Category: Grants and Awards
UNC Alumni Association Honors Blouin with Faculty Service Award
January 27, 2016The General Alumni Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill honored Bob Blouin, Pharm.D., dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, with the GAA’s 2016 Faculty Service Award. The award was established in 1990 and honors those who have performed outstanding service for the University or the GAA. Blouin, along with Joy Kasson, a professor of American Studies and English, were selected as the 2016 recipients. Blouin is the Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor and director of the School’s Eshelman Institute for Innovation, Blouin joined the School as dean in 2003 after 25 years at … Read more
Nithya Srinivas receives ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award
January 7, 2016Nithya Srinivas, a Ph.D. student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been awarded a 2016 Presidential Trainee Award through the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology Therapeutics. The award recognizes her abstract, “Antiretroviral Drug Exposure in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) as a Predictor of Neurocognitive Outcomes in HIV Infected Patients,” and indicates it received a top score when compared to other project submitted by clinical pharmacologists in training. Srinivas graduated with her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy in 2014 in Bangalore, India, and is completing her Ph.D. under the guidance of Angela … Read more
Professor Emeritus Hickey Receives AAPS Exemplary Researcher Award
December 1, 2015Anthony Hickey, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, was presented the David J.W. Grant Research Achievement Award in Physical Pharmacy by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. The award, given at the annual meeting in Orlando, is presented every two years. “It’s an enormous and poignant honor for me because David Grant was a friend of mine when he was active in research,” Hickey said. “Over the years, he became a mentor to me. There is only one award named after David, and so for me, it’s very important. And … Read more
UNC Pharmacy Receives $2.4 Million from ACCP to Study Comprehensive Medication Management
November 25, 2015The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy to study the implementation of comprehensive medication management in primary-care medical practices to improve results for patients. Comprehensive medication management focuses on patients and all the medications they are taking. Each medication is regularly assessed for appropriateness, effectiveness, safety and convenience. CMM includes an individualized care plan developed by the health-care team and the patient to achieve the goals of the therapy. The award comes from the ACCP and the ACCP … Read more
Blouin Receives NCAP Blanton Award for Pharmacy Contributions
November 25, 2015Bob Blouin, Pharm.D., the Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor and dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina and the director of the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, has been awarded the 2015 Don Blanton Award by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. The Blanton award recognizes the pharmacist who has contributed most to the advancement of pharmacy in North Carolina during the past year. Since becoming the dean in July of 2003, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has undertaken a number of innovative initiatives and seen significant growth. Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., the … Read more
Stephen Eckel Receives 2015 NCAP Leadership Awards
November 24, 2015Stephen Eckel, Pharm.D., M.H.A., has been awarded the 2015 NCAP Leadership Award and 2015 McKesson Leadership Award by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. Eckel is a clinical associate professor and the vice chair of graduate and postgraduate education in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and is the associate director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals. This past year, he served as the president-elect for NCAP and will be making the transition to president January 1. The annual awards are given to the president-elect for their service and leadership in NCAP … Read more
Woodall Named NCAP’s 2015 Distinguished Young Pharmacist
November 23, 2015Tasha Woodall, Pharm.D., an assistant professor of clinical education and clinical instructor of family medicine at the School’s Asheville campus, was awarded the 2015 Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. “I am so humbled by this award and so appreciative of NCAP for its continuing commitment to the support of new practitioners,” she said. Woodall earned her Pharm.D. from Purdue University and completed her residency in ambulatory care with Mission Hospital and MAHEC in Asheville. She is a member of the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education. Mollie Scott, Pharm.D., is the UNC Eshelman … Read more
UNC Hospitals Pharmacy Team Wins Fifth Straight ASHP Best Practices Award
November 20, 2015For the fifth year in a row, a Department of Pharmacy team at UNC Hospitals that includes UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy faculty has been recognized by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists with a National Best Practices Award. The award recognizes outstanding practitioners who have implemented innovative systems and demonstrated best practices in health-system pharmacy. The UNC team was selected as one of six recipients in the country. The award-winning project is titled, “Impact of an Integrated, Closed-Loop, Pharmacy-Led Oral Chemotherapy Program on Clinical and Financial Outcomes.” Because the medication management of patients with cancer is shifting away from … Read more
Blalock Receives $2 Million to Improve Medication Use by Arthritis Patients
November 12, 2015Rheumatoid arthritis is autoimmune disease that affects the entire body. People with RA are almost twice as likely as the average person to die from a heart attack and are nine times more likely to develop a serious lung disease. Treating RA aggressively is important, but patients are often reluctant to do so if they feel their symptoms are under control. Researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill want to see if providing RA patients with clearer information about their medications and teaching them how to evaluate that information will … Read more
Eshelman Institute for Innovation Awards $9.4 Million to Fund First Round of Innovative Ideas
October 30, 2015The Eshelman Institute for Innovation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill awarded nearly $9.4 million in its inaugural round of funding for innovative ideas submitted by faculty and staff at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The institute was created by a $100 million gift from alumnus, philanthropist and pharmaceutical executive Fred Eshelman, Pharm.D., to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in December 2014. The institute aims to inspire a culture of innovation where imagination and creative solutions accelerate change in education, research and health care. “We were extremely pleased to see so many members of the UNC Eshelman … Read more