January 10, 2023
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Professor Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., has been named one of 25 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members to receive a 2023 University Teaching Award.
The annual awards, administered by the Center for Faculty Excellence, acknowledge the commitment to outstanding teaching and mentoring of undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate students. This year, the CFE’s University Teaching Awards Committee received 876 nominations.
Rodgers is one of four faculty members from across the University to be named as a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction. This award was first given by the University in 1995 to recognize the important role of post-baccalaureate teaching. The winners receive a one-time stipend and a framed citation. Recipients will also be recognized on Monday, Feb. 13 during a ceremony before the UNC men’s basketball game at the Dean E. Smith Center.
“Words can’t express how appreciative I am of this recognition. I am truly overcome by emotion,” said Rodgers. “I am grateful for the opportunity to be part of this University and to work alongside such brilliant colleagues and trainees. I learn something new every day from those with whom I am so fortunate to interact, be it faculty, staff, students, residents, fellows and patients!”
Rodgers is currently a professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, where she serves as Vice Chair of Professional Education and Practice. She maintains an active clinical practice in the outpatient Cardio-Oncology Clinic with UNC Health Care and her primary research interests are in cardio-oncology and heart failure.
Recently retired Professor Herb Patterson, Pharm.D., who nominated Rodgers for this award, says she’s one of the most gifted teachers he’s encountered in his more than 40 years with the University.
“Jo Ellen possesses a rare talent as an educator; the ability and the skill to bring both her clinical and scholarship experiences to life in the classroom and convey them in an effective and impactful manner. What is unique about her teaching and mentoring is that she always takes a student-centered and student-holistic approach,” said Patterson. “She continually engages the students by reinforcing points, asking questions and encouraging them to do the same. What’s also impressive, her efforts to make every student feel valued. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is a better school because of her.”
Rodgers maintains board certification in both pharmacotherapy and cardiology and is a member of the International Cardio-Oncology Society Pharmacy Workgroup and the American Heart Association Disparities in Cardio-Oncology Network Oversight Advisory Committee and co-chair of the Heart Failure Society of America Programming Committee.
She is also a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the American Heart Association and she has been recognized as a distinguished practitioner and fellow of the National Academies of Practice.
Rodgers received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Clinical Practice Award in 2017, and in 2022 she received the ACCP Cardiology Practice and Research Network Lifetime Achievement Award.
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