Category: Grants and Awards
Award Powers Students’ MTM Initiative at Local Clinic
March 2, 2010The Carolina Association of Pharmacy Students at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is the recipient of a $2,000 Project CHANCE award from the American Pharmacists Association to provide medication-therapy-management services at a local health clinic. The grant will allow pharmacy students to provide medication-therapy-management services to select patients at the Student Health Action Coalition Clinic at the Carrboro Community Health Clinic in Carrboro, N.C. Jennifer Byrns, a third-year PharmD student and the lead author of the School’s proposal to APhA, says pharmacy students will enroll in the project ten to fifteen patients who use the emergency department at UNC Hospitals … Read more
NIH Funds Grad Student’s Enzymatic Inhibitions
February 25, 2010Sherket Peterson, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has received an NIH award worth approximately $100,000 over three years to support her efforts to create an inhibitor for the enzyme heparanase. “In our lab, we study heparin and heparan sulfate, but my project is related to heparanase, which is an enzyme that acts on heparan sulfate,” Peterson says. “This enzyme has been linked to a wide array of cancers.” In cancer and certain other health conditions, heparanase often becomes too abundant or unregulated. In cancer, this enzymatic excess can promote metastasis (the spread of … Read more
PY3 Student Kim Qualifies for National Patient Counseling Competition
February 11, 2010Lisa Kim, a third-year doctor of pharmacy student at the School, will compete in the APhA-ASP National Patient Counseling Competition in March. Kim won the local level of the competition to earn the right to represent the School in the national competition, which will be held at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., on March 12-15. The goal of the competition is to help student pharmacists become better patient educators. The competition is designed to reflect changes that are occurring in practice, to promote and encourage further professional development of student pharmacists, and to reinforce … Read more
Rho Chi Inducts New UNC Members
February 5, 2010The University of North Carolina chapter of the Rho Chi Society, national academic honor society of pharmacy, has inducted new members. They are Elizabeth Lynn Alford, Janet Arrazcaeta, Xuefang Bai, Robert Michael Bero, Kynlon Phillips Caruso, Divya Vinod Chandiramani, Ryon Allenc Chao, Anne Elizabeth Eudy, Stelios L. Galantis, Amanda E. Gerdts, Timothy Craig Harmon, Megan Elizabeth Hartranft, John Nathal Hedrick, Brian Vinh Hoang, Melissa R. Hunter, Sarah A. Johannes, Jessica Allegra Johnston, Suzan Nadimi Kalantar, Anand Bipinrai Khandoobhai, Chwiwon Lee, Meghan N. McComb, Thanhhoa Thi Nguyen, Kelsie Paige Ormsby, Jane Yen Revollo, Morgan B. Smith, Kathleen Anne Touloupas, Adam Vanderman, … Read more
Eckel, Marciniak Named APhA Fellows
February 4, 2010Stephen Eckel, PharmD, and Macary Weck Marciniak, PharmD, faculty members in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education, have been named fellows of the American Pharmacists Association. They will be honored at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition on March 12-15 in Washington, D.C. Eckel is a clinical assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the assistant director of pharmacy at UNC Hospitals. He also oversees the School’s MS in pharmaceutical sciences program with a specialization in health-system pharmacy administration. Marciniak is a clinical associate professor at the School, where she also serves as assistant director of … Read more
Dinkins Honored for One-to-One Patient Care
January 13, 2010When a customer showed up with fifteen new prescriptions and old medication bottles for his mother, who was too sick to come to the pharmacy, Lisa Dinkins, PharmD, compared the prescriptions with the patient’s old medications to check for problems such as omissions, duplications, and potential drug interactions. She then drew up a new medications list for the patient, clearly marked the old bottles of medicine that were no longer needed, and discussed the new medications at length with the son until he could repeat back to her how he would administer them to his mother while she was ill. … Read more
NIAID Grant Launches Kashuba’s Plan for HIV-Prevention Trials
December 18, 2009Development of an AIDS vaccine is struggling. Topical treatments aimed at stopping HIV have made little progress. Angela Kashuba, PharmD, believes that antiretroviral drugs are the best hope for halting the spread of AIDS, especially in the developing world. “I and the scientists I work with believe antiretrovirals are probably the most rational approach for preventing HIV infection,” she says. “We think they are going to be the key for stemming the epidemic of HIV.” Kashuba is an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core of the UNC … Read more
Gal, Koval Receive Grants for Second Life Projects
December 10, 2009Peter Gal, PharmD, and Pete Koval, PharmD, faculty members in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education, have received Lenovo Innovation Grants from the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence to develop projects in Second Life to help students in real life. Gal, a clinical professor, will use his $9,900 grant to create an orientation program on the virtual-reality social network to familiarize fourth-year doctor of pharmacy students with clinical practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) before they begin that portion of their practice-experience curriculum. Gal oversees the neonatal pharmacotherapy fellowship at the NICU at The Women’s Hospital of … Read more
SHAC Wins AACP Community Engagement Award
November 20, 2009The UNC Student Health Action Coalition is among four student community-engagement projects that will be awarded the 2009-10 AACP Student Community Engaged Service Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. The award recognizes outstanding programs that deliver consumer education about medication use, expand access to affordable health care, and improve the public’s health. SHAC is composed of students from all UNC health-affairs schools: pharmacy, medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, and social work. The students provide free health services to local underserved individuals and communities, partner with communities to develop and implement sustainable programs, and create service-learning environments for … Read more
Fred Eshelman Receives University’s Davie Award
November 19, 2009The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has honored Fred Eshelman and three other recipients with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor. Chancellor Holden Thorp and the trustees honored Fred Eshelman, founder of PPD Inc., of Wilmington; Richard Krasno, executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, of Chapel Hill; Gov. Beverly Perdue of Raleigh; and Richard “Stick” Williams, senior vice president of environmental health and safety at Duke Energy Corp., of Charlotte during a dinner Wednesday, November 18, at the Carolina Inn. Established by the Board of Trustees in 1984, … Read more