Category: Divisions
Peter Koval Wins Cone Health Award for Role as Educator
July 2, 2015Peter Koval, PharmD has received this year’s Teaching Award from the 2015 graduating class of the Cone Health Family Medicine Physician Residency Program at Cone Health in Greensboro, N.C. Koval is an associate professor of clinical education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the director of pharmacotherapy at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center. His clinical pharmacy position is in collaboration with the Greensboro AHEC and the Cone Health Family Medicine Center. This award is given annually to family medicine faculty for their contribution to the overall education of the graduating class. Koval is the first non-physician to … Read more
Shrewsbury Reappointed to USP Compounding Committee
June 25, 2015Robert Shrewsbury, PhD, has been elected to serve a second five-year term on the Compounding Expert Committee of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. The USP publishes the U.S. Pharmacopeia and National Formulary, which sets standards for prescription and over-the-counter drugs and other health-care products sold in the United States and in many other countries. Shrewsbury is an associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as an expert on the USP Compounding Committee since 2010. Since he joined … Read more
Susan Miller Recognized as AACP Master Preceptor
May 29, 2015After almost twenty years of precepting pharmacy students, Susan Miller, PharmD, MBA, has been selected for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Master Preceptor Recognition Program. Miller is an associate professor of clinical education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and precepts students at her practice site at Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist and a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Since she began working for the School in 2004, Miller has precepted more than seventy-five students and coordinated more than 800 student clinical rotations for … Read more
School Wins TBJ Life Sciences Award for Chemo-Cleaning Wipe
May 22, 2015The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy received a 2015 BDO Life Sciences Award from the Triangle Business Journal on May 21 in the category of outstanding research university. The School won for the work of William Zamboni, PharmD, PhD, and Stephen Eckel, PharmD, MHA, in developing wipe kits that detect and remove hazardous residue left on surfaces from the preparation of chemotherapy drugs. Eckel, a leading expert on the issue of chemotherapy contamination in the workplace, says studies have found that people who prepare and administer chemotherapy drugs are at risk of developing complications from exposure to those drugs. Despite … Read more
Kashuba to Chair Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
May 14, 2015Internationally known AIDS and HIV researcher Angela Kashuba, PharmD, has been appointed chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Kashuba succeeds Kim Brouwer, PharmD, PhD, who has been named associate dean of research and graduate education at the School. Kashuba, is the School’s John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor and studies the role of antiretroviral therapy in preventing the transmission of HIV along with the optimal dosing and drug combinations for treating HIV infection. She works to better understand and predict the distribution of drugs throughout the body, … Read more
Brouwer Appointed Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
May 14, 2015Kenan Professor Kim L. R. Brouwer, PharmD, PhD, has been named associate dean of research and graduate education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Angela Kashuba, PharmD, the John A. and Deborah S. McNeill Jr. Distinguished Professor, will succeed Brouwer as chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Brouwer is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in DPET and a professor in the curriculum in toxicology in the School of Medicine. She served as the DPET chair from 2004 until her appointment as associate dean. She previously served as the School’s director of graduate studies from … Read more
Jay Named Executive Vice Dean to Oversee Academics at School
May 14, 2015Michael Jay, PhD, has been named executive vice dean at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jay will serve as the School’s chief academic officer. Jay is a Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the School and has been the division’s chair since 2012. Eshelman Professor Leaf Huang, PhD, who previously chaired the division from 2005 to 2012, will serve as interim chair of MOPH while the School searches for a permanent replacement for Jay. Jay joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2008 after … Read more
Kashuba to Play Role in New UNC-GSK Partnership to Accelerate Search for HIV Cure
May 11, 2015The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading global public research university with significant expertise in HIV basic and clinical research, and GSK, a global, research-based pharmaceutical and health-care company with a legacy of success in developing treatments for HIV, today announced the creation of the dedicated HIV Cure center and a jointly owned new company that will focus on discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS. This unique public-private partnership will redefine the traditional way of conducting research and create a new model to seek the breakthroughs needed to tackle an extraordinarily challenging global health issue. The HIV Cure … Read more
UNC Team Uses Cellular Bubbles to Deliver Parkinson’s Meds Directly to Brain
May 4, 2015Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes — tiny bubbles of protein and fat produced naturally by cells — to bypass the body’s defenses and deliver a potent biopharmaceutical directly to the brain to treat Parkinson’s disease. Elena Batrakova, PhD, and her colleagues at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery extracted exosomes from immune cells and successfully loaded them with the enzyme catalase, a potent antioxidant that counters the neuron-killing inflammation responsible for Parkinson’s and other degenerative neurological disorders. Their work was published in the Journal of Controlled … Read more
Faculty Leader Funds First Global Pharmacy Scholarships
April 30, 2015Dhiren Thakker, PhD, and Kailas Thakker, PhD, have pledged $100,000 to fund the first Global Pharmacy Scholarships at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dhiren Thakker is the Howard Q. Ferguson Distinguished Professor at the School and associate dean for entrepreneurial development and global engagement. Kailas Thakker is president and cofounder of Tergus Pharma, a contract-research company focusing on development of topical drug products. Their gift will create six Dhiren and Kailas Thakker Global Pharmacy Scholarships each year for five years that will cover travel and housing expenses for fourth-year students … Read more