Category: Grants and Awards
Caiola Receives NCAP Award
May 7, 2007Steve Caiola, MS, an associate professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received the 2007 Acute Care Practice Forum Pharmacist of the Year Award from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. Caiola is the NCAP’s director of postgraduate education and training. He also has served as the director of the Postgraduate/Continuing Education Program at the School since July 1998. John Kessler, president of the health-care software company SecondStory Health, LLC, presented the award to Caiola for “his decades of work in improving the practice of hospital pharmacists in the state.” “If you were educated at UNC, he improved your education. … Read more
Farley Receives Pfizer Grant
May 4, 2007Joel Farley, PhD, an assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has received a two-year, $130,000 grant from Pfizer Inc. for his research on the effect of Medicaid prescription restrictions on patients with mental illnesses. Farley, who is in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, received the 2007 Scholars Grant in Health Policy. The supporting sponsor on the grant is Susan Blalock, PhD, Farley’s mentor and an associate professor in the division. The grant is part of Pfizer’s Medical & Academic Partnerships program, which is intended to support the career development of junior faculty. Farley will use his … Read more
Brouwer Receives Honor from University of Kentucky
April 23, 2007Kim Brouwer, PharmD, received the inaugural UK Pharmaceutical Sciences Outstanding Graduate Program Alumni Award from the University of Kentucky, her alma mater. Brouwer earned her doctor of pharmacy and her doctorate from UK, where she also did her postdoctoral training. She currently serves as the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor and as chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeuticsat at the UNC School of Pharmacy. She directs a research program in hepatobiliary drug disposition that focuses on the mechanisms of drug uptake and excretion by the liver. The program is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Brouwer … Read more
Raed Khashan Wins CCG Excellence Award
April 13, 2007Raed Khashan, a doctoral student at the UNC School of Pharmacy, has won a Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Computers in Chemistry. Khashan, who is in the School’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, is one of five recipients for the award. He will receive $1,150 and a copy of CCG’s Molecular Operating Environment software with a one-year license. The winners will present their work at the ACS national meeting in Boston on August 21. Khashan, who obtained his master’s degree in pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, entered the … Read more
School Names Top Preceptors, AHEC Instructor for 2007
March 26, 2007Wilmington pharmacist John Davie Waggett and Gastonia pharmacist Wyn Wheeler Sterling have been named the 2007 Preceptors of the Year by the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The School also named Mollie Ashe Scott the Area Health Education Center Instructor of the Year, which recognizes an outstanding faculty member who has had a positive impact on students’ advanced practice experience. Waggett was named the Community Preceptor of the Year, while Sterling was named the Hospital Preceptor of the Year. The UNC Preceptor of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding preceptor who has participated … Read more
Hadzija to Receive Graduate School Dean’s Award
March 21, 2007Boka Hadzija, PhD, a professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of the 2007 Graduate School Dean’s Award for Significant Contributions to Graduate Education. Hadzija will receive the honor April 12 at the Graduate School’s ninth annual Recognition Celebration. The ceremony will begin at 4:00 p.m. at the Carolina Club at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Among the other awards to be presented during the ceremony is the Boka Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service by a Graduate or Professional Student, which she established in 2000. Hadzija has earned more than a dozen awards for teaching … Read more
Hadzija Honored with Distinguished Teaching Award
March 21, 2007Boka Hadzija, PhD, has been named as a recipient of a 2007 University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the University’s highest recognitions for teaching excellence. Hadzija, along with twenty-one winners of teaching awards in nine categories, wasrecognized during halftime of the Carolina-N.C. State men’s basketball game. She will be recognized by Chancellor James Moeser at an awards banquet this spring. The University Professor of Distinguished Teaching Award, given every three years, provides two three-year term professorships recognizing career teaching excellence. One award is for tenured faculty in academic affairs, including professional schools, and one is for tenured faculty … Read more
School Rises to Eighth Nationally in NIH Funding
February 7, 2007The UNC School of Pharmacy now ranks eighth among the nation’s pharmacy schools in grants and contracts awarded by the National Institutes of Health, according to numbers compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. School researchers were awarded more than $8.2 million in research funding from the NIH in 2006, up from $5.8 million last year. The School ranked fourteenth in NIH funding in 2005 and seventeenth in 2004. “The success we have had in attracting greater NIH support over the past few years reflects how serious we are about building the School’s research enterprise,” Dean Bob Blouin … Read more
Rodgers Receives KE Career Achievement Award
January 16, 2007Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, is the 2007 recipient of the Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Career Achievement Award. Rodgers is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics. “Jo Ellen’s accomplishments reflect so admirably on her, on our organization, and the University as well,” says Nancy Stankiewicz, executive director of Kappa Epsilon. “I believe we all take pride in her achievements and personal integrity. UNC is blessed to have such an asset.” In 2005 Rodgers received the KE National Outstanding Advisor Award for her service to the UNC chapter of the fraternity. Rodgers maintains an active clinical practice … Read more
Three Named as Eli Lilly Predoctoral Fellows
January 8, 2007Company Expands Funding for Fellows Program from Two Years to Four UNC School of Pharmacy graduate students Xin Ming, Jeannie Padowski, and Brandon Swift have been named 2006–2008 Eli Lilly and Co.-UNC Predoctoral Fellows in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Disposition. Over the past four years, Lilly has provided funding for two predoctoral fellows in this program. In light of the success of this program from both the company and University perspectives, Lilly increased its commitment by supporting the fellowship program for four more years. Kim Brouwer, PharmD, chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, says that Lilly maintains … Read more