May 30, 2011
Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD, has been named as interim chair of the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She succeeds Steve Caiola, MS, who will be starting phased retirement beginning July 1.
Ferreri is a clinical associate professor and director of the PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program. Her work focuses on advancing clinical practice in community pharmacy settings, particularly in the areas of immunization, diabetes, and medication therapy management.
“Dr. Ferreri is a recognized leader and innovator in clinical pharmacy practice at the School, state, and national level,” says Robert Blouin, dean of the School. “She is very strongly committed to advancing the profession and serves as a wonderful role model for others.
Caiola is retiring after a distinguished career that has spanned more than forty years at the School. Since coming to UNC in 1969, he has served in a variety of positions responsible for educating pharmacists. He has received his share of accolades for his contribution to pharmacy in the state with some recent ones being the Don Blanton Award and 2007 Acute Care Practice Forum Pharmacist of the Year from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists.
“There is no aspect of pharmacy education in North Carolina that Steve Caiola has not improved over the past four decades,” Blouin says. “Every student who has passed through this school and every pharmacist who practiced in North Carolina during his tenure owes him a debt for the contributions he has made to the profession.”
Ferreri demonstrates a similar commitment to pharmacy practice. She is a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association and was named as its Media Spokesperson of the Year in 2007 for her efforts in educating the public about health issues and the roles pharmacists play. She is a past member of the NCAP board of directors and was that organization’s Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in 2007.
She received her BS in pharmacy from the University of Connecticut and her PharmD from Campbell University. She completed a PGY1 hospital residency at the University of Connecticut Health Care Center and her PGY1 community residency with Ward Drug in Nashville, North Carolina. Ferreri joined the UNC faculty in 2001 and became the director of the School’s CPRP in 2005.
A national search for a permanent chair of the division is currently underway.
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