Category: Grants and Awards
Roth Receives NIH Career Development Award
May 25, 2006Mary Roth, PharmD, MHS, assistant professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, was awarded a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging. Roth will receive $699,170 over five years to support her project “Improving the Quality of Medication Use in Older Adults.” The goal of the project is to design, implement, and evaluate a medication management program to improve the quality of medication use for older adults. The purpose of the NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award is to support the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors … Read more
Sleath Awarded Travel Grant to Help Glaucoma Patients in India
May 25, 2006Betsy Sleath, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, has been awarded a travel grant from the UNC Partnership in Global Health to support her proposal “Improving Treatment Adherence of Glaucoma Patients in Southern India.” In 2004 Sleath and Alan Robin, MD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, developed a a survey to examine problems that patients were having using glaucoma medications. Sleath and Robin recently modified the survey for use at the Aravind Eye Care System in southern rural India. The Aravind Eye Care System offers essentially free eye care to individuals at five eye clinics and hospitals in southern India. Despite the free … Read more
DPET News Briefs
April 28, 2006Angela Kashuba, associate professor, has been awarded $1.8 million to evaluate the drug interaction potential of a new HIV protease inhibitor. Bruce Canaday, clinical professor, was installed on March 20 as the 2006-2007 APhA president. Jo Ellen Rodgers, clinical assistant professor, is president-elect, Cardiology PRN. Tim Ives, associate professor, was elected secretary of the AACP Pharmacy Practice Section. Ralph Raasch, associate professor, and Christine Walko, academic fellow, received the PY3 Instructor of the Year Award. Dee Melnyk, clinical assistant professor, was named AHEC Instructor of the Year. Angela Kashuba, associate professor, and Julie Dumond, academic fellow, have received the ACCP Infectious Disease Fellowship Award.
Graduate Student Wins Impact Recognition Award
April 25, 2006Tim Wigle, a graduate student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, has won a 2006 Impact Recognition Award. The awards, sponsored by the UNC Graduate Education Advancement Board, recognize graduate students whose research provides special benefits to the citizens of North Carolina. In 2004, tens of thousands of North Carolinians acquired antibiotic resistant infections that led to more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths and cost the state’s health care system nearly $1 billion. Wigle’s research, in the laboratory of Professor Scott Singleton, focuses on a bacterial protein called RecA, which may facilitate the development and spread of antibiotic … Read more
2006 UNC School of Pharmacy Award Recipients
April 21, 2006Faculty Awards Teva Outstanding Pharmacy Student Award The faculty recognizes the graduating student who has attained the highest measure of scholastic achievement in the professional program. Dale Nepert Butterfoss Jill Aglaia Fowler Andrea L. Fumi GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Care Award The faculty recognizes an outstanding student for excellent performance during his or her pharmacy clerkships with special emphasis on patient relations in both health-system and community practice. Benjamin Smith Roche Pharmacy Communications Award The faculty recognizes the graduating student who has excelled in the area of communications, both in the classroom and in the practice environment. Angelynn Nicol Fox Lilly Achievement … Read more
Roth Receives Defriese Award
April 17, 2006Mary Roth, PharmD, MHS, has received the 2006 Gordon H. Defriese Career Development in Aging Research Award. The award, given by the UNC Institute on Aging, is presented each year to one UNC faculty or staff member and one doctoral student who demonstrates outstanding promise in aging research. Roth is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in the School of Pharmacy and a research assistant professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the School of Medicine. She has served as co-investigator on numerous aging research projects that focus particular attention to optimizing medication use in older adults with chronic diseases. Roth … Read more
Oraefo Inducted into Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
March 21, 2006Adaora Oraefo, a third-year PharmD student, was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society on March 21. The Society was created in 1990 in honor of former University of North Carolina system President Frank Porter Graham. Inductees are graduate and professional students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who have demonstrated service above and beyond requirements for their degrees or position. The society also recognizes faculty, staff, and friends of the University who have made significant contributions to the development of graduate and professional student education.
White-Harris Receives Inaugural Mentoring Award
March 13, 2006Carla White-Harris, a clinical assistant professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy, received one of the University’s first Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Awards, which was presented at the council’s recent annual meeting. The award recognizes outstanding faculty members who go the extra mile to guide, mentor, and lead students and junior faculty members as they make important career decisions, embark on innovative research challenges and enrich their lives through public service, teaching, and meaningful educational opportunities. Each recipient receives a $5,000 stipend. White-Harris, who is also director of the School’s Pharmaceutical Care Labs, received the award for the faculty-to-student category. One of … Read more
Kos Continues Funding of Cardiology Residency
February 15, 2006Kos Pharmaceuticals provided a $10,000 grant to support the School of Pharmacy’s cardiology specialty residency for the fourth year. T. Don Marsh, PharmD, FASHP, associate director of medical affairs at Kos and former director of pharmacotherapy at the Mountain AHEC, has been instrumental in securing the funding for the program, says assistant professor Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD. She is one of the residency’s coordinators along with clinical assistant professor Debbie Montague, PharmD. “There are only a handful of cardiology specialty residencies available in the U.S.,” Rodgers says. “These residencies are critically important, helping us achieve our mission of elevating the … Read more
Student Group Receives Institute on Aging Award
February 14, 2006Doctor of pharmacy students from the UNC School of Pharmacy were awarded first prize for their poster in the category of “Campus-Community Collaboration” at the third annual Aging Exchange held on January 24 at the Friday Center. The students receiving the award were third-year pharmacy students Ted Hancock, Glenda Shell, Jessica Nonnemache, Allison Tuell, and second year student Steve Gilmore. A cash prize was awarded to the students, who were presenting the poster on behalf of the Geriatric Interest Group at the UNC School of Pharmacy. The cash prize will be used by the organization for future community service activities. … Read more