Kerr Health

Asheville, North Carolina (map)

1124 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC 28806
828-236-9848

Preceptor: Anthony Pudlo, PharmD, MBA (apudlo@kerrhealth.com)

Kerr Drug is a regional chain pharmacy with about eighty stores and seven health-care centers located throughout North Carolina. Asheville is a new UNC residency site starting in 2011, but it has been a location for resident education through various other university affiliations. The site underwent renovations to its clinical office in 2010 and boasts a new dedicated classroom for patient education.

• Medication therapy management programs
• Practice management, marketing, reimbursement strategies, community outreach and education
• Teaching experience in classroom and clinical practice settings
• Disease state management and health coaching through the Asheville Project
• Diabetes Self-Management Education Program (recognition pending by the American Diabetes Association)
• Extensive disease prevention, detection, and monitoring services (blood pressure, bone density, blood glucose, A1c, cholesterol, immunizations)

About the Preceptor

Anthony Pudlo, PharmD, MBA

Residency preceptor since 2008

Anthony Pudlo, PharmD, MBA, is the regional clinical manager for Kerr Health in Asheville, North Carolina. After completing his doctor of pharmacy and master in business administration at the Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in 2007, he completed a community pharmacy practice residency at Kerr Health in Chapel Hill with preceptors Joe Heidrick and Stefanie Ferreri. During his residency, Pudlo researched the value of a phone-based medication adherence program for patients taking anti-depressants. He presented his findings at the annual APhA meeting in March 2008. Upon completing his residency, he served as clinical coordinator for Kerr Health at a new Kerr clinical practice site in Asheville, and in 2010, he served as the interim director of the Kerr Health/Wingate University community residency program.

Pudlo is an adjunct assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who precepts advance-practice-experience students as well as students from colleges of pharmacy across the nation. He is actively involved in providing patient care — such as medication therapy management, diabetes education, and immunizations — as well as conducting practice-based research. One of his current research interests is the financial benefit of implementing clinical pharmacy services to a community pharmacy.  In 2010, he was awarded a grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation to investigate this topic further.

Pudlo was honored in 2009 as the Kerr Health Clinical Coordinator of the Year for his dedication to the advancement of clinical pharmacy services at his practice site and within his community.  Pudlo also serves on the National Advisory Board for the Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences and is an active member of the American Pharmacists Association, the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, and the Phi Delta Chi professional pharmacy fraternity.