Category: Featured News
White Coat Ceremony: Sending out the next generation of pharmacists
March 8, 2023“What do you want to be when you grow up?” A question we’ve all been asked—some with a quick, confident answer and others who discover their passions as they grow. Emili Anderson, Pharm.D. candidate, class of 2024, and current student senate president, found her passion at Carolina. As a child, Anderson remembers being drawn to math more so than English or history in school. She shared that her mom, Susan G. Marchant, a double Tar Heel with a B.S. ‘86 and Pharm.D. ‘03, always wanted to talk about science with her. However, pharmacy didn’t become a strong career option until … Read more
Women Who Make an Impact Part 2 – UNC Pharmacy Perspectives
March 6, 2023Throughout the month of March, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will be highlighting stories from students, faculty, staff and alumni about women at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who have made an impact in their lives. This week, we spoke to Mollie Scott, Amanda Storyward and Madison Mclemore. Mollie Scott, Regional Associate Dean Where are you from? Asheville, North Carolina What UNC Pharmacy woman has made an impact on you? I first met Dr. Pam Joyner when I was a student pharmacy at UNC back in the 1990s and I had the pleasure of working with her until … Read more
Delegation from Moldova visits UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
March 6, 2023Earlier this year, a Moldova delegation met with various faculty and staff from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy to learn more about pharmacy education and research in the United States and to discuss future areas for collaboration. The delegation included seven faculty members from the Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chișinău, Moldova. They are one of the School’s key partners in the Global Pharmacy Scholars (GPS) program. The School continues to send students to the university in Moldova and hosts students from Moldova through this partnership, which began in 2016. “Moldova has been a longstanding partner … Read more
Women Who Make an Impact – UNC Pharmacy Perspectives
March 1, 2023Throughout the month of March, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy will be highlighting stories from students, faculty, staff and alumni about women at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who have made an impact in their lives. This week, we spoke to Suzanne Harris, Emma Ives and Devika Manickam. Suzanne Harris, Associate Professor, Director of Well-being and Resiliency Where are you from? Austin, Texas What UNC Pharmacy woman has made an impact on you? From early in my career as a clinical pharmacist to later in my career as I transitioned to full-time faculty at the UNC Eshelman School … Read more
Duke Endowment Grant to Support Pharmacist-Provided Contraception
February 27, 2023UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Regional Associate Dean Mollie Scott has been awarded a $705,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to support the implementation of pharmacist-provided hormonal contraception across the state of North Carolina. Unintended pregnancies are a significant public health concern that increase health care costs, medical complications, mental health concerns and negatively impact women and families. This project seeks to decrease unintended pregnancies by increasing access to effective contraceptives. “I am very excited to begin this work and am thrilled that we received funding from The Duke Endowment,” said Scott, an associate professor in the Division of Practice … Read more
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Student Senate Hosts First-Ever Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Week
February 23, 2023The inspiration for the inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Week, hosted by the Student Senate DEI Committee in partnership with other campus and pharmacy organizations, came from a desire to provide a holistic view of how pharmacists can effectively care for patients by considering all dimensions of a person’s identity. “We envisioned that DEI Week would open discussions about how words, actions and gestures impact relationships with patients and colleagues,” said Yuki Yang, Pharm.D. candidate and member of the Student Senate DEI Committee. A notable speaker line-up explored various DEI topics such as Race, CDK and eGFR, Access … Read more
Klarissa Jackson, Ph.D., receives ASPET’s Richard Okita Early Career Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition
February 22, 2023The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy (ASPET) Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition has awarded Klarissa Jackson, Ph.D. the 2023 Richard Okita Early Career Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition. ASPET awards are awarded to professionals who display excellence in the field of pharmacology. Jackson is receiving this award in recognition of her translational research in drug metabolism and disposition focused on individual variations in cytochrome P450-mediated drug metabolism and adverse reactions in patients from understudied ethnic backgrounds. “I am so grateful to receive this award,” said Jackson. “I thank God for this opportunity. I thank the ASPET … Read more
First in Venture Studio Takes Aim at the Opioid Crisis
February 20, 2023An eight-month collaboration to bring digital health solutions to market reaches a milestone with Pitch Day Rob Kimball, a Director with High Alpha Innovation, sums up what the company does in one sentence: “We co-create advantaged startups that solve compelling problems.” He goes on, “This is the hardest, most compelling problem that we’ve ever had to point our toolset at.” Rob is referring to the opioid crisis. Each year in the United States, opioid use disorder (OUD) costs the country over $140 billion in hospitalizations, medical costs, criminal justice costs, and loss of productivity. This is on top of the … Read more
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Rodgers
February 15, 2023A love story that began in pharmacy school and continues here today It was late August, 1993 and classes were just beginning for the year at the UNC School of Pharmacy. Jo Ellen Baldwin was in the last year of her BS in Pharmacy program and trying to get a jump start on her PharmD degree by taking a couple PharmD courses, including stats. Also in the stats class was Phil Rodgers, who had just returned to the School for his PharmD after having attained his BS degree here a year prior. This is how the couple, affectionately known today … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation partners with the HBCU Founders Initiative to serve underrepresented populations
February 13, 2023The Eshelman Institute for Innovation, within the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is partnering with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Founders Initiative (HBCUFI) to create PowerUp, a program that will identify and support innovators as they try to solve health equity challenges in underrepresented communities across North Carolina. PowerUp aims to connect top talent with investment and advisory support to launch innovative digital health startups that will provide health care solutions to communities. The key partner in this program, the HBCU Founders Initiative, is a non-profit organization that supports HBCU students, alumni and faculty along their entrepreneurial journey. The … Read more