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E(I) Lab Names 2018 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest Winners
June 11, 2018The winning project was led by a group of five UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy students and one MBA student from Kenan-Flagler Business School. Their project aimed to reduce the cost of wasted inhalers by sterilizing them with UV-C light, allowing a single inhaler to be used safely by multiple patients. The E(I) Lab is an entrepreneurship project launched by the UNC Eshelman Institute of Innovation. Over $200 million is spent annually on wasted inhalers in U.S. hospitals, said Cody Close, a Class of 2021 Pharm.D. candidate and member of the winning team. “The E(I) Lab provided an incredible opportunity to … Read more
CIPS Wins Awards for Web Design and Video Production
June 5, 2018Members from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Center for Innovation in Pharmacy Simulation won four Hermes awards and two Telly Awards for web design and videography. An interactive webpage designed by CIPS won four Hermes Creative Awards on May 18. The page, designed for the Community Pharmacy Foundation, outlines principles of team-based health care. Jason Whitley, M.S.; Joel Floyd, M.S.; and Catherine MacAllister, M.Ed. designed the webpage. It was based on research conducted by postdoctoral researcher Chelsea Renfro, Pharm.D. Whitley is the creative lead for instructional innovation in CIPS, Floyd is a multimedia producer and MacAllister is an instructional … Read more
Moldova State University Delegation Spends Week at Pharmacy School
May 17, 2018Six faculty members from the Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chișinău, Moldova, visited the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy from Monday, April 16, to Saturday, April 21, to explore pharmacy practice, research and education in the U.S. and future opportunities for collaboration. The delegation was led by Vice Dean Livia Uncu, a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and toxicology, and included Assistant Professor Elena Bodrug, Assistant Professor Elena Chitan, University Assistant Cristina Constantin Ciobanu and Deputy Professor Stela Adauji. They were accompanied by Evelina Gherghelegiu, director of the university’s International Affairs Department, along with Alexandra Sian, a … Read more
AMCP Chapter Wins Second Straight National P&T Competition
May 15, 2018For the second consecutive year, students in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy won first place in the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Foundation’s National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition. Members of the UNC chapter of AMCP took home the top prize in a field of 46 pharmacy schools, topping seven other teams in the finals in Boston on April 26. UNC Pharm.D. students Jesse Martin, Kristen Tripicchio, Kristen Wines and Katie Woodworth represented the School at the competition, accompanied by chapter adviser Ben Urick, Pharm.D., Ph.D. The team won a $4,000 scholarship for the School. “Our heartfelt congratulations … Read more
Pharmacy Administration Master’s Residents Receive ASHP Grants
May 14, 2018Pharmacy residents from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy received two of three national grants awarded by the ASHP Foundation. Stephanie Jean, Pharm.D., and Charlotte Wells, Pharm.D., two UNC Medical Center pharmacy administration residents in the School’s master’s degree program, both won the ASHP Foundation Master’s Resident Practice-Based Research Grant for separate research projects. The ASHP grant is awarded to support pharmacy researchers in programs that combine the completion of a residency and a master’s degree. The two-year UNC program combines a Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science and a health-system pharmacy administration residency program at the UNC Medical Center. … Read more
Class of 1937 Pharmacy Alumnus Remembered in New World War II Book
May 11, 2018A UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy alumnus is memorialized in a new book about World War II. “Iwo Jima’s Battlefield Promise” tells the story of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of two officers and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni who happened to meet by chance during the chaotic fighting. The book focuses on the encounter between Capt. Edward Stephenson, a 1937 graduate of the School, and Maj. James Scales, both U.S. Marine Corps officers from small towns in North Carolina. Amid the violence of the battle, the two officers made a promise to … Read more
PY4 Students Celebrate Post Clerkship Day
May 8, 2018PY4 students returned to campus for Post Clerkship Day on May 4 to celebrate the completion of their rotations and prepare for commencement. PY4 President Stephanie Salch presented the School with the Class of 2018 gift, The GROW Fund, which will promote Guidance, Resilience, Open-Mindedness and Wellness among student pharmacists as part of the School’s initiative to foster student, faculty and staff wellness. Post Clerkship Day festivities included addresses by Interim Dean Dhiren Thakker, Ph.D., and Associate Dean for Clinical Education Wendy Cox, Pharm.D. The fourth-years honored their award-winning classmates and faculty members and enjoyed the Class of 2018 video … Read more
Kohn Receives School’s 2018 Distinguished Service Award
May 7, 2018Professor Emeritus Harold “Hal” Kohn, Ph.D., is the 2018 recipient of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Distinguished Service Award. The award is presented annually for accomplishments and contributions that enhance both the School and the profession of pharmacy, and for exceptional support of the School’s service and outreach initiatives. Before his retirement from the School in 2015, Kohn served as chair of the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry and was a Kenan Distinguished Professor. “Hal was recruited to UNC in 1999 to lead the transformation of its medicinal chemistry unit into a contemporary, entrepreneurial program,” said Dhiren … Read more
Students Select 2018 Best Instructors, Williams Wins Top Award
May 3, 2018The Doctor of Pharmacy classes at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy selected their favorite instructors of 2017–2018. The winners were presented with an instructor of the year award at the 2018 annual Awards Ceremony held April 21 at the Rizzo Center. Overall Instructor of the Year Award: Dennis Williams, Pharm.D. PY3 Instructor of the Year Award: Ashley Marx, Pharm.D. PY2 Instructor of the Year Award: Jo Ellen Rodgers, Pharm.D. PY1 Instructor of the Year Award: Michael Jarstfer, Ph.D. Dennis Williams Dennis Williams is an associate professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and the division’s vice chair … Read more
SGC@UNC Researchers Adopt ‘Extreme’ Open Science, Share Data as It Happens
April 26, 2018Researchers in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are taking part in an experiment in experimentation by making their research publicly available as it happens. Postdoctoral research associates Alfredo Picado, Ph.D., and Carla Alamillo Ferrer, Ph.D., are participants in the Structural Genomics Consortium’s Extreme Open Science Initiative, which encourages SGC scientists in labs around the world to publish their notes online. The UNC-Chapel Hill hub of the SGC, run by Tim Willson, Ph.D., conducts open research into new protein kinase inhibitors with the aim of expanding drug discovery and creation. The norm in science is to guard data until publication. … Read more