January 1, 2008
The UNC School of Pharmacy has promoted Betsy Sleath, PhD, to full professor.
Sleath joined the School’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in 1995 and has been an associate professor since 2000. She is also an adjunct associate professor in the UNC School of Public Health and a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
After earning doctorate degrees in pharmacy and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sleath spent two years as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico before coming to UNC. Her research examines the impact of communication between patients and health-care providers on adherence to medication, mental health, and quality of life. She is the principal investigator on a $1.6 million grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute for a project that looks at how communication between pediatricians and children with asthma and their caregivers is related to asthma control and children outcomes.
Sleath is a member of the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee, which was formed in June 2007 to advise the agency on ways to improve communication with the public about the risks and benefits of FDA-regulated products. She also was recently elected as chair of the Social and Administrative Sciences section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
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