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Joyner Receives PAA Award for Distinguished Service to School
March 15, 2018Pamela U. Joyner, M.S.Pharm., Ed.D., is the recipient of the 2018 PAA Distinguished Service Award from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Alumni Association. Joyner is retiring from the School April 1 from her position as executive associate dean for professional education, which she has held since 2010. As executive associate dean, Joyner has been responsible for all professional-education initiatives, including accreditation, the curriculum, experiential education and continuing education. Joyner previously served as associate dean for professional education since 1998. “As Dr. Joyner prepares to leave, we can all appreciate the positive effect she has had on this school, this … Read more
Sixth Educational Renaissance Symposium Aims to Keep Pace with Health Care
March 15, 2018The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its Sixth Annual Educational Renaissance Symposium March 5 at the Carolina Inn. This year’s symposium focused on accelerating the transformation of the School’s doctor of pharmacy curriculum to keep pace with changes in health care. The symposium brought together nearly 100 faculty and preceptors from across the state to share lessons learned and best practices and continue the design and refinement of the School’s new doctor of pharmacy curriculum. The morning session of the symposium consisted of presentations by Mary Roth McClurg, Pharm.D., M.H.S.; Scott Singleton, Ph.D.; Wendy Cox, Pharm.D.; and Denise Rhoney, … Read more
3 Pharmacy Students Participate in Kenan-Flagler’s Adams Apprenticeship
March 14, 2018Three doctor of pharmacy students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have been selected for the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Adams Apprenticeship. Karthik Chandrasekar, Jesse Martin and Jimmy Xu, all third-year Pharm.D. candidates, are three of the 14 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate and professional students selected for the program for 2018. The Adams Apprenticeship trains, supports and provides a network for all UNC-Chapel Hill students who are interested in careers in entrepreneurship. The apprenticeships provide program participants with access to resources that will transform the trajectory of their careers by connecting them with an exclusive … Read more
Partnership in Patient Care Holds Planning Retreat
March 12, 2018Faculty and staff from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the UNC Medical Center Department of Pharmacy held a planning retreat for the Partnership in Patient Care at the Friday Center on Feb. 21. Launched in 2010, the Partnership in Patient Care combines the resources of the School and the pharmacy department to increase the pharmacy services available to patients at UNC Hospitals, the amount of experiential education that pharmacy students receive at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the amount of point-of-care research being conducted. Since the start of the partnership, the hospital’s department of pharmacy has … Read more
Olivia Dong Receives Brewington Award
February 28, 2018Olivia Dong, a doctoral student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of the School’s Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Student Research Award for 2017. The School presents the award annually to the most outstanding doctoral student in pharmaceutical sciences in honor of Brewington’s commitment to public service and higher education. Under the guidance of her research adviser, Tim Wiltshire, Ph.D., Dong has been instrumental in the development of a new pharmacogenetic test, DNA2RxTM. She is investigating the health benefits of implementing this test for patients with coronary artery disease. … Read more
Persky Promoted to Clinical Professor
February 23, 2018Adam M. Persky, Ph.D., has been promoted to clinical professor. He served previously as a clinical associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. Persky has been at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy since 2004. From 2011 to 2013 he was the director of the Center for Educational Excellence in Pharmacy where he worked to promote innovative teaching practices at the School. Persky was the first to introduce the flipped classroom model to the School, which became a core part of the School’s curriculum in 2015. He’s also credited with bringing the first multimedia tools to School … Read more
Patients Satisfied with Pharmacists Conducting Wellness Visits
February 19, 2018Patients undergoing a Medicare annual wellness visit say they would be satisfied and comfortable with having a clinical pharmacist practitioner working alone conduct the visit rather than having a physician do it, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Having a pharmacist conduct wellness visits frees up physicians to focus on patients’ chronic and acute health conditions. Study participants ranked the quality of care they received from their clinical pharmacist provider an average of 4.7 with 5 being very satisfied. When asked if they were as comfortable discussing health information with a clinical … Read more
Continuing Education for Pharmacists Falls Short on Naloxone
February 16, 2018Pharmacists who are allowed to dispense naloxone, an opioid reversal agent, without a prescription are often uncomfortable talking to patients about the drug, and the profession’s continuing education programs aren’t helping, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the past 20 years, opioid-related overdoses have increased fourfold, killing more than 42,000 people in 2016. As of January 2017, pharmacists in 13 states were able to dispense naloxone without a physician prescription. Those states were Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. Researchers at … Read more
Patterson Named New Mentoring Director
January 31, 2018J. Herbert Patterson, Pharm.D., executive vice chair of the division of pharmacotherapy and experimental pharmaceutics, was named director of the Bill and Karen Campbell Faculty Mentoring Program on Jan. 1. He succeeds Dhiren Thakker, Ph.D., who held the post for three years and is now interim dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The Campbell Faculty Mentoring Program was started as a way to formalize senior faculty mentorship to junior faculty as the School and the practice of pharmacy began to expand. Its goals are to assist in the recruitment of junior faculty, help new faculty reach their full … Read more
Time to Get Serious about Nanomaterials Databases, UNC Scientists Say
January 30, 2018Nanomaterials researchers urgently need well-structured and publicly accessible databases to advance their field, according to scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Institute. RTI transferred the Nanomaterial Registry database to UNC-Chapel Hill, and the University is offering it as a repository for the field’s collective knowledge. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy administers the registry database. Scientists at the School and at RTI published a commentary in Nature Nanotechnology calling for concerted efforts among database stewards, researchers, funding agencies and publishers to encourage meaningful growth of existing nanomaterials databases. “The field of nanotechnology … Read more