Antonio Bush, Ph.D., has joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor of educational innovation and research on the tenure track in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education. He is also an assistant director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Assessment.
Bush’s principal research interests surround graduate and professional student socialization, student development, underrepresented students in STEM and health professions, assessing curricular and cocurricular experiences and advancing qualitative research in the field of pharmacy.
Before joining the School as an assistant professor, Bush was a postdoctoral research associate in PACE. During his fellowship, he was a member of the course development team for the Patient Care Experience, a course in the new curriculum, and served as a guest lecturer in PACE 815 Qualitative Research. He was also a guest lecturer at the North Carolina State University College of Education in its narrative research methods course and served as an adjunct faculty member at North Carolina Central University.
Bush has played a key role in several research projects, including an extensive review of diversity-related literature in pharmacy education, mapping cocurricular experiences to core competencies and understanding the job to be done by pharmacy graduates on the interprofessional team.
“As our School moves forward in a transformed curriculum, Bush has the expertise to mentor our students on best practices in educational research,” said Denise H. Rhoney, Pharm.D., chair of PACE and the Ron and Nancy McFarlane Distinguished Professor. “He will contribute to the educational mission of the School through teaching and mentoring students in the professional and graduate programs and by assisting in the development of our new professional curriculum.”
Bush received his Bachelor of Science in early childhood education from Albany State University in Georgia in 2007, his Master of Science in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University in 2010 and his Ph.D. in educational research and policy analysis from NCSU in 2014.