Category: Academic Programs
CAPS Wins Three Awards at APhA Annual Meeting
April 10, 2015Student representatives from the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy returned from the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, California, March 27–30 with three awards for pharmacy excellence. CAPS is the School’s chapter of the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists. CAPS was awarded first runner-up for the 2013–2014 APhA-ASP Chapter Achievement Award for Division A schools. The Chapter Achievement Awards program recognizes chapters with the most success in leadership, operations, policy and advocacy, patient care, and professionalism. Macary Marciniak, PharmD, and Phil Rodgers, PharmD, serve as CAPS advisers. Marciniak was … Read more
School Hosts Summit for Provider Status at Asheville Campus
March 31, 2015The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy tackled the hot-button issue of provider status in March with its Asheville Summit for Provider Status. The summit provided an opportunity for students to learn about provider status and hear about successful models of integrating pharmacists into health care. The summit was attended by more than 120 students, state officials and representatives from nine pharmacy schools from across the country. “The goal was to bring students from all over the region and educate them,” says Emily Eddy, pharmacy student at the School’s branch in Asheville and chair of the summit’s planning committee. “Many students … Read more
Wisseh and Bivins Place Second at SNPhA Kroger Clinical Skills Competition
March 25, 2015Two students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Cheryl Wisseh and Amber Bivins, took second place at the Regional Kroger Clinical Skills Competition in Atlanta February 20–22. The Student National Pharmaceutical Association Kroger Regional Clinical Skills Competition is an opportunity for students from across the Southeast to showcase their pharmaceutical expertise. Each of the twenty-four teams was judged based on their ability to counsel a hypothetical patient case. The case Wisseh and Bivins were presented with was a nineteen-year-old college student who didn’t get much sleep, was dependent on caffeine pills, smoked cigarettes, and was picking up a new … Read more
Roberts Wins UNC Impact Award for Analysis of Pharmacy Assistance Program
March 18, 2015PhD candidate Andrew Roberts, PharmD, and his research collaborators used administrative claims data from 2009 to 2011 to investigate demographic characteristics and prescription and health-care use patterns of 7,180 members UNC Health Care Pharmacy Assistance Program. His work won a 2015 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award from the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The awards recognize graduate students for contributions they make to North Carolina. Medication costs present a major barrier to chronic disease management for patients with low income and without health insurance. The UNC Health Care Pharmacy Assistance Program is a charitable … Read more
Two DPET Grad Students Win ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award
March 6, 2015Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, and Kevin Watt, MD, have been awarded a 2015 Presidential Trainee Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Oni-Orisan and Watt are PhD candidates in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award is given to clinical pharmacologists in training that submit the most impressive research abstract each year. Only twenty-two awardees are selected out of more than 200 submissions. Oni-Orisan and Watt were recognized at the ASCPT Annual Meeting March 3–7 in New Orleans. A New … Read more
Three UNC Pharmacy Students Selected for Johns Hopkins Internship
March 5, 2015In the second week of February, Catherine Buckthal, Stephanie Jean, and Jennifer Ku, all second-year pharmacy students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, received phone calls with a Baltimore, Maryland, area code. On the other end was Irish McClung, a career service specialist from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, calling to offer a pharmacy internship with Johns Hopkins. Their reaction was the same: overwhelming excitement and an enthusiastic yes. “I knew that only those that were accepted were going to be called,” Ku says. “When the caller ID told me that the call was from Baltimore, my heart skipped a … Read more
Rho Chi Honor Society Announces New UNC Inductees
February 12, 2015Twenty-eight doctor of pharmacy students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have been accepted into the Rho Chi national academic honor society in pharmacy. Invitation to the honor society is extended to second-year pharmacy students with GPAs in the top 20 percent of their class. “We are very proud of our inductees this year,” Anna Cosnahan, president of the School’s Rho Chi chapter, said. “This class was particularly strong academically, and we are happy to initiate these new members.” The following students will be inducted March 21 at the Rizzo Center: Kristin Aloi Holly Bourgeois Adam Corey Alexander Cremer … Read more
Call, Christensen Place Third in ASHP Clinical Skills Competition
December 16, 2014The morning of Saturday, December 6, a team of two fourth-year UNC pharmacy students were given a sheet of paper with a list of symptoms and a medical history for an imaginary patient. The two students, Rebecca Call and Erin Christensen were in Anaheim, California representing the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy for the 2014 ASHP Clinical Skills Competition. The patient had bacterial meningitis, and it was the team’s job to identify and decide how to best treat the problem in two hours. The following morning, the pair learned that their treatment plan had placed in the top ten of … Read more
Daniel Crona Wins 2014 Kathryne A. Brewington Award
December 12, 2014Daniel Crona, PharmD, has been awarded the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s 2014 Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Student Research Award for work identifying the genetic factors associated with cancer survival. Crona’s dissertation research identified and is in the process of validating novel genetic variants associated with survival in patients with advanced or metastatic kidney cancer. Discovery of novel predictive variants could allow health-care providers to identify the patients that would benefit most from treatment with the drug sorafenib. Sorafenib was first approved by the U.S. FDA to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma and was later approved to treat liver … Read more
Photos: Career Day 2014
October 31, 2014The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its 2014 Career Day on Friday, October 31, at the William and Ida Friday Center. The event gave potential employers the opportunity to meet current and graduating PharmD candidates. https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157649165660951/show