Amanda Seyerle, Ph.D., has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, starting July 30. Seyerle will join the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy.
Seyerle earned her Master of Science in Public Health in 2013 and her Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2016, both from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she studied anthropological and molecular genetics, as well as history.
Seyerle has spent the last two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in cardiovascular disease epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research focuses on pharmacogenomics and understanding variable drug response.
At the School, Seyerle will also participate in the Carolina Health Informatics Program, an interdisciplinary research and training program that incorporates faculty, health-care professionals and students from across the UNC campus to conduct research in health informatics for scientists and clinicians in medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry and pharmacy.