Category: Grants and Awards
Scott Named as a John Payne Fellow
February 14, 2006Mollie Scott, PharmD, is a recipient of the 2006 John Payne Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually to one or more faculty members of the AHECs in North Carolina. It provides support to allow the Payne Fellow to study some aspect of health professions education relevant to the AHEC Program. Projects emphasize lifelong learning, involving experiences and activities which explore new models, new ways of thinking, and innovation. Scott will be working on developing a geriatrics pharmacotherapy curriculum for the Mountain AHEC’s geriatrics fellowship program. “I am honored to have been chosen as the John Payne Fellowship this year,” said Scott. “Medication appropriateness in … Read more
Division Awards
February 6, 2006Kimberly Butler Clark, Drug Delivery and Disposition Achievement Award for Superior Overall Performance in the Drug Delivery and Dispositin Course Sequence. Stephanie Faucette, Drug Delivery and Disposition Graduate Scholar Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activities as a Doctoral Candidate John An, Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Research Award in Recognition of Outstanding Potential in Research J. Cory Kalvass, Eli Lilly Pre-doctoral Fellow in Pharmacokinetics and Drug Disposition
Community Pharmacy Residents Receive APhA Grants
February 6, 2006Four community pharmacy residents received $1,000 grants from the American Pharmacists Foundation for practitioner innovation in pharmaceutical care. In addition, Ron DeVizia, a preceptor in the residency program, received a grant from the American Pharmaceutical Association for his work with diabetes patients. The residents and their projects are: Dawn Rush, PharmD Area L AHEC resident “Evaluation of Calcium Supplementation in Bisphosphonate Therapy” Amanda Lehenbauer, PharmD Kerr Drug Raleigh resident “Implementing Medication Therapy Management in the Community Pharmacy Setting: A Survey of Pharmacist’s Viewpoints” Ashley McNeill, PharmD Kerr Drug Zebulon resident “Evaluation of a Marketing Tool for a Community Pharmacy Diabetes Education Program” Amanda Whitehead, PharmD … Read more
Kashuba Awarded “Paper of the Year” by SIDP
December 14, 2005A manuscript by associate professor Angela Kashuba has been selected by the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists as “Paper of the Year.” The manuscript is entitled “Combining fosamprenavir with lopinavir/ritonavir substantially reduces amprenavir and lopinavir exposure: ACTG protocol A5143 results”. The Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists is an association of health professionals dedicated to promoting the appropriate use of antimicrobials. SIDP provides education, advocacy and leadership in all aspects of the treatment of infectious diseases.
UNC’s Lambda Chapter of Kappa Epsilon Receives Two National Awards
December 14, 2005Kappa Epsilon, a professional pharmacy fraternity, presented the School of Pharmacy’s Lambda Chapter with the 2004-2005 New Member Recruitment Award at the national convention in August. Jo Ellen Rodgers, PharmD, clinical assistant professor, received the fraternity’s 2004-2005 Outstanding Adviser Award. Kappa Epsilon was established in 1921 to unite female pharmacy students across the nation. Thirty-four collegiate chapters and six alumni chapters are currently active.
Graduate Students Recognized by the AFPE and IOA
December 14, 2005Mark Patterson, a graduate student in the Division of Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences, has been selected to receive the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education’s Pre-doctoral Fellowship, beginning in September 2005. The AFPE Fellowship is awarded to outstanding pre-doctoral students who have completed at least three semesters of graduate study in pharmaceutical sciences at a U.S. school or college of pharmacy. Patterson’s project, “Effect of Copayments on Medication Persistence in a Commercially Insured Population with Heart Failure,” is directed by Mick Murray, professor and chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Policy and Evaluative Sciences. Other School of Pharmacy AFPE Pre-doctoral … Read more
School of Pharmacy Announces Amgen Fellow
December 14, 2005Amanda Mathis, a fourth-year PhD student in the Division of Drug Delivery and Disposition, has been selected as the School of Pharmacy ‘s first Amgen Fellow. Mathis’s research project focuses on intracellular distribution of new drugs being developed to treat international infectious diseases, such as African sleeping sickness, malaria and leishmaniasis. Her adviser is associate professor J.Ed. Hall, PhD. “I feel honored to be selected as the School’s first Amgen Fellow,” said Mathis. “My research involves investigating a series of diamidine compounds to determine intracellular distribution and how that may impact anti-trypanosomal activity. It is our hope that this research … Read more
PharmD Student Karl Ruch a Finalist in Local Songwriting Contest
December 14, 2005The winners of the 8th annual N.C. Songwriters’ contest were named Nov. 12 following a show at the Carrboro ArtsCenter featuring all eight finalists. The winner of this year’s contest was Sonya Lorelle of Norfolk, Va., with her songs, “There’s Something” and “Bedtime Story.” She was joined by second-place winner Brian Hershberger of Hillsborough, with “These Old Friends of Mine” and “Twice in a Blue Moon,” and, in third place, Tara Allison of Monroe, with “If I Knew You Then” and “Never Far Away.” The remaining finalists were Chuck Champion of Mebane, with “Three Day Weekend” and “For a Moment”; … Read more
CROI Selects Abstracts by School of Pharmacy Fellows
December 14, 2005Abstracts by academic fellow Julie Dumond and GlaxoSmithKline fellow Manoli Vourvahis have been accepted at the 13th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Dumond and Vourvahis have each received a Young Investigator Award to attend the conference in February. Dumond’s abstract “First Dose and Steady-state Genital Tract Pharmacokinetics of Ten Antiretroviral Drugs in HIV-infected Women: Implications for Pre- and Post- Exposure Prophylaxis” was accepted as an oral presentation. Vourvahis’ abstract “A Pharmacologic Basis for the Use of Tenofovir In Pre- and Post-exposure Prophylaxis: Intra- and Extracellular Genital Tract Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics from First Dose to Steady State in HIV-1 … Read more
School of Pharmacy Top Twenty in NIH Grants
December 14, 2005School of Pharmacy Ranks Seventeenth in NIH Funding In fiscal year 2004, the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received $5.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, ranking seventeenth among the nation’s pharmacy schools. The School ranked twenty-second in fiscal year 2003. “The NIH funding we receive is a measure of the excellence of our faculty, of the promise of their ideas, and of their commitment to innovation,” said Dean Robert A. Blouin. “I am extremely proud of these people who are able to so expertly tackle the challenges of both … Read more