Category: Academic Programs
Hajjo Selected to Present at AAPS Graduate Student Symposium
July 14, 2009Rima Hajjo, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been selected to make a podium presentation about her research during the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in Los Angeles, California. The presentation will be part of the Graduate Student Symposium in Drug Design and Discovery, which will be held on November 10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hajjo joined the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products in 2005. She is in the lab of division chair Alex Tropsha, PhD, and her research focuses on polypharmacology, network pharmacology, and computational screening of the GPCR … Read more
Bethea Receives Dissertation Completion Fellowship
April 22, 2009Heather Bethea, a graduate student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The fellowship provides a stipend of $16,000 for the 2009-2010 academic year, as well as a tuition-and-fees scholarship for three hours of doctoral dissertation credit. Bethea entered the School’s graduate program in 2005 after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry. She has been conducting research on heparan sulfate in Associate Professor Jian Liu’s lab in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products. She … Read more
Student, Alumna, Faculty Mentors Receive Travel Scholarships from AACP
April 21, 2009A doctor of pharmacy student, two faculty members, and an alumna from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have received travel scholarships from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The recipients are: third-year student Kathryn Givens Merkel and her faculty mentor, clinical instructor Lisa Dinkins, PharmD; and alumna Megan Wheatley, PharmD, who is a resident at Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro, and her faculty mentor, clinical assistant professor Dawn Pettus, PharmD. The AACP/Walmart Scholars Program strives to strengthen the scholarship recipients’ skills and commitment to a career in academic pharmacy through participation in programming and activities at the … Read more
Ferreri, Rodgers Receive Promotions
March 25, 2009The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has promoted Stefanie Ferreri, PharmD, CDE, FAPhA; and Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, BCPS; to clinical associate professors. Ferreri, a member of the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education, joined the School in 2001 as a clinical assistant professor. She has been directing the School’sCommunity Pharmacy Residency Program since 2005. In addition to that role and her teaching duties, Ferreri also maintains a practice site at Kerr Drug Health Care Center in Chapel Hill focusing on education in select disease states such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, immunizations, MTM, and self-care issues. Rodgers, an alumna … Read more
Preceptor Heidrick Receives Immunization Award
March 9, 2009Joe Heidrick, PharmD, a preceptor for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received an honorable mention in the Individual Practitioner category of the American Pharmacists Association’s 2009 Immunization Champion Awards. Heidrick, who holds an adjunct assistant professor appointment in the School, is a 2005 graduate of the School’s Community Pharmacy Residency Program and works as the clinical coordinator for Kerr Drugs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He provides a broad range of immunization services in his practice and coordinated successful community outreach activities in the state’s two largest community fairs, immunizing more than 5,000 people. This is the first … Read more
Askew Named Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year
November 18, 2008The North Carolina Association of Pharmacists has named Jennifer Askew, a preceptor for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the 2008 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in the state. Askew has been working at New Hanover Regional Medical Center for five years. She received her doctor of pharmacy from the School in 2003 and has been a UNC pharmacy preceptor since 2006. She has precepted more than twenty UNC pharmacy students in introductory and advanced hospital, community, and practice management rotations. She was named the School’s Hospital Pharmacy Preceptor of the Year for 2008. Askew is also an active participant … Read more
UNC Pharmacists, Students Offer Flu Shots to Charlotte Voters
November 4, 2008Voters at three polling sites in Charlotte can roll up their sleeves for a flu shot after casting their ballot on November 4 thanks to students and faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a local pharmacy. The clinics are part of Vote & Vax, a nationwide project that will provide influenza vaccinations at hundreds of polling sites across the country on Election Day. Each site will be staffed by students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as well as experienced pharmacists from Pike’s Pharmacy and the Charlotte Area Health Education Center who will administer … Read more
Pharmacy Students Receive SNPhA Scholarships
September 5, 2008Five students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy were awarded scholarships at the Student National Pharmaceutical Association Convention in Fort Launderdale, Florida, this year. The students, each of whom is in the third year of the doctor of pharmacy program, received awards ranging from $1,000 to $2,500. Maurice Alexander of New Bern, North Carolina, received the $1,000 Walgreens/SNPhA Student Pharmacist Excellence Award. Benyam Muluneh of Lorton, Virginia, received the $1,000 Kroger Scholarship. Portia Overton of Raleigh, North Carolina, received the $2,500 Rite Aid/SNPhA Foundation Scholarship. Lakia Scoggins of Durham, North Carolina, received the $1,000 James Bricky Hills Endowed Scholarship, … Read more
School Recognized for Its Efforts to Increase Diversity
July 7, 2008The North Carolina Health Careers Access Program has recognized the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy with the Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award for the School’s efforts to increase the diversity of its student population and the health-care workforce. The NC-HCAP is an interinstitutional program of the UNC system designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged students who are educated, trained, and employed in the health professions. The Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award recognizes individuals or entities that have proactively sought out and implemented strategies to increase underrepresented minorities in a health science discipline and/or who have worked … Read more
School, Mission Hospital win AACP Crystal APPLE
June 4, 2008The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a prestigious national award recognizing the high quality of an experiential education rotation at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. The Crystal APPLE Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy recognizes the contributions pharmacy schools and their practice partners make in successfully conducting and supporting quality experiential education in settings focusing on patient care. “The Crystal APPLE Awards are the most coveted academic-practice partnership award in pharmacy education,” says Lucinda L. Maine, AACP executive vice president and CEO. “With an increasing number … Read more