Category: Grants and Awards
School Announces 2015 Award Winners
April 24, 2015The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its 2015 annual Awards Ceremony April 19 at the Rizzo Center. Casey Emerson, the School’s former director of education technology, is this year’s winner of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to an exceptional supporter of the School’s service and outreach initiatives whose accomplishments and contributions have enhanced the School and the profession of pharmacy at the local, state, national, or international level. This year’s Samuel Burrus Award for Community Service was won by Andrew Beaty. This award is presented to members of the UNC Eshelman … Read more
Pharmacoengineering at UNC Gets $1.8 Million Boost
April 20, 2015The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $1.8 million through the Research Opportunities Initiative Awards from the University of North Carolina General Administration to support research into drug-delivery systems for treating cancer and other diseases. The award funds two pharmacoengineering initiatives that bring together scientists at UNC and North Carolina State University. Pharmacoengineering is a discipline developed at the School that combines engineering and the pharmaceutical sciences to improve the delivery of medicines in the body. The grant funds collaborations dedicated to addressing two research challenges: Treating brain cancer with … Read more
K. H. Lee Receives AACP’s Highest Research Honor
April 17, 2015Kuo-Hsiung Lee, PhD, has been named the winner of the 2015 Ernest H. Volwiler Award, the highest research award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He will be honored during the 2015 AACP annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, July 11 to 15. Lee is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and director of the Natural Products Research Laboratories in the School’s Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. He has been a member of the School’s faculty for forty-five years. The award recognizes one researcher annually that has made outstanding lifetime contributions to pharmaceutical and clinical … Read more
CAPS Wins Three Awards at APhA Annual Meeting
April 10, 2015Student representatives from the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy returned from the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, California, March 27–30 with three awards for pharmacy excellence. CAPS is the School’s chapter of the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists. CAPS was awarded first runner-up for the 2013–2014 APhA-ASP Chapter Achievement Award for Division A schools. The Chapter Achievement Awards program recognizes chapters with the most success in leadership, operations, policy and advocacy, patient care, and professionalism. Macary Marciniak, PharmD, and Phil Rodgers, PharmD, serve as CAPS advisers. Marciniak was … Read more
UNC, UK Team Up to Examine Medication Optimization in Brain-Injured Patients
March 31, 2015A research team from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC School of Medicine, and University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy has received a $75,000 grant to investigate whether elevated renal clearance in patients with traumatic brain injury compromises therapeutic drug concentrations. The award is part of the priority effort by the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award program to promote interinstitutional collaboration and to fund innovative translational research projects to advance patient care. This is the first award of its kind for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and an institutional partner outside the state of … Read more
AACP Grant Funds Experiential Education Program to Address Mental-Health Stigma
March 26, 2015Some pharmacists have reported feeling uncomfortable interacting with patients with mental illnesses. Jacqui McLaughlin, PhD, is partnering with faculty at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and pharmacists at UNC Hospitals to address that issue with a new program for third-year student pharmacists. In this new program, pharmacy students guided by pharmacists will lead inpatient psychiatry medication-education groups for psychiatry patients being treated at UNC Hospitals. The program will be evaluated to better understand how leading these groups can impact mental health stigma and student self-efficacy. McLaughlin is the principal investigator on the project, which is made possible by a … Read more
Wisseh and Bivins Place Second at SNPhA Kroger Clinical Skills Competition
March 25, 2015Two students from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Cheryl Wisseh and Amber Bivins, took second place at the Regional Kroger Clinical Skills Competition in Atlanta February 20–22. The Student National Pharmaceutical Association Kroger Regional Clinical Skills Competition is an opportunity for students from across the Southeast to showcase their pharmaceutical expertise. Each of the twenty-four teams was judged based on their ability to counsel a hypothetical patient case. The case Wisseh and Bivins were presented with was a nineteen-year-old college student who didn’t get much sleep, was dependent on caffeine pills, smoked cigarettes, and was picking up a new … Read more
Carpenter to Study How Often Chronically Ill Children Visit the Pharmacy
March 23, 2015Convincing children with chronic diseases to take their medicine can be just as challenging as getting them to eat their vegetables. Knowing how often kids accompany their parents to pick up prescriptions at pharmacies could lead to better ways of communicating with children about their medication, says Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH, an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Carpenter is working with faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy to examine how often children with chronic diseases accompany their parents to pick up prescriptions at community pharmacies. … Read more
Jay Receives University of Kentucky Pharmaceutical Sciences Alumni Award
March 11, 2015Michael Jay, PhD, has been named the 2014 University of Kentucky Outstanding Graduate Program Alumnus for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Jay is the Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor and chair of the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jay, who received his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 1980, received the award as part of the College’s annual graduate program recruitment event January 30. Jay was an assistant professor of nuclear medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center from 1980 … Read more
Marciniak, Moose Recognized with APhA Awards
February 10, 2015Macary Marciniak, PharmD, and Joe Moose, PharmD, have both been recognized for different roles as a resource for pharmacy students by the American Pharmacists Association. Both award winners are instructors at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marciniak was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Chapter Adviser for her work with the Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students, and Moose was awarded the 2015 Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award for his role as a preceptor at Moose Pharmacy. They will receive their award at the APhA annual meeting in San Diego, March … Read more