Category: General
Alumna Lisa Grimes Shares Book of Life Lessons at UNC
April 20, 2018Lisa T. Grimes, a UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy alumna returned to campus Wednesday, April 18, to share insights from her new book. Grimes, a 1985 graduate of the School, and her coauthor, fellow UNC-Chapel Hill alumna Paula Brown Stafford, M.P.H., discussed their book, “Remember Who You Are: Achieve Success, Create Balance, Experience Fulfillment,” at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The book provides insights and encouragement for women looking for career advancement and a high quality of life — knowledge the authors said they wish they’d had as young professionals 30 years ago. The book also advises … Read more
Pharm.D. RASP Students Present Research Findings to Peers, Faculty and Alumni
April 16, 2018Third-year Doctor of Pharmacy students in the inaugural cohort of the Research and Scholarship in Pharmacy pathway presented their research findings to peer students, faculty and guest alumni as part of the RASP 3 (PHCY 726) course. The poster presentation simulated what students would experience at a professional meeting and served as an opportunity for the students to share their project results and develop their presentation skills. Guest alumni included Amy Meadowcroft, BSPHR ’93, Pharm.D. ’95, of GlaxoSmithKline and Susan Marchant, BSPHR ’86, Pharm.D. ’03, of Eli Lilly and Company. When asked about the work being presented by the students, Marchant said, “At their age and experience level, they’re incredibly impressive. … Read more
Gerhart Receives 2018 ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award
April 5, 2018Jacqueline “Jackie” Gerhart, M.S., a first-year doctoral student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, has received the 2018 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award. The $500 award recognizes the top-scoring abstracts that were submitted by students and trainees to the ASCPT 2018 conference. Gerhart is working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Daniel Gonzalez, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Her research involves using plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples obtained from infants to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for testing of fluconazole. Fluconazole is an antifungal drug commonly used in neonatal intensive care units for both treatment … Read more
Pinelli Reitter promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
March 27, 2018Nicole Pinelli Reitter, Pharm.D., has been promoted to clinical associate professor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Pinelli Reitter is also the assistant dean of experiential programs: health systems. “Through her area of focus, Dr. Reitter has made a large impact on our school and the profession of pharmacy,” said Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., M.H.A., interim chair of PACE and associate director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals. “Her scholarship and publication record are especially noteworthy considering that she is still in the early stage of her career. In addition, it is … Read more
Faculty and Students Lead the Way at APhA 2018
March 26, 2018At the 2018 American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting, faculty and students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy led more than a dozen symposia and workshops and collected a number of significant awards. The meeting took place in Nashville, Tennessee, March 16 – 19. Faculty Awards Stefanie Ferreri, Pharm.D., was the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Pharmacy Practice and Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., received the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science 2018 Research Achievement Award. Finally, David Steeb, Pharm.D., M.P.H., was the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished New Practitioner Award from the American Pharmacists Association. Student Award The APhA-ASP chapter at … 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
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