Category: Featured
Rodgers Honored with ACCP Clinical Practice Award
July 10, 2017Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D., has been named the recipient of the 2017 Clinical Practice Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Rodgers is a clinical associate professor and associate director of clinical fellowship programs in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The ACCP Clinical Practice Award recognizes an ACCP member who has developed an innovative clinical pharmacy service, provided innovative documentation of the impact of clinical pharmacy services, provided leadership in the development of cost-effective clinical pharmacy services or shown sustained excellence in providing clinical pharmacy services. Rodgers is the first … Read more
Wagoner Joins Eshelman Institute to Encourage Commercialization
July 10, 2017Former health-care executive Kay Wagoner, Ph.D., has joined the Eshelman Institute for Innovation as associate director for innovation and entrepreneurship. Wagoner is also life science executive in residence in the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Commercialization and Economic Development, an EIR for the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and an adjunct associate professor in the UNC Medical School’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. Working with the leadership team of the EII, Wagoner will assist in developing strategies for evaluating, funding and supporting cutting edge innovations, which may lead to processes and technologies that substantially benefit health care for patients around the world. … Read more
PharmAlliance Inspires Student Researchers from Abroad
July 6, 2017Faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy hosted four students from University College London School of Pharmacy as part of the international PharmAlliance partnership. All final-year pharmacy students at UCL are required to complete three months of research. PharmAlliance allowed students, some of whom had never completed lab research before, to travel abroad and research at the School. Evangeline Chai, Andy Chan, Mohamed Mansour and Ella Pattison-Sharp spent November 2016 to February 2017 in North Carolina working under the direction of School faculty. Host professors included Sam Lai, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the pharmacoengineering program; Stefanie Ferreri, … Read more
Wingo Returns to Direct Office of Curricular and Student Affairs
June 29, 2017Brad Wingo, M.Ed., has returned to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as the director of the Office of Curricular and Student Affairs. Wingo worked at the School previously as the director of student affairs and spent a year in between as the director of academic advising in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. The Office of Curricular and Student Affairs was formerly two separate offices, the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Experiential Education. Wingo said he is excited by the new opportunities the combined office offers to align the curriculum and cocurriculum … Read more
Postdoc Elizabeth Wayne Reflects on TED Experience
June 28, 2017Elizabeth Wayne, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow studying how immune cells can be used to fight cancer, gave a TED talk on the main stage at TED 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. Wayne was announced as a TED fellow in January 2017. Wayne’s research focuses on targeted cancer therapy, attaching cancer-fighting genes to immune cells that are already being delivered by the body’s immune system to cancerous tumors. The idea, Wayne said, is to only treat the cancer itself rather than using treatments like chemotherapy, which cannot discriminate between damaging good cells and cancer cells. Of the weeklong event, the talk itself … Read more
E(I) Lab Names Winners in Second Annual Innovation Competition
June 26, 2017The E(I) Lab Program, a competition launched by the UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation among multidisciplinary teams of UNC graduate and professional student, wrapped up its second cohort on April 29. The winning team received a prize of $3,000 for developing a device for generating reproducible skin pricks for allergy testing. The current method of generating skin pricks suffers from too much variation, leading to incorrect diagnosis and the need for further testing. The team included Steven Doerstling, a recent graduate of the nutrition program in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Lindsay … Read more
School Wins AACP 2017 Assessment Award for PY1 Capstone
June 20, 2017The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is the recipient of a 2017 Award for Excellence in Assessment from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The School’s entry, “Developing an Innovative, Comprehensive First-1 Year Capstone to Assess and Improve Student Learning and Curriculum Effectiveness,” was authored by Adam Persky, Ph.D.; Jessica Greene, Pharm.D.; Tom Angelo, Ed.D.; Heidi Anksorus, Pharm.D.; Kathryn Fuller, Pharm.D.; and Jacqueline “Jacqui” McLaughlin, Ph.D. The team described the School’s design of a multiday capstone assessment created to examine first-year Doctor of Pharmacy students’ knowledge of course content, ability to find and apply information and interpersonal skills, including … Read more
Katelyn Arnold Wins Second USP Fellowship
June 20, 2017Katelyn Arnold, a Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded a $25,000 predoctoral U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Global Fellowship for the second year in a row. The fellowship award, which is highly competitive and rarely goes to the same recipient twice, aims to advance new research contributing to innovative or updated quality standards for chemical and biological medicines, excipients, dietary supplements, herbal medicines, health-care quality and food ingredients. Arnold works in the lab of her adviser, McNeill Distinguished Professor Jian Liu, Ph.D., where she focuses on synthetic … Read more
McLaughlin Named a 2017 AACP Emerging Teaching Scholar
June 20, 2017Assistant Professor Jacqueline “Jacqui” McLaughlin, Ph.D., is the recipient of a 2017 Emerging Teaching Scholar Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. According to AACP, the Emerging Teaching Scholars Award recognizes the excellence of academic pharmacy faculty engaged in or supporting scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. In recognizing service and outstanding contributions to the academy, pharmacy education and schools, the AACP Council of Faculties Emerging Teaching Scholars raise the bar for scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. During her tenure at the School, McLaughlin helped develop four new courses for the … Read more
Young Innovators Program Welcomes Second Intern Class
June 15, 2017On June 19, 24 students from 19 North Carolina high schools will begin the second Young Innovators Program led by researchers from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The program, sponsored by the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, offers students a chance to experience mentored, hands-on laboratory research and professional engagement at the earliest stages of their careers. The program is unique for several reasons. According to Mary Roth McClurg, Pharm.D., M.H.S., associate professor at the School and associate director of the Eshelman Institute, professional schools are well positioned to facilitate pre-college science, technology, engineering and math experiences for students. Still, … Read more