Category: Faculty
McLeod to Deliver Abrams Lecture
March 20, 2008Howard McLeod, PharmD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy and the director of the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, has been selected to deliver the 2008 Dr. William B. Abrams Lecture, becoming the first PharmD scientist to receive that honor in the ten-year history of the lecture series. The lecture, cosponsored by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and the Food and Drug Administration/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, will be held at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Wednesday, April 30, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. McLeod’s lecture is titled “Personalized … Read more
Zamboni Joins School of Pharmacy, Lineberger
March 3, 2008William Zamboni, PharmD, PhD, an expert in translational studies of anticancer agents, has joined the UNC School of Pharmacy and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Zamboni, who came to UNC from the University of Pittsburgh, is an associate professor in the School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. He is also a member of the School’s Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy and an associate member at Lineberger. “Dr. Zamboni brings an international reputation in cancer clinical pharmacology and will make a big impact on the development of new therapies for the patients of North Carolina,” says Howard McLeod, … Read more
Gal to Receive Helms Award
February 26, 2008Peter Gal, PharmD, a clinical professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Richard A. Helms Award for Excellence in Pediatric Pharmacy Practice. Gal, who is the director of pharmacotherapy, education and research at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center, will receive the award at the 17th Annual Pediatric Pharmacy Conference and PPAG Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 4. Gal has received numerous honors since becoming a pharmacist at the Greensboro AHEC and a clinical assistant professor at the School in 1979. He has been practicing neonatal pharmacotherapy since 1977 … Read more
AHEC Faculty Receives Fellowship to Study Virtual Patient Approach
February 21, 2008Peter Koval, PharmD, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a John Payne Fellow. The fellowship comes with a $2,000 stipend for Koval’s project: studying the use of virtual patients in training pharmacy students. Koval, a clinical pharmacist at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, is the assistant director of pharmacy research, pharmacotherapy, and education at the Greensboro Area Health Education Center. He is planning to use his fellowship to learn how the School of Pharmacy at Keele University in the United Kingdom uses robotic avatars and voice-recognition software to create virtual patients … Read more
Sleath Study: Doctors Should Watch for Depression in Arthritis Patients
February 1, 2008Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the most common chronic inflammatory arthritis, are twice as likely as individuals without rheumatoid arthritis to experience depression but aren’t likely to talk to a doctor about it, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In a study published in the February issue of Arthritis Care & Research, researchers found that patients whose activities were more restricted due to their arthritis were more than twice as likely to have moderately severe to severe symptoms of depression. They also found that not many depressed patients discussed their condition with their rheumatologists, and, … Read more
Sleath, Vaughan Win AACP Posts
January 1, 2008Two faculty members from the UNC School of Pharmacy have been elected to posts with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Betsy Sleath, PhD, a professor in the School’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, was elected as chair of the Social and Administrative Sciences section. K.T. Vaughan, MSLS, a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education, was elected as secretary for the Libraries Educational Resources section. Founded in 1900, the AACP is the national organization representing the interests of pharmacy education and educators. It comprises all 105 colleges and schools of pharmacy in … Read more
Sleath Promoted to Full Professor
January 1, 2008The UNC School of Pharmacy has promoted Betsy Sleath, PhD, to full professor. Sleath joined the School’s Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in 1995 and has been an associate professor since 2000. She is also an adjunct associate professor in the UNC School of Public Health and a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. After earning doctorate degrees in pharmacy and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sleath spent two years as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico before coming to UNC. Her research examines the impact of communication between … Read more
Brouwer Receives Award from Alma Mater
December 11, 2007Kim Brouwer, PhD, the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received the Paul F. Parker Award from the University of Kentucky and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The annual honor recognizes a former resident of the UK Pharmacy Residency Program or someone intimately associated with the success of the program for the individual’s contribution to the profession via teaching or research. Recipients must show commitment to high ideals and excellence in their chosen field and encourage the personal and professional growth of others. Brouwer, who chairs the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, … Read more
Three Faculty Members Receive Awards
December 4, 2007Three junior faculty members at the UNC School of Pharmacy have received awards from the University. Craig Lee, PhD, and Qisheng Zhang, PhD, each received a $7,500 Junior Faculty Development Award from the Committee on Faculty Research and Study Leaves. X. Simon Wang, PhD, received a $4,500 University Research Council Award. Lee is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Pharmaceutics. He received both his doctor of pharmacy degree and his PhD from the School, and he has been a member of the faculty since 2006. His research examines the role of genomics in the development, progression, … Read more
Patterson Promoted to Full Professor
December 1, 2007The UNC School of Pharmacy has promoted J. Herbert Patterson, PharmD, FCCP, to full professor. Patterson joined the School in 1981. He has been an associate professor since 1988 and currently serves as the vice chair of the School’s Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, where he also directs the division’s graduate program. Patterson holds a joint appointment as a research associate professor in the Division of Cardiology at the UNC School of Medicine, and he has served as co-chair of the UNC Biomedical Institutional Review Board since March 2005. Patterson received his bachelor’s and doctor of pharmacy degrees from … Read more