the benefit of the people of North Carolina, working as a team, and devoted to their work.”
Corbett, PharmD, BCPS, is a clinical assistant professor in the School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Kashuba, BScPhm, PharmD, DABCP, is an associate professor in the division.
Both are involved in various HIV-related collaborations at the University, including the UNC CFAR, where Kashuba directs the Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core. They have worked closely with the CFID in conducting HIV drug research in Chapel Hill and Malawi. Corbett also works in clinical care for HIV patients.
“Amanda and Angela have helped us understand why individual patients are not responding to therapy by helping us understand drug-drug interactions and by measuring drug levels in these patients to help optimize their treatment,” says Joseph Eron, director of the UNC AIDS Clincal Trials Unit.
In addition, Corbett and Kashuba have mentored high school and college students on short-term projects and helped students and professionals in pharmacy and medicine.
“They have both been instrumental in guiding the careers of many others, including other pharmacists, PharmDs, medical students, and physicians,” says Kristine Patterson, a clinical assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine who has worked closely with Corbett and Kashuba. “They are unselfish in these endeavors.”
The annual award is named for a widely admired UNC psychiatric nurse practitioner who, before her death, helped HIV patients and clinicians cope in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
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