Category: Doctor of Pharmacy Program – PharmD
Photos: 2010 White Coat Ceremony
March 28, 2010Third-year students at the School received the white coat — the traditional symbol of health professionals — at the White Coat ceremony on March 28 to mark their transition into the final year of the doctor of pharmacy program. The ceremony is a tradition designed to reflect the responsibility, professionalism, and commitment expected of students beginning their final year of the PharmD program. Howard McLeod, PharmD, director of the School’s Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, delivered the keynote speech. Regina Schomberg, president of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, also spoke. Faculty members Lisa Dinkins, PharmD; Adam Persky, PhD; … Read more
Photos: Commencement 2010
March 28, 2010https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncpaa/sets/72157624016994405/show/
Photos: Family Day 2010
March 27, 2010The School held its annual Family Day on Saturday, March 27. The event gives parents of the School’s PharmD students a taste of their experience at the School. PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpaa/sets/72157623603421803/show/
Two Student-Faculty Tandems Earn AACP Walmart Scholarships
March 25, 2010Community pharmacy resident Ashley Branham, PharmD, PY4 student Tsu-Hsuan “Sherry” Yang, and their faculty mentors have won Walmart Scholarships from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This marks the fourth consecutive year that members of the School have won Walmart Scholarships. The awards, which began in 2005, aim to strengthen the recipients’ skills and commitment to careers in academic pharmacy through their participation at the AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars. Each student-faculty pair will receive $1,000 to help cover registration and travel expenses for the AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars on July 10-14 in Seattle, Washington. Branham, mentored by … Read more
MCNP Graduate Student Receives TraCS Grant
March 2, 2010Jui-Hua Hsieh, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has received a $2,000 grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute to fund her project, “Design of Novel Therapeutic Agents against Mer Kinase for Cancer Treatment.” Elevated expression and activity of the enzyme Mer kinase are associated with various types of cancers, and researchers have found very few small-molecules inhibitors against Mer kinase so far, Hsieh says. Hsieh’s project will try to identify novel, potent Mer kinase inhibitors. She will use computer programs to virtually screen large libraries of chemical structures and use … Read more
Award Powers Students’ MTM Initiative at Local Clinic
March 2, 2010The Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is the recipient of a $2,000 Project CHANCE award from the American Pharmacists Association to provide medication-therapy-management services at a local health clinic. The grant will allow pharmacy students to provide medication-therapy-management services to select patients at the Student Health Action Coalition Clinic at the Carrboro Community Health Clinic in Carrboro, N.C. Jennifer Byrns, a third-year PharmD student and the lead author of the School’s proposal to APhA, says pharmacy students will enroll in the project ten to fifteen patients who use the emergency department at UNC Hospitals … Read more
PY3 Student Kim Qualifies for National Patient Counseling Competition
February 11, 2010Lisa Kim, a third-year doctor of pharmacy student at the School, will compete in the APhA-ASP National Patient Counseling Competition in March. Kim won the local level of the competition to earn the right to represent the School in the national competition, which will be held at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., on March 12-15. The goal of the competition is to help student pharmacists become better patient educators. The competition is designed to reflect changes that are occurring in practice, to promote and encourage further professional development of student pharmacists, and to reinforce … Read more
Rho Chi Inducts New UNC Members
February 5, 2010The University of North Carolina chapter of the Rho Chi Society, national academic honor society of pharmacy, has inducted new members. They are Elizabeth Lynn Alford, Janet Arrazcaeta, Xuefang Bai, Robert Michael Bero, Kynlon Phillips Caruso, Divya Vinod Chandiramani, Ryon Allenc Chao, Anne Elizabeth Eudy, Stelios L. Galantis, Amanda E. Gerdts, Timothy Craig Harmon, Megan Elizabeth Hartranft, John Nathal Hedrick, Brian Vinh Hoang, Melissa R. Hunter, Sarah A. Johannes, Jessica Allegra Johnston, Suzan Nadimi Kalantar, Anand Bipinrai Khandoobhai, Chwiwon Lee, Meghan N. McComb, Thanhhoa Thi Nguyen, Kelsie Paige Ormsby, Jane Yen Revollo, Morgan B. Smith, Kathleen Anne Touloupas, Adam Vanderman, … Read more
PharmD Student Wins RXportfolios National Achievement Award
September 4, 2009Adam Overberg, a doctor of pharmacy student at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been named a winner of the RXportfolios National Achievement Award. Overberg, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, is a fourth-year student at the School. He earned a BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from UNC in 2009. RXportfolios.com is a Web site that provides free online portfolios for pharmacists, students, and technicians. The National Achievement Award is judged on the quality and completeness of the contestants’ RXportfolios, and each school of pharmacy can have only one winner.
Clickers Debut in School Classrooms
August 20, 2009“Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says?”—Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off It’s an iconic moment in movie history as the economic professor drones on and on, vainly trying to elicit a response from a near-catatonic class. It’s just a movie, but it does illustrate the challenges educators face in making sure their students are engaged in class and are understanding the material. “It’s funny because it’s true,” says Adam Persky, PhD, clinical associate professor and associate director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Pharmacy. … Read more