Category: Practice Advancement and Clinical Education
School’s New Division Focuses on Practice, Education
July 26, 2007The UNC School of Pharmacy has created a fifth academic division to focus on the needs of pharmacy practitioners at the point of care. The Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education will house the School’s Professional Experience Program, the Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory, the Postgraduate/Continuing Education Program, and the Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy Program, which will begin in the fall of 2008. The division will be a home for faculty who focus primarily on teaching and clinical practice. “The new division grew out of the in-depth discussions we had while creating the School’s strategic plan. Its purpose … Read more
Joyner Selected for AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program
June 1, 2007Pamela Joyner, EdD, MS Pharm, the associate dean for professional education at the UNC School of Pharmacy, is one of twenty-nine nominees selected to participate in the 2007-08 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Leadership Fellows Program. The program was developed to address the stated needs of AACP members for an intensive leadership and management development program. It is designed to help promising individuals at member institutions develop into future leaders in pharmacy and in higher education. “This program provides opportunities for more interaction with leaders in pharmacy education and can broaden my understanding of the issues facing both … Read more
White Harris Is School’s New Director of Recruitment, Diversity
May 21, 2007Carla White Harris has been named the new director of recruitment and diversity initiatives at the UNC School of Pharmacy. She is also the new Chapel Hill–based director of the UNC/ECSU PharmD Partnership Program. It will be her responsibility to develop and execute a student-recruitment plan for the doctor of pharmacy program with the long-term goal of enhancing the quality and the diversity of students applying to the School of Pharmacy. She will also chair the School’s Admission Committee and serve as the primary liaison with Elizabeth City State University. White Harris says she is looking forward to the challenge … Read more
Four Receive APhA Incentive Grants to Improve Care
May 16, 2007Four pharmacists from the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received incentive grants from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation. Three of the four recipients—John Clark, Daniel Forrister, and Debbie Pruss—are residents in the School’s Community Pharmacy Residency Program, while the fourth, Ron DeVizia, is a preceptor. They each received a $1,000 incentive grant. The APhA incentive grants, which began in 1993, provide pharmacists with seed funding to explore new methods and services to provide better health care. The program also aims to focus pharmacists’ attention on incorporating technology in their practices to … Read more
Caiola Receives NCAP Award
May 7, 2007Steve Caiola, MS, an associate professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received the 2007 Acute Care Practice Forum Pharmacist of the Year Award from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. Caiola is the NCAP’s director of postgraduate education and training. He also has served as the director of the Postgraduate/Continuing Education Program at the School since July 1998. John Kessler, president of the health-care software company SecondStory Health, LLC, presented the award to Caiola for “his decades of work in improving the practice of hospital pharmacists in the state.” “If you were educated at UNC, he improved your education. … Read more
School Names Top Preceptors, AHEC Instructor for 2007
March 26, 2007Wilmington pharmacist John Davie Waggett and Gastonia pharmacist Wyn Wheeler Sterling have been named the 2007 Preceptors of the Year by the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The School also named Mollie Ashe Scott the Area Health Education Center Instructor of the Year, which recognizes an outstanding faculty member who has had a positive impact on students’ advanced practice experience. Waggett was named the Community Preceptor of the Year, while Sterling was named the Hospital Preceptor of the Year. The UNC Preceptor of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding preceptor who has participated … Read more
Hadzija to Receive Graduate School Dean’s Award
March 21, 2007Boka Hadzija, PhD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of the 2007 Graduate School Dean’s Award for Significant Contributions to Graduate Education. Hadzija will receive the honor April 12 at the Graduate School’s ninth annual Recognition Celebration. The ceremony will begin at 4:00 p.m. at the Carolina Club at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Among the other awards to be presented during the ceremony is the Boka Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service by a Graduate or Professional Student, which she established in 2000. Hadzija has earned more than a dozen awards for teaching … Read more
Hadzija Honored with Distinguished Teaching Award
March 21, 2007Boka Hadzija, PhD, has been named as a recipient of a 2007 University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the University’s highest recognitions for teaching excellence. Hadzija, along with twenty-one winners of teaching awards in nine categories, wasrecognized during halftime of the Carolina-N.C. State men’s basketball game. She will be recognized by Chancellor James Moeser at an awards banquet this spring. The University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, given every three years, provides two three-year term professorships recognizing career teaching excellence. One award is for tenured faculty in academic affairs, including professional schools, and one is for tenured faculty … Read more
Rodgers is New APhA Rep to National Diabetes Program
March 7, 2007Phil Rodgers, PharmD, has been appointed as the APhA representative to the National Diabetes Educational Program. He will serve on both the Steering Committee and the Pharmacy Podiatry, Optometry, and Dental Professionals (PPOD) work group. The National Diabetes Education Program is a federally funded program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and includes over 200 partners at the federal, state, and local levels, working together to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes.
Caiola Appointed to ACPE Continuing Education Commission
February 6, 2007The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has appointed Steve Caiola, MS, an associate professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, to its newly established Continuing Pharmacy Education Commission. Caiola, who will serve a three-year term on the CPEC, has been the director of the Postgraduate/Continuing Education Program at the School since July 1998. The ACPE is the national agency in charge of accrediting professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education. The CPEC—a ten-member board—will consist of representatives from ACPE–accredited providers, state boards of pharmacy, practicing pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. The board is responsible for recommending policy … Read more